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♪ Whoop! Whoop! It's the sound of the police ♪

♪ whoop! Whoop! The belly of the beast ♪

I was a street kid, beating niggas up,

robbing people, stabbing people.

I used to do all that. Carried a gun.

These people in the streets don't fight no more. They shoot you.

That was the path, in the wrong direction.

♪ I ain't hating now we the next superstar boy ♪

The whole point of this sport is hit and not get hit.

Don't take no unnecessary punishment.

It's how long you can last. And, you know,

how smart you can be in this game.

You don't need to be angry to fight.

Boxing, to me, is a tactical game.

Everything I do is based off logic.

It's, "can I be smarter?" And Manning up when it needs to be done.

But there's so many variables in boxing

that there's really no such thing as a right thing to do,

just a bunch of wrongs.

To express myself is through a fight.

I watch for your mistakes, try to beat you to the punch.

There's no formula to winning.

It's a window I'm looking for.

That window closes in one second.

Three two-minute rounds. In the gold corner...

-Jay bulger!

My name is Jay bulger, and boxing saved my life.

I was just an angry kid, getting into fights,

headed in the wrong direction.

Then, I walked into a boxing gym,

connected with the trainer,

and I found something to fight for.

To become a New York City golden gloves champion.

It was so simple and honest.

You get up into that ring...

And you're exposed.

-You find out what you're really made of.

Years later, I've set out to capture the state of boxing in America.

Only to find that so many of the gyms I boxed at...

Have closed their doors.

Today, most kids would rather play basketball or football.

Do anything but get in the ring.

You can't play boxing. It's not a game.

It's a test...

Of how much you can hit...

Without being hit.

The brutality is inherent...

To both its appeal and to its demise.

Now, there was a time in America when everybody loved boxing.

When fighters like dempsey, Louis, marciano, Ali and Tyson

were kings of the world.

So, for the American fighters who still believe in boxing,

why do they do it,

and what does it take to be champion?

All I know is that there will always be the next kid

who needs to fight their way out...

By stepping into the squared circle.

I don't know what I would be doing if not for boxing.

I think I would have been dead or some shit.

I've been through shoot-outs. I've been through shelter homes.

My life was never easy. My life's still not easy up to this day.

-Get out. - Yeah, a'ight.

Get the fuck out.

Shit is hard, like... I don't let it stress me, though.

Not one of them people that let that shit bother me.

I take that shit and I use it as a motivation

to push me to be better at what I do.

I'ma be the big champion of the world

and take my family out of the hood and get them into a better place.

Eighteen-year-old Christopher "lil b-hop" colbert

is the best amateur boxer in New York City.

He rides the subway, two hours, every day to flatbush, Brooklyn,

so he can train at the very last free boxing gym in New York City,

atlas cops and kids.

Let's go.

I'm ready.

Welcome to Brooklyn.

What we do with the kids, it's quiet prevention.

If the kids are in the gym,

and they're off the streets and they're staying in school...

They'll all tell you that the program's changed their life.

It cost us about $50,000 to run one gym, to run one gym.

A mere 50,000... What's $50,000?

It'll cost $67,000

to put one kid in jail for a year in this city...

Which is insanity.

Come on, baby, come on. Let's go.

These boxing gyms that created legends and boxing champions...

Seem to no longer exist.

I find it quite disturbing because boxing has given me so much.

It has given me such a life.

And if it wasn't for boxing, I'd, more than likely...

I would be in jail or dead.

Sergeant Russo, Teddy atlas, and the NYPD boxing team

understand that every kid kept off the street

is a kid who doesn't end up in trouble.

And so, when the police athletic league, the staple community boxing gyms,

shut down their programs,

they started atlas cops and kids,

which has quickly become one of the most successful boxing programs in the country.

Thank god for a program like that.

It takes a lot of those kids off the streets.

Within six years, we built eight national champions,

eight New York golden glove champions,

and now we've got a couple of pros, you know.

I'm 116 fights. 113-3.

I'm a four-time national champion.

A golden glove champion, ranked number one in the country.

I'm not letting nobody beat me.

One day, i'ma turn pro.

I'm destined to be world champion. I gotta be world champion.

Jab, jab!

B-hop absolutely can become champion of the world.

He's got a gift, he does.

He's got something special about him.

He has the potential, he has the talent.

But it's gonna be no cakewalk.

Whoo!

The name b-hop, it came from the legend Bernard Hopkins.

He was like me. He came off the streets, straight off the streets, winning.

He's the best, man. Just like me. You know how it is.

Biologically, he's not my son.

Because people were like, "wait a minute, you got a son in Brooklyn?"

He's my son, but not of... You know what I mean.

Not of my son.

Once he stepped in the ring and learned how to fight,

he never had a fight in the street.

Five, six years he never had a fight in the street.

But before that,

every other weekend, every other week, fight, fight, fight.

Now he's good.

Me and sosa been rocking since day one. He changed my life.

A lot, a lot.

He's like a father figure in my life.

You see this?

What's that?

Sosa crew for life.

You see it.

Who made that?

My dad.

It's a little rewarding, I mean, 'cause, you know, saying like... that I'm his dad.

I mean, it, um...

I'm making a difference, you know.

Everything on you, so you gotta pay for me,

-what? - Wayne...

...my girl, and then i'ma pay you back.

Your girl? Your girl makes more money than me.

Nah, you crazy.

Boxing got him off the streets,

but I always tell him, "you got to be careful, man.

A lot of bad stuff happened in front of this building, you know, but...

They don't care if you fight or not.

Remember, a bullet is faster than your hands."

Yeah, that's how my day starts, man.

Get up at 5:30, get ready for work.

Be at work by 7:00, 7:10. Start work at 8:00.

We should be finished by 2:00.

And then, um, head out to the gyms.

Someone's living the Mexican-American dream.

I don't know if you wanna call it that, but let's say hard work pays off.

I mean, unfortunately,

i didn't realize I was a coach until almost ten years ago, you know.

I wasted a lot of my time just...

Doing nothing. Just working, you know.

Twenty-six years of my life in this place.

It is difficult to try to manage work and the kids.

Yeah, I have, like, 30, 40 that compete.

And to train 30, 40 kids, it's hard.

It's hard.

And if I could do boxing 24/7, I would do this 24/7.

But at this time,

making $200 every two months, three months, can't do it, can't do it.

You know?

B-hop, he's been getting better and better and better.

And if b-hop turns out the way we think he's gonna turn out...

Four years I think I'll be out.

-Time to get to work.

I won my last amateur tournament.

So I was like, "yeah, i'ma just go pro now. Time to go.

Waste no more time."

He wanna go to the Olympics.

I'm not pressing to go to the Olympics.

When I first started, I always wanted to be an olympic coach.

Like, I want to be up there when...

At the Olympics, I want to be one of the head coaches of the United States.

I don't care about the Olympics. I never...

Like, that never was really my mindset, to go to Olympics.

My mindset was always to be world champion, to be rich,

like Floyd Mayweather.

Boxing and gold medal and being in Olympics

is dead in America right now.

Fighters, they look at Floyd Mayweather, they look how much money he's making.

"Why would I go in Olympics and get nothing,

but maybe some sponsorship from Nike?

And I can go right to the pros,

and buy me a Bugatti."

Think about it.

The Olympics used to be where usa beat the crap out of the world,

where we proved we were the best boxers.

Winning the gold medal, nothing surpasses that.

There are people who can say,

"i was a world champion professional boxer."

But to be an olympic gold medal winner, very few people can say that.

It's the biggest prize that I've ever experienced.

But in 2012,

the us men's boxing team,

the team that's won more than any other country...

Didn't win a single medal.

The worst showing in history

of the storied United States of America amateur boxing program.

In today's era of fighters, winning the gold

and having the responsibility of representing your country...

It's not in their mind anymore.

The passion is gone.

So the question is,

who has the ability and the desire

to get usa men's boxing back on the podium?

The answer is a lot more complicated than you might think.

I started boxing in about 2005.

I was in 11th grade. 11th-12th grade, and I just did it for...

Just to lose weight.

Then I started fighting, and I just kept winning and winning and winning.

And I was like, "ah, maybe this isn't that hard."

tyler, step in.

Cam f. Awesome is America's all-time winningest amateur boxer.

And his trainer, John brown, is the president of usa boxing.

To box for America,

you know, he gave up a lot,

because, unfortunately, the way our system is,

we don't have much money for these guys.

So now he has to live on $1,000 a month that usoc gives him.

And his fixed costs for his car,

his rent and his utilities is $900.

So that gives him $100 a month to live on.

I mean, I help him,

but he goes to the blood bank about once every two weeks

and gives blood.

You do whatever you can for money. You pick up side jobs.

You personal train people when you can, but it's pretty tough.

A lot of people don't understand why I haven't turned pro.

My mission, my goal, my ambitions, it's not the money.

I want that feeling of sitting next to two dudes from other countries

who have to sit there and look happy

while they play my national anthem and I get a gold medal.

That's what I'm chasing. That's the dream that I want.

Cam should have had a shot at realizing his dream in 2012.

He qualified for the us olympic team, but then was suspended from competition

when he failed to make himself available for drug tests.

I have to inform someone when I'm leaving town, and I didn't.

And that wasn't because i was doing any drugs or anything.

It's just I had so much going on in my life.

I was getting ready for the Olympics,

i was traveling, leaving the country.

Although I tested negative that same week that they were gonna drug test me,

I still needed to inform them, and I messed up.

During my suspension, i learned a lot about myself,

i learned a lot about the people around me.

I decided to legally change my name

and become a new person, new attitude, new way of life.

february 16, 2013, lenroy Cameron Thompson Jr. died,

and then arose cam f. Awesome.

With his new name, cam f. Awesome is giving the Olympics one last shot.

The road begins here, in Tennessee, at the first olympic trials qualifier.

--Yeah, good work.

- Good job! - Cam, you da man!

This guy is... To me, he box crazy...

Crazy, but he wins.

And everybody would be so mad and upset,

but he's like, "cam f. Awesome. What do you expect?"

People are like, "what is he doing? That's ugly. That... what?"

They don't understand that kind of style, but the boxers he's fighting...

--...they understand it.

Right, our winner, out of the blue corner, cam awesome.

Cam f. Awesome got his first win tonight.

He'll have to fight three more times over the next three days

to earn a spot at the olympic trials, a year from now, in Reno, Nevada.

As if it wasn't difficult enough,

this road to the Olympics will be more dangerous than ever.

For the first time in 32 years,

olympic competition is taking place without headgear.

They want to give you the pro atmosphere... right?

But the amateur benefits.

We've been told that safety of the boxer is the primary concern.

There is a bit of a conflict with the no headgear.

'Cause, obviously, this wouldn't have happened without it.

There are two clear distinctions between amateur and professional boxing.

Headgear and fighting for prize money.

Now, aiba, the famously corrupt international boxing association,

wanna make the sport more entertaining.

But here's the thing.

If one of these fighters gets a bad cut,

even from something like an accidental head-butt,

they're out.

It's dangerous, and it's stupid.

It's not setting you up for the pros, it's fucking you up for the pros.

You're losing a couple of brain cells before you even turn pro.

If I didn't have headgear, and I was getting cut,

and beat up, and bruised up, and knocked out,

i would turn pro. I mean, might as well get paid for it.

You know, even pros don't fight five days in a row.

Maybe the best guy doesn't win all the time,

whoever's the luckiest wins. That doesn't get head-butted.

A guy can't box five days in a row without headgear without getting banged up.

It's impossible.

Cam f. Awesome,

he's the only male we've got that has a shot at winning the Olympics.

Winning a medal at the Olympics.

He's the guy.

And the problem is, the rest of the world is way ahead of us.

You know, the rest of the world, amateur boxers make a living boxing.

Ours don't.

In 2016, you're gonna see the true amateur

that we develop here in the United States

and we've done since the early 1900s for the Olympics,

you're gonna see them competing against pros.

And so, that's gonna be a big challenge for our athletes.

We have the impression...

Everyone in the world, we have the impression

that usa is the number one nation in everything.

-You are, like, the big brother. Yeah. - We have so many athletes.

Like, you take care of it. Like, you...

-You just know what you're doing. -Yeah.

And you come here, and you see the level of competition, and it's like...

If you send those kids against Russia, man, it's gonna be sad for you.

At the rio summer games, our fighters will be competing with pros

without headgear.

Usa boxing is awarded funding from the usoc based on their medal count.

At this point, they can boycott the Olympics and protest,

or continue to send our amateur fighters and hope for the best.

The good boxers have to turn pro because they need money.

So, we won't get medals until we get funding.

-This is it. Ali's in the house, right? -Thank you.

Yeah, we won't get funding until we get medals,

so we're chasing our tail.

-If I can bring back home a medal...

...i can change that.

There you go!

--Time!

Beautiful.

-I think he's heartbroke already. -Yeah.

Okay, let's keep that show going. I like that Ali shit.

A little Tyson going on.

Come on! Move your hands!

Go forward! Go forward! Go forward!

Breathe! Breathe!

--That's enough.

Breathe! Breathe!

Good call.

From the 201-plus pound weight division, by tko,

mr. cam f. Awesome!

Great job, guys. Congratulations. Great job.

It's cam's 12th national tournament championship,

and it qualifies him for the us olympic trials, a year from now.

If he wins that, he'll go on to fight the best fighters in north and south America.

And if he places in the top three, he'll earn a spot at the olympic games.

All in hopes of becoming the super heavyweight gold medalist.

All right. See you guys again... soon.

I grew up playing Mike Tyson's punch-out!!

A game inspired by the baddest man on the planet.

One of the most famous athletes in the world.

But as we began filming,

we hadn't had an American heavyweight champion in over a decade.

People always say, "Steve, where are the great heavyweights?"

I said, "they're on the football gridiron, or they're posting up in the paint."

And there used to be a saying, years ago,

"as the heavyweight division goes, so goes the game of boxing."

We're a long way from the Mike Tyson heavyweight-knockout era,

and the popularity that came with it.

But for the last decade,

Floyd "money" Mayweather has been the face of boxing.

The master counterpuncher changed the game,

as he mitigates risk and maximizes profits,

putting his undefeated record on the line when the money is right.

Times change. It's the Mayweather era now.

It's not the Mike Tyson's punch-out!! Era, it's not the Ali era,

it's not the Joe Louis era, the rocky marciano era.

Things change and the eras move on along.

So Floyd Mayweather will tell you that he is the best ever.

"I made more money than anyone else in all of sports."

And I'll say to that, i don't really give a fuck.

I don't really give a shit. That doesn't make you tbe, the best ever.

So, is he the perfect athlete for this new age of narcissism?

And if he is, is everyone gonna follow his lead,

be a boxing businessman and say, "i pick who I want to fight"?

These guys enter into this, remember,

to prove something to themselves and to everyone else.

And that's their legacy, and what will his legacy be?

With Mayweather's undefeated career coming to a close,

who will take his place as the next American boxing superstar?

All right, fans, here we go!

Twelve rounds of boxing for the wbo middleweight championship of the world.

Introducing Peter "kid chocolate" quillin!

As a kid, I used to dream about the title.

Or big fights, or big money and stuff, you know.

I had a sense of hope...

I was gonna be able to, like, see something better.

-Do you want this title? -I do.

-Do you want this title? -I want this title.

All right, show me you want this title.

Peter quillin, kid chocolate,

is one of the hottest fighters in the business at this time.

I did everything in my power to try to make this work.

Coming in left, and down goes n'dam!

I got to where I wanted to be.

I set a goal for myself, being the champion.

And the new wbo middleweight champion of the world,

Peter "kid chocolate" quillin!

I want to thank grand rapids, Michigan, for making me a fighter,

and New York City making me a man.

I hope, through this,

I inspire people that hard work can get you anywhere in life.

Balcony looks pretty good to me.

--This is a property that I bought.

The house is shitty right now, but I own it.

And now, I'm inspired to own as many cribs as I can, if possible.

-I want a new door. - Okay, man.

Yeah, let's get a new door.

When I was younger, we grew up in a house that my dad owned,

till having that house taken away from us when my dad did his time in prison.

That's the way I grew.

I gotta give him money, i give my mom money,

my little brother get money.

That's a lot of people to take care of.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying,

but he think I take care of my friends more than I look out for them.

-Because I can't-- - I know--

can you send an e-mail out for somebody? Can you send an e-mail?

I don't know.

Now, that's what I'm trying to say.

So he want me to do more for him,

but he don't know what he's not able to do.

So, I just let him be my dad and get a little bit of bread.

If you want to help me flip the cribs,

i want it done the way... I'm the boss, not him.

-Yeah, pero-- -it's my house.

-Yeah, pero-- -but I'm the boss.

I'm making life-changing money for myself

to be able to secure, like, my family,

jobs for people that helped me,

trying to increase my capital by making sure that I won't retire broke.

Peter "kid chocolate" quillin grew up here in grand rapids, Michigan.

Just two doors down from Floyd Mayweather's family.

Currently, their street has a combined record

of 78 wins and zero losses.

He never gave up. He could've turned out... another way.

Peter was really a troublemaker.

I mean, he'd get suspended in school because he's always fighting.

So, well, you know, I said, "he needs to be in the gym."

'Cause I used to get Peter's ass, too,

so, I think I had a big part in that because,

from him weaving and dodging and ducking from me

and running, and I'm getting out of breath...

Man, that boy was something.

One, two, three.

Kid chocolate!

Who knows what the "c" in champ stands for?

Confidence!

-What does the "h" stand for? - Hard work!

-What does the "a" stand for? - Attitude!

-What does the "m" stand for? - Motivation.

Y'all don't sound motivated. What?

Motivation!

-What does the "p" stand for? - Patience!

Okay, you take those words, I promise you, you can very, very much be successful.

Against all odds, kid chocolate made it out of grand rapids,

reaching the pinnacle of the sport

as he won the middleweight championship of the world.

-But then, he just gave it up.

What happened to his belt? Why isn't he the champ anymore?

-Do you know? -Who knows?

Those things happen. Real fighters win, lose, lose their belts, get them back.

He's undefeated, though.

Then something must have happened. I think he, uh...

Let me think. I think he went to the monastery for a while.

Peter quillin announced that he would be vacating his title.

I'm sure you guys heard.

Allegedly, he's gonna make $1.4 million,

so I don't understand what his motives are.

All right, Peter quillin, a lot of people want questions answered.

Kid chocolate wasn't defeated, he wasn't injured.

His decision left the boxing world in a state of confusion.

After all, wasn't becoming a champion what boxers dream about?

What could possibly compel someone

to give up their championship title they fought so hard for?

-I'd like to thank al haymon. -Thank you, al haymon.

-Al haymon. -Al haymon.

Al haymon didn't want him to fight the fight,

he didn't want him to fight my guy, korobov.

So what he did was, he just paid the guy not to fight.

Literally paid him not to fight,

and promised him another fight if he didn't fight this fight.

Paid him half a million dollars because he didn't want to take a chance on losing.

Basically, he is like the puppet master.

Think of the wizard of oz, he's that guy behind the curtains.

And he's just pushing all the buttons and levers.

I've heard the name al haymon, but I've never seen him.

He's like the opposite of Don King.

He doesn't do interviews. He's just lurking behind the scenes.

And with unprecedented pay days, he's earned his fighters' loyalty.

When I had my son, my kid, al haymon said,

"if you wanna fight for this belt, we can make that happen.

Or you can not fight for the belt and get what you said you want,

which is time with your family,

which, I would say, you don't get that time back."

♪ Are you cold? ♪

♪ Are you cold? ♪

♪ Are you cold? ♪

So I took some time off.

If you wanna say that advice is bad for somebody,

then people can say what they want,

but I feel like I made the right decision for me.

He gave up the belt because he was told to.

These guys ain't their own boss.

I made 20 defenses, so I don't believe in givin' up belts.

If you ask me "would I give up my belt?", i will say "no."

I worked too hard, I sacrificed too much. That belt will still be with me.

The fighters are not fighting for the glory, for the honor,

for the respect.

It's all about the business.

I mean, who in their right mind gives up a championship title

because they don't wanna face the best in their division?

That's just unheard of.

In my era, you just don't do that.

You see people shitting on Peter quillin, saying,

"he ain't a fuckin' warrior. He don't wanna fight the best."

And Peter quillin can answer you and say,

"I'm listening to my trusted advisor, al haymon.

It's gonna be pretty good for me."

It's about money.

It's about making a living so you can take care of your family.

-Fuck the glory? - Huh?

Fuck the glory?

Glory's bullshit.

You can go in your bathroom and have glory.

Close the door and tell everybody who you are.

You think the easiest route to do, like, in life,

like, between being a boxer and then going to college,

which one would you choose?

I mean, in boxing, if you turn pro, if you got the right people around you,

you can turn... you can make money in a heartbeat, you know what I mean?

Peter quillin is one of the luckiest, blessed, talented fighters we have.

He listens to al haymon. They talk.

They always make sense on what they're doing,

when they're gonna fight, who they're gonna fight.

And that's great.

Unlike other professional sports,

boxing doesn't have a single controlling organization,

which is exactly what al haymon is after with his premier boxing champions league.

With half a billion dollars of venture capital,

he has the sport back on prime time for the first time in over three decades.

And he's signing a lot of the best fighters...

But haymon rarely does business with competing promoters

and their fighters.

And in boxing, the best all too often don't fight the best.

You know, there's a lot of money being thrown around.

Can you imagine half a million dollars to not fight my guy? To not fight!

I want to set myself up for life.

So, I'm gonna go out there and train like I'm trying to win,

like my life is dependent on it and my son's life's depending on it.

Atlas cops and kids, baby!

You shouldn't be surprised to hear

when lil b-hop signs his first pro contract,

it's with al haymon.

Signing with al haymon, ain't nothing better than that.

Why is that?

'Cause there's nobody that's gonna get you to the top,

where you need to be,

and make the right money that you're supposed to be making, but al.

Congrats. Hard work pays off. You know what I mean?

Gonna show this world that the new superstar is on his way.

Yes, sir.

Al's the best in business.

He has the best fighters now.

If you fight with him, you fight in the best shows.

He's the man.

Jay, you're getting a glimpse of the future, Jay.

A glimpse of the future.

The sosa crew be taking over soon.

In this sport people think it's all about the money.

I mean, the money's gonna come regardless.

Like, right now?

I'll fight for $100, if I had to.

No problem.

To build my record, build my résumé.

Let a lot of people see who I am.

I'm in this to make history.

A guy like him is supposed to be right now in some institution.

Think about it.

He had no good start to be successful.

You know what it is, right? I'ma tell you something.

God gives grace to humble people. Remember that.

This is gonna be your spotlight right now.

When it's your time, it's your time.

I'll tell you how good he may be someday. His nickname is lil b-hop.

-Chris colbert.

Al haymon is spending money hand over fist, and it's great.

The fighters are getting paid like drunken sailors wanna be paid.

But are the right fights being made?

Are the fans happy?

They're the ones that have to congregate to lift this sport up.

If you wanna do things the right way,

you always have to get the right opponents.

And the right opponents, sometimes, are not the best opponents.

You know what I mean? But that's how you build them up.

It's the first time he's ever gonna go four rounds,

and I don't think he's ready for this shit.

He's not even fighting for the same cause that I'm fighting for.

You wanna be famous and some superstar athlete.

I'm fighting for my life.

I'm fighting to make sure food get put on my fucking table and shit.

As I'm standing there, he's up in my face,

you know, trying to talk down to me.

He's like, "this is gonna be an easy win." And "I'm not worried about nothing."

Dude, you're 18 years old, bro. Your balls barely dropped, my man.

Professional boxing, it's all about perception.

This pro boxer's 25-0.

But if you look at the 25 fighters he fought, they're literally nobodies.

They're guys with 1-7 records

and guys who've never boxed before, guys making their debut.

And they build someone's record

to make them look like a great, undefeated boxer.

122.6!

Yeah, undefeated is so important.

In boxing, the second you lose, everybody's off of you.

We've come to a world now where winning is all that matters.

As long as there are fighters out there

who think that they need to have an undefeated record to be relevant...

I think they're very misguided.

I contribute that to Mayweather.

That's the Mayweather effect,

thinking about business and thinking about the fight second.

After years of anticipation, negotiation and hype,

here in las Vegas on the first Saturday of may,

Floyd "money" Mayweather remains undefeated.

Earning an estimated $300 million in one night

as he defeats Manny pacquiao in the fight of the century.

But I'm across town at a place I always dreamed of reaching.

The national golden gloves championships.

Golden gloves, which started clear back in the 1920s,

and throughout the history,

most everybody has been in the golden gloves.

And many of our successful champions like sugar ray Leonard

or evander holyfield or Mike Tyson,

all those kind of people, Oscar de la hoya, you can name 'em all,

they were golden glove champs.

And so this is the beginning for the next breed of champions.

-Dig down in there!

Aim to the body. Both sides, baby.

Winning the golden gloves was huge.

But then you win the national golden gloves?

Forget about it. It was everything.

Ask any boxer.

So what's the plan tonight, champ?

Packing up shoes, socks, shorts, cup, shirt.

Headgear.

Mouthpiece, check. Got all the stuff.

Tonight fighting a dude from, uh, south Carolina, I believe.

Don't know who he is. Uh, don't know what he looks like.

Uh, well, I'm sure he's a really nice guy, so...

Let's go break his dreams.

The golden gloves is one of the few things

that has stayed constant in amateur boxing.

It has nothing to do with the Olympics,

but it is the most prestigious tournament in the country.

Golden glove national tournament gets you no ranking points.

It gets you no international competition. Gets you nothing.

But there's... it holds weight.

It holds weight in the world with people. They like golden glove champions.

This tournament, it's a big deal.

I'm gonna be takin' it very seriously.

I'm fighting every fight

like it's the gold medal fight in the Olympics this week.

-Go, baby! - Go!

Whoop his ass!

There you go!

-Coach, how did he do? - Excellent.

Perfect first fight.

For all these other monsters, i saw about seven monsters out there.

They are getting bigger every goddamned year.

What happened to real heavyweights like Joe Louis, 202 pounds,

Joe Frazier, 204, and "big" George foreman, 220?

Ali, 217.

We have a winner, boxing out of the blue corner...

--...cam awesome. Cam awesome.

-Yo, awesome. - Yo, yo.

-How did that go? - It went pretty well.

My plan was just to land some jabs,

every so often throw an overhand left to land-- to get some respect.

I figured I can win the fight

with no real risk of exchanging punches with him.

Good job, cam.

-Thank you. Thank you. -Good job. Good job. Good job.

-Bye, guys. -Thank you, young lady.

We'll see you at the craps table.

One hundred and thirty-eight people eliminated on day one.

But cam f. Awesome advances,

needing three more victories

to earn his fourth national golden gloves championship.

And maybe even the golden boy award,

given to the best overall fighter in the tournament.

Weigh-ins. I think I'm over 200 pounds.

For years, cam f. Awesome has dominated

the amateur super heavyweight division.

But here in Vegas, he's got competition.

Darmani rock, from north Philadelphia, is 19 years old,

and he's also qualified for the olympic trials.

At 260 pounds, people are talking about him

like he's the next great American heavyweight champion.

How's he doing?

He's got a nice little right uppercut.

Yeah, I'm moving to my right--

i mean, fuck this. You gotta start to do more.

Yeah.

So, everybody thinks they can beat cam

'cause he's a little awkward and different...

-Right. - And they don't see the traditional boxer.

So they think, "oh, boy, I can probably beat him."

And then they find out it ain't what it looks like.

So, I think we're gonna... I suspect it's gonna be fun.

Cam awesome. Cam awesome. Kansas City.

Four days later, sure enough,

cam and darmani find themselves in the championship battle

to determine who is the best super heavyweight in the country.

I don't... I don't get sucked into all the hype of who I'm fighting.

I haven't lost a single round this tournament.

I'm going for the golden boy.

It's a pretty unique opportunity for both these young men.

When you have a multi-day tournament, so much can happen.

You know, you can get an injury...

They could've met in a draw,

and they could've met in the preliminaries.

So, it's really great for the boxing fans, it's great for the storyline,

and it's only gonna elevate their fight game.

This will be our last bout.

Two warriors at 201 pounds plus.

Boxing out of the red corner, cam awesome.

--Fight!

You can't do that with that jab...

Is he hurtin' you?

Then, fuck him. Get in there and fight with him.

If he's not hurtin' you...

Do some feint, and then, boom, come in. You feint, boom, come in.

--Fight!

No. No, no. Stop!

Let's hear about the 2015 national golden gloves champion...

-At 201 pounds plus...

...he happens to be boxing out of the blue corner.

--Darmani rock.

Darmani rock.

I regret walking out of the ring like that, but...

I fuckin' wanted the golden boy award.

God, I never fuckin' get it.

I've fought... I've won fuckin' 12 national championships

for this goddamn country,

and not once have they given me fighter of the tournament.

Statistically, I'm supposed to get it one out of every ten times.

I fuckin' won it 12.

This is my sixth time in the golden glove finals...

And, uh, six times I fought in the golden glove finals and uh...

...and I'm going 50-for-50. That's disgusting.

Fuckin'...

--I already see it in my head.

First round, I'm just gonna let him chase me.

Second round, b-hop.

I'm gonna just start fuckin' him up, taking it to him.

Every time I hit him, "got him!" I'ma tell him that. "Got him!"

I'm gonna be like, "lil bitch." I'm gonna be fuckin' him up.

And after the fight, after I knock his ass out,

stomp him, or beat the shit out of him, either one...

Mmm-hmm.

I'ma be like, "good shit, bro. I'm proud of you."

So, you took that...

-Yeah, after-- -"took that loss like a champ, bro."

After the fight, it's all love.

I ain't got no hate on him. I don't hate him.

He just gotta get ass-whooped.

I don't know why he signed that contract like a dickhead.

"Don't take it personal. It's business, bruh. Sorry.

Hope you're a fan after."

-See you later. - See you tomorrow.

Be good, man. Good luck, bro.

-You're leaving? -See you tomorrow, man.

-I look good. - Yeah.

Greatest thing you can do is get that diploma, okay?

I am. I'm trying to. I'm not tryin', I'm gonna get it. But...

People keep stressing me about school, school, school, school, school.

I'ma stop going.

-You're not gonna stop. -Who? Me?

-I done stopped going before. -Uh-huh.

I done stopped going before, and then I just went back.

Don't do that. It'll just...

Make you have to keep starting over. Bang it out.

Soon i'ma get tired of it and not go back.

Just bang it out. Get rid of it. You know what I mean?

And you'll never have to go back again.

--Never.

And then you'll start thinking about college, right?

You can hear me?

-Right? -Huh? Say that again?

Then you'll start thinking about college, right?

--What?

College is easier than high school.

-He's a fighter. Look at you. - I'm ready, man.

I ain't even worried. I just wanna get this shit over with.

Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Let's walk, guys!

Showtime! Come on, let's go!

Camera guys, you're holding me up. Let's go!

-E and g, move! - Showtime!

Everybody believes he's talented.

Only thing that's stopping him is his age and the fights.

And that's something that comes with time.

There you go!

Jab again! Jab again!

Let's get a little more... A little more physical.

Let's make this physical. Come on.

-Let's make this shit happen.

You win in impressive fashion,

the bums will be less bums.

Maybe they'll go from two tomato can level to one tomato can level to,

you know, half journeyman level.

The motivation is to mow through these guys,

dismantle them in every way possible,

so that people step you up the ladder

until you reach the guys you have your eye on.

It feels good to be a pro now.

I always knew that I was gonna be something great in my life.

If it was either football, basketball, it don't matter what it was,

i always knew i was gonna do something great.

Lil b looked phenomenal down in the ring.

His pro debut, no jitters.

The haircut took longer than the fight.

It's gonna sound crazy, what I'm about to say,

but he reminds me of Floyd Mayweather.

He reminds me of Floyd. A young Floyd Mayweather.

One, baby, one.

In the beginning of your career,

you always have that little hill you've gotta get over.

I didn't get over that hill yet. I'm still standing on top of it.

I feel like I'm the man.

And when it's time to really step things up,

that's what's gonna happen, I'm gonna go over that hill,

and do what I gotta do, climb the next mountain.

Four more years, I'll be champion of the world.

And that's a promise.

Yeah. Four more years.

What they say about a fighter when he's, like,

he got all the talent but he ain't in shape?

He's a lazy motherfucker.

And they say hard work...

-Hard work always beats talent-- -yep.

Talent can only take you so far.

-What if you talented-- -get that hard work in. Huh?

What if you talented and you... Hard-working?

You're destined for greatness.

After a year of inactivity,

al haymon is putting kid chocolate back in the ring

against Andy Lee, an Irish fighter,

who just so happens to have won that same wbo middleweight championship belt

that kid chocolate gave up.

I took a year off.

People would've never thought i could fight for a belt

right away in my next fight after giving in, vacating the same belt.

And now I get to go in there as a challenger

for even more money for the same belt.

Al haymon is happy. He showed loyalty by giving the belt up.

Al haymon gets him the next fight, close to the same amount of money...

Blah, blah, blah, blah.

He promised him, he had to fulfill the promise, or whatever it is. Bam!

You're back to square one.

So, what is the significance of these belts?

And do they still define a champion?

In boxing's heyday, there were only eight weight classes,

each with one undisputed champion.

But then came the sanctioning bodies,

organizations that created their own championship belts

and received sanctioning fees from the fighters wearing them.

Now there are 17 weight classes,

each with an upwards of four different champions.

The values of all those belts have dwindled,

making an undefeated record, that purest proof of dominance,

more important than ever.

Jab-uppercut.

Yeah, but throw that uppercut. Throw it. Throw it right here.

It don't matter if you land it or not.

The thing is to make him react to it, okay?

The belt doesn't make the fighter.

The fighter makes the belt.

He'll have more belts as time goes on.

We're gonna get a belt on April 11.

Once we get that belt, we'll get a couple more belts.

He's got a strategy of weaving.

You know, he will move around, and dodge, and come in, and squeeze out of there,

and move back and forth...

That's it.

He's gonna do what he's gotta do.

He's gonna come out courageous.

He's still gonna be what he is, and he's gonna be the champion.

And he's gonna get his belt back.

Peter quillin had a reputation of being

just one of the meanest men in the ring.

Now he's on the cusp of real greatness

but he hasn't really hit it yet.

And the only person that can change that,

and the only person that can fix that is Peter quillin.

I did some sprints on the beach today.

Ain't gonna hear no complaints about that.

I understand.

-But i'ma remind you of my rule. -Okay.

On sparring days, what do we do?

We put it all over here.

So, we run afterwards.

Yeah, yeah, but--

-not before. - I don't have the time.

-No, I understand, but... - So I have to work through it.

I can't let you limp. I need your leg, okay?

Last time that's what I was doing.

-Yeah? - Yeah. So, I'm okay doing that.

Just, like, you got to hit that wall and this is when I do.

-I did eight rounds all day. -Knock that motherfucker down.

-Today. - Hiciste bien, hiciste bien.

Knock that motherfucker down.

With one year of inactivity,

it's extremely difficult being who you were...

Because you become civilized.

It's hard to come back to work.

And there are no shortcuts.

Boxing is beyond work.

It's war.

Damn.

I felt it.

I think that was bad luck letting y'all film today, motherfuckers.

No, you did great.

"I did great." You hearing me?

Look, I got a busted lip. I feel... I don't feel good.

You were tired already when you came in.

You had a long day, right?

Yeah.

I mean, every other day was a long day.

Ladies and gentlemen, stepping to the scales,

Peter "kid chocolate" quillin.

One-sixty-one-point-four,

161.4 pounds for Peter "kid chocolate" quillin.

Peter quillin will have two hours to lose 1.4 pounds.

There's a title fight tomorrow night, trying to get to a weight of 160.

The kids I had used to take 10 to 12 pounds off in two days.

What the fuck is two pounds? What are we talking about?

I think when you accept the fight,

you have to make the weight.

You get a little bit civilized

as you sit back on your money and enjoy life,

and, suddenly, the months pass and you haven't fought.

But if a belt was that important,

you probably would've made the weight no matter how much you suffered.

It's one of boxing's craziest rituals.

Fighters virtually starve themselves and sweat out pounds

to make weight the day before a fight.

Kid chocolate gets down to 160.5 pounds,

failing to make the 160-pound middleweight limit.

According to any of the belt rules,

you have to make weight in order to fight for the belt.

You can't be one ounce, one quarter of an ounce over.

You have to on weight or under.

So, this fight now went from being a title fight

to being a non-title bout.

They don't take the super bowl trophy as a joke.

They don't take the nba trophy at the end of the championship as a joke.

Like quillin did, you live and die with those decisions.

I mean, I'm 31-0.

That record got me to that title.

It got me to the title. You know what I'm saying?

And then, for me to...

Not lose sight of that,

lets me know that I appreciate the work I did.

I mean, trying less than your best is never good enough.

I will feel bad about myself if I didn't give it my all,

but I know I gave it my all.

Introducing first, the red corner...

As a professional, he stands undefeated, 31 victories,

22 by knockout, with no defeats.

Introducing Peter "kid chocolate" quillin.

Whoo!

Across the ring, his opponent tonight, Andy Lee.

Get him!

Get him, Pete! Get him, Pete! Fight!

Get him, Pete!

Get him, Pete!

Hook him, Andy!

Get after it! Get after it!

Come on, petey!

Ladies and gentlemen, having gone the distance inside the ring,

we'll go to your official judges' scorecards.

If a fight goes the full 12-round distance,

the outcome is determined by three judges.

The advantage to knocking out your opponent

is that you keep it out of their hands.

They all see it from a different angle.

Your third and final judge at ringside

scores the fight 113-113.

-He has it even.

The fight is declared a split draw.

-What happened? - That's no draw.

No draw there, I'll tell you that.

Kiss his ass.

This is the problem with boxing, right here.

Kid chocolate beat him fair and square.

Knocked him down three times. Beat his ass good.

But... the white boy was strong. He was tough.

Andy Lee's a tough guy. He's a great fighter.

This was just a chess match.

This wasn't checkers. This was chess.

You know, with the year off,

i never like to look for excuses for why I did bad.

I like to look for excuses why I should do better.

And this is just part of my chapter that i'ma always remember.

When I lose a fight,

it bothers me more than anything else in the world bothers me.

I just really like winning.

I mean, you can't win everything, though. You know?

Mmm... you can't win everything is... I feel like that's a cop-out.

'Cause if you can't win everything...

Actually, technically, you can win everything.

It's hard to win everything.

And you have to strive for perfection, and perfection is almost impossible.

But I think saying, "you can't win everything,"

is just a cop-out for losing sometimes.

Yep, yep, don't give up. No, no, no. Five more. Max it up.

Five. Come on.

After losing the national golden gloves championship

at super heavyweight,

cam f. Awesome made a decision to lose 20 pounds

and try to qualify for the olympic trials at the next weight class down.

Moving down in weight,

I get to fight guys my own size and I feel so much better.

He's 20 pounds lighter, he's in better condition.

He doesn't have a belly like I do.

He hasn't really looked like a top athlete.

Now he does.

In winning this tournament in Colorado Springs,

cam f. Awesome becomes the only American

to qualify for the olympic trials in two different weight classes.

I'm smarter, I'm more mature, I'm more disciplined.

I've got my mind right, I've got my body right.

I'm emotionally there.

I'm a lot more secure now than I used to be.

And I'm confident in myself and my abilities to bring home a medal.

♪ My heart cold 'cause I grew up without my father ♪

♪ but it really made me smarter it made me grind harder ♪

♪ I would make my dreams a reality ♪

♪ own family thought they was gon' have to bury me ♪

♪ took my mama nine months just for her to carry me ♪

♪ so I was brought to the world to live like yo majesty, nigga ♪

Atlas cops and kids really is, like, the best gym.

A lot of us is at the top of the sport, like in amateur-wise

or, like, making our way up in the pros.

Me and sosa, we're rising superstars.

It's great.

And look at me now. Now I'm a Mexican. A black Mexican.

We're like a family. He wants to be part of that.

He tells me, you know, "I'm gonna wear the Mexican hat.

I'm gonna wear the poncho."

Yeah, you could say he's a black Mexican now.

-The black bean.

-Chris "b-hop" colbert!

The potential is there.

And if he continues to listen and train hard and all that,

he will be a champion.

He could be a great champion, too. One of the elite ones.

-How'd you get there? -Took a cab.

Waste of money.

'Cause y'all take too long. He talks too much.

I gotta just make sure he realizes that it's a business,

that it's how you're gonna feed your family.

And how you gotta handle your money. It's like a business.

Why do you need $200?

-I need it. - For?

I gotta get something.

What? Stupidity?

No, I gotta get some sneakers for somebody.

-Oh, get the hell outta here. -Not for me.

I have to buy these sneakers, though.

-I ain't giving it to you. -They're like $50, though.

I thought you needed it for the ID.

Yeah, the ID, too. The ID's not that much.

The most is gonna be, like, $50 for the cab and the ID.

So, I'm only giving you $100.

-What? -I'm only giving you $100 then.

No, no, no. $200.

Then the extra $50 is gonna last me for the week.

Still need a ride?

-It's $1,000, right? It's $1,000 left. -Mmm-hmm.

$1,500--

nobody makes money overnight. It's...

Nobody. Nobody has done it, made money...

It takes... it takes years.

You build up a record and get well-known and stay out of trouble.

All aboard!

You could say in boxing,

to be the best, you've got to get beat up by the best.

So after four wins and little prize money,

lil b-hop drops out of high school and heads down to Florida,

taking a job as the sparring partner

for the bantamweight champion of the world, Carlos payano,

who's preparing to defend his title.

Fort lauderdale beach.

You took the day off today and chilled?

So what? I'm not fighting.

I just came out here to spar and chill.

I ain't come here to work out. This not my camp.

I'm not with these people. My coach is not here.

So you're not really taking it seriously?

No. It's sparring.

That's it.

Right.

-Do you believe in vacation? - No.

Shut the hell up! This ain't vacation, boy.

You're a sparring partner right now.

-This ain't no vacation. -I don't give a fuck about no sparring.

-I don't give a fuck about this, nigga. -Yeah, right.

I could be on vacation and still go spar.

I'll go on vacation, a real vacation, and still go to the gym.

I'll find a gym and hit it.

This man don't believe in this shit, bro.

Chris, you know, I mean, he could do everything wrong right now

and still probably fight and do well in four-round fights.

But you get to six, eight, ten and twelve-round fights,

it don't matter how old you are, it catches up to you.

Your body's putting out what you put into it.

So if you got snickers and McDonald's, that's what's coming out.

There's no room in this business for half-assing.

I'm the motherfucking world champion.

-What? What'd you say? - I'm the motherfucking world champion.

-That's right. - That's me.

Hup! Twelve, go!

In the end, I am responsible for my training.

To prepare physically and mentally for my fight.

You need to sacrifice yourself and have the desire to be a champion.

As you saw, my champ runs guys out of the ring.

If I just use Chris for traditional six or eight straight rounds,

he probably right now wouldn't get it.

He'd get hurt or he'd just get demoralized.

Every time, for this fight, every time, work, work hard, work, work.

This is where the champ lives. This is his chamber.

And he has to clean the bathroom twice a week.

And that's his job and there's no getting around that.

And he's got photos of his family and this is...

And he's the world champ and he's making a decent penny on his next fight.

And he's not moving out.

-You wouldn't come move in there. -Hell no.

Of course.

That's the mentality.

That's our generation today. They feel like they're entitled.

I tell my guys in a minute, I tell my champion, "stay humble."

And if you don't have people around you that tell you these things,

and tell you, "you're not shit..."

Can you buy me a house, a car, and a freakin', you know, an island?

Can you do that? You can't do that, right?

I struggled a lot. He got the best of me.

I ain't think he had that much skills.

But that's what happens when you play around and you take shit for granted.

I just realized that

when you make your way up, you gotta start stepping it up.

One round at a time, one day at a time, one step at a time.

I'm not at the world championship level yet,

but I know I can hang with a lot of world champions.

To be honest, I don't know the best in me.

But, you know, it takes me. I could bring the best out of me.

It's a certain mentality that it takes to be a great fighter.

And it's there. It's there in all of us. We all possess that thing.

But what separates us is there are people who can activate it...

And become champion.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen,

and welcome to the silver legacy hotel resort and casino.

This afternoon, 28 men will continue their quest for the olympic dream.

After a year of olympic trials qualifiers,

the top American olympic boxing hopefuls are here in Reno

to compete to make the us team.

The group includes darmani rock, Philadelphia's super heavyweight

who beat cam f. Awesome in the national golden gloves championship.

-But tonight, it only takes one punch...

...to end darmani's olympic dreams.

What, I can't fight?

Right.

This silly rule for boxing without headgear.

People get hurt, cam got cut a little bit last night.

But we got it fixed up, so...

But he's gotta worry about that a little, he's got to protect it.

So that just adds another dimension to it.

Can anyone, like, have a serious conversation with you

with your freaking drawn-on eyebrow?

So ridiculous.

At his new 201-pound weight class,

cam f. Awesome, he looks awesome.

But with the cut over his eye, and three fights left,

he'll have to proceed with caution or risk medical disqualification.

There you go.

--Cam awesome.

You're a fucking magician. Your eye is perfect.

I have never been so impressed in my fucking life.

Your winner by split decision,

boxing out of the blue corner, cam awesome!

Watching cam in his skill set

get to this level is incredible.

He's invested so much into this. If he wins, it was all worth it.

I've waited too long to fuck this up.

It's a great honor to be able to go to the Olympics

and represent a country and all that.

I have to win. I'd be way too disappointed chasing this for 12 fucking years.

-Oh, you're not who I thought you were. -No?

Doesn't mean you're not a quality person though.

Oh, thank you.

-If you're up, best of luck. -Thank you. Thank you.

-What weight class are you in?

Heavyweight. You guys coming to the fights?

Oh, hell, yes. All week.

Are you a 201 or 201-plus?

201, I used to be 201-plus.

--Oh, wow.

What did you do? Go on a damn diet?

Yeah, I actually did. I'm a vegan.

And I started working out, and running, and working out, and running...

-You're vegan? -Yeah.

-Good luck to you. -Thank you. Thank you.

I'm a protein guy.

-Where are you guys from? - Here.

-Here? - Yeah.

You guys know anybody fighting?

-We do now. - So I'm your favorite fighter here?

-Pablo, but he lost. - It was Pablo.

Well, I'm your favorite fighter left in the tournament.

But you're my favorite fighter left in the tournament.

-I'll take that.

I'll take that ten times out of ten.

What are your names?

nancy and Jim. What's your name?

Nice to meet you. I'm cam.

-Oh, I know you. I've watched you, yeah. -Oh, you are cam?

-Hey, I got a question for you. -Yes, sir.

Is your last name really...

No, it isn't. You changed it.

Oh, I did change it, but I took the legal procedures.

It's on my passport, credit card, my license.

-Because, why not, right? - Why not?

Cam f. Awesome might not be the prettiest fighter to watch in the ring,

but he knows how to land a punch without receiving a punch,

and that's all that matters.

Boxing out of the red corner, he comes from lenexa, Kansas,

cam f. Awesome!

Red corner, cam f. Awesome!

Tell the people what you did out there tonight.

I dominated.

Cam f. Awesome, everybody.

Great performance. United States olympian, well deserved.

Awesome has now qualified for the us olympic men's boxing team.

But that's not saying he's an olympian yet.

He'll still have to go on to fight internationally to qualify for the games.

I'm just emotionally exhausted at this point.

But I'm happy, the way everything turned out.

So, was this all worth it?

It was definitely all worth it, but all today is...

Is just basically me

getting back to where I left off.

Ready?

One.

Go.

There you go. That's it.

The Andy Lee fight was a great test.

And I'm not being biased, but I thought he won that fight.

Nonetheless, it is what it is.

We're moving on. We're looking for the next one.

Whoo!

I'm in the gym, working hard,

just to make sure I secure what a win could look like for me.

If i'ma die, what I'm doing, it's gonna be me dying trying to win.

You can't just be good at something.

You can't just go up there and make music and think it's good enough.

You have to always go the extra length to want it.

Like, I was willing to sleep on, fucking, a mattress I found in the trash

to make my success work for me. You know what I'm saying?

Wasn't about girls, wasn't about nothing else in life.

You know what I'm saying?

So, in life, you have to figure out what you're motivated over.

-When you realize your situation. - Yeah.

You realize where you're at and your situation

and how you're gonna get up out of it.

'Cause you notice that you be in a pool full of crabs

and you don't know why you keep getting pulled in,

it's because you have no plan to get out. You know what I'm saying?

And then eventually, you'd be, like, 35, and you're like, "what happened?"

And you was so much in the fucking moment all the time that you...

Sometimes motherfuckers don't never come out that moment.

The latest fight in kid chocolate's return

gives him another chance to regain a middleweight championship belt.

Though, this time, it's the wba title,

held by Brooklyn fighter Danny "the miracle man" Jacobs.

This is a 50-50 fight.

For Peter quillin, he's taken a wicked beating from hardcore fight fans.

If he wins and looks good, all is forgiven.

♪ So when Peter get in the ring he's gonna do the thing ♪

♪ kid chocolate, hey, hey! Kid chocolate ♪

♪ Peter is his name boxing is his game ♪

♪ he hit him with the right then he knock them out the ring ♪

♪ hey, hey, hey ♪

♪ kid chocolate hey, hey, hey, yes! ♪

Peace. And I'm out.

Floyd.

-What's up, champ? - Man, I'm good. I'm blessed, man.

Thank you. 'Cause I'm here right now.

You undefeated for a reason.

So it's obvious you've been doing something right thus far.

So, you know, go out there and just be at your best.

Thank you, Floyd, man. Appreciate that.

Good looking.

Thank you for that, man.

Showtime.

Ugly motherfucker you.

Thank you very much.

Yes, that's real right there.

Ladies and gentlemen,

we welcome you to barclays center here in Brooklyn, New York,

for the much anticipated feature bout of the evening.

-Peter's about to be whipped. -Yeah.

The referee has already stopped the fight! Mamma Mia!

Your whole life, your whole history,

your whole career changes with one punch.

You cannot play boxing.

When you see an art, and you see a painter,

and you see someone that's doing something of the sweet science...

They hit and not get hit, they take away and disarm a guy,

and make him look... Reduce him down from a killer to nobody.

From a beast to nobody.

How did you do that... In that squared circle?

Hey, man.

This fight was meant to happen.

No matter what I could have did wrong,

what I could have did right.

It was all supposed to happen the way that it did.

Yeah.

It's all part of your story now.

Walk out of here with a smile on your face.

I believe that if a fighter goes in there

and fights his heart out,

and just leaves everything in the ring,

he's gonna live to see another day. He's gonna live to see another fight.

People are gonna wanna see him again, regardless if you lose or win.

Being undefeated, does it matter?

It doesn't matter. It happened the way it happened.

Somebody asked me, "are you scared to get in the ring?"

I said, "I'm not scared to fight, I'm not even scared to lay down.

The only thing I'm scared of

is to see how many people that's here for me right now,

in this moment, after I lost, disappear."

The only thing I could do is go back to the gym,

reassess myself with my team and try our best in the next go round.

Two years in the life of American boxing

will teach you a lot about the sport's issues and problems...

But mostly about its champions.

Boxing has never been a perfect sport and it never will be.

But it is about people who can rise to the best of themselves

when they put on the gloves.

Like my mom always said,

it's not about how many times you've been knocked down.

It's how fast you get up.

Boxing is about kids like me,

who, wherever they're from, need something only this sport can provide.

Whether it's direction, or discipline, or glory and fame and fortune.

A champion is someone who, despite tremendous odds,

in a brutal, corrupt pursuit,

proves that the impossible, what most of us might never dare,

could actually happen.

These dreams are still born every day in gyms like atlas cops and kids.

And as long as there are kids who need to fight their way out of somewhere...

That squared circle will be calling.

Hey, hey, hey!

The strategy remains the same, in this, the most elemental of martial arts:

Hit and don't be hit.

And still undefeated, Chris "lil b-hop" colbert!

--Let's go! Let's go!

Who's that?

Who is that?