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Mike is a
complicated individual.

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I never knew what Tyson
and I was going to get.

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He looked like he
could kill somebody.

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Unapologetically
open and honest.

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You could not have a
better friend than Mike Tyson.

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Were you an unhappy kid?

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I knew I had something
and I had to let it out.

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I've been listening to people telling me I
wasn't going to do anything with my life.

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I knew it was special.

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You want to do something,
but you didn't know what it was.

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Michael is intimidating.

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He cannot control his temper.

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I was going to
kill him if I had to.

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He's my boy.

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He's with me.

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It's a tragic narrative.

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The rise and fall.

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The alleged victim's
statements were credible

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enough to warrant
a full investigation.

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I cannot believe he bit him and
expected to get away with that.

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He just destroyed his career.

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Have a nice fight, Mike.

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off.

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The drugs made
him very, very dark.

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The only person that
defeated him was him.

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This is the way
it's going to end?

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Free Mike Tyson!

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Free Mike Tyson!

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If Mike Tyson gets out
of prison in 2020 rather

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than 1995, I don't know
what would happen today.

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Will there be a
tomorrow for Mike Tyson?

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This may be the biggest challenge
and the biggest fight he ever had.

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I usually come out on top, and I
plan on coming out on top again.

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This is the biggest fight with the biggest
build-up of legitimate quality since

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Muhammad Ali fought
Joe Frazier for the first

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time 17 years ago in
Madison Square Garden.

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Obviously, Mike Tyson
behind that crowd coming in.

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Mike Tyson was called the
baddest man on the planet

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because he was the
baddest man on the planet.

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Everything that Tyson
does is intimidating.

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When Tyson fought,
everybody stopped to watch.

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The world stopped.

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Nothing compared to a night that
Mike Tyson was fighting for the title.

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Mike Tyson surrounded by
security, as handless as he comes in.

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Tyson's story
breaks all the rules.

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Black guy, violent sport,
grows up in and around violence.

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Goes away for rape.

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And he is more loved
now than he ever has been.

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I've never seen Americans
allow that to happen to somebody.

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Mike Tyson, as always, no
shirt, no robe, no accoutrements.

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The Tyson-Spinks fight was the
biggest event that you could imagine.

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Bigger than the World Series.

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Bigger than the Super Bowl.

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Bigger than the
NBA Championship.

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It was a who's who event.

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Oprah was courtside.

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Anybody who was
somebody was there.

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Muhammad Ali has
just entered the ring.

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He entered the ring
here to take his bow.

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Everybody was
looking for the next Ali.

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And then, here
comes Kid Dynamite.

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People feared him.

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They thought their
life was going to end.

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Whoa.

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You have a sledgehammer, man.

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You're ready to die to see
how did that end up being hit.

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I mean, no fighter wants
to get run over by a truck.

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There's few people in the
world that go by one name.

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Tyson.

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Tyson.

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Tyson.

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Tyson.

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His was the most
recognizable face on the planet.

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More than the Pope.

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More than Queen Elizabeth.

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More than the President.

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Synonymous with the big names.

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Jesus Christ and Mike Tyson.

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In white America, the image of
Mike Tyson was that he was scary.

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From the black perspective,
he was a hero because

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he was a success in
the white man's world.

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And gained worldly possessions
at the white man's game.

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There's no way in the
world I could be beat.

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I refuse.

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There's no way.

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Courtside seats were $1,500.

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The fight grossed $70 million.

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Everybody wanted a piece of
that fight, including Donald Trump.

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Donald Trump, who
has the daring, the flair,

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the look, and the
cash to make it happen.

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Donald Trump put up
$11 million to host this

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fight and has made it
his personal mission.

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What would benefit?

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Trump's casinos, of course.

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The boardwalk was packed.

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Two tickets, who needs it?

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You couldn't get a room within
10, 15 miles of Atlantic City.

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It was shown in
over 16 countries.

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Listen to all the gossip and
the theories that surround

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this magnificent event that
transpired here at Trump Plaza.

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The heavyweight
champion of the world.

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The world comes into the ring.

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This is why we're here.

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Mike Tyson was a kid.

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He was only 21 years old.

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He had to carry the whole
industry on his shoulder.

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He wasn't equipped for that.

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Millions and millions
of dollars on the line.

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Billions of people
literally watching this fight.

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You never know a person until you start
to peel back the layers of that person.

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And where they've been.

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Where they came from.

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Mike is from the hood.

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When Mike hit you, it
came from the corner.

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Every corner in the world.

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It's like, whoa, they must have
brought this guy straight from the street.

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I grew up literally across
the street from Mike Tyson.

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I'm from Ocean
Hill, Brownsville.

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And so is Mike.

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And then Mike lost his home.

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And he moved down the hill.

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To Amboy.

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You know, when you go down
the hill, it's savagery down here.

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You feel me?

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You gotta be ready,
prepared, because it's rough.

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It was so dangerous.

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I'm talking about gangs.

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I'm talking about
girls disappearing.

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I'm talking about dead bodies
being found in vacant lots.

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You know?

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At 10 o'clock in the morning.

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You gotta worry about who's
gonna take your sneakers.

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Who's gonna take your bus pass.

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Who is gonna come out and duck out of a
building and grab you, rape you, stab you.

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Murder you.

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So you become paranoid.

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You live by that.

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You know that.

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Yo, they might be
scheming on me.

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And this is poor people
robbing poor people.

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The rest of the country hears
about Harlem all the time.

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Harlem compared to Brownsville
is a stable middle class community.

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It was always hostile.

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Cops always stopping.

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You know what I mean?

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Am-Lam's always coming
to pick up somebody.

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Guns always going off.

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People are getting stabbed.

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Windows are being broken.

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Very, very hostile.

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You know what I mean?

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And like I said, you
become accustomed to it.

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Chances of making it out of
Brownsville is slim and none.

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I'm gonna tell you right now.

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It's a door.

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And it's 50,000 people
trying to get through one door.

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You know what I mean?

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With no opportunity.

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I always have Mike's
permission to share what I do.

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He didn't really have a
healthy childhood at all.

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His mother was alcoholic
and she loved him dearly.

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But when she would be drinking,
she was extremely abusive.

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His mom on Saturdays,
usually on the weekends,

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would hook up with some
guy and bring him home.

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And they were
usually both drunk.

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And oftentimes his
mother would get beat up.

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And then he would
watch them having sex.

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And so violence, sex, alcoholism, abuse of
women, those were his baseline for normal.

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He picks up the nickname
Dirty Ike from the kids in the

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street because his personal
hygiene is just lacking.

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He said that in the neighborhood
he was really bullied.

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He was bullied and teased a lot.

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He found some serenity only
really from raising pigeons.

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And it gave him some
stature in his community.

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Pigeon flying is so
synonymous with Brooklyn.

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I mean with New York,
but primarily with Brooklyn.

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It was a sport to fly a pigeon.

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A guy three blocks away
might have a pigeon coop.

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And we would battle.

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You sent all your pigeons
up at the same time.

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And then they fly around.

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And then they interact.

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And who could draw the most pigeons
from the other guy's pigeon coop?

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It's just a form of escapism.

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And it's also a source
you run to for love.

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He loved the freedoms
the pigeons had.

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That they had a home that
was a good home, a roost.

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But they could fly free during
the day and return to their roost.

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And Mike couldn't fly free.

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They're like my brothers
and sisters and my friends.

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And I don't have to worry about
them asking me for any money.

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Or trying to get over
me or do anything.

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Or trying to hurt
me for any reason.

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One day Mike Tyson,
he's with his pigeons.

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And one of the older boys who had
been victimizing him on the streets.

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Turns up and he
starts tormenting Mike.

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And he goes into Mike's coop.

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And he takes one of
Mike's pigeons in his hand.

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And he's playing
with the pigeon.

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And Mike is begging
him, don't hurt the pigeon.

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And instead of giving
the bird back to Mike.

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This guy twists
the pigeon's head.

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And rips the head
off this pigeon.

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The bird is twitching,
literally, in its death throes.

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And Mike Tyson goes berserk.

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Mike Tyson beats the living
daylights out of this bigger, stronger kid.

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And that may well have been the
turning point in Mike Tyson's life.

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When you become a man.

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We hustle to stay alive.

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Mike Tyson started hanging
out with a different crowd.

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And there, with older
guys, older gang members.

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He was groomed,
groomed in street crime.

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When after a while people
treat you a certain way.

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You become just like them.

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That type of violence.

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That type of abject poverty.

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Re-wires your brain.

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It re-wires your
emotional intelligence.

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It was so exciting.

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I mean, you can, you see.

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Me and your world
is so vastly different.

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You could never understand the
action and the excitement of it all.

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To be able to outsmart
somebody was a big thrill.

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To outsmart them,
to out-time them.

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To out-thank them.

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Even though they
know that you're a crook.

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When you're on the bus
or when you're walking

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in the check cashing
place or the grocery store.

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They know to watch you.

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And you still outsmart them.

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It's a fear and a
challenge at the same time.

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It's a fear of getting caught.

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But it's a challenge.

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Can I get away?

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Mike Tyson was arrested
all the time as a kid.

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I think by his own count
more than 30 times.

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After a while of being
sent to detention centers.

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The authorities feel that he's
really headed for serious trouble.

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They send him upstate New York.

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To the Tryon School.

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A place where
troubled kids are sent.

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He hears that one of
the guards at Tryon.

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A guy named Bobby Stewart.

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Had been a boxer.

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They used to let me
work with the kids.

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Mike said that he
heard about this.

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And he wanted to get involved.

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The first day we have a box.

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He humiliated me
in front of everybody.

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Beat me up, hit me in the body.

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I went down.

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He thought I would
never want to box again.

253
00:13:06,620 --> 00:13:07,620
After taking a beating.

254
00:13:07,860 --> 00:13:08,860
And after that I said.

255
00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:09,500
Can I learn?

256
00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:10,520
You think I can learn?

257
00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:11,080
You think I got anything?

258
00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:12,800
I work with him one on one.

259
00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:14,120
Wait for him to quit.

260
00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:15,320
But he wouldn't quit.

261
00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:17,700
The third shift staff
would come to me.

262
00:13:17,740 --> 00:13:18,440
The next day sometimes.

263
00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:18,860
And say.

264
00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:19,680
Bobby.

265
00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:21,320
He was up to 4
o'clock in the morning.

266
00:13:22,260 --> 00:13:24,020
He's in there practicing
what you showed him.

267
00:13:24,610 --> 00:13:26,420
Bobby Stewart
said to Mike Tyson.

268
00:13:26,620 --> 00:13:27,960
If you stay out of trouble.

269
00:13:28,450 --> 00:13:31,480
I'll bring you down to a
man who trained champions.

270
00:13:39,060 --> 00:13:42,660
It is the mark of a great
fighter when he has character.

271
00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:43,840
Plus skill.

272
00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:45,980
Because a fighter
with character and skill.

273
00:13:46,220 --> 00:13:48,720
Will often rise and
beat a better fighter.

274
00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:50,120
Because of this.

275
00:13:50,580 --> 00:13:51,580
Cus D'Amato.

276
00:13:51,700 --> 00:13:53,060
The genius of boxing.

277
00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,860
He knows all about boxing.

278
00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:58,400
He can tell you
about all the fighters.

279
00:13:58,680 --> 00:13:59,920
From the first fighter.

280
00:14:00,020 --> 00:14:01,020
Up until myself.

281
00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:03,060
He's the Bible of boxing.

282
00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:04,560
Cus D'Amato.

283
00:14:04,660 --> 00:14:05,660
The legendary.

284
00:14:06,500 --> 00:14:07,180
Boxing trainer.

285
00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:08,700
Who had taken.

286
00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:11,140
Two fighters to
world championships.

287
00:14:11,620 --> 00:14:13,940
But who now was 72 years old.

288
00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:17,080
And he was running a
gym above the police station.

289
00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:20,980
For amateur fighters.

290
00:14:21,100 --> 00:14:22,920
Local kids who
lived in Catskill.

291
00:14:26,500 --> 00:14:28,600
Bobby Stewart brought
him down to the gym.

292
00:14:28,980 --> 00:14:31,740
And he introduced him to Cus.

293
00:14:32,125 --> 00:14:34,240
Cus couldn't believe
the size of him.

294
00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:35,520
Teddy Atlas was right there.

295
00:14:35,521 --> 00:14:37,040
He was working
in the ring there.

296
00:14:37,220 --> 00:14:38,220
And he says.

297
00:14:38,325 --> 00:14:39,440
We got nobody for him.

298
00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:40,756
Big enough for him to box with.

299
00:14:40,780 --> 00:14:40,880
I said.

300
00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:41,000
No.

301
00:14:41,060 --> 00:14:42,100
I'm going to box with him.

302
00:14:42,780 --> 00:14:43,780
Cus said to me.

303
00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:44,280
You know.

304
00:14:44,610 --> 00:14:45,980
How old do you
think that guy is?

305
00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:47,360
Geez Cus.

306
00:14:47,361 --> 00:14:47,660
I said.

307
00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:48,060
I don't know.

308
00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:48,560
21.

309
00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:49,560
22.

310
00:14:49,780 --> 00:14:50,780
23.

311
00:14:50,940 --> 00:14:51,420
You know.

312
00:14:51,460 --> 00:14:52,460
Somewhere in there.

313
00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:53,640
He says.

314
00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:54,280
He smiled.

315
00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:54,580
I said.

316
00:14:54,620 --> 00:14:55,620
What are you smiling at?

317
00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:56,760
He says.

318
00:14:56,780 --> 00:14:57,780
He's 12 years old.

319
00:14:57,860 --> 00:14:58,120
What?

320
00:14:58,700 --> 00:14:59,220
I says.

321
00:14:59,260 --> 00:14:59,960
12 years old.

322
00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:01,040
And I called him over.

323
00:15:01,041 --> 00:15:01,560
Come over here.

324
00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:02,600
I want to talk to you.

325
00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:03,400
So.

326
00:15:03,850 --> 00:15:04,850
He comes over.

327
00:15:05,260 --> 00:15:06,060
And I says.

328
00:15:06,220 --> 00:15:07,220
Get closer.

329
00:15:07,575 --> 00:15:08,500
I want to see your face.

330
00:15:08,580 --> 00:15:08,980
Get closer.

331
00:15:09,450 --> 00:15:11,120
And you can see
all underneath here.

332
00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:12,160
The baby skin.

333
00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:14,600
He was 190 pounds.

334
00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:15,520
Solid.

335
00:15:15,820 --> 00:15:16,320
And uh.

336
00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,040
Talked with a little bit of a.

337
00:15:18,340 --> 00:15:18,960
Very low.

338
00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:20,040
Whispy voice.

339
00:15:20,180 --> 00:15:21,400
I get him gloved up.

340
00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:22,840
And we go.

341
00:15:23,740 --> 00:15:24,740
He had.

342
00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:25,320
Bobby.

343
00:15:25,460 --> 00:15:26,460
Against the ropes.

344
00:15:26,780 --> 00:15:27,780
So Bobby.

345
00:15:28,260 --> 00:15:29,160
Would have to use.

346
00:15:29,260 --> 00:15:30,320
Everything he had.

347
00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:31,020
As a grown man.

348
00:15:31,021 --> 00:15:32,140
To push this kid away.

349
00:15:32,660 --> 00:15:34,000
Everything I showed him.

350
00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:35,840
It was like he had been
doing it for 25 years.

351
00:15:36,220 --> 00:15:37,376
And we could see he's got power.

352
00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:38,516
We could see he's got quickness.

353
00:15:38,540 --> 00:15:39,640
But he's also very raw.

354
00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:42,680
Relax.

355
00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:44,600
He didn't want to
get out of the ring.

356
00:15:44,980 --> 00:15:46,180
Cuts was taking my gloves off.

357
00:15:46,380 --> 00:15:46,560
Yeah.

358
00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:47,520
And I said.

359
00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:47,720
Uh.

360
00:15:48,060 --> 00:15:49,060
What do you think?

361
00:15:49,100 --> 00:15:49,700
He says.

362
00:15:50,030 --> 00:15:51,520
Bar any distractions.

363
00:15:52,300 --> 00:15:54,980
We're looking at the next heavy
weight champion of the world.

364
00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:56,440
He was like.

365
00:15:58,020 --> 00:15:59,220
How can I say this?

366
00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:00,540
He was like.

367
00:16:00,541 --> 00:16:00,820
This guy.

368
00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:01,000
This guy.

369
00:16:01,001 --> 00:16:02,160
A big piece of marble.

370
00:16:02,340 --> 00:16:06,480
And Cuts was going
to chisel out this statue.

371
00:16:07,055 --> 00:16:08,880
And it was going to be perfect.

372
00:16:09,820 --> 00:16:10,860
So initially.

373
00:16:11,140 --> 00:16:14,480
Bobby Stewart would be
bringing Mike Tyson back and forth.

374
00:16:14,690 --> 00:16:16,580
To Catskill from
the Tryon school.

375
00:16:17,085 --> 00:16:20,880
And training with
Cuts and Teddy.

376
00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:25,500
I started training in the
gym for at least what?

377
00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:26,020
Five.

378
00:16:26,170 --> 00:16:27,170
Six months.

379
00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:27,520
Without.

380
00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:28,460
You know.

381
00:16:28,540 --> 00:16:29,540
Any fights.

382
00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:31,160
And everything.

383
00:16:31,620 --> 00:16:32,620
Practice style.

384
00:16:33,380 --> 00:16:33,820
Uh.

385
00:16:33,940 --> 00:16:34,680
What do you think of the bat?

386
00:16:34,860 --> 00:16:35,300
Huh?

387
00:16:35,420 --> 00:16:36,420
I look at the bat.

388
00:16:36,730 --> 00:16:38,160
He's coming into
a strange place.

389
00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,520
And he doesn't
know what to expect.

390
00:16:42,610 --> 00:16:43,900
And at the same time.

391
00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,220
He wants to make
a great impression.

392
00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:51,120
He was very eager to prove
how serious he was in the ring.

393
00:16:51,590 --> 00:16:55,240
And how he was going to give a
hundred and ten percent in the ring.

394
00:16:55,770 --> 00:16:57,896
Training is not just doing
all exercises and exercises.

395
00:16:57,920 --> 00:16:58,920
That's the easy part.

396
00:16:58,950 --> 00:16:59,580
In boxing.

397
00:16:59,581 --> 00:17:00,080
Boxing is training.

398
00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:00,960
Physically.

399
00:17:01,580 --> 00:17:01,980
Mentally.

400
00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:02,560
That's the hard part.

401
00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:06,720
People have you doing it over and
over and over and over and over and over.

402
00:17:07,090 --> 00:17:09,229
That's not building
up your body or your

403
00:17:09,241 --> 00:17:11,601
legs or your heart is
building up your mind.

404
00:17:13,830 --> 00:17:16,160
When you first met
Mike at a young age.

405
00:17:16,580 --> 00:17:17,787
Anybody who looked
at his history at that

406
00:17:17,788 --> 00:17:19,320
point would have said,
geez this is a bad kid.

407
00:17:19,660 --> 00:17:20,060
Well.

408
00:17:20,530 --> 00:17:21,660
I wouldn't say he was bad.

409
00:17:21,740 --> 00:17:22,740
Because basically.

410
00:17:23,420 --> 00:17:24,760
He had some wonderful qualities.

411
00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:27,980
But then he had the environment
in which he grew up with.

412
00:17:28,380 --> 00:17:29,560
He was tremendously fit.

413
00:17:29,561 --> 00:17:30,561
Physically talented.

414
00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,400
But where he was
flawed was up here.

415
00:17:33,620 --> 00:17:34,300
The fear.

416
00:17:34,340 --> 00:17:34,800
The insecurity.

417
00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:35,680
You know.

418
00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:36,720
The self-doubt.

419
00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:37,980
Am I really this good?

420
00:17:38,860 --> 00:17:42,640
Cuss would repeat over and
over to Mike from the beginning.

421
00:17:42,990 --> 00:17:46,020
Do you know you're going to be
heavyweight champion of the world someday?

422
00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:49,100
And if you say it enough times.

423
00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:50,340
You believe it.

424
00:17:50,460 --> 00:17:51,680
And if you believe it.

425
00:17:51,740 --> 00:17:52,740
Then you have no doubt.

426
00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,780
To me fear is the greatest
obstacle to learning.

427
00:17:56,620 --> 00:17:58,160
Fear is like fire.

428
00:17:58,161 --> 00:18:00,600
If you learn to control it.

429
00:18:00,620 --> 00:18:01,600
You can make it work for you.

430
00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:02,776
If you let it get
out of control.

431
00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:04,840
It's going to destroy you
and everything around you.

432
00:18:05,465 --> 00:18:06,625
You got to control your fear.

433
00:18:06,740 --> 00:18:07,780
And control your emotions.

434
00:18:08,020 --> 00:18:09,180
And make them work for you.

435
00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:10,300
Make them fuel.

436
00:18:12,180 --> 00:18:15,400
Cuss put him to where he
said when you get in that ring.

437
00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:17,240
You hate that other guy.

438
00:18:17,380 --> 00:18:18,820
And you are going to kill him.

439
00:18:19,460 --> 00:18:22,320
The whole fight is won
before it ever starts.

440
00:18:22,460 --> 00:18:24,260
If you can intimidate
the other guy.

441
00:18:24,670 --> 00:18:25,720
To make him afraid of you.

442
00:18:27,660 --> 00:18:28,060
Die.

443
00:18:28,061 --> 00:18:28,340
That's it.

444
00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:28,520
See.

445
00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:30,356
Ain't no way he's
going to hit you then.

446
00:18:30,380 --> 00:18:31,380
Right?

447
00:18:31,860 --> 00:18:32,860
And remember.

448
00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,140
It's always good to throw the punch
where you can hit him and he can't hit you.

449
00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,520
That's what the science
of boxing is all about.

450
00:18:39,510 --> 00:18:40,600
Remember from the side.

451
00:18:40,980 --> 00:18:43,440
You can let that punch go
with the worst kind of intention.

452
00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:45,780
Because you know
he can't hit you back.

453
00:18:47,145 --> 00:18:49,585
So you can throw the bomb with
all the power you can generate.

454
00:18:52,700 --> 00:18:53,340
Hit again.

455
00:18:53,500 --> 00:18:53,900
You know what I mean?

456
00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:54,320
Keep it going.

457
00:18:54,420 --> 00:18:55,020
It's still an exchange.

458
00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:56,840
And the guy is still
fighting with you.

459
00:18:57,220 --> 00:18:58,040
I was in the gym.

460
00:18:58,041 --> 00:18:58,900
I was in the gym
with him every day.

461
00:18:58,920 --> 00:18:59,920
And every night.

462
00:19:00,170 --> 00:19:02,080
And I'm teaching
a specific style.

463
00:19:02,350 --> 00:19:03,350
It's a peek-a-boo.

464
00:19:07,030 --> 00:19:08,610
You not only gotta
throw punches.

465
00:19:08,690 --> 00:19:10,130
You gotta learn
how to miss punches.

466
00:19:10,190 --> 00:19:11,190
You know what I mean?

467
00:19:11,650 --> 00:19:12,750
Your hands up like this.

468
00:19:12,770 --> 00:19:13,770
Your elbows in here.

469
00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,350
And you're looking to slip
punches and be aggressive.

470
00:19:16,630 --> 00:19:19,830
Where straight punches you
slip, round punches you weave.

471
00:19:22,430 --> 00:19:25,090
You're looking to make a
mess and create openings.

472
00:19:25,370 --> 00:19:26,370
Create holes.

473
00:19:26,870 --> 00:19:27,870
Create opportunities.

474
00:19:28,210 --> 00:19:29,370
Where now you can punch.

475
00:19:30,350 --> 00:19:31,990
Because he gave
you a... Make a miss.

476
00:19:32,090 --> 00:19:32,630
Oh, he missed.

477
00:19:32,910 --> 00:19:33,490
Bang, bang.

478
00:19:33,550 --> 00:19:34,550
I can catch him.

479
00:19:35,610 --> 00:19:36,910
Be a champ of the world someday.

480
00:19:37,870 --> 00:19:39,830
Just keep in mind
where it's supposed to be.

481
00:19:43,090 --> 00:19:43,570
Back down.

482
00:19:43,670 --> 00:19:44,030
That's it.

483
00:19:44,110 --> 00:19:44,530
There you go.

484
00:19:44,570 --> 00:19:45,170
Now you got... Again.

485
00:19:45,270 --> 00:19:45,450
Again.

486
00:19:46,030 --> 00:19:47,110
Who's the last guy to stop?

487
00:19:48,330 --> 00:19:48,690
Time.

488
00:19:48,970 --> 00:19:49,550
Very good.

489
00:19:49,630 --> 00:19:49,950
That's fine.

490
00:19:50,590 --> 00:19:51,130
Very good.

491
00:19:51,210 --> 00:19:51,310
Yeah.

492
00:19:51,370 --> 00:19:52,406
That's what you have to do.

493
00:19:52,430 --> 00:19:55,850
For the first time in
his life, he had direction.

494
00:19:56,230 --> 00:19:57,970
He still had a lot of issues.

495
00:19:58,550 --> 00:19:59,350
But he was always
on the right track.

496
00:19:59,370 --> 00:20:02,450
Overcoming them by
being around Cus D 'Amato.

497
00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:04,360
I have never seen
a fighter like Mike.

498
00:20:04,470 --> 00:20:05,950
He may go down in history
as one of the greatest

499
00:20:05,951 --> 00:20:08,191
we ever had, if not the
greatest that ever lived.

500
00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:22,580
After a few months, Mike Tyson moved
into the house full-time with Cus D'Amato.

501
00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:29,860
The house was a Victorian mansion on
10 acres, overlooking the Hudson River.

502
00:20:30,100 --> 00:20:31,760
It was a magnificent property.

503
00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:32,880
It still is.

504
00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:43,960
Cus D'Amato had a whole stable
of young fighters that he took in.

505
00:20:45,015 --> 00:20:48,500
He would have half a dozen kids,
maybe more than that, living in his house.

506
00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:50,860
There, it was a structure.

507
00:20:51,860 --> 00:20:55,880
You get up, you do road work, you
have to do chores around the house.

508
00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,280
One took out the garbage, one shoveled
the snow, one did this, one did that.

509
00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:03,878
And at the end of the day,
he became very much a

510
00:21:03,879 --> 00:21:06,481
home for Mike Tyson,
which he had never really had.

511
00:21:08,170 --> 00:21:09,170
What's Mike like?

512
00:21:09,365 --> 00:21:11,560
I mean, is he a good kid?

513
00:21:11,980 --> 00:21:13,560
Basically, he's a good kid, yes.

514
00:21:14,420 --> 00:21:16,700
I think he grew up without
any love or affection.

515
00:21:17,180 --> 00:21:19,920
He just grew up in the
street looking for something.

516
00:21:21,170 --> 00:21:23,420
He wanted somebody
to pay attention to him.

517
00:21:24,410 --> 00:21:25,580
Did Cus pay attention to him?

518
00:21:25,820 --> 00:21:26,820
Very much so.

519
00:21:27,730 --> 00:21:28,660
I'll never forget it.

520
00:21:28,740 --> 00:21:32,440
He sat at the table, and he wasn't
used to sitting at that kind of place.

521
00:21:32,441 --> 00:21:35,340
He sat at the table with all
the food, sitting as a family.

522
00:21:35,730 --> 00:21:38,273
You could see that
Tyson is going out of his

523
00:21:38,274 --> 00:21:40,740
way to be the way he
thought he needed to be.

524
00:21:40,820 --> 00:21:42,120
Very, very polite.

525
00:21:42,555 --> 00:21:43,220
Yes, ma'am.

526
00:21:43,221 --> 00:21:43,680
Yes, ma'am.

527
00:21:43,860 --> 00:21:48,660
And she asked him to get a
spoon and a drawer behind him.

528
00:21:48,950 --> 00:21:51,580
He was so nervous,
he moved real fast.

529
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,380
His legs were like this.

530
00:21:53,900 --> 00:21:56,545
And his leg got
stuck under one of the

531
00:21:56,557 --> 00:21:59,760
branches of the table
and picked up the table.

532
00:22:00,430 --> 00:22:02,000
And all the food
started sliding.

533
00:22:02,490 --> 00:22:05,420
And Kameelah's, like, screaming,
like, what are you doing?

534
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,220
You know, like, she's
worried about that.

535
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,960
And Tyson is, like, crying,
like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

536
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,880
Because he thought he did something
that was going to get him in trouble.

537
00:22:14,620 --> 00:22:18,180
And I look at Cus, and
Cus is going, what power!

538
00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:20,860
The next heavyweight
champ in the world.

539
00:22:25,180 --> 00:22:31,720
Mike, being from where he was from,
you know, at all times, he's guarded.

540
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:38,480
I just never trust anybody.

541
00:22:38,660 --> 00:22:39,660
You don't trust anybody.

542
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:41,740
Cuts with doing
something for nothing.

543
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,600
You're not used to people in
the city doing something for you.

544
00:22:45,750 --> 00:22:47,550
And them not wanting
something back in return.

545
00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:48,900
So I just shy off.

546
00:22:48,980 --> 00:22:50,380
I didn't like that
for some reason.

547
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,800
But now coming up here and
living with him, it's like day and night.

548
00:22:59,900 --> 00:23:00,900
It's hard to believe.

549
00:23:05,165 --> 00:23:06,910
Has Mike changed
since he's lived here?

550
00:23:07,410 --> 00:23:08,410
Very much.

551
00:23:10,290 --> 00:23:13,410
He's more kinder.

552
00:23:13,411 --> 00:23:14,510
He's more thoughtful.

553
00:23:16,290 --> 00:23:17,930
I think he's more responsive.

554
00:23:19,330 --> 00:23:20,330
There's no violence.

555
00:23:20,370 --> 00:23:21,690
There's no yelling
and screaming.

556
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,010
You have your
own bed to sleep in.

557
00:23:25,410 --> 00:23:26,970
Little things that
we take for granted.

558
00:23:27,460 --> 00:23:30,010
He was in awe and he
was thankful to be there.

559
00:23:35,630 --> 00:23:38,416
Is it tough for you as a
76-year-old white guy to

560
00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:41,640
work with a 17-year-old
black kid from Brooklyn?

561
00:23:41,980 --> 00:23:42,980
Not at all.

562
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:45,320
He's my boy.

563
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:46,400
He's with me.

564
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,440
And for that reason, I
just accept him that way.

565
00:23:49,620 --> 00:23:53,100
And I think the same thing applies to
everybody in the house who lives with him.

566
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:54,940
He's like my father.

567
00:23:55,305 --> 00:23:57,025
And it's like a father
and son relationship.

568
00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,495
You know, even though he
is my manager and trainer,

569
00:23:59,496 --> 00:24:01,480
sometimes I forget that
because of the way we are.

570
00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:05,040
He's just accepting me like I was
his son just off the street like nothing.

571
00:24:07,140 --> 00:24:10,700
Michael Tyson and Customato
have given each other the same gift.

572
00:24:10,820 --> 00:24:11,500
A future.

573
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:12,900
A chance for Mike.

574
00:24:13,670 --> 00:24:15,200
A second chance for Cus.

575
00:24:17,385 --> 00:24:21,540
They grew up under
similar oppressive conditions.

576
00:24:22,730 --> 00:24:23,980
Cus grew up in the Depression.

577
00:24:24,510 --> 00:24:25,510
Very poor.

578
00:24:26,470 --> 00:24:27,550
I grew up without a mother.

579
00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:28,720
My mother died.

580
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:29,920
I don't remember my mother.

581
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,660
And I was fortunate because I
was self-reliant at a very young age.

582
00:24:34,370 --> 00:24:39,700
He had to pretty much rely on himself
and made his way by his wits alone.

583
00:24:41,620 --> 00:24:47,080
I do know anyone who has won an Olympic
title must have skill, competitive spirit

584
00:24:47,081 --> 00:24:50,020
and other qualities
necessary to be a champion.

585
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:54,020
He could only be measured by
boxing and what he put forth in boxing.

586
00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:55,360
That was it.

587
00:24:55,670 --> 00:24:58,160
There was no other
currency to measure him.

588
00:24:58,490 --> 00:25:00,000
He was a teacher in all aspects.

589
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,780
He was cunning, he was
smart, he was shrewd.

590
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:09,000
Cus made Tyson this obsessive
kind of encyclopedia of boxing.

591
00:25:09,001 --> 00:25:11,400
And Mike would, you
know, watch the films.

592
00:25:13,060 --> 00:25:14,620
Old 16mm films.

593
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,120
Boy, I'm gonna have to
come back and pick these up.

594
00:25:20,185 --> 00:25:21,985
I feel like somebody's
been fooling with them.

595
00:25:22,750 --> 00:25:28,221
He would set up this projector and put up a
screen and he would watch all these films.

596
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,940
I'm gonna show all the
fighters that I admire you, okay?

597
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:40,237
Henry Armstrong on
the left, looking to be the

598
00:25:40,238 --> 00:25:42,540
first man to win four
world's championships.

599
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:47,920
He would study these films not only for
boxing technique, but to see the way these

600
00:25:47,921 --> 00:25:51,771
fighters posed, acted,
to see their bravado,

601
00:25:51,783 --> 00:25:55,301
how they carried
themselves in the ring.

602
00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:56,820
They stand for different things.

603
00:25:56,900 --> 00:25:59,060
Heart, courage,
you know, ability.

604
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:06,560
He liked Ali and Fraser, but
Dempsey was the one that stood out.

605
00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:10,840
Because Jack Dempsey
was so ferocious.

606
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,780
And he was like a
Roman gladiator in the ring.

607
00:26:14,350 --> 00:26:16,540
That was the one that
was his favorite fighter.

608
00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:19,740
And in a lot of ways, he
modeled himself like that.

609
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:27,460
To learn the history of boxing the way
Mike Tyson did by watching old fight films

610
00:26:27,461 --> 00:26:32,140
really helped him sort of
envision a place for himself as

611
00:26:32,141 --> 00:26:35,980
a boxer when his time came
to, you know, take the crown.

612
00:26:36,260 --> 00:26:37,480
I would like to be
something like them.

613
00:26:37,481 --> 00:26:42,580
I'd like to be not much of a flamboyant
or something arrogant, you could say,

614
00:26:42,660 --> 00:26:47,680
but just to be in a way, yes, different
from all the fighters nowadays.

615
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,460
My mother told me one day, she
don't like boxing, but she said, you know,

616
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,091
it's horrible and I don't
like it, but whatever

617
00:26:55,092 --> 00:26:57,200
you want to do,
just be the best of it.

618
00:26:57,500 --> 00:26:58,840
And that's how it's going to be.

619
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:05,620
While Mike is living in Catskill,
he gets word that his mother dies.

620
00:27:10,420 --> 00:27:11,840
Were you close to your mother?

621
00:27:12,060 --> 00:27:12,760
Very close, yeah.

622
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:14,460
She wanted to be
a schoolteacher.

623
00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:18,460
Something had happened, her father was sick
and she wanted to take care of her father.

624
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,640
And I guess she got
married to my father, right?

625
00:27:23,420 --> 00:27:28,180
And he left her, she left him, but it
broke her heart and it just beat her.

626
00:27:28,380 --> 00:27:28,700
You know what I mean?

627
00:27:28,780 --> 00:27:30,200
Life just wore her
down after that.

628
00:27:31,925 --> 00:27:34,820
Cus and Camille
became foster parents.

629
00:27:36,180 --> 00:27:39,500
Cus knew what Mike
Tyson was doing.

630
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:40,920
He knew what he
was feeling inside.

631
00:27:41,020 --> 00:27:42,020
And Cus said that.

632
00:27:43,300 --> 00:27:44,920
No one really knows Mike Tyson.

633
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,460
Nobody's really friendly with
Mike Tyson, except Cus D'Amato.

634
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:55,460
Your mind is not on your work.

635
00:27:59,670 --> 00:28:01,230
There's something
distracting you.

636
00:28:02,550 --> 00:28:04,881
I often say to him, you know,
I owe you a lot, and he doesn't

637
00:28:04,905 --> 00:28:06,846
know what I mean, but I'm
going to tell him now what I mean.

638
00:28:06,870 --> 00:28:09,370
If he weren't here, I probably
wouldn't be alive today.

639
00:28:10,570 --> 00:28:11,110
That's it, see?

640
00:28:11,410 --> 00:28:13,250
Ain't no way he's going
to hit you then, right?

641
00:28:13,770 --> 00:28:18,430
The fact that he is here, and doing
what he's doing, and doing as well as he's

642
00:28:18,431 --> 00:28:23,411
doing, and improving as he has, gives me
the motivation and interest to stay alive.

643
00:28:23,530 --> 00:28:24,150
What's the rule?

644
00:28:24,350 --> 00:28:24,770
What's the rule?

645
00:28:24,870 --> 00:28:27,550
If you're going to hit him with
two, should you hit him with one?

646
00:28:27,630 --> 00:28:28,630
Come on, abandon tension.

647
00:28:28,830 --> 00:28:29,590
Believe in yourself.

648
00:28:29,850 --> 00:28:30,350
Feel it.

649
00:28:30,670 --> 00:28:33,410
You know, we've been
training for all this time.

650
00:28:33,975 --> 00:28:36,250
Now is time to
take it on the road.

651
00:28:42,950 --> 00:28:45,130
MUSIC PLAYS We've
been training for all this time.

652
00:28:45,490 --> 00:28:47,470
Now it's time you get
experience under your belt.

653
00:28:48,650 --> 00:28:50,810
The things that were told
to him were coming true.

654
00:28:52,470 --> 00:28:55,210
You listen to us, you become a
good fighter, you're going to travel.

655
00:28:55,490 --> 00:28:56,690
You're going to see the world.

656
00:28:57,510 --> 00:28:59,230
Win this title,
then we'll go home.

657
00:29:00,170 --> 00:29:01,270
To all our friends.

658
00:29:02,010 --> 00:29:02,470
Right?

659
00:29:02,770 --> 00:29:03,770
Yes, sir.

660
00:29:04,190 --> 00:29:05,190
Good?

661
00:29:05,330 --> 00:29:09,510
Look, look, look,
just relax, relax.

662
00:29:09,970 --> 00:29:10,970
Just relax.

663
00:29:11,150 --> 00:29:14,210
When we first started out, you
know, I don't really know what to do.

664
00:29:14,430 --> 00:29:16,190
I don't like the place
that anybody likes me.

665
00:29:16,915 --> 00:29:19,810
Before the fight, he felt
scared, he felt nervous.

666
00:29:20,220 --> 00:29:22,770
He started saying, if I
don't win, they won't like me.

667
00:29:23,470 --> 00:29:25,670
I just reminded him,
this is what we do.

668
00:29:26,450 --> 00:29:29,670
And we ain't going to get rid of the
feeling, but we are going to ride it.

669
00:29:31,110 --> 00:29:32,390
Let's go get ready for a fight.

670
00:29:32,490 --> 00:29:33,490
Come on.

671
00:29:33,770 --> 00:29:35,290
MUSIC PLAYS That's it.

672
00:29:36,030 --> 00:29:37,030
Good, good.

673
00:29:38,330 --> 00:29:39,150
You're the champ.

674
00:29:39,230 --> 00:29:39,910
Fight smart.

675
00:29:40,230 --> 00:29:41,550
Iron like a tiger and calm.

676
00:29:41,551 --> 00:29:43,150
One carries his left hand low.

677
00:29:43,270 --> 00:29:44,950
We'll see whether
the two match up.

678
00:29:45,110 --> 00:29:46,110
There's the right hand.

679
00:29:46,230 --> 00:29:47,230
There's the left.

680
00:29:47,830 --> 00:29:48,830
That's right.

681
00:29:49,470 --> 00:29:50,790
The towel's coming in.

682
00:29:51,490 --> 00:29:53,330
Look at old Tyson
jump on the ropes.

683
00:29:53,570 --> 00:29:54,370
That is it.

684
00:29:54,371 --> 00:29:55,931
They threw the
towel in with the talon.

685
00:29:55,990 --> 00:29:56,990
He didn't want to show.

686
00:29:57,270 --> 00:29:59,650
I was proud of what we did.

687
00:29:59,750 --> 00:30:01,210
I wanted Custer to be proud.

688
00:30:02,890 --> 00:30:08,900
MUSIC PLAYS I was so
certain that he would win.

689
00:30:09,060 --> 00:30:13,820
I went and ordered a big banner to
string across Main Street in Catskill here.

690
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:15,920
Welcome home, champs.

691
00:30:22,180 --> 00:30:27,500
MUSIC PLAYS This myth built up over
the years, this myth of Cuss and the Kid.

692
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,740
Cus D'Amato is more than
a manager of champions.

693
00:30:31,140 --> 00:30:32,860
He is a saver of souls.

694
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,855
Many of us, myself
included, and I plead guilty,

695
00:30:35,856 --> 00:30:38,661
swallowed the Cuss
and the Kid narrative.

696
00:30:38,950 --> 00:30:42,794
This is a kid who had a
terrible upbringing, who was

697
00:30:42,795 --> 00:30:46,080
redeemed by Cus D 'Amato,
which in itself is a racist trope.

698
00:30:46,081 --> 00:30:48,891
Here's the great white
father who has rescued

699
00:30:48,892 --> 00:30:51,920
Mike Tyson from the
streets and civilized him.

700
00:30:52,300 --> 00:30:57,980
Their relationship is much too complicated
to be put into this kind of simple

701
00:30:57,981 --> 00:31:02,160
narrative of surrogate father
and wayward surrogate son.

702
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,860
There are mutual interests,
and there are mutual goals.

703
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:08,940
Cus was a good trainer.

704
00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:10,540
He helped Mike a great deal.

705
00:31:10,980 --> 00:31:13,680
He's also an opportunist
and self-interested.

706
00:31:13,740 --> 00:31:18,000
Doesn't make him a criminal,
but also doesn't make him a saint.

707
00:31:19,140 --> 00:31:23,460
Don't think that Cus was focused
solely on Mike being a champion.

708
00:31:24,100 --> 00:31:31,760
He wanted Mike to have a future,
to have a role in life that wouldn't let

709
00:31:31,761 --> 00:31:36,100
him slip back to what
he was on the streets.

710
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:41,880
You were telling me a story
about how Mike ran away once.

711
00:31:42,210 --> 00:31:44,360
Yes, not only once, a few times.

712
00:31:46,060 --> 00:31:49,340
The school started having
problems with girls and with behavior.

713
00:31:49,865 --> 00:31:52,000
I would discipline Tyson
for things he did wrong.

714
00:31:52,415 --> 00:31:55,280
Cus would find a way
to say he was okay.

715
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:57,380
Cus became the good cop.

716
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:58,440
I became the bad cop.

717
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:01,600
I put him out at the gym.

718
00:32:02,010 --> 00:32:04,781
Cus started making
allowances for him, and he

719
00:32:04,782 --> 00:32:07,981
was sneaking him in the
gym when I wasn't there.

720
00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:10,220
They were not allowances.

721
00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:16,800
Mike needed to be in the gym, because
if he wasn't in the gym, he would be easily

722
00:32:16,801 --> 00:32:19,600
misled to do things
that were not beneficial.

723
00:32:20,340 --> 00:32:21,800
And Cus knew that.

724
00:32:22,060 --> 00:32:23,940
And besides, whose gym was it?

725
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,060
Whose house was it?

726
00:32:25,340 --> 00:32:26,920
Whose child was it?

727
00:32:27,340 --> 00:32:30,000
Mike was Cus's child, in effect.

728
00:32:30,530 --> 00:32:37,140
The tensions continued to mount,
and eventually it led to an incident that

729
00:32:37,141 --> 00:32:40,060
caused the break between
Mike Tyson and Teddy Atlas.

730
00:32:42,310 --> 00:32:44,140
I had just recently
gotten married.

731
00:32:44,590 --> 00:32:48,060
I have sister-in-laws now, and
one of them was 11 years old.

732
00:32:53,770 --> 00:32:57,220
And he grabbed her, and he
knew that she was my sister-in-law.

733
00:32:59,300 --> 00:33:00,940
You know, he knew
how I was with family.

734
00:33:02,620 --> 00:33:04,260
Protective, the way everyone is.

735
00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:06,260
I knew what I was
prepared to do.

736
00:33:06,660 --> 00:33:08,380
I was gonna kill
him if I had to.

737
00:33:13,015 --> 00:33:14,030
He saw me coming.

738
00:33:17,610 --> 00:33:20,370
I just caught him
a piece of crap.

739
00:33:21,110 --> 00:33:23,710
And I put the gun,
you know, to his head.

740
00:33:25,650 --> 00:33:32,230
And, um, I told him that he will never
go near anybody in my family again.

741
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:34,790
And I said, do you understand?

742
00:33:34,890 --> 00:33:37,570
And there was,
like, a little smirk.

743
00:33:37,690 --> 00:33:41,930
I don't know if it's fair to say
smirk, but it was, it was like that.

744
00:33:42,130 --> 00:33:44,130
Like, just shouldn't
have been, you know?

745
00:33:44,350 --> 00:33:45,350
And I saw that.

746
00:33:46,310 --> 00:33:47,930
I stuck the gun in his ear.

747
00:33:49,250 --> 00:33:50,730
I started to pull the trigger.

748
00:33:50,930 --> 00:33:53,710
And at the last second,
I pulled it out of his ear.

749
00:33:54,190 --> 00:33:55,190
And I...

750
00:33:55,830 --> 00:33:59,670
I fired the gun, and he fell
on the floor, grabbing his ear.

751
00:34:02,130 --> 00:34:03,230
That was enough.

752
00:34:03,290 --> 00:34:04,350
That was it for Cus.

753
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,470
Pulling the gun, that was it.

754
00:34:08,910 --> 00:34:11,310
Teddy gone, so be it.

755
00:34:36,780 --> 00:34:42,133
It seems like every 50 to
100 years, we get a personality

756
00:34:42,134 --> 00:34:45,360
in the sport of boxing
that's just phenomenal.

757
00:34:45,765 --> 00:34:50,920
And Mike Tyson was a phenomenal
element of boxing when he came in.

758
00:34:51,140 --> 00:34:55,440
He's now gonna be the heir to
Dempsey, Marciano, Lewis, and Ali, who,

759
00:34:55,500 --> 00:34:57,700
you know, like the Mount
Rushmore heavyweight champions.

760
00:34:57,860 --> 00:34:59,800
His skill set was top tier.

761
00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:01,100
Really impressive.

762
00:35:01,740 --> 00:35:06,732
For a fighter to be that young, that
well-trained, and that disciplined, was.

763
00:35:08,692 --> 00:35:08,960
..explosive.

764
00:35:09,100 --> 00:35:12,640
Him and Cus dropped the
bomb on the boxing world.

765
00:35:13,780 --> 00:35:14,780
Boom.

766
00:35:15,380 --> 00:35:16,880
Welcome to Mike Tyson's world.

767
00:35:18,700 --> 00:35:22,060
I'm the young champ, young
kid, I'm making it, I'm coming up.

768
00:35:23,180 --> 00:35:27,161
Once that first bell was
rung... Let me at him.

769
00:35:27,340 --> 00:35:28,600
Let me at him.

770
00:35:28,900 --> 00:35:29,900
Here it comes.

771
00:35:30,060 --> 00:35:31,060
Whoa.

772
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:32,980
That jaw might be broken.

773
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,540
I was terrified by that brother.

774
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,060
And he put it all there.

775
00:35:37,100 --> 00:35:39,860
The right to the
head, and it's all over.

776
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:40,540
Good try.

777
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,139
He actually invented a
new way to throw a punch,

778
00:35:43,140 --> 00:35:46,121
which was where he
leaped up into punches.

779
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,600
It was borderline
lethal, what he did.

780
00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,760
I'm sitting in my office at
HBO, and a package comes.

781
00:36:01,025 --> 00:36:06,760
On it is a note that says, Ross, I want
you to take a look at a new heavyweight.

782
00:36:06,970 --> 00:36:08,280
Plug it into the machine.

783
00:36:08,940 --> 00:36:13,120
And I'm seeing this, you
know, 13 straight knockouts.

784
00:36:13,340 --> 00:36:15,060
And my mouth dropped.

785
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,900
To actually see it was chilling.

786
00:36:19,790 --> 00:36:22,280
And so I traveled up there.

787
00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:30,520
And there are about 4,000 or 5,000 people
in a pretty small arena, but a loud arena.

788
00:36:31,660 --> 00:36:32,780
Right uppercut.

789
00:36:34,860 --> 00:36:41,480
And you could tell that those people
knew that this was different and special.

790
00:36:41,820 --> 00:36:43,400
This is as bad
as I've ever seen.

791
00:36:43,401 --> 00:36:43,780
That's it.

792
00:36:44,420 --> 00:36:49,820
You know, here was this young fighter, who
was knocking people out with regularity.

793
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,860
He had the pedigree
of Cus D'Amato.

794
00:36:53,020 --> 00:36:56,123
And because he was so
young, it looked as though he was

795
00:36:56,124 --> 00:36:59,800
in a position to dominate
the sport for a long time.

796
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,580
First of all, I'd like to just thank Cus
for putting in all the hard work and

797
00:37:03,581 --> 00:37:06,600
reaching me to the goal that
we're trying to prove right now.

798
00:37:16,170 --> 00:37:19,010
I consider my work to have
been completed at this point.

799
00:37:19,710 --> 00:37:21,310
But I know I must
have forgot something.

800
00:37:22,780 --> 00:37:24,130
I can't see just what it was.

801
00:37:27,820 --> 00:37:29,020
Well, I guess that's about it.

802
00:37:31,380 --> 00:37:37,890
I called the house, and I believe it
was Nadia that answered the phone.

803
00:37:38,330 --> 00:37:40,250
Well, she says, you know,
I guess you don't know.

804
00:37:56,610 --> 00:38:01,190
Cus's death was one of the
most brutal moments in his life.

805
00:38:03,935 --> 00:38:06,320
Just when he was about
to die, to go off and do

806
00:38:06,420 --> 00:38:10,750
great things, due to Cus's
tutelage, Cus was gone.

807
00:38:11,970 --> 00:38:14,650
Well, Cus, more than just
boxing, he was a philosopher.

808
00:38:15,190 --> 00:38:16,190
He was everything.

809
00:38:17,910 --> 00:38:18,910
You miss Cus?

810
00:38:19,370 --> 00:38:20,370
Yes.

811
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,520
I'm sure at some point, Cus and
Mike had a conversation about death.

812
00:38:30,300 --> 00:38:32,100
You have a mission to commit to.

813
00:38:32,270 --> 00:38:33,270
We have a pact.

814
00:38:33,300 --> 00:38:35,320
If I'm here or not, you
complete that pact.

815
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,120
And I'm sure Cus
spoke to Mike about that.

816
00:38:37,710 --> 00:38:40,740
And even when Cus died,
Cus spoke to Mike about that.

817
00:38:40,820 --> 00:38:41,820
And Mike heard that.

818
00:38:44,580 --> 00:38:48,183
Tyson pounds on, perfecting
the craft the old man

819
00:38:48,184 --> 00:38:51,701
taught him, becoming
the hero that he never had.

820
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:57,245
Mike Tyson, age 19, has
the skills and is determined to

821
00:38:57,246 --> 00:39:00,640
win the heavyweight boxing
championship of the world.

822
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:02,840
Mike, Mike Tyson!

823
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:11,300
In your mind, if your managers came to
you and said, we think you're ready for a

824
00:39:11,301 --> 00:39:13,760
title shot tomorrow, would you
agree with them at this point?

825
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:14,640
Most definitely.

826
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:16,880
I'm confident I could beat
any fighter in the world.

827
00:39:19,820 --> 00:39:23,460
We're inside the Las Vegas Hilton,
and in this ring behind me, WBC

828
00:39:23,461 --> 00:39:27,380
heavyweight title holder, Trevor Brubick,
will put his championship on the line

829
00:39:27,381 --> 00:39:29,381
against unbeaten heavyweight
sensation, Mike Tyson.

830
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,600
A moment of
truth is not far off.

831
00:39:40,970 --> 00:39:43,385
He could go into the record
books tonight as one of

832
00:39:43,386 --> 00:39:46,390
the very youngest, heavyweight
champions of all time.

833
00:39:47,190 --> 00:39:51,250
This is what Mike Tyson
has trained his whole life for.

834
00:39:52,510 --> 00:39:55,510
Brubick, as he makes his way out of
his locker room and toward the ring now.

835
00:39:55,690 --> 00:39:56,690
Brubick was a threat.

836
00:39:57,170 --> 00:39:59,950
Mike and his team,
they were aware of that.

837
00:40:00,350 --> 00:40:03,830
Trevor Brubick was the last
man to beat Muhammad Ali.

838
00:40:04,850 --> 00:40:07,230
There is electricity
in the crowd.

839
00:40:07,470 --> 00:40:09,490
I've got goosebumps on the line.

840
00:40:09,491 --> 00:40:12,770
The WBC heavyweight
championship of the world.

841
00:40:12,771 --> 00:40:14,550
The bell rings.

842
00:40:14,810 --> 00:40:17,830
Tyson comes out in
overdrive, throwing shots.

843
00:40:22,050 --> 00:40:24,670
He was in total command.

844
00:40:24,950 --> 00:40:27,550
And he hit this guy so hard.

845
00:40:36,470 --> 00:40:40,162
When Mike goes back to
the corner, between round

846
00:40:40,163 --> 00:40:43,070
one and two, someone in
his corner sees something.

847
00:40:44,170 --> 00:40:45,870
Brubick was keeping
his hands low.

848
00:40:45,871 --> 00:40:48,390
If you're keeping your hands
low, what's susceptible?

849
00:40:48,890 --> 00:40:49,890
The temple.

850
00:40:56,540 --> 00:41:00,660
He launches one of his classic
combinations on Trevor Brubick.

851
00:41:01,300 --> 00:41:02,340
Boom, with a right.

852
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,440
Then he hit him with
an uppercut to the chin.

853
00:41:06,060 --> 00:41:07,420
And then hit him
with a left hook.

854
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:09,520
He goes down.

855
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,180
And he tried his best to get up.

856
00:41:13,340 --> 00:41:14,860
He should be able
to get up from this.

857
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:16,220
His legs may be shut.

858
00:41:17,180 --> 00:41:19,520
Brubick catches himself
on the ropes as he's down.

859
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:21,720
He picks himself
up, but he's all dizzy.

860
00:41:22,220 --> 00:41:23,600
And he falls down again.

861
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,840
I don't know if he's
gonna be able to continue.

862
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,642
God bless his heart,
man, because that's a heart

863
00:41:28,643 --> 00:41:31,260
of a true warrior, to
keep trying to stand up.

864
00:41:31,500 --> 00:41:33,000
His body was like, no.

865
00:41:34,460 --> 00:41:35,900
And he's coming home.

866
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:45,380
The winner by a
TKO, Michael Tyson.

867
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:51,120
From that moment, from that statement,
we knew we were living something special.

868
00:41:53,180 --> 00:42:00,220
After the fight in the ring, Mike said
something that was so emotional.

869
00:42:00,790 --> 00:42:04,180
I'd like to dedicate my fight to
my great guardian, Custom Otto.

870
00:42:04,340 --> 00:42:06,203
And I'm sure he's up there
and he's looking and he's

871
00:42:06,204 --> 00:42:08,521
talking to all the great fighters
and saying his boy did it.

872
00:42:09,460 --> 00:42:10,620
My boy did it.

873
00:42:12,370 --> 00:42:13,400
That was great.

874
00:42:14,940 --> 00:42:19,200
That little green belt, that
was worth everything to Tyson.

875
00:42:19,820 --> 00:42:21,100
I saw him in the dressing room.

876
00:42:21,101 --> 00:42:22,520
He's kissing the belt.

877
00:42:22,580 --> 00:42:23,580
And he goes, I did it.

878
00:42:23,620 --> 00:42:24,620
I did it.

879
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:32,520
But the moment for me that night
was him on the phone talking to Camille.

880
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:34,840
Just talking to her
about the experience.

881
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:38,540
It was like calling back
home and sharing it with her.

882
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:41,400
And that's what
Gus always wanted.

883
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,000
A champion of all the champions.

884
00:42:44,340 --> 00:42:46,100
He wanted Mike to be champion.

885
00:42:47,220 --> 00:42:51,080
When you have nothing but a
dream, and then that dream comes true,

886
00:42:51,100 --> 00:42:58,581
as a result of hard work and dedication,
it's so much sweeter when you win that way.

887
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:01,280
Everything paid off.

888
00:43:02,140 --> 00:43:03,220
Everything paid off.

889
00:43:13,430 --> 00:43:16,398
At 20 years and 5 months,
Mike Tyson became the

890
00:43:16,399 --> 00:43:18,790
youngest fighter to ever
hold a heavyweight title.

891
00:43:18,930 --> 00:43:21,330
The fact is, Tyson's
rise has been meteoric.

892
00:43:21,470 --> 00:43:24,006
Mike Tyson now
catapults from being a local

893
00:43:24,007 --> 00:43:27,050
celebrity to becoming a
multi-million dollar man.

894
00:43:29,670 --> 00:43:32,623
Once Mike Tyson became
heavyweight champion of the

895
00:43:32,624 --> 00:43:35,390
world, advertisers wanted
a piece of Mike Tyson.

896
00:43:35,530 --> 00:43:39,110
He's already pocketed a cool
half million for this beer commercial.

897
00:43:39,310 --> 00:43:40,330
I like Satori Dry.

898
00:43:41,050 --> 00:43:43,990
If you could drink it,
if you could drive it.

899
00:43:44,090 --> 00:43:45,090
Tyson power!

900
00:43:45,450 --> 00:43:46,490
Toyota truck.

901
00:43:47,070 --> 00:43:49,670
Mike Tyson was the
guy to sell it to you.

902
00:43:49,930 --> 00:43:52,890
The soft drink company has produced
a series of commercials with the champ.

903
00:43:53,050 --> 00:43:54,190
Diet Pepsi only.

904
00:43:54,470 --> 00:43:59,170
He was one of the first boxers to
have really big endorsement deals.

905
00:43:59,670 --> 00:44:00,730
Wham, they're dead.

906
00:44:01,190 --> 00:44:04,690
Muhammad Ali at his height had
like shoe polish and roach powder.

907
00:44:05,110 --> 00:44:08,570
Clearly, Mike was making
multi-millions every time he fought.

908
00:44:09,210 --> 00:44:10,450
Oh, what a shot!

909
00:44:10,870 --> 00:44:12,730
See, Tyson banged to the body.

910
00:44:12,810 --> 00:44:13,970
Ooh, what a shot!

911
00:44:14,210 --> 00:44:19,690
But he was also ringing the cash register
for HBO and a lot of other networks.

912
00:44:20,310 --> 00:44:21,670
Oh, no, stop the fight!

913
00:44:21,890 --> 00:44:22,590
Oh, he's hurt!

914
00:44:22,810 --> 00:44:23,590
It's all over!

915
00:44:23,830 --> 00:44:25,710
And they could put
him on pay-per-view.

916
00:44:25,990 --> 00:44:28,830
I'm paying a hundred bucks, a million
people are paying a hundred bucks.

917
00:44:29,030 --> 00:44:29,650
He wasn't.

918
00:44:29,670 --> 00:44:30,870
He was a money-making machine.

919
00:44:31,090 --> 00:44:32,730
That punishing left
hook, and that's it.

920
00:44:32,910 --> 00:44:34,646
You think the hottest
thing's in sliced bread?

921
00:44:34,670 --> 00:44:39,023
He was admired in the black
community because when

922
00:44:39,024 --> 00:44:44,470
someone looks like me is
succeeding, I am uplifted myself.

923
00:44:44,950 --> 00:44:46,450
The power of Mike Tyson!

924
00:44:46,750 --> 00:44:50,710
You know, there were three black
men who ruled the world during this time.

925
00:44:50,970 --> 00:44:56,250
It was Michael Jordan, Michael
Jackson, and it was Mike Tyson.

926
00:44:56,430 --> 00:44:58,690
And everybody wanted to be Mike.

927
00:44:59,170 --> 00:45:01,550
You've got a shot
at Tyson's title.

928
00:45:01,870 --> 00:45:04,630
The only question was,
which Mike do you want to be?

929
00:45:08,270 --> 00:45:10,910
Children and adults
beg him for autographs.

930
00:45:10,911 --> 00:45:13,230
Fans and reporters follow
him wherever he goes.

931
00:45:13,490 --> 00:45:16,210
He gets no relief,
not even during 4 a.m.

932
00:45:16,290 --> 00:45:16,770
jogs.

933
00:45:16,771 --> 00:45:17,810
Which way do I go?

934
00:45:17,890 --> 00:45:18,890
Where's the hotel?

935
00:45:19,620 --> 00:45:22,372
You're an overnight
sensation, and you're walking

936
00:45:22,452 --> 00:45:24,570
in the street, and people
are yelling your name.

937
00:45:24,770 --> 00:45:27,340
Girls are throwing
themselves at you, and there's

938
00:45:27,341 --> 00:45:29,990
money, money, money,
that you never, ever had.

939
00:45:30,570 --> 00:45:32,610
How do you process all of that?

940
00:45:34,550 --> 00:45:37,780
The night he won the
title from Trevor Burbick in

941
00:45:37,781 --> 00:45:40,771
Vegas, I came in from a
club at 4 in the morning.

942
00:45:41,810 --> 00:45:45,970
And who was sitting in the lobby by himself
with that title belt around his waist?

943
00:45:45,990 --> 00:45:46,990
Mike Tyson.

944
00:45:48,390 --> 00:45:53,450
He was lonely, isolated, wasn't
sure what to do with himself.

945
00:45:54,810 --> 00:45:57,470
The day Cus died,
Mike died with him.

946
00:45:58,790 --> 00:46:03,370
My first passenger and my only passenger
in the limousine service was Mike Tyson.

947
00:46:05,820 --> 00:46:09,450
I always saw Mike through the rearview
mirror of those limousines just as a sad,

948
00:46:09,665 --> 00:46:13,390
young guy, trying to hide the fact
that he didn't know what to do next.

949
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:20,610
During that time, two men represented
Mike Tyson, Bill Caton and Jim Jacobs.

950
00:46:20,870 --> 00:46:26,870
And Jim did his best to console him when
he needed consoling and just guide him

951
00:46:26,871 --> 00:46:31,930
through the ups and downs of being such
a public figure in such a public world.

952
00:46:33,700 --> 00:46:41,650
Custom auto was violently opposed to
the ignorance and corruption in boxing.

953
00:46:43,030 --> 00:46:47,550
During those early years, that money
came in and they put it away for him.

954
00:46:48,050 --> 00:46:51,130
And they set up all
kind of annuities for him.

955
00:46:51,430 --> 00:46:56,530
When I worked for them, Mike Tyson was at
home at 9 o'clock because they told me one

956
00:46:56,531 --> 00:47:00,051
time, you don't do what the champion
wants, you do what's good for the champion.

957
00:47:01,790 --> 00:47:05,190
What fighters need to do is have
somebody there that they can trust.

958
00:47:05,505 --> 00:47:08,630
We don't have that kind of education to
know what we're doing with our money.

959
00:47:09,190 --> 00:47:10,230
Somebody's got to help us.

960
00:47:12,150 --> 00:47:14,830
What do you think's going
to be with Mike in the future?

961
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:16,680
What do you think
will happen with him?

962
00:47:17,030 --> 00:47:18,290
What will happen to him?

963
00:47:19,530 --> 00:47:21,430
I think if he listens
to everybody.

964
00:47:23,530 --> 00:47:25,750
Listens to Jimmy,
listens to Bill.

965
00:47:27,490 --> 00:47:29,810
I think he could become
a very great person.

966
00:47:32,630 --> 00:47:36,157
When you have millions of
dollars and you come from nothing,

967
00:47:36,158 --> 00:47:39,150
it means nothing anyway because
you had nothing growing up.

968
00:47:39,715 --> 00:47:41,230
There's no education for that.

969
00:47:41,330 --> 00:47:45,130
There's trust for that.

970
00:47:46,870 --> 00:47:48,090
Money comes into play.

971
00:47:48,150 --> 00:47:49,150
Fame comes into play.

972
00:47:49,190 --> 00:47:50,390
Notoriety comes into play.

973
00:47:50,910 --> 00:47:53,070
And it's very hard to deal
with them when you're young.

974
00:47:59,430 --> 00:48:03,390
And I think one of the ways you can
sort of stay connected and plugged in is by

975
00:48:03,391 --> 00:48:05,151
going back to something
that's very familiar.

976
00:48:05,290 --> 00:48:09,670
He always seemed comfortable to go
home to Brooklyn and be around his people.

977
00:48:10,870 --> 00:48:12,130
He was Brooklyn's own.

978
00:48:12,250 --> 00:48:14,610
And so everyone felt
a connection to him.

979
00:48:15,010 --> 00:48:16,210
And everyone lied.

980
00:48:16,370 --> 00:48:17,190
I know Mike Tyson.

981
00:48:17,350 --> 00:48:17,910
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

982
00:48:18,030 --> 00:48:19,010
Like, you don't know Mike Tyson?

983
00:48:19,050 --> 00:48:19,630
Yes, I do.

984
00:48:19,930 --> 00:48:22,330
Mike Tyson, like,
was in the ghetto.

985
00:48:22,470 --> 00:48:23,470
You could see him.

986
00:48:23,670 --> 00:48:26,110
So he was that boy wonder
that we could relate to.

987
00:48:26,790 --> 00:48:30,230
We would park these cars, which,
by the way, no one would ever touch.

988
00:48:30,410 --> 00:48:34,090
I was probably the only guy in the world
that left a $300,000 Ferrari sitting in

989
00:48:34,091 --> 00:48:36,230
Brooklyn and it was
still there four hours later.

990
00:48:36,900 --> 00:48:40,530
We were in the car at one point and all
these little kids came by and they were

991
00:48:40,531 --> 00:48:43,846
ripping up, like, a paper bag or something
so they could have paper for him to sign.

992
00:48:43,870 --> 00:48:45,090
I loved that moment.

993
00:48:45,390 --> 00:48:47,170
You know, this hero comes back.

994
00:48:51,700 --> 00:48:53,580
He was always handing out money.

995
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,106
We would be driving in the
street and he would see a

996
00:48:56,107 --> 00:48:57,980
homeless guy and he would
jump out of the limousine.

997
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:00,134
It got to a point where
we had to put special

998
00:49:00,146 --> 00:49:01,660
locks so he wouldn't
open these doors.

999
00:49:02,130 --> 00:49:03,736
You know, I was scared
he would get run over.

1000
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:05,816
And people would say, why
did you give these bums money?

1001
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:10,180
Because our family was homeless
and I used to remember that situation.

1002
00:49:11,950 --> 00:49:13,180
He wanted a new narrative.

1003
00:49:14,850 --> 00:49:18,000
He didn't want to be the kid that
everyone picked on and beat up and bullied.

1004
00:49:21,690 --> 00:49:25,850
It's hard to let go of a
childhood that wasn't so great.

1005
00:49:27,690 --> 00:49:30,430
And you want to keep
going back to make it right.

1006
00:49:31,510 --> 00:49:32,970
You keep wanting to correct it.

1007
00:49:33,330 --> 00:49:35,830
He told me that money
doesn't make you happy.

1008
00:49:36,990 --> 00:49:39,790
It just buys you enough time
to realize you're not happy.

1009
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:49,834
No famous person ever in
my history has been inside the

1010
00:49:49,835 --> 00:49:53,700
ghetto, what we call inner
sanctum, like Mike Tyson.

1011
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:55,940
You know, on the
block, at the party.

1012
00:49:57,240 --> 00:49:58,680
We left Brownsville.

1013
00:49:59,420 --> 00:50:01,400
One night it would be
Eddie Murphy's mansion.

1014
00:50:01,620 --> 00:50:03,020
It would be Bentley's nightclub.

1015
00:50:03,021 --> 00:50:04,900
We would hit Studio 54.

1016
00:50:05,240 --> 00:50:06,240
We had some fun nights.

1017
00:50:06,420 --> 00:50:08,000
And he loved me like a
little brother, you know.

1018
00:50:08,020 --> 00:50:09,136
He just put his arm around me.

1019
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:10,940
And we'd go through
the club and hang out.

1020
00:50:10,980 --> 00:50:11,360
He was great.

1021
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:13,000
Customano had this guy.

1022
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:14,456
He's like, I'm making you
into heavyweight champion.

1023
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:15,716
No, you can't go out with girls.

1024
00:50:15,740 --> 00:50:17,536
No, you can't go out
drinking with your friends.

1025
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:19,580
Those handcuffs were
off after he beat Burby.

1026
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:22,300
Are the women, like,
approaching you now?

1027
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:22,980
I mean, you know.

1028
00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:24,280
It's tough being 20.

1029
00:50:26,620 --> 00:50:28,935
When you're heavyweight
champion of the world, you

1030
00:50:28,936 --> 00:50:31,440
symbolically are the most
powerful man in the world.

1031
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:34,580
And now, all these beautiful women,
wanted to be with him suddenly.

1032
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,220
Susanna Charles, who
had been Miss America.

1033
00:50:37,685 --> 00:50:39,700
Naomi Campbell, a supermodel.

1034
00:50:39,780 --> 00:50:43,240
People who were totally
inaccessible to him previously.

1035
00:50:43,540 --> 00:50:45,940
He had relationship
after relationship.

1036
00:50:46,310 --> 00:50:49,240
And then finally, he
meets his princess.

1037
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:53,060
Gosh, you look
really, I don't know, hot.

1038
00:50:54,020 --> 00:50:55,020
Really?

1039
00:50:55,180 --> 00:50:59,980
Robin Givens was the star of a
TV show called Head of the Class.

1040
00:51:00,420 --> 00:51:01,600
Tell us about your father.

1041
00:51:03,020 --> 00:51:06,240
He was one of the few black
actresses on television or in films.

1042
00:51:07,030 --> 00:51:12,660
Somebody that myself and a lot of my
friends look to as such an amazing person.

1043
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:15,020
So beautiful, so smart.

1044
00:51:15,780 --> 00:51:17,760
Supposedly had been
with Michael Jordan.

1045
00:51:18,180 --> 00:51:19,656
Supposedly had been
with Eddie Murphy.

1046
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:21,560
And Tyson was
running in those circles.

1047
00:51:22,950 --> 00:51:23,720
She was very nice.

1048
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:24,900
She was very respectful.

1049
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:27,600
He really, really
was in love with her.

1050
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:28,680
He went bananas.

1051
00:51:29,100 --> 00:51:36,060
I remember Mike Tyson and Robin Givens at
the NBA All-Star Game in 1988 in Chicago.

1052
00:51:39,420 --> 00:51:44,520
It was something that the media
and others paid a lot of attention to.

1053
00:51:44,620 --> 00:51:47,720
I mean, the heavyweight champion
of the world and this actress.

1054
00:51:47,780 --> 00:51:51,120
It kind of fits into notions
that Americans have long had

1055
00:51:51,121 --> 00:51:54,620
about individuals like Joe
DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe.

1056
00:51:55,020 --> 00:51:56,360
He was persistent.

1057
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:58,600
He came to claim me.

1058
00:51:59,140 --> 00:52:00,320
And I like that.

1059
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:04,900
So then there's this
wedding and it feels very real.

1060
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:06,480
They had a good rapport.

1061
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:07,800
They laughed a lot.

1062
00:52:09,060 --> 00:52:12,560
Yeah, I definitely could see
him totally in love with her.

1063
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:14,280
Like a puppy.

1064
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,960
Robin, inquiring minds want to know,
how does a woman who went to Sarah

1065
00:52:19,961 --> 00:52:21,921
Lawrence wind up
falling in love with a guy

1066
00:52:21,922 --> 00:52:24,160
who's a graduate of the
School of Hard Knocks?

1067
00:52:24,240 --> 00:52:25,360
God, I want to know too.

1068
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,020
There's something we
have a lot in common.

1069
00:52:28,060 --> 00:52:29,320
A traditional family.

1070
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:32,620
And we just sort
of love each other.

1071
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:33,896
We sort of love at first sight.

1072
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,920
It was hard in the beginning, but we
got through it and we ended up married.

1073
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:40,200
Everyone's like, oh, it's going to
work because opposites attract.

1074
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:43,320
Yeah.

1075
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:46,480
Good left by Tyson.

1076
00:52:49,220 --> 00:52:50,060
Tubbs is hurt.

1077
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:51,180
Tubbs is hurt badly.

1078
00:52:52,720 --> 00:52:56,760
When you think about Mike Tyson
in the ring, he was unbeatable.

1079
00:52:57,570 --> 00:53:01,680
But outside the ring,
he had to face Don King.

1080
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:03,160
Get it on, baby.

1081
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:04,400
Only in America.

1082
00:53:04,740 --> 00:53:05,920
Only in America.

1083
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,960
Don King is the greatest
promoter in the history of the world.

1084
00:53:10,415 --> 00:53:13,160
I mean, it's just magnificent
the way he articulates his words.

1085
00:53:13,420 --> 00:53:16,200
He's going to be SKD, what we
call in the vernacular of the ghetto.

1086
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:17,640
Something kind of different.

1087
00:53:19,620 --> 00:53:22,280
An arresting figure
with his wild hair.

1088
00:53:22,780 --> 00:53:23,916
Why do you wear
your hair that way?

1089
00:53:23,940 --> 00:53:25,036
I don't wear my hair that way.

1090
00:53:25,060 --> 00:53:26,060
My hair wears me.

1091
00:53:26,100 --> 00:53:27,400
Ping, ping, ping, ping, ping.

1092
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:28,756
My hair was coming
up like this here.

1093
00:53:28,780 --> 00:53:29,920
It is au naturel.

1094
00:53:29,921 --> 00:53:32,657
Nobody that I've ever
encountered could

1095
00:53:32,669 --> 00:53:35,760
sell better than Don
King could sell fights.

1096
00:53:36,310 --> 00:53:38,800
And I'm certain that it
can only go one way.

1097
00:53:39,240 --> 00:53:40,380
Mike Tyson.

1098
00:53:40,700 --> 00:53:41,340
Double your money.

1099
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:42,600
Thank you.

1100
00:53:42,820 --> 00:53:45,900
Don King was a street
guy from Cleveland, Ohio.

1101
00:53:46,540 --> 00:53:48,260
Numbers runner, this and that.

1102
00:53:49,260 --> 00:53:50,880
Don King is no one to with.

1103
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:52,120
You know, period.

1104
00:53:52,300 --> 00:53:55,860
He beat a man to death on a street
corner in Cleveland who owed him money.

1105
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,259
The guy was saying,
I'll pay you, Don, as Don

1106
00:53:58,260 --> 00:54:00,741
King was kicking him to
death on a street corner.

1107
00:54:01,540 --> 00:54:04,440
Don King goes to jail for four
years on a manslaughter rap.

1108
00:54:05,420 --> 00:54:10,860
Don King listened to the first Ali Frazier
fight on the radio in the penitentiary.

1109
00:54:11,060 --> 00:54:16,120
And three years later, he was promoting
the Rumble in the Jungle in Zaire.

1110
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:17,980
And quickly a combination.

1111
00:54:18,380 --> 00:54:20,500
Which is, you know, at
that point, a blockbuster.

1112
00:54:21,460 --> 00:54:22,660
He's got Muhammad Ali.

1113
00:54:22,860 --> 00:54:23,860
He's got all the money.

1114
00:54:23,940 --> 00:54:26,360
He is the king of boxing.

1115
00:54:26,361 --> 00:54:28,380
But someone like Don
King, he wants everything.

1116
00:54:28,460 --> 00:54:29,060
He wants the power.

1117
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:29,580
You know what I mean?

1118
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:31,180
It's not about white power.

1119
00:54:31,460 --> 00:54:32,760
It's not about black power.

1120
00:54:32,900 --> 00:54:33,960
It's about green power.

1121
00:54:34,180 --> 00:54:35,180
M-O-N-E-Y, man.

1122
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:37,400
And we know we're going
to get mucho, mucho dinero.

1123
00:54:38,860 --> 00:54:40,598
Martin Luther King took
us to the mountaintop

1124
00:54:40,610 --> 00:54:41,980
and he showed us
the promised land.

1125
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:43,380
I want to take us to the bank.

1126
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:48,280
But if there's one person he hopes is
listening, it's Mike Tyson, who at age 21,

1127
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,120
figures to be the biggest
money winner in boxing history.

1128
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:56,340
Don King kept looking for
a way to move in on boxing.

1129
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:57,360
And he found Mike Tyson.

1130
00:54:58,740 --> 00:55:00,560
And then the
unexpected happened.

1131
00:55:01,540 --> 00:55:04,359
Funeral services were held
today at Hillside Memorial

1132
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:07,000
Cemetery for boxing manager
Jimmy Jacobs, who died Wednesday.

1133
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,672
Heavyweight champion
Mike Tyson, whom Jacobs

1134
00:55:09,684 --> 00:55:11,821
co-managed, was
one of the pallbearers.

1135
00:55:12,740 --> 00:55:20,740
So within two years, Mike Tyson lost both
his mentor, Customato, and Jimmy Jacobs.

1136
00:55:21,300 --> 00:55:22,500
He was lost.

1137
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:25,760
I remember at Jim
Jacobs' funeral.

1138
00:55:25,761 --> 00:55:27,020
And I was there in L.A.

1139
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:29,980
It was when Don King began to
put the full court press on Tyson.

1140
00:55:30,900 --> 00:55:33,949
When Jim Jacobs died, did
you not go to Mike Tyson and say,

1141
00:55:33,950 --> 00:55:36,301
you don't want to stay with
this other guy who's white?

1142
00:55:36,330 --> 00:55:37,200
You want to come with me?

1143
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:37,500
No.

1144
00:55:37,850 --> 00:55:39,116
I never even went
to him, period.

1145
00:55:39,140 --> 00:55:40,481
I didn't even talk
to him about that.

1146
00:55:40,505 --> 00:55:42,900
Let me ask about another
trait people say of Don King.

1147
00:55:43,020 --> 00:55:44,080
They say he uses race.

1148
00:55:44,660 --> 00:55:45,660
He plays on the race.

1149
00:55:46,050 --> 00:55:49,020
Brother, he says to a black fighter,
you don't want that white manager.

1150
00:55:49,380 --> 00:55:52,100
Brother, you come with
me because we're black.

1151
00:55:52,340 --> 00:55:53,340
You do that?

1152
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:54,400
That's ridiculous.

1153
00:55:54,750 --> 00:55:55,740
Let me tell you
something, Cesar.

1154
00:55:55,741 --> 00:55:58,860
In America, it's
sad, but it's true.

1155
00:55:59,020 --> 00:56:01,160
You know, racism is
prevalent here in America.

1156
00:56:01,925 --> 00:56:06,700
And it's the exception rather than the
rule when a black represents a black.

1157
00:56:07,410 --> 00:56:10,035
The rule is that white
represents black in boxing

1158
00:56:10,036 --> 00:56:12,821
and entertainment and
sports and everything else.

1159
00:56:14,300 --> 00:56:17,360
We saw a metamorphosis
in Mike Tyson.

1160
00:56:18,350 --> 00:56:20,429
And I think only Mike
could tell you what he was

1161
00:56:20,430 --> 00:56:22,921
going through, the pain
he was going through.

1162
00:56:23,050 --> 00:56:25,700
It just didn't ever
feel like he was...

1163
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:27,360
grounded...

1164
00:56:27,980 --> 00:56:29,440
and truly happy.

1165
00:56:30,850 --> 00:56:33,800
And his life started
to spiral out of control.

1166
00:56:37,290 --> 00:56:39,020
And now, I guess I'm Mike Tyson.

1167
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:40,320
What everybody wants to see.

1168
00:56:45,510 --> 00:56:48,300
It's just my nature to reach
for you and take your heart or

1169
00:56:48,301 --> 00:56:51,130
your blood or your spleen or
your liver or your eye socket.

1170
00:56:51,390 --> 00:56:52,826
You have ten seconds
to go in a round.

1171
00:56:52,850 --> 00:56:53,610
There's a left hand.

1172
00:56:53,730 --> 00:56:54,250
He's down again.

1173
00:56:54,370 --> 00:56:54,750
It's over.

1174
00:56:55,270 --> 00:56:58,830
The sport of boxing has
always exploited its fighters.

1175
00:56:59,250 --> 00:57:02,590
Because... it's never
enough just to win a fight.

1176
00:57:02,950 --> 00:57:04,970
And there comes the gladiator.

1177
00:57:05,310 --> 00:57:06,910
The public wants more.

1178
00:57:07,710 --> 00:57:10,030
Bruno down after a right hand.

1179
00:57:10,370 --> 00:57:12,230
The public wants personality.

1180
00:57:12,910 --> 00:57:15,370
I didn't challenge me with
a somewhat primitive skill.

1181
00:57:15,610 --> 00:57:16,990
They're just as good as dead.

1182
00:57:17,210 --> 00:57:19,150
The public wants soap opera.

1183
00:57:21,730 --> 00:57:25,990
The fight is about to begin between Mike
Tyson and the challenger Michael Spinks.

1184
00:57:26,110 --> 00:57:29,350
To determine who will be the undisputed
heavyweight champion of the world.

1185
00:57:30,250 --> 00:57:30,810
Michael Tyson.

1186
00:57:31,030 --> 00:57:31,590
Fight.

1187
00:57:31,990 --> 00:57:32,990
Tyson.

1188
00:57:33,030 --> 00:57:35,564
These men are very
businesslike as they arrive

1189
00:57:35,565 --> 00:57:37,970
and step onto the scales
at Trump Plaza today.

1190
00:57:38,170 --> 00:57:40,470
This theater is
absolutely jammed.

1191
00:57:40,790 --> 00:57:42,950
The fight was named
once and for all.

1192
00:57:43,130 --> 00:57:45,110
Both men were undefeated.

1193
00:57:45,390 --> 00:57:46,430
Michael Spinks.

1194
00:57:46,910 --> 00:57:48,610
212 pounds and one quarter.

1195
00:57:49,790 --> 00:57:52,630
That created the
excitement behind this fight.

1196
00:57:52,850 --> 00:57:53,910
Who was going to win?

1197
00:57:54,050 --> 00:57:55,050
Nobody knew.

1198
00:57:55,350 --> 00:57:56,350
Michael Tyson.

1199
00:57:56,770 --> 00:57:58,570
218 pounds and one quarter.

1200
00:58:01,130 --> 00:58:06,070
I remember Mike Tyson and Robin Givens
were reported to be getting into fights in

1201
00:58:06,071 --> 00:58:09,990
their Bernardsville home that they
had just bought prior to the Spinks fight.

1202
00:58:10,930 --> 00:58:13,090
Tyson was caught up
in a family squabble.

1203
00:58:13,190 --> 00:58:14,670
He was accused
of hitting his wife.

1204
00:58:14,870 --> 00:58:16,570
She was accused
of dominating him.

1205
00:58:16,930 --> 00:58:21,330
Obviously, we're sitting in our
offices at HBO kind of rolling our eyes.

1206
00:58:22,060 --> 00:58:23,470
Okay, what's going on there?

1207
00:58:23,810 --> 00:58:27,151
The stress that was leading up to the
Spinks fight on Tyson had to be tremendous.

1208
00:58:27,390 --> 00:58:30,350
Clearly, you know, his
marriage is falling apart.

1209
00:58:30,690 --> 00:58:33,710
There were these horrible stories
in the media, one of which I wrote.

1210
00:58:33,850 --> 00:58:35,350
But there were
other stories as well.

1211
00:58:36,530 --> 00:58:39,047
He was just like sick
of the media coverage,

1212
00:58:39,059 --> 00:58:41,251
sick of all the
people pulling on him.

1213
00:58:41,450 --> 00:58:42,930
You see his mood darkening.

1214
00:58:43,190 --> 00:58:45,726
What about all the things that have
been written about your personal life?

1215
00:58:45,750 --> 00:58:48,410
The majority of things that
you read is preposterous.

1216
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:55,420
I want to tell you the electricity
in this crowd is awesome.

1217
00:58:56,540 --> 00:58:58,680
The one thing about
Mike Tyson was...

1218
00:58:58,681 --> 00:59:02,752
as much chaos was going on
around him, he never let that

1219
00:59:02,753 --> 00:59:06,000
affect his tunnel vision of
what Cuss had taught him.

1220
00:59:07,700 --> 00:59:10,980
Getting in the ring and
execute a game plan.

1221
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:19,400
People are betting on Michael Spinks
because he hasn't lost a fight in 12 years.

1222
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:23,300
I know I had my hands full and
I knew what I was up against.

1223
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:27,500
He's got that scornful
look on his face.

1224
00:59:27,540 --> 00:59:28,540
Hey, let's get it going.

1225
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:32,820
We don't understand
fear until fear hits us.

1226
00:59:32,940 --> 00:59:35,320
You start sweating,
perspiring in front of the world.

1227
00:59:35,380 --> 00:59:38,260
You're on television and you got
Mike Tyson right across from you.

1228
00:59:38,340 --> 00:59:40,660
You're trying to tell
yourself, stay calm, stay calm.

1229
00:59:40,900 --> 00:59:43,420
No, listen, you're about to
get that thunder put to you.

1230
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:47,760
Referee Frank Cappuccino
begins to issue final instructions.

1231
00:59:48,300 --> 00:59:49,880
All right, both of
you, touch gloves.

1232
00:59:50,340 --> 00:59:51,620
Good luck to both of you.

1233
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:55,620
There's a misconception that
Tyson was vicious and he was angry.

1234
00:59:55,700 --> 00:59:57,180
It was just a technique.

1235
00:59:58,840 --> 00:59:59,840
Let's see what happens.

1236
01:00:00,220 --> 01:00:02,960
It's no different than what a
tap dancer does on the floor.

1237
01:00:03,140 --> 01:00:06,880
Tyson attacks immediately, cuts off
the ring, throws the wild right hand.

1238
01:00:07,140 --> 01:00:08,740
This is round one just underway.

1239
01:00:09,260 --> 01:00:11,760
He would knock out
somebody, send you flowers.

1240
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:13,920
He would be like, damn,
I really hit that guy hard.

1241
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:16,172
Tyson just looking for
the opportunity to land

1242
01:00:16,173 --> 01:00:18,080
a vicious left hook
and then a right hand.

1243
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:20,760
The right hand lands to
the head of Mike Spinks.

1244
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:23,120
It's Tyson all the way
here in round number one.

1245
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:25,160
Vicious shots to the body.

1246
01:00:25,300 --> 01:00:28,020
Nothing really heavy landing
yet, but he's taking them.

1247
01:00:28,021 --> 01:00:29,021
The uppercut.

1248
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:29,760
Body shot.

1249
01:00:29,940 --> 01:00:32,720
Down goes Mike
Spinks for the first time.

1250
01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:36,840
When I got hit, I lost my cool
and just tried to hit him back.

1251
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:38,320
Here comes Mike Spinks in.

1252
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:39,640
He leans to the right hand.

1253
01:00:39,820 --> 01:00:40,460
Down he goes.

1254
01:00:40,820 --> 01:00:42,300
I don't think he'll
get up from this.

1255
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:44,380
Mike Spinks is
laying flat on his back.

1256
01:00:44,580 --> 01:00:48,100
The count is up to five, and
six, and seven, and eight.

1257
01:00:48,220 --> 01:00:49,480
He won't be able to do it.

1258
01:00:49,540 --> 01:00:54,780
It's all over after Barak's first
round knockout for Mike Tyson.

1259
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:04,500
And the timer tells me 1.31, one of the
fastest knockouts in heavyweight history.

1260
01:01:05,500 --> 01:01:06,720
Ninety-one seconds.

1261
01:01:06,940 --> 01:01:09,796
That meant that Tyson
made about a quarter of a

1262
01:01:09,797 --> 01:01:12,901
million dollars for every
second he was in that ring.

1263
01:01:13,100 --> 01:01:16,140
I have never seen a
guy taken out so viciously.

1264
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:18,960
I didn't get to see any of it.

1265
01:01:19,500 --> 01:01:22,700
I had to park the limousine,
and I see Mike come out.

1266
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:24,760
And he still has his wraps.

1267
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:26,960
He's pulling them off, and
he jumps in the limousine.

1268
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:27,820
And I look.

1269
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:28,400
I said, what happened?

1270
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:29,160
He's gone.

1271
01:01:29,180 --> 01:01:29,540
He's done.

1272
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:30,600
Let's get out of here.

1273
01:01:30,830 --> 01:01:32,080
That's how fast this was.

1274
01:01:32,420 --> 01:01:36,780
And now the question is, who in this
world has any chance against this man?

1275
01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:39,740
This was the coronation.

1276
01:01:40,300 --> 01:01:47,280
This was Mike Tyson sending a message
that I am now the king of the world.

1277
01:01:47,780 --> 01:01:49,918
You would think that
riding the crest of that

1278
01:01:49,919 --> 01:01:51,980
Spinks win would have
put him on top of the world.

1279
01:01:52,020 --> 01:01:53,920
But actually... Are
you okay, Mike?

1280
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:54,500
How are you feeling?

1281
01:01:54,860 --> 01:01:56,680
It was the beginning
of a downward spiral.

1282
01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:57,900
It lasted for quite a while.

1283
01:01:57,980 --> 01:01:58,900
Just get out of here.

1284
01:01:58,960 --> 01:01:59,320
Come on.

1285
01:01:59,321 --> 01:01:59,600
Wait.

1286
01:02:00,060 --> 01:02:00,480
Wait.

1287
01:02:00,860 --> 01:02:01,900
No, nothing happened.

1288
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:05,400
Has the price of fame
been too great for you?

1289
01:02:05,580 --> 01:02:09,720
When you're a celebrity, especially of my
caliber, you make a great deal of money.

1290
01:02:09,780 --> 01:02:12,980
And once you make a great deal of money,
there's a whole bunch of greed involved.

1291
01:02:13,340 --> 01:02:14,886
And that's the only
thing that interferes as

1292
01:02:14,887 --> 01:02:17,761
far as your life and
your professional career.

1293
01:02:18,100 --> 01:02:20,600
I watched all these
vultures converge on Mike.

1294
01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:21,640
I said, damn.

1295
01:02:21,940 --> 01:02:22,980
It was a sad picture.

1296
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:25,480
He was battling with King.

1297
01:02:25,481 --> 01:02:27,700
He was battling
with Robin Givens.

1298
01:02:27,820 --> 01:02:31,860
And all the magazine writers, the
newspaper writers went from saying the

1299
01:02:31,861 --> 01:02:37,440
most glowing things in the world
about Mike to making jokes about him.

1300
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:41,740
The Sports Illustrated article and some of
the others, the tone is that suggests that

1301
01:02:41,741 --> 01:02:43,877
you and your mother
are opportunists and that

1302
01:02:43,878 --> 01:02:45,800
you are meddling too
much in Mike's career.

1303
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:46,100
Right.

1304
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:47,500
That's absurd.

1305
01:02:47,700 --> 01:02:49,020
First of all, I'm
Michael's wife.

1306
01:02:49,160 --> 01:02:50,960
And not only that,
but we're family.

1307
01:02:52,030 --> 01:02:55,460
Many of us who were his friends,
he questioned our friendship.

1308
01:02:55,461 --> 01:02:57,680
He asked, are
you still my friend?

1309
01:02:58,040 --> 01:02:59,660
Because I don't know
who my friends are.

1310
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:03,560
An incident happened and we noticed
a discrepancy with Michael's money.

1311
01:03:03,780 --> 01:03:06,892
If Michael has $50
million and he's supposed

1312
01:03:06,904 --> 01:03:09,681
to have $70 million,
there's a problem.

1313
01:03:09,980 --> 01:03:15,440
By the time 1988 was running out,
that fantasy love story was disappearing.

1314
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:20,680
And we all remember him being
on ABC with Barbara Walters.

1315
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:22,540
Good evening, I'm Hugh Downs.

1316
01:03:22,541 --> 01:03:23,580
And I'm Barbara Walters.

1317
01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:25,440
And this is 20 Minutes.

1318
01:03:30,540 --> 01:03:34,731
And you knew before it
that the electric sparks would

1319
01:03:34,732 --> 01:03:38,370
fly and something bizarre
would happen that night.

1320
01:03:38,610 --> 01:03:42,190
Well, Hugh, these days it seems that the
only time Mike Tyson's name is in the news

1321
01:03:42,191 --> 01:03:44,250
is when it's linked to
something sensational.

1322
01:03:46,450 --> 01:03:48,230
Outside the ring,
there was trouble.

1323
01:03:48,630 --> 01:03:51,610
Tyson hurt in a Harlem street
brawl with fighter Mitch Green.

1324
01:03:52,050 --> 01:03:54,330
Tyson broke his
hand and Green's face.

1325
01:03:54,830 --> 01:03:57,490
Then rumors that the
brief marriage was false.

1326
01:03:57,590 --> 01:03:57,750
They were falling apart.

1327
01:03:58,070 --> 01:04:00,150
And that Tyson
was beating his wife.

1328
01:04:00,550 --> 01:04:01,550
Are you okay, Mike?

1329
01:04:01,590 --> 01:04:02,010
How are you feeling?

1330
01:04:02,510 --> 01:04:03,670
Tyson in the news again.

1331
01:04:03,830 --> 01:04:07,890
This time he was knocked out,
crashing his own car into a tree.

1332
01:04:08,890 --> 01:04:12,390
Reportedly an attempted suicide
after another fight with his wife.

1333
01:04:12,590 --> 01:04:13,370
Can you tell us what happened?

1334
01:04:13,610 --> 01:04:14,666
No, no, just get out of here.

1335
01:04:14,690 --> 01:04:15,690
Come on, please.

1336
01:04:16,915 --> 01:04:18,110
And another incident.

1337
01:04:18,370 --> 01:04:22,370
This time Tyson attacked an NBC News crew
which caught him in an early morning run.

1338
01:04:22,750 --> 01:04:23,750
Mike, what do you want?

1339
01:04:24,810 --> 01:04:26,210
You couldn't keep up with it.

1340
01:04:26,211 --> 01:04:28,639
I mean, this guy
basically was reality

1341
01:04:28,651 --> 01:04:31,591
television way before
reality TV was invented.

1342
01:04:33,510 --> 01:04:37,120
Okay, here we go.

1343
01:04:37,180 --> 01:04:38,180
We're talking.

1344
01:04:38,300 --> 01:04:39,780
How long have you
been in this house?

1345
01:04:39,980 --> 01:04:41,660
For at least four and
a half, five months.

1346
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:44,705
Back in the 1980s, there
was a standard rehabilitation

1347
01:04:44,706 --> 01:04:46,420
tour for celebrities who
had been disgraced.

1348
01:04:46,790 --> 01:04:49,420
You would go to Barbara
Walters, sit on the couch and cry.

1349
01:04:50,300 --> 01:04:52,680
I went to the estate
Tyson calls home.

1350
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:54,820
In exclusive,
Bernardsville, New Jersey.

1351
01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:57,520
Inside, the White Room.

1352
01:04:57,640 --> 01:04:58,900
For music and relaxation.

1353
01:05:00,180 --> 01:05:02,800
The dining room,
fit for grand parties.

1354
01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:06,652
And the living room,
with its gold leaf

1355
01:05:06,653 --> 01:05:10,361
ceiling and yellow silk
draperies and couches.

1356
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:12,540
You really decorated this house?

1357
01:05:12,830 --> 01:05:13,830
Yeah, I did everything.

1358
01:05:14,060 --> 01:05:15,060
Me, myself.

1359
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:17,620
But you never grew
up with any of this.

1360
01:05:18,005 --> 01:05:20,416
You don't have to grow up with
it, you know what I mean, to know.

1361
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:22,900
You're not born with
good taste, you develop it.

1362
01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:28,515
Everyone on the crew, and
Barbara Walters herself, You look

1363
01:05:28,516 --> 01:05:31,460
like a country squire here,
with your dogs and your estate.

1364
01:05:31,990 --> 01:05:39,260
we were all impressed by how he
put his personal taste into this place.

1365
01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:41,780
Because the house
is very elegant.

1366
01:05:42,420 --> 01:05:45,820
Elegant is true, but from the
outside it's so overwhelming.

1367
01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:49,228
We thought it was very
elegant, and you don't

1368
01:05:49,229 --> 01:05:51,920
think of heavyweight
champions as elegant.

1369
01:05:53,610 --> 01:05:54,610
You hear all the rumors.

1370
01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:55,640
Anything untrue?

1371
01:05:56,470 --> 01:05:58,980
Well, I'm not a psychopath
or a maniac or anything.

1372
01:06:00,430 --> 01:06:01,550
People think you're violent.

1373
01:06:01,980 --> 01:06:02,980
I'm not at all violent.

1374
01:06:03,655 --> 01:06:06,216
You know, at times, you know what
I mean, I raise hell, of course, yeah.

1375
01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:09,520
And I like to raise hell, you know what I
mean, because that's basically my nature.

1376
01:06:09,620 --> 01:06:10,260
You know what I mean?

1377
01:06:10,515 --> 01:06:13,700
It comes from my background and
things, but I mean, I'm not a violent guy.

1378
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:15,200
I would never
want to hurt anyone.

1379
01:06:15,940 --> 01:06:18,021
And definitely not the stories,
you know what I mean, you hear.

1380
01:06:18,045 --> 01:06:19,685
It's been said that
you've hit your wife.

1381
01:06:20,020 --> 01:06:20,340
No.

1382
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:21,180
Never hit her?

1383
01:06:21,390 --> 01:06:23,240
Like I said, me and
my wife had arguments.

1384
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:24,240
I never hit my wife.

1385
01:06:24,241 --> 01:06:26,880
If I grab my wife and hold my
wife, you know what I mean?

1386
01:06:27,150 --> 01:06:31,080
I mean, I shake my wife up, but I never
totally struck my wife or beat her up, no.

1387
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:36,000
And what happened was, Hugh, that after we
did the interview with Mike, Robin came to

1388
01:06:36,001 --> 01:06:38,200
us and said, you're not
getting the story straight.

1389
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:40,140
Okay, enter the lovely wife.

1390
01:06:41,570 --> 01:06:45,406
And indeed, it became
one of the most remarkable,

1391
01:06:45,407 --> 01:06:48,300
strange interviews maybe
in the history of the medium.

1392
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:49,800
Does he hit you?

1393
01:06:53,050 --> 01:06:54,410
There was no
prenuptial agreement.

1394
01:06:54,530 --> 01:06:55,530
No.

1395
01:06:55,710 --> 01:06:56,710
What should there be?

1396
01:06:57,125 --> 01:06:58,750
We got married to
be together forever.

1397
01:07:00,620 --> 01:07:01,950
Not to plan for divorce.

1398
01:07:02,420 --> 01:07:04,510
For this stage of my life, I
do have many a millions.

1399
01:07:05,110 --> 01:07:08,010
My wife would just have to ask for
it, and she has every penny I have.

1400
01:07:08,830 --> 01:07:11,870
Okay, guys, come on up
and give me one more take.

1401
01:07:12,930 --> 01:07:14,686
The house looks great
from right here, right?

1402
01:07:14,710 --> 01:07:14,970
It does.

1403
01:07:15,070 --> 01:07:16,070
This is a good view.

1404
01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:22,230
When we shot the footage of Mike
touring the estate with his wife, Robin,

1405
01:07:22,775 --> 01:07:24,710
they seemed very compatible.

1406
01:07:25,010 --> 01:07:28,990
And they seemed very
relaxed with one another.

1407
01:07:29,310 --> 01:07:37,310
So we were surprised by the turn
the interview took because it was not

1408
01:07:37,311 --> 01:07:40,910
reflected in their
behavior with one another.

1409
01:07:42,650 --> 01:07:44,990
What's it been like,
this roller coaster?

1410
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:51,130
Basically, I'm really concerned more about
my wife because I stand strong regardless,

1411
01:07:51,490 --> 01:07:52,250
you know, the circumstances.

1412
01:07:52,270 --> 01:07:53,790
I stand strong, you
know what I mean?

1413
01:07:54,390 --> 01:07:55,390
It's been torture.

1414
01:07:56,610 --> 01:07:58,130
It's been pure hell.

1415
01:07:58,890 --> 01:08:02,430
It's been worse than anything
I could possibly imagine.

1416
01:08:03,210 --> 01:08:05,910
She let him right into
the lam light and then

1417
01:08:05,911 --> 01:08:08,310
dropped the hammer on
him in front of the world.

1418
01:08:08,790 --> 01:08:14,230
Robin, some of the things that we've
read, that Mike has a very volatile temper.

1419
01:08:14,550 --> 01:08:15,550
True.

1420
01:08:15,950 --> 01:08:17,070
Extremely volatile temper.

1421
01:08:17,310 --> 01:08:18,310
What happens?

1422
01:08:21,870 --> 01:08:23,770
He gets out of control.

1423
01:08:26,110 --> 01:08:27,330
Throwing, screaming.

1424
01:08:28,210 --> 01:08:29,270
Does he hit you?

1425
01:08:30,450 --> 01:08:35,210
He shakes, he pushes, he swings.

1426
01:08:36,750 --> 01:08:39,090
Sometimes I think
he's trying to scare me.

1427
01:08:39,410 --> 01:08:44,826
That moment, with him sitting
there like a zombie, there's

1428
01:08:44,827 --> 01:08:48,610
something voyeuristic and
completely screwed up about it.

1429
01:08:49,090 --> 01:08:52,110
But you know you
can't not watch it.

1430
01:08:53,190 --> 01:08:58,770
That feels like the genesis of
what we now call tabloid culture.

1431
01:08:59,450 --> 01:09:01,610
And just recently
I've become afraid.

1432
01:09:01,890 --> 01:09:03,730
I mean very, very much afraid.

1433
01:09:04,210 --> 01:09:07,910
He couldn't believe that she
would say such things about him.

1434
01:09:08,010 --> 01:09:09,570
He told me I felt paralyzed.

1435
01:09:09,630 --> 01:09:11,830
I felt like I was in concrete.

1436
01:09:11,890 --> 01:09:12,530
I couldn't move.

1437
01:09:12,730 --> 01:09:13,850
I didn't know what to do.

1438
01:09:14,570 --> 01:09:19,610
Imagine the huge event of a
black man making an ass of himself.

1439
01:09:19,611 --> 01:09:22,990
And there's a lot of people in American
society who would love to see that,

1440
01:09:23,110 --> 01:09:24,550
but Tyson wouldn't
give it to him.

1441
01:09:26,330 --> 01:09:28,230
Michael is a manic depressive.

1442
01:09:28,370 --> 01:09:28,970
He is.

1443
01:09:29,210 --> 01:09:32,570
And when he's in a manic
state, he doesn't sleep.

1444
01:09:32,730 --> 01:09:33,690
He gets you up.

1445
01:09:33,710 --> 01:09:34,430
There's an argument.

1446
01:09:34,670 --> 01:09:36,110
I mean, of course
you want to sleep.

1447
01:09:36,615 --> 01:09:38,466
So you run out of the
room and he runs after you.

1448
01:09:38,490 --> 01:09:39,490
Right.

1449
01:09:39,545 --> 01:09:42,504
As a viewer, you're
just kind of shrugging

1450
01:09:42,505 --> 01:09:45,530
your shoulders going,
what am I watching here?

1451
01:09:45,730 --> 01:09:49,530
Why is she opening up
her private life like this?

1452
01:09:50,530 --> 01:09:54,621
I can't imagine that
anyone could live with Mike

1453
01:09:54,622 --> 01:09:57,731
Tyson and not recognize
that there was a problem.

1454
01:09:58,765 --> 01:10:00,786
Hey, listen, you're a guy
who said you want challenges.

1455
01:10:00,810 --> 01:10:05,210
This may be the biggest challenge
and the biggest fight you ever had.

1456
01:10:05,490 --> 01:10:05,790
Yeah.

1457
01:10:06,210 --> 01:10:09,370
I usually come out on top and I
plan on coming out on top again.

1458
01:10:10,480 --> 01:10:13,547
I cannot imagine another
heavyweight champion having been

1459
01:10:13,548 --> 01:10:16,310
humiliated publicly like
that in the history of boxing.

1460
01:10:16,790 --> 01:10:18,470
You know, if
you're Mike Tyson...

1461
01:10:20,170 --> 01:10:21,290
it's tough.

1462
01:10:23,180 --> 01:10:24,526
It's one thing
to live through it.

1463
01:10:24,550 --> 01:10:27,850
It's another thing for 300
million people to watch.

1464
01:10:31,990 --> 01:10:34,382
The interview created
headlines around the

1465
01:10:34,383 --> 01:10:37,751
world because Mike Tyson
was a world champion.

1466
01:10:38,165 --> 01:10:39,165
Emphasis on world.

1467
01:10:39,870 --> 01:10:44,570
I mean, these were not things that
were discussed on television in that era.

1468
01:10:45,370 --> 01:10:49,270
I think the media turned on it
because his life was a spectacle.

1469
01:10:49,271 --> 01:10:51,631
The late night talk shows
that Johnny Carson's

1470
01:10:51,632 --> 01:10:55,450
delivered their monologue
every night with Tyson jokes.

1471
01:10:55,970 --> 01:11:00,090
Did you know there's a video game
out called Mike Tyson's Punch Out?

1472
01:11:01,030 --> 01:11:02,810
And that's just based
on his home life.

1473
01:11:02,950 --> 01:11:03,950
There's another one.

1474
01:11:04,350 --> 01:11:10,490
About a week after the interview aired,
he went from sadness to then anger.

1475
01:11:11,410 --> 01:11:13,350
I remember we were
watching television.

1476
01:11:13,610 --> 01:11:15,950
He had lunch and he said,
you know, I'm done with this.

1477
01:11:16,050 --> 01:11:17,050
And he went upstairs.

1478
01:11:17,660 --> 01:11:19,660
And he just started throwing
things out the window.

1479
01:11:19,770 --> 01:11:22,439
A horde of reporters and
photographers were staked

1480
01:11:22,440 --> 01:11:24,650
outside of Tyson's home
in Bernardsville today.

1481
01:11:24,770 --> 01:11:29,190
But the champ had still not returned after
his rampage here yesterday, tossing chairs

1482
01:11:29,191 --> 01:11:32,110
and other items through
windows of his $6 million mansion.

1483
01:11:32,570 --> 01:11:34,486
In fact, we helped him throw
some stuff out the window.

1484
01:11:34,510 --> 01:11:35,690
Let's empty out the closets.

1485
01:11:35,810 --> 01:11:37,770
Let's get this nightmare
out of your life.

1486
01:11:38,010 --> 01:11:41,590
Actress Robin Givens and her
mother fled the estate and called police.

1487
01:11:41,870 --> 01:11:46,210
Since he didn't threaten anyone or strike
anyone, there's very little they can do.

1488
01:11:46,290 --> 01:11:47,870
And they consider
this case closed.

1489
01:11:47,871 --> 01:11:50,190
Some news that may not
come as much as a surprise.

1490
01:11:50,650 --> 01:11:52,831
Actress Robin Givens
has filed for a divorce in

1491
01:11:52,832 --> 01:11:55,310
Los Angeles from heavyweight
champion Mike Tyson.

1492
01:11:55,670 --> 01:12:00,190
The Barbara Walters interview
changed Robin Givens' life also.

1493
01:12:01,070 --> 01:12:04,410
You could say it was
kind of a disaster for her.

1494
01:12:06,130 --> 01:12:10,410
Robin Givens was constantly
trashed in the media.

1495
01:12:12,450 --> 01:12:13,450
It was relentless.

1496
01:12:13,670 --> 01:12:15,210
Robin Givens is
in the news again.

1497
01:12:15,250 --> 01:12:15,890
I guess you know about this.

1498
01:12:15,891 --> 01:12:19,070
She's suing Mike
Tyson for $125 million.

1499
01:12:19,875 --> 01:12:21,401
But since it involves
her reputation, I'm

1500
01:12:21,402 --> 01:12:23,891
sure it'll just wind up
in small claims court.

1501
01:12:24,270 --> 01:12:32,270
But the idea that she was playing a
victim in that situation, the idea that we

1502
01:12:32,990 --> 01:12:40,990
immediately distrust her characterization
of events, I think is beyond unfortunate.

1503
01:12:41,650 --> 01:12:42,650
It's systematic.

1504
01:12:43,990 --> 01:12:46,330
And like so many
others, I'm tired of it.

1505
01:13:05,260 --> 01:13:07,723
Tyson went into a
period where all of his

1506
01:13:07,724 --> 01:13:09,860
worst instincts were
indulged and encouraged.

1507
01:13:10,220 --> 01:13:12,900
We had four penthouse
apartments, three mansions.

1508
01:13:13,140 --> 01:13:16,040
A disco, indoor
racquetball, indoor pool.

1509
01:13:16,660 --> 01:13:17,660
Private aircraft.

1510
01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:20,760
A master bedroom
with five televisions.

1511
01:13:21,240 --> 01:13:22,260
200 cars.

1512
01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:26,580
Five of these Bentley
convertibles at $320,000 each.

1513
01:13:26,860 --> 01:13:27,560
A lot of jewelry.

1514
01:13:27,740 --> 01:13:28,760
People wanted to see.

1515
01:13:28,920 --> 01:13:31,320
Mike Tyson just spent a
million dollars in Gianni Versace.

1516
01:13:31,321 --> 01:13:33,380
He would go to nightclubs.

1517
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:36,340
He would grab
women inappropriately.

1518
01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:39,719
I would have girls pull up
to the limousine and throw

1519
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:41,956
their underwears at me and
say, give this to your boss.

1520
01:13:41,980 --> 01:13:42,980
Here's my number.

1521
01:13:43,495 --> 01:13:44,840
It was nonstop with groupies.

1522
01:13:46,720 --> 01:13:50,840
He acted out in a way that
generated more headlines.

1523
01:13:51,240 --> 01:13:52,240
Only in America.

1524
01:13:52,580 --> 01:13:57,320
And this to Don King as a
boxing promoter was huge.

1525
01:13:58,240 --> 01:14:00,940
It made people more
interested to buy tickets.

1526
01:14:00,941 --> 01:14:02,040
When he fought.

1527
01:14:04,920 --> 01:14:09,560
You people want me to be
self-destructing Iron Mike Tyson.

1528
01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:12,240
I just felt like he
got trapped in that.

1529
01:14:22,550 --> 01:14:25,359
Now to Tokyo, where
heavyweight boxing champ Mike

1530
01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:28,430
Tyson has taken his show
and his title on the road.

1531
01:14:28,730 --> 01:14:30,070
Six million dollars.

1532
01:14:30,430 --> 01:14:33,910
That's what Mike Tyson is said to be
getting just for showing up in Tokyo.

1533
01:14:34,490 --> 01:14:39,010
Tyson's in Japan to defend his heavyweight
boxing title against James Buster Gates.

1534
01:14:39,030 --> 01:14:40,030
Douglas.

1535
01:14:40,190 --> 01:14:42,730
He's the biggest star
in the world of sports.

1536
01:14:42,850 --> 01:14:47,550
And nobody cared about this fight
because nobody expected it to be a fight.

1537
01:14:47,690 --> 01:14:49,730
Because it was
considered a joke.

1538
01:14:51,170 --> 01:14:53,670
Good luck there
at Buster Douglas.

1539
01:14:54,290 --> 01:14:58,720
Buster Douglas, a 42 to 1
underdog from Ohio, was

1540
01:14:58,721 --> 01:15:02,271
regarded as just another
fight for Mike Tyson.

1541
01:15:02,350 --> 01:15:06,230
One round, 91 seconds,
maybe 92 seconds.

1542
01:15:06,630 --> 01:15:08,590
When they said it was 42 to 1.

1543
01:15:08,591 --> 01:15:09,970
It was no surprise to me.

1544
01:15:10,170 --> 01:15:12,050
I was surprised
it was that close.

1545
01:15:12,410 --> 01:15:14,210
A thousand to one would
have been appropriate.

1546
01:15:14,970 --> 01:15:16,410
People thought he was a quitter.

1547
01:15:16,510 --> 01:15:17,830
His reputation
was in the toilet.

1548
01:15:18,370 --> 01:15:20,690
You know, I really
thrived off that negativity.

1549
01:15:20,950 --> 01:15:24,410
And I knew that I had the
ability to go fight Tyson.

1550
01:15:24,890 --> 01:15:29,470
Every single night, instead
of resting, Tyson was partying.

1551
01:15:29,850 --> 01:15:34,750
Buster Douglas was training and
resting and training and resting.

1552
01:15:38,010 --> 01:15:39,510
I'm glad he's the last one.

1553
01:15:39,511 --> 01:15:41,621
I have two other sons
and he's the last one

1554
01:15:41,622 --> 01:15:43,910
that I have to, you know,
go through this with.

1555
01:15:44,150 --> 01:15:45,586
I guess you're proud
of him tonight though.

1556
01:15:45,610 --> 01:15:46,710
Very much so.

1557
01:15:48,190 --> 01:15:51,210
Then his mother dies less
than a month before the fight.

1558
01:15:52,050 --> 01:15:54,130
And he decides he's going
to draw strength from that.

1559
01:15:54,330 --> 01:15:58,030
She meant a great deal to me
and I want to miss her tremendously.

1560
01:15:59,850 --> 01:16:02,950
But, you know, I
just got to go on.

1561
01:16:06,310 --> 01:16:08,490
James Buster Douglas!

1562
01:16:10,270 --> 01:16:13,370
Many fighters might
have just said, I can't do it.

1563
01:16:13,410 --> 01:16:14,270
It's too emotional.

1564
01:16:14,410 --> 01:16:15,610
I can't go in the ring.

1565
01:16:16,010 --> 01:16:17,310
You know, that was my mom.

1566
01:16:18,950 --> 01:16:20,590
And she raised me to be strong.

1567
01:16:23,350 --> 01:16:27,190
I felt that, in a sense, it made me
even more, you know, determined.

1568
01:16:27,990 --> 01:16:30,770
Because she meant more
to me than anything, anybody.

1569
01:16:31,550 --> 01:16:32,810
I wasn't going to let her down.

1570
01:16:37,030 --> 01:16:39,490
Douglas insists that he's
going to shock the world.

1571
01:16:39,491 --> 01:16:41,211
He's going to shock
the world in this fight.

1572
01:16:42,330 --> 01:16:45,608
Early in the fight, the
thing that was surprising

1573
01:16:45,609 --> 01:16:47,910
me was how easily
I was able to hit him.

1574
01:16:48,110 --> 01:16:49,670
A couple of right
hands by Douglas.

1575
01:16:50,190 --> 01:16:53,850
Once I started touching him and
reaching him, I started bringing the power.

1576
01:16:55,590 --> 01:16:56,330
That's what happened.

1577
01:16:56,331 --> 01:17:00,270
Another good right hand and a good
right uppercut and two more good rights.

1578
01:17:00,470 --> 01:17:04,810
Everybody was shocked at the amount of
punches that Buster Douglas was getting in.

1579
01:17:05,050 --> 01:17:07,670
Right hand by Douglas,
right on Tyson's chin.

1580
01:17:07,671 --> 01:17:11,410
He was connecting and it
was just like, oh my God, no.

1581
01:17:11,910 --> 01:17:13,410
You're too flat footed in there.

1582
01:17:13,790 --> 01:17:17,690
Another right hand and now
Tyson seems to be wobbled.

1583
01:17:18,190 --> 01:17:19,710
Mike is not throwing back.

1584
01:17:20,010 --> 01:17:24,970
He's doing to Mike Tyson what Mike
Tyson does to all of his other opponents.

1585
01:17:25,490 --> 01:17:28,090
Buster Douglas is completely
dominating this round.

1586
01:17:28,330 --> 01:17:30,830
And again the champion
wobbles back to the ropes.

1587
01:17:31,130 --> 01:17:34,370
In the 10th round, Douglas
delivers the coup de grace.

1588
01:17:35,770 --> 01:17:36,870
That was a uppercut.

1589
01:17:36,871 --> 01:17:38,250
What an uppercut by...

1590
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:42,760
Tyson is down.

1591
01:17:43,700 --> 01:17:44,500
He's struggling.

1592
01:17:44,600 --> 01:17:45,920
He's reaching for
his mouthpiece.

1593
01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:48,460
Clearly doesn't know where
he is or what's going on.

1594
01:17:50,200 --> 01:17:50,740
It's over.

1595
01:17:50,940 --> 01:17:51,340
It's over.

1596
01:17:51,400 --> 01:17:52,880
Mike Tyson has been knocked out.

1597
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:59,260
Those words were words you never
thought you'd ever hear in your lifetime.

1598
01:17:59,780 --> 01:18:02,220
It was the shot heard
around the world.

1599
01:18:02,560 --> 01:18:04,500
This was the era
before social media.

1600
01:18:04,980 --> 01:18:07,136
You had to call people
on the phone and say, did

1601
01:18:07,137 --> 01:18:09,080
you just see that Mike
Tyson got knocked out?

1602
01:18:09,580 --> 01:18:09,960
That's what happened.

1603
01:18:10,020 --> 01:18:11,980
As you've seen over
there, he was flat on his ass.

1604
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:16,380
Let's go ahead and
call it the biggest upset in

1605
01:18:16,381 --> 01:18:19,001
the history of heavyweight
championship fights.

1606
01:18:19,660 --> 01:18:20,680
Iron Mike.

1607
01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:24,880
Invincible Mike.

1608
01:18:25,920 --> 01:18:27,520
The destroyer of worlds.

1609
01:18:27,600 --> 01:18:28,600
That's over.

1610
01:18:29,260 --> 01:18:36,140
We have a long history in this country
of supporting people on the way up.

1611
01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:38,520
I have in my mind,
I'm the young champ.

1612
01:18:38,521 --> 01:18:39,120
The young kid.

1613
01:18:39,280 --> 01:18:39,760
I'm making them.

1614
01:18:39,860 --> 01:18:40,620
I'm coming up.

1615
01:18:40,740 --> 01:18:41,760
I'm the young Mike Tyson.

1616
01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:42,400
I'll beat them.

1617
01:18:42,520 --> 01:18:43,100
I'll game them.

1618
01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:44,160
I'll punch them.

1619
01:18:45,820 --> 01:18:47,340
How good are you?

1620
01:18:47,520 --> 01:18:49,200
I do not know how good I am.

1621
01:18:52,280 --> 01:18:56,120
And once they reach the
top, wanting to see them fall.

1622
01:18:59,040 --> 01:19:00,040
It's drama.

1623
01:19:02,760 --> 01:19:04,320
They want to see
me self-destruct.

1624
01:19:04,420 --> 01:19:07,340
They want to see me one day with
handcuffs and walking in the police cars.

1625
01:19:08,520 --> 01:19:09,180
All David до́о́ Lt's
going to see me.

1626
01:19:09,260 --> 01:19:10,080
Look, this is what I told you.

1627
01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:10,940
I told you that he
was headed for that.

1628
01:19:11,060 --> 01:19:12,216
I told you that he
is headed for that.

1629
01:19:12,240 --> 01:19:13,240
Are you?