1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,980 It was a great, great story. 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,900 My passion at that time was robo. 3 00:00:08,540 --> 00:00:11,620 He's by far one of the most compelling figures we've ever had. 4 00:00:11,740 --> 00:00:13,056 I don't care about living a diet. 5 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:15,760 He was used as the vessel for other people's desires. 6 00:00:16,240 --> 00:00:18,416 You'd think they were struggling for control of a country. 7 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:20,880 Very difficult to fight when you're in that kind of situation. 8 00:00:21,020 --> 00:00:22,400 He was very, very insecure. 9 00:00:22,820 --> 00:00:24,380 I'm not gonna change my way for nobody. 10 00:00:24,820 --> 00:00:26,700 He could never control his emotions. 11 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:29,980 People don't realize what God is. 12 00:00:29,981 --> 00:00:31,381 He goes on and they fight his mind. 13 00:00:31,460 --> 00:00:34,640 He should have went down as the greatest heavyweight ever. 14 00:00:56,070 --> 00:00:57,070 Just Mike. 15 00:00:57,170 --> 00:00:58,530 I'm a peasant, man. 16 00:00:58,690 --> 00:01:00,010 I'm here to entertain the people. 17 00:01:00,210 --> 00:01:01,650 I'm no elite person. 18 00:01:01,930 --> 00:01:05,170 Even though sometimes you may think I am because at one stage I have my little 19 00:01:05,171 --> 00:01:07,650 jewelry and my little girlfriends and my big cars. 20 00:01:08,170 --> 00:01:10,634 But I realize as life goes on, at one point 21 00:01:10,635 --> 00:01:12,570 I thought life was about acquiring anything. 22 00:01:12,850 --> 00:01:14,010 I was explaining this before. 23 00:01:14,450 --> 00:01:16,970 But as I get older, life is totally about losing everything. 24 00:01:17,510 --> 00:01:18,990 Because as life goes on, we lose everything. 25 00:01:18,991 --> 00:01:20,151 We lose more than we acquire. 26 00:01:21,150 --> 00:01:24,675 The puzzle of who is and what is Mike Tyson, you know, 27 00:01:24,676 --> 00:01:27,231 to me, I could tell you what the strength is all about. 28 00:01:27,270 --> 00:01:29,790 A lot faster than I could tell you what Mike Tyson is all about. 29 00:01:30,630 --> 00:01:34,010 Mike Tyson was once the richest, best-known athlete in the world. 30 00:01:34,530 --> 00:01:36,630 Yet he remains the hardest to understand. 31 00:01:37,170 --> 00:01:39,990 There's a lot of mythology that surrounds Mike Tyson. 32 00:01:40,450 --> 00:01:45,431 He was always a guy that physically and technically when he was going good was also. 33 00:01:45,550 --> 00:01:50,070 But he was also a guy that was always very hollow. 34 00:01:50,550 --> 00:01:52,270 There were several conflicts in Mike's life. 35 00:01:53,350 --> 00:01:55,990 Most of them from outside, which he couldn't deal with well. 36 00:01:56,210 --> 00:01:57,210 This guy was gold. 37 00:01:57,390 --> 00:01:58,390 He was gold, gold. 38 00:01:59,190 --> 00:02:01,710 And then his whole career started to slide down. 39 00:02:02,670 --> 00:02:07,310 If you come from where he was when he was eight, eleven, fourteen, how could you 40 00:02:07,311 --> 00:02:11,730 expect that person to have become so self-possessed as to control his life? 41 00:02:13,470 --> 00:02:16,093 Mike Tyson grew up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, 42 00:02:16,094 --> 00:02:18,151 one of the toughest neighborhoods in New York. 43 00:02:18,890 --> 00:02:22,025 After being sent up state to a reform school at age 13, 44 00:02:22,026 --> 00:02:25,450 he was brought to Customato, a legendary boxing trainer. 45 00:02:25,850 --> 00:02:28,326 Michael Street by the difficulty you had before, 46 00:02:28,327 --> 00:02:30,911 they weren't customed to using your leg properly. 47 00:02:31,490 --> 00:02:34,643 It was like it must have been at Sutter's Mill in California 48 00:02:34,644 --> 00:02:38,430 when some guys saw this windy stuff in the stream. 49 00:02:38,650 --> 00:02:40,330 And he said, you know, that could be gold. 50 00:02:40,390 --> 00:02:42,230 Mike began to learn everything about boxing. 51 00:02:42,810 --> 00:02:45,430 And everything at Customato might want to know. 52 00:02:45,431 --> 00:02:45,930 This way. 53 00:02:46,390 --> 00:02:47,390 Catch him here. 54 00:02:47,530 --> 00:02:48,690 That's what you aim and idea. 55 00:02:48,950 --> 00:02:52,815 There was no more ardent students of boxing 56 00:02:52,816 --> 00:02:56,650 history and boxers that I knew of than Mike Tyson. 57 00:02:57,210 --> 00:03:00,340 He went professional at just 18 and won his first 19 58 00:03:00,341 --> 00:03:02,870 fights by knockout before Mike had a shot at the title. 59 00:03:03,550 --> 00:03:04,730 Customato passed away. 60 00:03:05,370 --> 00:03:10,110 But one year later, on November 22, 1986, Mike fulfilled his dream, 61 00:03:10,930 --> 00:03:13,031 knocking out Trevor Burbig to become the youngest 62 00:03:13,032 --> 00:03:15,291 heavyweight champion in the history of boxing. 63 00:03:15,430 --> 00:03:18,638 He had the world on a string, had all the money he 64 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,311 needed, even though he still slept on Mike Cowich. 65 00:03:21,530 --> 00:03:23,710 Beautiful women dating all the time. 66 00:03:23,910 --> 00:03:26,450 And then there was Robin Gibbons. 67 00:03:26,830 --> 00:03:29,790 Mike Tyson had seen Robin Gibbons on television. 68 00:03:30,510 --> 00:03:32,250 He was very taken by her beauty. 69 00:03:32,670 --> 00:03:37,630 Gibbons was everything Mike was not educated, sophisticated, a budding young actress. 70 00:03:38,010 --> 00:03:39,810 But Robin was part of a package deal. 71 00:03:40,090 --> 00:03:42,599 Anybody who was around knows, Tyson was married as 72 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,251 much to his mother-in-law as he was to his wife. 73 00:03:45,430 --> 00:03:49,050 Before the honeymoon was over, Mike and Robin's marriage was on the ropes. 74 00:03:49,510 --> 00:03:50,750 They wanted to control Michael. 75 00:03:51,210 --> 00:03:53,512 And they only wanted to control Michael for as long as 76 00:03:53,513 --> 00:03:57,970 they could set up a situation where this is a sick guy. 77 00:03:58,250 --> 00:03:59,970 Why should my daughter be married to him? 78 00:04:00,670 --> 00:04:01,670 He needs help. 79 00:04:02,130 --> 00:04:03,786 And by the way, we'll take care of the money. 80 00:04:03,810 --> 00:04:05,970 What's it been like this rollercoaster? 81 00:04:06,390 --> 00:04:07,390 It's in torture. 82 00:04:07,990 --> 00:04:09,870 It's been pure hell. 83 00:04:09,871 --> 00:04:14,130 After just eight months, Mike's dream marriage had ended in humiliation. 84 00:04:14,470 --> 00:04:18,510 Don King, the flamboyant and ever-present promoter, swooped in. 85 00:04:18,650 --> 00:04:19,910 Don was a man on a mission. 86 00:04:20,510 --> 00:04:24,942 Now that mother-in-law and the wife were out of 87 00:04:24,943 --> 00:04:28,550 the picture, it was King's chance to move in. 88 00:04:28,650 --> 00:04:30,750 It wasn't more than six or eight months. 89 00:04:31,630 --> 00:04:35,450 Between the time when Mike was totally cocooned in that effective system, 90 00:04:35,451 --> 00:04:42,870 and when he became an utterly free man capable of making every mistake known to 91 00:04:42,871 --> 00:04:45,930 man and having every excuse continually made for it. 92 00:04:46,030 --> 00:04:47,030 All right. 93 00:04:47,070 --> 00:04:52,510 When Tyson and King arrived in Tokyo in January of 1990, to defend Tyson's title 94 00:04:52,511 --> 00:04:56,650 against underdog Buster Douglas, Noah, including the challenger himself, 95 00:04:57,090 --> 00:04:58,970 expected Tyson to have any trouble. 96 00:04:59,250 --> 00:05:00,830 Mike Tyson worked out in Tokyo. 97 00:05:01,530 --> 00:05:06,910 You had a thousand people from the media, a flash bulbs, TV cameras, ever. 98 00:05:07,290 --> 00:05:10,430 Now Buster Douglas worked out 10 minutes later in the same spot. 99 00:05:11,170 --> 00:05:13,890 Three reporters stayed for Buster Douglas' workout. 100 00:05:14,310 --> 00:05:16,758 And I'll never forget, Douglas looked at the ground and he 101 00:05:16,759 --> 00:05:19,211 said, man, I just hope I can make it through the first round. 102 00:05:19,610 --> 00:05:24,290 As soon as the first round began, I saw that Mike had no confidence. 103 00:05:24,790 --> 00:05:26,870 He walks into the ring and I say, he's got the same. 104 00:05:27,350 --> 00:05:28,470 He is not the same. 105 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:44,240 It was like the Earth had been pulled from its axis in boxing. 106 00:05:44,860 --> 00:05:48,291 And then suddenly, if you looked up Vinceable in the dictionary 107 00:05:48,292 --> 00:05:50,820 and find Mike Tyson's picture, they're after this fight. 108 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:53,500 I mean, it is a traumatic experience. 109 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:56,440 Out of the ring, things weren't much better. 110 00:05:57,460 --> 00:06:01,020 Without his wife, his title, or any of the people who helped build him up, 111 00:06:01,620 --> 00:06:05,500 Mike Tyson slid into an abyss of harassment lawsuits, assault charges, 112 00:06:05,501 --> 00:06:10,060 and eventually, a conviction for the rape of an 18-year-old beauty contestant. 113 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:15,100 We've seen so many times recently where it doesn't matter what a superstar does, 114 00:06:15,380 --> 00:06:16,380 it's okay. 115 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:20,260 He can brag about it in his books, he can demonstrate it in the public eye, 116 00:06:20,780 --> 00:06:22,380 and as long as it's him, it's all right. 117 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,449 After spending three years in prison, Mike was 118 00:06:25,450 --> 00:06:28,620 no longer the feared heavyweight he once was. 119 00:06:28,621 --> 00:06:32,062 Boxers who are well along the way and go to jail, 120 00:06:32,063 --> 00:06:34,500 they're nothing when they come out generally. 121 00:06:34,900 --> 00:06:36,900 Now Mike Tyson became fair game for everybody. 122 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:38,480 So how do you mask that? 123 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,420 Ask it by living bigger and better all the time. 124 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:42,920 Spend more money. 125 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:44,120 Buy more Bentley's. 126 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:45,500 Be on more magazine covers. 127 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,400 Become a bigger and bigger public icon with all of that. 128 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:53,720 Maybe you could mask the fact that you were gradually slipping as a fighter. 129 00:06:54,220 --> 00:06:59,160 By the time he fought Lennox Lewis in his final title bout in 2002, those who knew 130 00:06:59,161 --> 00:07:02,180 boxing knew Mike Tyson didn't have a chance. 131 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,206 I will never watch that fight because I want to 132 00:07:05,207 --> 00:07:09,200 remember Mike Tyson as the great great fighter he was. 133 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:11,120 I just don't have it in me no more. 134 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:13,140 I could be there every day. 135 00:07:13,220 --> 00:07:14,976 I don't believe I couldn't be the father time. 136 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,220 I don't have to deny it and discipline to do this stuff anymore. 137 00:07:18,540 --> 00:07:20,922 I guess he didn't know that his life was no 138 00:07:20,923 --> 00:07:24,081 longer his own, that it would be the IRS's agenda. 139 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,920 Everybody else who had some hold on his bank account at that time. 140 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:32,520 And he would have to go back into the ring against Danny Williams, Clifford ATN, 141 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,820 Kevin McBride until finally he could sit down and basically say to the world, 142 00:07:37,140 --> 00:07:38,340 one last time, let me go. 143 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:40,120 I'm done. 144 00:07:42,340 --> 00:07:44,840 But Mike is still trying to fight his way out of debt. 145 00:07:45,460 --> 00:07:49,140 20 years after winning his first championship, he is performing boxing 146 00:07:49,141 --> 00:07:53,860 exhibitions to keep himself from becoming yet another tragic boxing story. 147 00:07:54,340 --> 00:07:55,780 I think I'm very useless to society. 148 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:59,160 I don't think I'm worthy of the people that come out and see me, but they do. 149 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:03,288 If I don't get out of these financial quagmites, it's a 150 00:08:03,289 --> 00:08:05,781 possibility I may have to be punching back to somebody. 151 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:11,200 His fall is famous, but the reasons are as complex as Mike Tyson himself. 152 00:08:23,740 --> 00:08:24,340 Nobody's gifted. 153 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:26,460 If you was gifted, wow, man. 154 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:28,620 You'd be somebody very special. 155 00:08:28,621 --> 00:08:31,720 You'd be a born that way. 156 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,081 Some people said if born that way, then I'm born that way. 157 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:38,300 Mike Tyson overcame incredible odds just to step inside a boxing ring. 158 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,400 By the time he was 12, he was involved with street gangs. 159 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,218 Chances were, if he ever made it out of Brownsville, 160 00:08:44,219 --> 00:08:47,040 Brooklyn, it would be in a prison ban or a horse. 161 00:08:47,580 --> 00:08:49,740 After more than a dozen arrests, Mike was 162 00:08:49,741 --> 00:08:52,241 sent up state to the try-on school for boys. 163 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:55,106 It was there that he heard about a special program run by 164 00:08:55,107 --> 00:08:58,200 a counselor and former professional boxer, Bobby Stewart. 165 00:08:58,201 --> 00:08:59,840 He said, I wanted to come and see you. 166 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:00,280 I'm Mr. Stewart. 167 00:09:00,500 --> 00:09:01,040 I want to work with him. 168 00:09:01,180 --> 00:09:01,820 I wouldn't even hear. 169 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:03,380 I said, all these kids want to be fighters. 170 00:09:03,381 --> 00:09:09,380 I said, they don't have the nerve to work and something and stay in trouble. 171 00:09:09,620 --> 00:09:11,220 He can't be in trouble and be a fighter. 172 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:12,440 But let's see our behavior. 173 00:09:12,820 --> 00:09:13,940 Let's see how things happen. 174 00:09:13,980 --> 00:09:17,780 Well, two weeks go by, and not a problem. 175 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:19,780 Mike turned himself around. 176 00:09:20,340 --> 00:09:23,600 He went from a fourth to a seventh grade reading level in three months, 177 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,400 and he practiced boxing every chance he could. 178 00:09:26,401 --> 00:09:30,980 And the third shift staff would tell me where he knows leaving notes the next day, 179 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:32,860 said, I'm going to do something with his kid. 180 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:34,745 I asked him a three o'clock in the morning, and he 181 00:09:34,746 --> 00:09:36,756 said the kid is still practicing what you showed him. 182 00:09:36,780 --> 00:09:37,900 In the dark, lights are out. 183 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:41,460 With that work ethic, he would have succeeded at whatever he took up. 184 00:09:41,900 --> 00:09:45,172 Mike Tyson was still only 13 years old, but Stewart knew he 185 00:09:45,173 --> 00:09:48,340 would have to find someone to take Mike to the next level. 186 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:51,740 He arranged to take him off the school grounds to meet the legendary boxing 187 00:09:51,741 --> 00:09:56,660 trainer, Customato, at his gym above the police station in nearby Catskill, New York. 188 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:00,900 So then Bobby calls up and says, I got a guy you got to take a look at. 189 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:02,200 And that's Mike Tyson. 190 00:10:02,740 --> 00:10:03,740 So they start sparring. 191 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:09,300 Bobby kicks the heck out, but Tyson takes it the whole way. 192 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,680 Tyson was obviously trying to impress us. 193 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:14,120 He understood what was at stake. 194 00:10:14,420 --> 00:10:15,620 He wanted to ace his audition. 195 00:10:16,140 --> 00:10:18,800 So we have to do like two rounds because I've seen enough. 196 00:10:19,340 --> 00:10:19,820 Oh, no. 197 00:10:20,300 --> 00:10:22,420 He says, Mr. Stewart says, we got to go three rounds. 198 00:10:22,620 --> 00:10:23,896 If you start, you got to finish. 199 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:25,000 So we went the third round. 200 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,516 I walked in the corner and Cuss was taking my gloves off. 201 00:10:27,540 --> 00:10:28,576 He said, what do you think? 202 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,480 Cuss says, this is the next seven-week champion in the world. 203 00:10:32,300 --> 00:10:35,880 But despite Demato's prediction, the odds were still against Tyson. 204 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:39,780 Demato was a successful trainer, having produced two world champions. 205 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:42,929 But for a boy who had accomplished nothing at this 206 00:10:42,930 --> 00:10:45,681 point in his life, it was a long shot at best. 207 00:10:46,180 --> 00:10:49,100 Most of our kids didn't end up going to places like that. 208 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,800 They didn't end up going in the wrong direction. 209 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:53,240 Probably 80% of them. 210 00:10:53,300 --> 00:10:54,780 This kid was making it. 211 00:10:54,900 --> 00:10:55,740 He was going to make it all for me. 212 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:56,760 He was very raw. 213 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,000 He didn't know much. 214 00:10:58,080 --> 00:10:59,200 He didn't know how to fight. 215 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:01,060 But you could see the physicality. 216 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:05,500 You could see the clay that could be worked with. 217 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:10,600 Only Customato had the vision of what Mike could do. 218 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:16,580 There wasn't one trainer, not one professional boxer who saw Mike in the 219 00:11:16,581 --> 00:11:20,180 amateurs and said, wow, that guy's going to be the next great headway champion. 220 00:11:20,740 --> 00:11:22,300 No one except Cuss. 221 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,020 Now I knew there were a lot of occasions when Customato was full of crap. 222 00:11:26,780 --> 00:11:29,840 But when he would talk about something like this, he meant it. 223 00:11:30,220 --> 00:11:31,660 The only question was, was he right? 224 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:33,160 And boy was he right. 225 00:11:33,580 --> 00:11:38,040 When Mike was released from Tryon just after his 14th birthday, Demato arranged 226 00:11:38,041 --> 00:11:40,633 to have Mike live with him and several other boxers 227 00:11:40,634 --> 00:11:42,981 in a large house he shared with his companion. 228 00:11:43,100 --> 00:11:44,100 It could be Ewald. 229 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:47,640 I brought him down to Cuss's house and the first time he saw the house he said, 230 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:49,320 what am I going to do here? 231 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:51,040 This is where you stay. 232 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:52,940 He said, what am I going to do? 233 00:11:53,060 --> 00:11:53,700 Take the garbage out? 234 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Probably. 235 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:55,977 I said, there's things you're going to have 236 00:11:55,978 --> 00:11:59,220 chores to do just like you like kids to do. 237 00:11:59,221 --> 00:12:01,180 He couldn't believe it. 238 00:12:01,340 --> 00:12:03,260 He gave us a hug again and stuff. 239 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:06,820 Just remember, it's up to you, nobody else working. 240 00:12:07,460 --> 00:12:08,780 I always had to be the tough guy. 241 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:10,280 Or try to be. 242 00:12:10,660 --> 00:12:13,060 And that's where we started. 243 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:19,360 I was living there and he wouldn't say nothing. 244 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:26,923 Mike would just watch all the old fights, watch 245 00:12:26,924 --> 00:12:30,361 them all and talk to Cuss or Cuss would talk to him. 246 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,720 Over the next four years, Mike was in the gym, training every day, absorbing 247 00:12:35,721 --> 00:12:38,220 everything that Cuss and his crew would teach him. 248 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:39,980 He proved to be an apt pupil. 249 00:12:40,340 --> 00:12:42,980 He had physical ability, but he had to be taught how to use it. 250 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,400 I was there with him every day, he depended on me to teach him technique. 251 00:12:46,900 --> 00:12:51,860 He was killing the sparring partners and I couldn't believe the ferocity of this guy. 252 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:55,400 Mike comes out, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 253 00:12:55,560 --> 00:12:56,740 He goes like this. 254 00:12:56,980 --> 00:12:57,980 He puts up his hands. 255 00:12:58,560 --> 00:12:59,600 So, oh, nope, nope. 256 00:13:00,140 --> 00:13:03,420 He climbs right at him, reclined right on him, and walked right out that door. 257 00:13:03,421 --> 00:13:06,080 Didn't even, didn't even look to get paid. 258 00:13:06,260 --> 00:13:07,680 He walked right out. 259 00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:13,180 After blasting through the amateur ranks, Mike turned pro at 18. 260 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,700 Cuss brought in his friends, Jim Jacobs and Bill Capen to be Mike's managers. 261 00:13:18,300 --> 00:13:20,650 To better the odds of Mike's ascension, they lined 262 00:13:20,651 --> 00:13:23,161 up a steady stream of carefully selected opponents. 263 00:13:23,560 --> 00:13:27,620 His first pro fight against Hector Mercedes lasted less than one round. 264 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,560 It made for a spectacular highlight reel. 265 00:13:30,780 --> 00:13:31,440 It was like a cartoon. 266 00:13:31,780 --> 00:13:35,980 I mean, guys were flipping through the air and flying onto their backs. 267 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:39,380 And, you know, it was just amazing to watch. 268 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:44,920 By the time Customato died in 1985, Tyson was well on his way to the title. 269 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:48,780 He spent the next few years sweeping up all three boxing association titles, 270 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,420 fighting all comers until only one challenger remained. 271 00:13:54,700 --> 00:13:58,260 Michael Spinks, 10 years older than Tyson, also undefeated. 272 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:02,060 Their fight would be the richest in boxing history. 273 00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:08,420 Mike's Barra of Menace, suffused Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. 274 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:10,414 There was a delay before the fight because Spinks 275 00:14:10,415 --> 00:14:12,681 didn't want to come out of his dressing room. 276 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:19,520 Butch Lewis, Spinks' manager, went as you would go into in every championship fight, 277 00:14:19,700 --> 00:14:23,320 the dressing room of your opponent to watch their hands being wrapped. 278 00:14:23,860 --> 00:14:26,246 I had just finished taping his hands, and so 279 00:14:26,247 --> 00:14:28,400 butch Lewis tried to make a thing about it. 280 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,121 Which so aggravated Mike, who was already on 281 00:14:31,122 --> 00:14:34,580 edge, that he threw his hand out through a wall. 282 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:39,200 Spinks had heard that and that it was the sound of Mike punching the hole through 283 00:14:39,201 --> 00:14:42,940 the wall, which had prompted Michael to be reticent about coming into the ring. 284 00:14:43,140 --> 00:14:44,660 You see, he was like a little nervous. 285 00:14:45,500 --> 00:14:48,380 And then what happened happened, he just destroyed it. 286 00:14:48,381 --> 00:14:49,820 It comes by Spinks' head. 287 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:51,240 He leaves it right in. 288 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:52,440 There he goes. 289 00:14:58,020 --> 00:14:59,880 Six and seven and eight. 290 00:15:00,220 --> 00:15:01,360 He won't be able to do it. 291 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:02,680 It's all over. 292 00:15:02,740 --> 00:15:04,380 The Michael Spinks' fight was devastated. 293 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,940 He had taken out an undefeated, what, 90 seconds? 294 00:15:10,860 --> 00:15:14,260 Mike had beaten the odds and fulfilled Customado's prophecy. 295 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:16,880 He was an incredible 35 and 0. 296 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,740 The undefeated, undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. 297 00:15:21,260 --> 00:15:23,840 But in boxing, that's a difficult place to stay. 298 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:28,300 Now Mike was surrounded by money and celebrity, formidable opponents for a 299 00:15:28,301 --> 00:15:32,620 21-year-old kid who eight years earlier didn't even have a dream to his name. 300 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:34,820 There's a famous quoted boxing history. 301 00:15:34,940 --> 00:15:38,760 I think it was Jack Dempsey that it's hard to get up at 5 a.m. 302 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,760 and go out and run through the snow when you're wearing silk underwear. 303 00:15:42,700 --> 00:15:44,100 That's what happened to Mike Tyson. 304 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:49,306 January 1990, Mike Tyson and Don King, his new manager and 305 00:15:49,307 --> 00:15:52,700 promoter, arrived in Tokyo, Japan to fight Buster Douglas. 306 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:55,680 Few considered Douglas a worthy opponent for Tyson. 307 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,013 I have to be in the best state that I have ever been to be 308 00:15:59,014 --> 00:16:02,220 able to do all the things that it would take to defeat Mike. 309 00:16:02,540 --> 00:16:07,740 One of the boxing writers, Ed Schaller from the AP, was going through Customs in 310 00:16:07,741 --> 00:16:13,460 Japan and the Japanese official said how long would you be in Tokyo, sir, 311 00:16:13,620 --> 00:16:15,440 and he said, I don't know, rounds or two. 312 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:17,000 I never look at any play fight. 313 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:19,840 He said, I'm confident no one can beat me. 314 00:16:19,940 --> 00:16:21,260 I don't have to watch them fight. 315 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,800 They thought that Buster Douglas was just a clown, a tomato can. 316 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:27,720 But he was about 6'4". 317 00:16:27,721 --> 00:16:28,721 He was athletic. 318 00:16:29,180 --> 00:16:30,180 He could move. 319 00:16:30,700 --> 00:16:31,700 He could jab. 320 00:16:31,980 --> 00:16:34,660 And in the first minute of the fight, suddenly it was apparent. 321 00:16:35,020 --> 00:16:37,380 Uh-oh, there's a style problem here. 322 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,120 My girlfriend said, such move for Douglas. 323 00:16:40,420 --> 00:16:40,860 Wait a minute. 324 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:42,600 I don't move for Douglas. 325 00:16:42,860 --> 00:16:44,520 I want Mike to win this fight. 326 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:47,256 Two thirds of the way through the eighth round. 327 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,240 He came off the ropes with a punch from Hell. 328 00:16:49,540 --> 00:16:51,500 The referee began counting. 329 00:16:51,980 --> 00:16:55,300 Two, three, four, Mike, great performance. 330 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,080 You know, you've got a tough time, but you won and you still have which have you. 331 00:16:58,340 --> 00:16:59,460 Now Douglas is on the floor. 332 00:16:59,840 --> 00:16:59,840 Nine. 333 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,260 The guy gets up at 9.99. 334 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,720 What makes him get up at 9.99? 335 00:17:05,721 --> 00:17:10,010 Then we'll go back out. 336 00:17:11,130 --> 00:17:12,710 And around later, knock out Mike Tyson. 337 00:17:13,990 --> 00:17:15,910 Now, that's fate. 338 00:17:16,870 --> 00:17:20,650 Three years and two months after overcoming incredible odds to win the 339 00:17:20,651 --> 00:17:23,990 heavyweight title, the odds had already caught up with Mike Tyson. 340 00:17:24,630 --> 00:17:26,310 His future was anyone's guess. 341 00:17:36,260 --> 00:17:37,720 I love boxing, too. 342 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:39,080 And I like doing it for myself. 343 00:17:39,300 --> 00:17:42,540 But, you know, I feel so bad, you know, like, if anything goes wrong, I look sloppy. 344 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,700 So many people that, you know, help me and everything, get me up here. 345 00:17:46,140 --> 00:17:47,540 I just don't want to let them down. 346 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:52,140 Mike Tyson faced the streets of New York without a father to guide or protect him. 347 00:17:52,620 --> 00:17:54,754 Mike has spent the rest of his life going from 348 00:17:54,755 --> 00:17:57,180 mentor to mentor, trying to fulfill that role. 349 00:17:57,181 --> 00:18:03,200 Before Mike met Cuss, it's really tough to say if there was anyone in Mike's life 350 00:18:03,201 --> 00:18:06,744 that gave him that consideration, that care, that loving, 351 00:18:06,745 --> 00:18:10,440 that great deal of effort to say, I want to make you better. 352 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:15,940 What made it so beautiful at that point was, Tyson was an incredible pupil. 353 00:18:17,140 --> 00:18:24,460 So what Cuss taught him, which was legitimate, stayed with him. 354 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:29,860 Customato wrapped Mike in a cocoon of stability and structure and gave him the 355 00:18:29,861 --> 00:18:32,020 strong paternal influence his life had lacked. 356 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,180 Inside the domato system, Tyson thrived. 357 00:18:35,260 --> 00:18:40,320 As a teenage boy, he matriculates in a situation where everything is about 358 00:18:40,321 --> 00:18:45,759 supporting him, focusing him on the one thing that Customato 359 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:49,960 and his surrogates know that Mike can do, which is to fight. 360 00:18:50,120 --> 00:18:52,600 We would come to the gym every day. 361 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:55,240 Cuss only gave him a Christmas day. 362 00:18:55,580 --> 00:18:59,780 If you're around Customato, if you don't learn anything, more than you're an idiot. 363 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:02,300 And Tyson learned. 364 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:04,200 You know, Cuss turned him around. 365 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:05,760 Mike, it's like catching a ball. 366 00:19:05,900 --> 00:19:09,100 Guy throws a hot ball at you and you catch in your hands. 367 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:11,720 You go like this, see, you break the force of the blow, right? 368 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:12,880 Same with that. 369 00:19:13,300 --> 00:19:14,140 The punches come with me. 370 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:14,880 It's moving with me. 371 00:19:15,300 --> 00:19:16,700 It's just you're moving with it. 372 00:19:17,330 --> 00:19:21,043 The Mike Tyson 1984 was a billion miles away 373 00:19:21,044 --> 00:19:25,361 from the Mike Tyson who met Customato in 1980. 374 00:19:25,820 --> 00:19:28,340 That was five years of Customato tuteling. 375 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:32,080 That person was a young, terrific young kid. 376 00:19:32,900 --> 00:19:35,340 Mike was also developing into a terrific boxer. 377 00:19:35,980 --> 00:19:40,641 Cuss kept him on a rigorous fighting schedule, facing opponents every few weeks. 378 00:19:59,670 --> 00:20:04,530 Customato wasn't just a guy that showed you how to jab, how to slip a punch. 379 00:20:04,810 --> 00:20:07,910 He knew that every fighter has fear and you have to control fear. 380 00:20:08,290 --> 00:20:13,450 If you believed in what he preached, well, it certainly served Mike Tyson very well. 381 00:20:13,690 --> 00:20:16,890 Keep him busy and that's the one thing that Cuss said. 382 00:20:18,030 --> 00:20:21,350 If you don't keep him busy, he's going to get in trouble. 383 00:20:22,430 --> 00:20:23,090 Cuss said that. 384 00:20:23,310 --> 00:20:27,410 Mike was carefully and calculatingly taught by Cuss. 385 00:20:28,070 --> 00:20:30,190 That Cuss would not be there forever. 386 00:20:30,710 --> 00:20:32,110 You've got great people around you. 387 00:20:32,830 --> 00:20:33,870 You'll trust them. 388 00:20:34,510 --> 00:20:37,590 You'll find that they love you like I do and you'll be fine. 389 00:20:38,270 --> 00:20:43,170 On November 4th, 1985, the man Mike looked to for guidance, passed on. 390 00:20:46,630 --> 00:20:49,190 I was coming out of the hospital and Tessa was coming in. 391 00:20:50,170 --> 00:20:55,150 And I thought, I thought, I thought that Mike, more than I was Cuss. 392 00:20:55,890 --> 00:20:57,270 I started to cry right away. 393 00:20:57,790 --> 00:21:02,010 As Cuss had planned, the team around Mike protected him and kept him focused on 394 00:21:02,011 --> 00:21:06,270 fulfilling Cuss's prophecy that he would become heavyweight champion of the world. 395 00:21:06,970 --> 00:21:12,831 One year later, against WBC champion Trevor Burbank, Mike finally got his chance. 396 00:21:13,090 --> 00:21:15,230 He couldn't disappoint himself. 397 00:21:15,750 --> 00:21:17,410 He couldn't disappoint Cuss. 398 00:21:17,730 --> 00:21:23,230 He couldn't permit anybody else to improve on this journey he was on. 399 00:21:23,410 --> 00:21:25,610 Yeah, he definitely knew he was going to win that fight. 400 00:21:25,670 --> 00:21:27,230 When I was a fighter, I was a leftover. 401 00:21:27,890 --> 00:21:30,890 And that's why I started out, you know, just, you know, I used to tell Mike, 402 00:21:31,170 --> 00:21:34,770 throw the left hook, throw the left hook, throw the left hook, throw the left hook. 403 00:21:35,110 --> 00:21:36,110 Burbank, Scott! 404 00:21:45,690 --> 00:21:50,290 And when he hit Burbank with that shot and knocked him down three times, I was like, 405 00:21:50,291 --> 00:21:54,110 he didn't see me coming and I was like, wow, I was smiling on everything. 406 00:21:54,730 --> 00:21:56,430 Because that was, to me, that was awesome. 407 00:21:56,630 --> 00:22:00,490 I mean, boom, really that fight was for Cuss, because he won the title. 408 00:22:00,750 --> 00:22:03,850 I like to dedicate my fight to my great guardian custom model. 409 00:22:04,430 --> 00:22:06,073 And I'm sure he's up there and he's looking and he's 410 00:22:06,074 --> 00:22:08,246 talking to all the great fighters and saying his boy did it. 411 00:22:08,270 --> 00:22:08,590 And smiling. 412 00:22:08,850 --> 00:22:12,510 Everybody came in, everybody was surrounding him, including Don King. 413 00:22:13,550 --> 00:22:19,311 If you ever watch any fights, any heavyweight fights, that Don King is a promoter. 414 00:22:19,450 --> 00:22:22,230 He always puts his face with the winner. 415 00:22:22,830 --> 00:22:25,762 Don King, the renowned boxing promoter, was aware 416 00:22:25,763 --> 00:22:28,150 that Cuss's death left a void in Mike's life. 417 00:22:28,610 --> 00:22:30,970 After biting his time, he made his move. 418 00:22:31,270 --> 00:22:37,170 Don King had the habit of talking to fighters, and I thought that he went to Tyson. 419 00:22:37,550 --> 00:22:39,450 Tyson was waiting for someone like that. 420 00:22:39,770 --> 00:22:43,145 If he went out and played in the street and everybody 421 00:22:43,146 --> 00:22:45,970 knows there's a tank coming, a block and a half away. 422 00:22:46,170 --> 00:22:48,690 All these people would come running and say, get up, get up, get out of the street. 423 00:22:48,790 --> 00:22:49,330 You're going to get killed. 424 00:22:49,450 --> 00:22:50,050 You're going to get killed. 425 00:22:50,350 --> 00:22:52,790 Don King would say, do what you want to do. 426 00:22:52,830 --> 00:22:53,250 It's okay. 427 00:22:53,470 --> 00:22:54,710 You burn your own freedom. 428 00:22:55,050 --> 00:22:58,470 Then King shoots down his side street, runs, stops the tank. 429 00:22:59,410 --> 00:23:01,710 He never told Mike Tyson, no. 430 00:23:02,090 --> 00:23:08,750 If King would slip on 10,000, 20,000, you know, and then he'll build. 431 00:23:09,210 --> 00:23:14,210 Don had Mike, and that was the end of our relationship with Mike Tyson. 432 00:23:14,810 --> 00:23:16,650 Oh, man, hey, there you are. 433 00:23:17,270 --> 00:23:18,830 Oh, free at last, free at last. 434 00:23:19,090 --> 00:23:20,730 They got on by his free at last. 435 00:23:21,310 --> 00:23:23,070 King's words couldn't be more ironic. 436 00:23:23,550 --> 00:23:27,890 With Tyson all to himself, King employed his own methods of fathering, a sharp 437 00:23:27,891 --> 00:23:31,490 contrast to the regimented guidance cuss and his team had provided. 438 00:23:31,750 --> 00:23:33,470 Somewhere he lost the focus on boxing. 439 00:23:33,930 --> 00:23:36,170 Instead of running eight miles, he ran two. 440 00:23:36,570 --> 00:23:39,970 Instead of sparring, you know, eight rounds, he might spar three. 441 00:23:40,270 --> 00:23:46,830 His life now was at least equally about the things he was doing outside the gym as 442 00:23:46,831 --> 00:23:50,030 opposed to the monastic lifestyle which had brought him to that point. 443 00:23:50,330 --> 00:23:53,390 I don't know if it was having too much money, having too many Lamborghinis, 444 00:23:53,610 --> 00:23:54,610 having too many women. 445 00:23:54,890 --> 00:23:58,230 It was a case of having too much of too much, too much of everything. 446 00:23:59,430 --> 00:24:04,050 The effect of the distractions in Mike's life became evident in Tokyo, where Tyson 447 00:24:04,051 --> 00:24:06,390 would defend his title against Buster Douglas. 448 00:24:06,930 --> 00:24:10,270 He had to take off like 20 pounds two weeks before the fight. 449 00:24:10,271 --> 00:24:15,470 And I said to myself, I said, he would, he'd been out there doing the potty thing. 450 00:24:15,770 --> 00:24:17,010 So he got his button. 451 00:24:17,450 --> 00:24:18,630 The world had changed. 452 00:24:18,930 --> 00:24:23,290 Mike Tyson was not, you know, sitting the top and throwing anymore. 453 00:24:23,550 --> 00:24:24,870 His whole life was in disarray. 454 00:24:25,210 --> 00:24:28,970 What Mike needed now was a strong father figure to help turn things around. 455 00:24:29,510 --> 00:24:32,150 Unfortunately, what he had was Don King. 456 00:24:32,410 --> 00:24:37,211 King was more like an uncle to him, an indulgent uncle with his favorite nephew. 457 00:24:38,050 --> 00:24:42,570 Mike's life devolved into a sorted angry world of lawsuits, assault charges, 458 00:24:42,590 --> 00:24:47,710 and eventually, in 1992, his conviction for the rape of a beauty pageant contestant. 459 00:24:48,310 --> 00:24:51,210 Everything he does is not on the sports page anymore. 460 00:24:52,390 --> 00:24:53,390 It's on the front page. 461 00:24:54,310 --> 00:24:57,890 Hopes that three years of jail might encourage Mike to turn over a new leaf, 462 00:24:58,430 --> 00:25:02,890 lasted as long as it took Mike to step out of jail and into Don King's limousine. 463 00:25:03,510 --> 00:25:06,755 King made millions of Mike's comeback, making sure his 464 00:25:06,756 --> 00:25:09,410 route to the title was the path of least resistance. 465 00:25:10,050 --> 00:25:10,750 Now, let it be. 466 00:25:10,870 --> 00:25:12,690 No, he didn't look like a Mike Tyson of old. 467 00:25:13,910 --> 00:25:20,090 But some of his opponents were human bowling pins. 468 00:25:20,630 --> 00:25:23,410 When I wrapped Mike Tyson in a cocoon of horror. 469 00:25:28,850 --> 00:25:32,284 Despite the lackluster competition, Don King was making 470 00:25:32,285 --> 00:25:35,790 Mike Tyson the richest boxer in history on paper. 471 00:25:36,190 --> 00:25:39,370 Don believes in one color and it's cold green. 472 00:25:40,570 --> 00:25:43,170 Whatever he can make off like he does. 473 00:25:43,530 --> 00:25:47,443 Don King was trying to protect the best interests 474 00:25:47,444 --> 00:25:50,791 of Don King in his relationship with Mike Tyson. 475 00:25:52,090 --> 00:25:56,290 Disagreements over money finally caused Mike Tyson and Don King to part ways. 476 00:25:56,930 --> 00:26:01,570 With Tyson suing King for $100 million, despite having earned more than 300 477 00:26:01,571 --> 00:26:07,170 million over the course of his career, in 2003, Mike Tyson filed for bankruptcy. 478 00:26:07,870 --> 00:26:09,010 And what goes back to King? 479 00:26:09,410 --> 00:26:14,250 King controls the promotion, controls the money, controls the money. 480 00:26:15,210 --> 00:26:17,810 He always short chains the fighter. 481 00:26:18,110 --> 00:26:25,790 What Don had did to financially really was a horrible financial pitfall for Mike. 482 00:26:26,470 --> 00:26:28,710 So he's in that hole and he's going to stay in that hole. 483 00:26:29,010 --> 00:26:34,150 With the loss of DiMato and now King, Mike Tyson once again found himself as 484 00:26:34,151 --> 00:26:37,110 fatherless and alone as he had been as a child. 485 00:26:47,430 --> 00:26:48,990 I like being a little arrogant. 486 00:26:49,290 --> 00:26:49,810 That's the way I am. 487 00:26:49,970 --> 00:26:50,650 Always been that way. 488 00:26:50,810 --> 00:26:51,810 A little bit spoiled. 489 00:26:52,250 --> 00:26:53,950 It's not, you know, I don't bother nobody. 490 00:26:54,930 --> 00:26:55,610 Nobody bothers me. 491 00:26:55,770 --> 00:26:58,550 They won't have any, you know, say so about it. 492 00:26:59,770 --> 00:27:04,050 Since his childhood, Mike Tyson has always wrestled with the rules of society, 493 00:27:04,051 --> 00:27:07,630 even when protected in the custody of DiMato. 494 00:27:08,070 --> 00:27:12,190 His story that he had problems in the school, and he did have a problem in the 495 00:27:12,191 --> 00:27:18,510 school, because some teacher, you know, was like being too bossy to him or 496 00:27:18,511 --> 00:27:22,930 whatever, and Mike, you know, turned over a table or something. 497 00:27:23,410 --> 00:27:26,540 Mike was not exactly growing up in a suburb of New 498 00:27:26,541 --> 00:27:29,130 Jersey, which was very nice and calm and peaceful. 499 00:27:29,470 --> 00:27:30,710 Mike was a bad kid. 500 00:27:30,930 --> 00:27:35,030 It was being said that he was basically pushing girls in the hallway, you know, 501 00:27:35,170 --> 00:27:39,850 orphans to the bathroom and, you know, having his way or trying to have his way. 502 00:27:40,110 --> 00:27:42,390 And there were things we were getting out of control. 503 00:27:42,710 --> 00:27:46,330 And, um, apparently, Cuss was aware of a lot of it. 504 00:27:46,390 --> 00:27:50,150 Mike Tyson could break eight rules and stay in the House in Catskill. 505 00:27:50,410 --> 00:27:54,450 Joe Jones might break one or two rules and have to hit the highway. 506 00:27:54,451 --> 00:27:59,310 I was very angry at Cuss for allowing this to happen, because I felt that they were, 507 00:27:59,330 --> 00:28:01,363 they were being tolerable of this, and maybe 508 00:28:01,364 --> 00:28:03,270 they didn't realize what it was going to lead to. 509 00:28:03,550 --> 00:28:11,030 It was always a tenuous threat, the connection between the kid from 510 00:28:11,031 --> 00:28:16,970 Brownsville, who was not civilized, and the civilized world in which he needed 511 00:28:16,971 --> 00:28:19,910 the function to accomplish what they wanted to accomplish. 512 00:28:20,210 --> 00:28:21,210 That's a cheat. 513 00:28:21,330 --> 00:28:23,170 Ain't no way he's going to hit you that, right? 514 00:28:24,470 --> 00:28:26,979 And remember, it's always good to throw the punch 515 00:28:26,980 --> 00:28:28,770 where you could hit him, they can't hit you. 516 00:28:29,070 --> 00:28:31,230 That's what the science of boxing is all about. 517 00:28:31,510 --> 00:28:32,530 I think Cuss loved Tyson. 518 00:28:33,470 --> 00:28:36,206 In a way, Cuss just wanted to preserve this 519 00:28:36,207 --> 00:28:39,991 one shot to prove the whole world was wrong. 520 00:28:40,090 --> 00:28:41,310 The whole world is wrong. 521 00:28:41,770 --> 00:28:42,790 I haven't lost it. 522 00:28:42,870 --> 00:28:48,530 Social graces, social development, any additional education to develop his 523 00:28:48,531 --> 00:28:51,330 personality and make it like Tyson, a smoother guy. 524 00:28:51,670 --> 00:28:52,670 It just never happened. 525 00:28:52,910 --> 00:28:56,447 He was a child who had to be nurtured and taken 526 00:28:56,448 --> 00:29:00,071 care of, or else, all hell was going to break loose. 527 00:29:00,310 --> 00:29:04,410 As his entrance into adulthood coincided with his entrance into fame and celebrity, 528 00:29:05,350 --> 00:29:08,810 Mike found himself ill-equipped to deal with the pressures of his new lifestyle, 529 00:29:09,630 --> 00:29:12,410 most notably in his relationships with women. 530 00:29:12,710 --> 00:29:17,270 He always felt that, you know, the women who were coming after them, 531 00:29:17,310 --> 00:29:20,469 and he was right about 99.9 percent, were only coming 532 00:29:20,470 --> 00:29:22,651 after him because now he's heavyweight champion. 533 00:29:22,970 --> 00:29:24,130 Now he's got plenty of money. 534 00:29:24,350 --> 00:29:31,430 He needed someone or something to serve as a mooring, as a touchstone in his life, 535 00:29:32,150 --> 00:29:33,150 to make him feel whole. 536 00:29:33,730 --> 00:29:34,810 The long came Robin Givens. 537 00:29:35,010 --> 00:29:37,550 You know, it's seen this raving beauty on television. 538 00:29:38,030 --> 00:29:39,310 She had a measure of fame. 539 00:29:40,010 --> 00:29:42,810 Mike felt that she had a genuine love for him. 540 00:29:42,811 --> 00:29:46,270 I thought if Mike gets married, it would make him more calm. 541 00:29:47,110 --> 00:29:48,630 He'd have the family he always wanted. 542 00:29:49,710 --> 00:29:52,730 Robin's a superstar, not like she needs the money. 543 00:29:53,470 --> 00:29:57,130 But even his newlyweds, their relationship was anything but normal. 544 00:29:57,670 --> 00:30:01,990 Robin came as a package deal, and her mother, Ruth Rover, moved in with them. 545 00:30:02,390 --> 00:30:05,170 Suddenly, there was a new team calling the shots. 546 00:30:05,710 --> 00:30:07,190 Givens is really the mother. 547 00:30:07,450 --> 00:30:11,050 The mother, they just turned it, they just flipped his head. 548 00:30:11,051 --> 00:30:15,070 She told Bill and Jim, she's Mrs. Mike Tyson, and she's taking over. 549 00:30:15,370 --> 00:30:16,930 Things just started to unravel. 550 00:30:17,330 --> 00:30:20,898 I remember they called me up, and they wanted me to 551 00:30:20,899 --> 00:30:25,130 sort of train Tyson in the mansion he had in New Jersey. 552 00:30:25,510 --> 00:30:28,830 And I said, no, no, I want him to stay here, and cross his gym. 553 00:30:29,610 --> 00:30:32,650 He was, you know, cross his spirit as far as I was known as in this gym. 554 00:30:33,350 --> 00:30:34,350 Tyson always did that. 555 00:30:34,390 --> 00:30:38,330 But at this point in time, all of a sudden, he became a pre-medana. 556 00:30:44,850 --> 00:30:46,450 I want to see him in Atlantic City. 557 00:30:46,830 --> 00:30:49,906 We're talking about different things that Cuss did, how crazy he acted, and he said, 558 00:30:49,930 --> 00:30:54,190 and then suddenly he turns to me, and he says, he used to be fun then. 559 00:30:55,030 --> 00:30:59,510 Now, all it is is about the money, the money, the money used to be fun. 560 00:31:00,010 --> 00:31:04,905 There's nobody in the world I can talk to, and then he leans 561 00:31:04,906 --> 00:31:09,450 forward and puts his head on my chest, and he starts to cry. 562 00:31:10,110 --> 00:31:11,750 But I don't mean sob. 563 00:31:12,090 --> 00:31:13,310 He starts to cry. 564 00:31:13,311 --> 00:31:15,690 Now, you got to remember, he's just gotten married. 565 00:31:16,790 --> 00:31:19,350 He's got a mother-in-law who is omnipresent. 566 00:31:19,750 --> 00:31:21,430 The women now are ready to make a big move. 567 00:31:22,030 --> 00:31:25,650 The maneuvering intensified, and the consequences were explosive. 568 00:31:27,170 --> 00:31:33,590 Mike began to show the rage that until now had been reserved for the boxing ring. 569 00:31:35,790 --> 00:31:39,730 Everything hits the fan during the barber-walter show. 570 00:31:40,450 --> 00:31:44,152 In an exclusive prime-time interview with Barbara Walters, Robyn 571 00:31:44,153 --> 00:31:47,170 dropped a bomb that would send shockwaves across the country. 572 00:31:47,370 --> 00:31:50,230 Michael is a manic surprise. 573 00:31:50,550 --> 00:31:52,490 Yes, I mean, that's just a fact. 574 00:31:52,850 --> 00:31:54,850 Why do you think this is that nobody saw it before? 575 00:31:55,710 --> 00:31:57,070 The customer didn't see it. 576 00:31:57,190 --> 00:32:01,451 I can't imagine that anyone could live with Mike 577 00:32:01,452 --> 00:32:04,631 Tyson and not recognize that there was a problem. 578 00:32:05,050 --> 00:32:06,050 So why was he treated? 579 00:32:06,490 --> 00:32:10,162 I think he did exceptionally well in the ring, and the way 580 00:32:10,163 --> 00:32:13,070 that they chose to handle it was to keep him in the ring. 581 00:32:13,430 --> 00:32:17,910 Why embarrass Mike in front of the entire world, the easiest thing in the world, 582 00:32:17,911 --> 00:32:26,610 who realizes that if Mike himself says on TV he's ill mentally, this sets the stage 583 00:32:26,611 --> 00:32:31,590 for Robyn to do whatever she wants to do to end the marriage and go on her own way. 584 00:32:31,970 --> 00:32:36,710 I guess that illness is daring, it has to be taken care of. 585 00:32:36,711 --> 00:32:41,490 It all culminated with this big blow-up at the mansion in Mernensville, where Mike 586 00:32:41,491 --> 00:32:44,191 Tyson supposedly took the instruments that 587 00:32:44,192 --> 00:32:46,770 go with the fireplace and threw them around. 588 00:32:47,150 --> 00:32:50,310 Suffice to say that the next moves were made by the divorce lawyers. 589 00:32:50,910 --> 00:32:53,702 After Robyn Gibbons left him, Tyson's relationships 590 00:32:53,703 --> 00:32:56,111 with women started down a dangerous course. 591 00:32:56,270 --> 00:32:59,650 He goes to judge a beauty contest in an Indian average. 592 00:33:00,430 --> 00:33:03,556 Mike was invited to the 1991 Indiana Black Expo, 593 00:33:03,557 --> 00:33:05,990 joining Jesse Jackson and other honored guests. 594 00:33:05,991 --> 00:33:09,570 At a cultural celebration of African-American achievement, the 595 00:33:09,571 --> 00:33:13,030 centerpiece of the event was the annual Miss Black America pageant. 596 00:33:13,390 --> 00:33:15,441 By the time he gets Indianapolis, Mike is on 597 00:33:15,442 --> 00:33:17,290 his own, there's nobody there to help him. 598 00:33:17,710 --> 00:33:23,770 But Mike does what Mike does, and Mike is attracted by women. 599 00:33:24,110 --> 00:33:28,550 And they, in turn, ex-everyweight champion at this time are attracted by him. 600 00:33:29,150 --> 00:33:32,763 Mike stayed only two days, but in his wake, he left a trail 601 00:33:32,764 --> 00:33:35,850 of accusations that would change his life for years to come. 602 00:33:36,110 --> 00:33:40,390 Two contestants would file harassment lawsuits, one for 100 million dollars. 603 00:33:40,770 --> 00:33:45,450 The organizer of the event sued him for 21 million dollars, claiming he had groped 10 604 00:33:45,451 --> 00:33:49,530 different contestants, and one contestant, 18-year-old Desiree Washington, 605 00:33:50,190 --> 00:33:51,890 and accused Mike Tyson of rape. 606 00:33:52,070 --> 00:33:52,570 I love women. 607 00:33:52,970 --> 00:33:54,150 I mean, I'm always a woman. 608 00:33:54,290 --> 00:33:55,290 I respect them as well. 609 00:33:56,050 --> 00:33:59,295 And of course, I mean, every time I first want to get involved 610 00:33:59,296 --> 00:34:02,130 in one certain way like this, that happens, I'm confused. 611 00:34:03,090 --> 00:34:05,890 I'm just, I'm just lost on the whole issue to happen today. 612 00:34:06,150 --> 00:34:08,870 Fair play is really all we want to level playing for you. 613 00:34:09,450 --> 00:34:13,370 The trial began a public debate on Mike Tyson, especially when Mike's defense 614 00:34:13,371 --> 00:34:17,410 lawyers invoked his troubles with women as his defense, portraying him as an 615 00:34:17,411 --> 00:34:20,365 aggressive womanizer, so notorious, that Washington 616 00:34:20,366 --> 00:34:22,891 had to have known what she was getting into. 617 00:34:22,990 --> 00:34:28,570 The legal decision to put Mike on the stand was absolutely crazy to do, 618 00:34:28,790 --> 00:34:31,010 to say that he does this to all the women he sees. 619 00:34:31,390 --> 00:34:33,310 It's something that never should have transpired. 620 00:34:33,450 --> 00:34:37,270 I don't know what happened in that hotel room in Indianapolis, only Mike Tyson, 621 00:34:38,130 --> 00:34:41,278 and the woman that was involved, they're the only two people 622 00:34:41,279 --> 00:34:43,531 on the planet to know what really happened that night. 623 00:34:43,770 --> 00:34:47,910 The Indiana jury, however, was convinced that Tyson was guilty of rape. 624 00:34:48,750 --> 00:34:52,110 He was sentenced to six years in an Indiana correctional facility. 625 00:34:52,470 --> 00:34:55,430 For the first time, Mike was held accountable for his actions. 626 00:34:56,670 --> 00:34:59,310 Up to this point, nobody here to ever hold them accountable. 627 00:35:00,690 --> 00:35:03,689 Tyson earned an early release for good behavior, but he 628 00:35:03,690 --> 00:35:06,830 returned to a world where he was no longer welcomed as a hero. 629 00:35:07,170 --> 00:35:11,270 Now Mike would be walking on the street after these instances, and instead of 630 00:35:11,271 --> 00:35:13,190 hearing people say, wow, there goes Mike Tyson. 631 00:35:13,810 --> 00:35:17,200 He's so fantastic, he says, now he hears negative 632 00:35:17,201 --> 00:35:20,271 news in any situation where Mike was under pressure. 633 00:35:21,070 --> 00:35:22,330 There was no stability anymore. 634 00:35:22,970 --> 00:35:25,410 There was no deep inner belief that he had to control himself. 635 00:35:25,710 --> 00:35:28,652 Finally, Mike began acting out in the one world where 636 00:35:28,653 --> 00:35:31,990 he had always respected the rules, the sport of boxing. 637 00:35:32,290 --> 00:35:34,226 And you think I give a damn about you and then y'all? 638 00:35:34,250 --> 00:35:38,270 I don't care about living or dying, I'm not no... I'm a dysfunctional motherf***er. 639 00:35:38,310 --> 00:35:39,630 That's the right way of a f***er. 640 00:35:39,690 --> 00:35:40,250 I'm killing you. 641 00:35:40,410 --> 00:35:41,410 And he's kind of big. 642 00:35:41,510 --> 00:35:43,710 He makes me nervous without his gloves in his shorts on. 643 00:35:44,150 --> 00:35:45,981 So if you ever try to intimidate me again, I'm 644 00:35:45,982 --> 00:35:48,231 gonna implant a bullet in his motherf***ing skull. 645 00:35:48,810 --> 00:35:50,550 And I'm just tired of him. 646 00:35:50,650 --> 00:35:51,930 I don't really wanna fight him. 647 00:35:52,050 --> 00:35:53,830 I'm just tired of all this f***ing feeling. 648 00:35:54,230 --> 00:35:55,230 Because I'm in pain. 649 00:35:55,330 --> 00:35:56,130 I want them to see pain. 650 00:35:56,270 --> 00:35:57,390 I want that kid to see pain. 651 00:35:57,490 --> 00:35:57,930 Letting glue it. 652 00:35:58,330 --> 00:35:59,630 I want his kids to, oh, daddy. 653 00:36:00,210 --> 00:36:01,290 Are you okay, daddy? 654 00:36:01,710 --> 00:36:04,406 Yeah, I don't care about them because they don't care about me and my kids. 655 00:36:04,430 --> 00:36:08,290 Mike, by now, has begun not to like boxing if not hated. 656 00:36:08,850 --> 00:36:13,930 And a fight between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield is actually made. 657 00:36:14,330 --> 00:36:19,190 I was in the ring the night Evander Holyfield's year was at my feet. 658 00:36:19,550 --> 00:36:22,670 Tyson was winning a fight, in my opinion. 659 00:36:22,970 --> 00:36:27,090 And then Holyfield was going after him and head-butting him. 660 00:36:27,370 --> 00:36:28,370 So Tyson got a cut. 661 00:36:28,570 --> 00:36:31,601 So now they come together again and Holyfield dips 662 00:36:31,602 --> 00:36:35,090 down and comes up with his head aiming for the eye. 663 00:36:35,570 --> 00:36:38,750 So Tyson goes, oh yeah, he bites the head. 664 00:36:39,230 --> 00:36:41,410 And Mill's going, he says, you do that again. 665 00:36:41,890 --> 00:36:43,130 And I'm gonna just bonfire him. 666 00:36:43,310 --> 00:36:45,870 Mike couldn't take the pressure of being under that spotlight. 667 00:36:46,950 --> 00:36:49,390 Knowing that everybody hates him. 668 00:36:50,210 --> 00:36:51,210 That he's disliked. 669 00:36:52,330 --> 00:36:54,730 Coming from where he did of being a hero in a champion. 670 00:36:55,090 --> 00:36:57,642 So they come together again and Tyson, now 671 00:36:57,643 --> 00:37:01,171 the first time he ripped Holyfield's ear off. 672 00:37:01,230 --> 00:37:03,570 This time, he just nibbles on the ear. 673 00:37:04,330 --> 00:37:06,090 Holyfield turns around and goes to the right. 674 00:37:06,230 --> 00:37:07,550 He just, he just bent me again. 675 00:37:08,030 --> 00:37:09,790 He doesn't even want to be in that situation. 676 00:37:10,250 --> 00:37:11,690 He doesn't want to even be in the ring. 677 00:37:11,691 --> 00:37:12,691 He wants to wait out. 678 00:37:13,090 --> 00:37:14,090 I really think of him. 679 00:37:14,810 --> 00:37:17,470 If Mill's laying it, not stop the fight after the second bite. 680 00:37:17,870 --> 00:37:19,310 I think Tyson would have bitten him. 681 00:37:19,810 --> 00:37:23,050 Mike was fined three million dollars and suspended from boxing. 682 00:37:23,790 --> 00:37:27,090 Officially polluting the last place, he had held in high esteem. 683 00:37:37,460 --> 00:37:38,660 People treat me well. 684 00:37:38,820 --> 00:37:39,500 I treat them well. 685 00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:41,820 But I'm not gonna, you know, change my way for nobody. 686 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:43,920 If I am, I'm gonna stay that way. 687 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:45,080 I don't care who they are. 688 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,820 Mike Tyson's life offers plenty of explanations for his downfall. 689 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,200 Odds so great, they were bound to catch up with him. 690 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,980 The death or desertion of anyone he trusted to give him guidance in his life. 691 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,960 An inability to function within the rules of society. 692 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:03,700 But perhaps what brought Mike Tyson down was a conflict deep within himself. 693 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,080 One that he could never overcome. 694 00:38:06,580 --> 00:38:09,400 Then Browns fell, he used to hide in between vacant walls. 695 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,540 And in some ways, he was always that kid. 696 00:38:12,740 --> 00:38:14,260 He was very, very insecure. 697 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:18,740 So insecure, he would not look in the face and look in the eye and talk to him. 698 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:24,580 He started becoming very first with him, very aware of some of his shadows. 699 00:38:25,020 --> 00:38:29,580 You know, some of the, some of the wolves that bark at everybody's door. 700 00:38:29,980 --> 00:38:34,540 Now remember, anytime you feel tension, motion, remember? 701 00:38:35,060 --> 00:38:36,060 Motion you lose tension. 702 00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:37,480 You feel tension is shadow box. 703 00:38:37,820 --> 00:38:40,780 People don't realize what goes on in a young fighter's mind. 704 00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:45,040 A lot of doubt, a lot of fear, a lot of uncertainty. 705 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,140 We went to Denver, Colorado at the National Junior Olympic Championships, 706 00:38:49,740 --> 00:38:53,180 and Tyson started putting things in perspective a little bit at that moment. 707 00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:57,860 You know, I have something that's good, and I have to win this fight. 708 00:38:58,340 --> 00:39:00,020 If I don't win it, I won't have it anymore. 709 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,540 And all of a sudden, he just started crying. 710 00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:05,240 Just relax. 711 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:05,860 Just relax. 712 00:39:06,180 --> 00:39:07,180 Just relax. 713 00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:10,800 Just relax. 714 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:14,960 Just relax. 715 00:39:16,060 --> 00:39:17,060 Just relax. 716 00:39:17,940 --> 00:39:22,380 If you have the roots that he had, a boy literally wept prior to going in and 717 00:39:22,381 --> 00:39:24,249 knocking out some poor amateur opponent in 20 718 00:39:24,250 --> 00:39:26,200 seconds, because he was frightened of the experience. 719 00:39:26,540 --> 00:39:29,128 How could you expect that person to have become 720 00:39:29,129 --> 00:39:31,220 so self-possessed as to control his life? 721 00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:37,100 He never really believed in himself the way that you would think that it should be 722 00:39:37,101 --> 00:39:40,380 for a guy with that much ability and with that much accomplishment. 723 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,088 He wanted to show the world that nothing 724 00:39:44,089 --> 00:39:47,921 lasts, that you will eventually be abandoned. 725 00:39:47,980 --> 00:39:51,780 No matter how much money you make, no matter how much fame you achieve, 726 00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:56,800 no matter how great you're seen to be, ultimately you will be destroyed. 727 00:39:57,780 --> 00:40:02,920 I think that Mike believed that, knew that from the beginning, and 728 00:40:02,921 --> 00:40:09,500 unconsciously constructed it throughout his whole career. 729 00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:16,141 The anticipated end came in 2002, 16 years after Mike Tyson won his first world title. 730 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:21,060 Now, deep in debt, Mike Tyson's final championship fight was less a shot at the 731 00:40:21,061 --> 00:40:23,740 title than an opportunity to get out of boxing. 732 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:27,775 Mike Tyson was going to fight Lennox Lewis, and in 733 00:40:27,776 --> 00:40:30,561 this major presentation they bring out Mike Tyson. 734 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:40,280 And now... Tyson gets off his and marches over to Lewis, and it's out of control. 735 00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:45,720 It made the earbiting music almost look civilized. 736 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:54,860 I'm saying to myself, this is beyond a freak show. 737 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:56,640 I'm looking at the dark side of the moon. 738 00:40:56,641 --> 00:40:58,020 I don't know what I'm saying here. 739 00:40:58,380 --> 00:41:00,920 That was Mike Tyson, just devolving and devolving. 740 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,822 Doesn't matter what I say, you guys, it doesn't affect you 741 00:41:03,823 --> 00:41:06,161 guys, because you guys don't care about nothing but money. 742 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:11,200 So every now and then I kick your f***ing stomp on you and put some kind of pain in 743 00:41:11,201 --> 00:41:13,298 the flick, some kind of pain on you, because you deserve 744 00:41:13,322 --> 00:41:15,480 to feel the pain, some of what of the pain that I feel. 745 00:41:15,660 --> 00:41:22,560 What I witnessed during that period was the last public persona of a tortured show. 746 00:41:22,860 --> 00:41:27,840 Even then, at the end of his career, make no mistake about it, that was 747 00:41:27,841 --> 00:41:29,580 whatever happened afterwards is a footnote. 748 00:41:30,220 --> 00:41:36,340 Mike Tyson, interestingly enough, was the attraction for that fight, not Lennox. 749 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:43,480 The night of the Lewis fight, June 8, 2002, Lennox routinely destroyed Mike as I 750 00:41:43,481 --> 00:41:45,441 had expected and told everybody would be the case. 751 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:47,340 He wanted to get knocked out. 752 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,420 He didn't want to run out of the ring because he's a coward. 753 00:41:51,060 --> 00:41:53,300 He wanted to get knocked out, and he kept coming forward. 754 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,000 He threw no punches. 755 00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,351 That was the cynical fight that all these great 756 00:41:58,411 --> 00:42:00,500 champions, or most of them, wind up having. 757 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,780 Tyson knew it was going to be a beatdown, and told it Lennox Lewis. 758 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:04,540 That's right. 759 00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,316 You're fighting for the heavyweight champion, so I'm going to go out again. 760 00:42:07,340 --> 00:42:07,900 Do you understand? 761 00:42:08,260 --> 00:42:13,080 I'm not going to sit out there and just let you do this. 762 00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:13,420 Do you understand? 763 00:42:13,820 --> 00:42:15,060 You have to throw your punches. 764 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:16,120 Do you understand? 765 00:42:16,220 --> 00:42:17,840 For God's sake, you have two hands. 766 00:42:18,020 --> 00:42:19,020 Do you understand? 767 00:42:19,180 --> 00:42:20,320 Just let your hands go. 768 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:21,960 Let your hands go. 769 00:42:22,340 --> 00:42:23,700 No, let your hands go. 770 00:42:23,780 --> 00:42:28,820 The last we saw of Mike Tyson in his real career was lying there almost in a 771 00:42:28,821 --> 00:42:33,040 quasi-crucifixion scene and bloodied and out. 772 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,860 After the fight, I stepped into the dressing room, and here was Mike sitting 773 00:42:39,861 --> 00:42:42,365 alone on a chair in the center of the room with 774 00:42:42,366 --> 00:42:45,661 a baby on his lap, and then he looked up at me. 775 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:48,720 And he said, I missed you. 776 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:54,220 Now, he wasn't saying that he missed me personally. 777 00:42:55,340 --> 00:43:01,680 He was saying, I think that he missed being the Mike Tyson he had been, 778 00:43:01,980 --> 00:43:04,765 that he missed being the Mike Tyson who was devoted to 779 00:43:04,766 --> 00:43:08,120 his craft, that most of all he missed not being a fraud. 780 00:43:13,460 --> 00:43:15,320 But the Lewis fight didn't free him. 781 00:43:15,940 --> 00:43:21,680 Mired in bankruptcy, Mike returns to the ring today, not for cuss, not for a title, 782 00:43:22,300 --> 00:43:23,340 but to pay the bills. 783 00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:25,320 It's hard for me to fight, you know. 784 00:43:25,540 --> 00:43:27,956 Me starting out, you have to understand, I'm from Brownsville, Brooklyn. 785 00:43:27,980 --> 00:43:28,280 I had nothing. 786 00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:30,240 You have to have wealthy children. 787 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,800 I'm broke, but my children are wealthy. 788 00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:33,800 They have a great life. 789 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:37,080 It's just, it's very difficult to fight when you're in that kind of situation. 790 00:43:37,700 --> 00:43:41,980 And so the career of one of our greatest sports heroes will end, not with a bang, 791 00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:43,760 but with a whimper. 792 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,520 People, their memories are short, what they have to remember. 793 00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:55,940 He was 35 and 0 with 31 knockouts, 19 in the first round. 794 00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:57,520 Now that's awesome. 795 00:43:58,660 --> 00:44:03,060 Mike Tyson just should have went down as the greatest heavyweight ever. 796 00:44:03,420 --> 00:44:08,800 Never in history has there been an athlete for whom so many excuses have been made to 797 00:44:08,801 --> 00:44:14,000 explain away shortcomings, to explain away defeat, as is the case for Mike. 798 00:44:14,340 --> 00:44:17,824 But at the end of the day, Mike's career is a 799 00:44:17,825 --> 00:44:21,501 graphic reflection of who he was and what he wanted. 800 00:44:22,620 --> 00:44:24,680 He wanted to self-destruct.