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NAAZIM RICHARDSON: Every human
being that comes to this planet
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has a fight.
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The ultimate opponent
is actually truth.
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The truth will wean
out everything else.
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-Fighting for your identity
or for who you are for real
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is one of the hardest
things you have to do.
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-Boxing, I think,
is conquering not
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only your opponent,
but yourself.
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You've got to
transcend your fear
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and reach deep down
to a part of you
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that you may not
even know is there.
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RON HOWARD: The heroic
nature of boxing
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is something that's undeniable.
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There is skill,
there's expertise,
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but there's always this
possibility of tremendous loss.
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DENZEL WASHINGTON: Boxing
is just the anticipation.
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It's one punch and
it's all over with.
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-A lucky punch can
turn a guy into a star.
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And being caught
when he's not looking
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could turn a star to
a shadow of himself.
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-Rich kids don't go into boxing.
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Boxing is a way
out of the ghetto.
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One minute, a boxer is
not getting anything.
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The next minute, he's
signing a contract
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for millions of dollars.
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How do you handle that?
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LOU DIBELLA: The sport itself,
there's a purity to it.
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But the business
might be the most
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unsanitized of all businesses.
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-Boxing is one of those
sports where the toughest
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motherfuckers in the world are
letting some guys that couldn't
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make it take advantage of them.
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LOU DIBELLA: It's a
reflection of our society
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and your ability
to achieve dreams,
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but it's also a reflection
of our society and the fact
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that we are unquestionably
divided between the haves
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and the have nots.
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-It's not an easy
way to make a living,
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and it's the most
dangerous sport there is.
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But that's the risk you take.
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-I'm the youngest of
nine in my family.
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As you can see, a
black little boy.
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Black and came from
people call it the ghetto.
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My mother didn't read,
my father didn't read,
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and so they were hard workers.
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And that was my beginning.
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When you live in
a project, people
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throw their trash on the ground.
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We were the family
that picked the trash
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up and put it in the dumpster.
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And people looked and
would laugh at us.
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My mother said, you know,
you live in this environment.
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You don't have to be like that.
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Of course, people
had money and they
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used their money
in the wrong way.
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My mother didn't
buy clothes or toys.
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She bought food.
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She knew that this is what
we need to be able to live.
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-My upbringing, it was four
sisters, three brothers.
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Coming out of Philadelphia
is a task itself,
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especially in the inner
city called North Philly.
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In the morning, we'd get
up to my mother saying, OK.
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Get up, get ready for
school, this and that.
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You had to ration out two cans
of pork and beans with six kids
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and try to mix
other stuff in there
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to call it something different.
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Mom, it's the same
pork and beans.
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It's just got other meats in
it that make it something else.
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My father was one of the
guys that got up every day,
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did what he had to do.
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I never seen him sell
drugs, anything like that,
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but I know that he used drugs.
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I know that he drank.
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So I had the two parent
structure in the house,
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but it was a family
where we was tight,
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but there were some
things that wasn't
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as I would say a
normal family would be.
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-The worst characteristics
you could think of black life
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is where I stem from.
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A lot of drugs.
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Tons of violence.
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My parents sold women.
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They were in the sex
industry and stuff.
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That's what they did.
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We weren't safe in the house.
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We were always vulnerable.
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A lot of men sleep with
my sister, beat me.
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-There was a pattern of
abuse that Mike experienced.
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Bullies in the neighborhood
which routinely would pick
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on him, but also Mike
was beaten by his mother.
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His father was
pretty much absent.
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MIKE TYSON: My mother's
very promiscuous.
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It was just the way life was.
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Everybody I knew had
just their mother at home
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or their mother's boyfriend.
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Nobody was ever with his father.
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I don't know that world.
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My whole world is just lost
kids with broken homes.
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You know, forget poverty.
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I don't care how much
money you get, or game.
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Forget that.
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Poverty hurts and leaves
an everlasting effect,
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impression on you.
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-Poverty has its own
self perpetuating logic.
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When you are strapped
for cash and you
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need to survive
in the short term,
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you start to adopt certain
practices that in the long term
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end up preventing you from
taking advantage of all
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the opportunities that
may be out there for you.
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-We came in on the
era where it really
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got a little worse, where
nobody had anything.
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You couldn't tease me about
my mother being on welfare
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because your mother
was on welfare.
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JOHN PFAFF: Childhood
poverty oftentimes
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leads to adult poverty, and
you get locked in these ruts.
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So not only are these
worse environments,
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but they find it much
harder to escape.
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All these ills work together
to create very strong barriers
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to upward mobility, and
very hard to still believe
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the American dream is out there.
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-The American dream is something
that we're all proud of, we all
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embrace, yet it's a
little bit dangerous.
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America may be one of the
richest countries in the world,
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but we also have
the largest pockets
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of poverty in the
developed countries.
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One in five children
in the United States
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grows up in poverty.
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America has, by far, the
most unequal distribution
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of income and wealth
in the developed world.
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Yet, the idea of the American
Dream is, in a sense,
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what keeps the whole
system running.
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-I know what it is when people
move away from you because they
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think that they're gonna
catch what you got.
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They think they're gonna get
poor if they get to know you.
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-I was just always
searching for something.
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I didn't like my
life at home, so I
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wanted to have a
family somewhere else.
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I tried to find a new family.
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BERNARD HOPKINS: People
that I hung around
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was in the same
situation that I was in.
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You went on like you
was going to school,
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but in reality, we was in the
area, but not in the classroom.
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We stayed around the school,
but not actually in the school.
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And eventually, people do
find out, but after a while,
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you get lost in the system.
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-When I went to
school, they said
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we wasn't gonna be anything.
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They said, we're
gonna be statistics.
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You're not articulate.
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You don't know your ABCs
and the simple stuff.
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And my mom always said, so
they read better than you.
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Who's the fastest
in your school?
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I said fastest at what?
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She said, running.
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Who run the fastest?
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I outran everybody.
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My mom says, there's things that
you do better than that person.
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I said, but momma, they
don't talk about that.
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Your day will come.
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-My goal wasn't to be the
president of the United States.
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My goal was to be the
baddest guy that I can be.
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We just basically
looked at school
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as being no fun, no action,
and if you do catch us there,
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it's gym where we get
to play basketball.
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We could just do
things that we thought
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was more important than
reading, and writing,
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and science, and history.
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MIKE TYSON: I stopped
going to school
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because people were
kicking my ass.
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I just walk around the
school 'til school is over
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because I didn't wanna
get my ass kicked.
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One day, these guys
came around me.
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Three or four guys.
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They pinned me up against
the wall and they say, hey.
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Yo.
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Got any money?
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I said, no.
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So the guy says this.
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He said, uh, do you
wanna fly with us?
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And I didn't know him.
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It's a kid, 10 or nine.
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I'm saying, OK.
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So I'm helping these
guys to this building.
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This is like an
abandoned building.
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And I see a box,
and it's pigeons.
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And pigeons are flying.
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I said, what the hell.
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Now I know there's
a place to hang
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out with birds and these guys.
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So I said, OK.
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I'd rather be there than be
in school and get bullied.
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So I went back to the coop.
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I said, need me to
do anything for you.
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They said, yeah.
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And he took me robbing houses.
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And-- Whoa.
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And he didn't give
me much money,
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but he bought me clothes.
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He bought me clothes.
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LARRY SLOMAN: There are a
number of reasons, I think,
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why he kind of
embraced the thug life.
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One of which is, if you have
a community of people who
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are watching your back, then
you're going to be protected.
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And now he's buying the
coolest velour sweatsuits,
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and he's buying ski goggles even
though he's never been anywhere
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near a ski slope, and he's
buying the greatest kicks.
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So now, status in
that environment
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is who looks the coolest.
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-The role models that I've seen
was the people in the street.
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The pimps, the number
writers, the hustlers.
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They had the cars,
they had the jewelry,
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they had all the things
that shine in your face.
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As you grow up and
you grow up fast,
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you get to know what they're
doing is not right, but got
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them a lot of things and made
them live different or better
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than every working class
person in the streets.
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NAAZIM RICHARDSON:
That's the situation
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for a lot of young
people out there.
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They could step off the
porch with all the values
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in the world their mom gave
them and dad can give them.
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When they step off that
porch into that den,
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they've got to deal
with it accordingly.
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You can go out there and turn
the other cheek if you want to.
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All they're gonna do
is hit you in the head
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and take that earring too.
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So you had to adapt.
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Those that adapt well become
predators out there themselves.
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BERNARD HOPKINS: To me,
it wasn't a hard choice.
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I was the type of guy had no
conscience of value of my life
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and repercussions of what I do.
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When you think that
the value of your life
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it's not that much
concern on your actions,
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then that is a time
bomb waiting to blow.
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CURTIS JACKSON: Ain't no rules.
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You don't get
disqualified for busting
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a nigga over the
head with something.
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When you get hurt
back, either your fear
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consumes you or you
become a bit insensitive.
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Either you gonna
be a punk, or you
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gonna start to harden up a
little bit following that.
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However you handle yourself,
you make it clear to people
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that you don't have
a problem with it.
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Matter of fact, make them
feel like you want the shit.
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-In an environment that I
grew up in, which was animal,
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which was survival of the
fittest, which was do or die,
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you have to be strategic.
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NAAZIM RICHARDSON:
Very few of us
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grow up in fear,
because we live in this,
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and we're taught early
we can't be afraid of it.
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Whenever we're confronted with
an obstacle in the streets
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of a physical nature, the
first thing we think of
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is how to dissect the obstacle.
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-My dream started
off with a coach
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told me I could be the
heavyweight champion
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of the world.
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And I asked him, what was it.
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And he said, Muhammad Ali.
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He said, do you
know Muhammad Ali.
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I said, yeah.
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And he said, you could
be just like that.
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First goal was to be
the Boys Club champ.
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I wanted to be great, because
I already know how it feels not
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to be great, because
I grew up in it.
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In one fight, I became
the Boys Club champ.
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Every year, I would
win the tournament.
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DALTON CONLEY: Boxing's
interesting in that it's
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an escape from the
violence and poverty
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of many American
neighborhoods, but you're
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escaping through
violence itself.
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-People who fight
fight their way out
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of something, whether it's
poverty, whether it's jail.
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Rich kids don't fight.
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Why the fuck would
a rich kid fight?
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Poor kids fight.
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You want to fight your
way to a different place.
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AL BERNSTEIN: Boxing
gives you a chance
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to literally fight
your way through it.
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Boxers succeed based
on their own work.
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If you keep winning, and you
keep succeeding, chances are,
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eventually, you're going
to get an opportunity.
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GEORGE WILLIS: Boxing is
the ultimate representation
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of the American dream.
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It allows someone who came from
nothing to achieve greatness.
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It's about his
talent, his own skill,
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and his own determination.
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MARK WAHLBERG: Boxing
is such a special sport.
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I think most people
don't choose boxing.
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I think boxing chooses them.
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Disadvantaged childhood,
less fortunate kids
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in tough communities.
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And we grew up boxing
at the Boys Club.
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We were able to go there
and we had somebody
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who cared about us, who wanted
to take us off the streets
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and give us something to do.
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-If you look at the history
of boxing over time,
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you'll see some of the
cultures and ethnicities that
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have suffered the
most have always
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produced the greatest champions.
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DALTON CONLEY: Boxing
both attracts and preys
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upon talent from
disadvantaged communities.
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And it's almost like you
can read a chart of history
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of disadvantage, in the United
States, at least, of which
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groups are struggling to make it
and then which groups have made
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it when they disappear,
really, from the boxing scene.
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-Especially in America where
you had the immigrants.
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You had the Jewish
boxers, the Irish boxers,
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the Italian American boxers,
African American boxers.
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Now it's, I would
say, predominantly
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Hispanic boxers now.
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LARRY SLOMAN: There's
a certain generation
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with Mike, and
Evander, and Bernard.
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Black kids who
were disadvantaged
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and saw boxing as a way out.
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EVANDER HOLYFIELD: I lived
in an all black neighborhood
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and everybody said white
boys couldn't fight.
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And that's my first time
experiencing that people tell
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you lies, because that kid was
white and he beat me twice.
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I told the coach that I quit.
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Told him I didn't want to fight
anymore, because I didn't think
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you could actually be
a champion if you lost.
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So I went home told my momma
I lost, and I told her I quit.
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And she told me something that
has impacted my life even now.
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She said, son.
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Everything is not gonna
always go your way.
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If you quit, you'll never
reach your destination.
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She said, what is
your destination.
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I said, be the heavyweight
champion of the world.
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Of course, I went back
and I finally beat him,
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and that fight kind of changed
my whole aspect about winning.
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MIKE TYSON: I kept getting
in trouble with the law.
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One particular time,
I got in trouble
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and I went upstate New York.
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I had a reputation as
a troublemaker there.
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I had to be locked
down most of the time.
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I couldn't go outside
with the rest of the kids.
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Weekends, I would see
guys go on the other side.
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And I would say,
what's going on,
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because I would see
guys coming back,
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swollen eyes, busted
nose, busted lips.
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The most interesting thing about
it is that they were happy.
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When they would come
back, they're all beat up,
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but they're happy.
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And I would say, what's
going on over there.
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And they said, Mr. Stewart
is boxing with the inmates.
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Mr. Stewart is probably 160
pounds, white Irish guy.
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I never fought before
with gloves on,
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but I just knew I could beat
Mr. Stewart's white ass.
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I just knew I could beat him.
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I'm just flaring away, and
he had hit me in my stomach,
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and I had went
down, and I started
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throwing up everything
I ate for two days.
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Just blech.
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So I asked him to
start teaching me.
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He wouldn't teach
me unless I started
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behaving around the facilities.
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And once I made my honor
rolls and started doing well
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in school, he started
teaching me how to box.
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-Bobby Stewart immediately
saw the potential in Mike,
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and Bobby said, if you're
serious about this,
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I'll take you to see
this old guy in Catskill.
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-Soon as Cus
D'Amato saw me spar,
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he was planning my
life out for me.
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First day he met me.
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LARRY SLOMAN: Cus was
a kind of gruff guy.
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He didn't display any emotion.
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At the end of this session,
Cus turned to Bobby and said,
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this guy's going to be the
future heavyweight champion
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of the world.
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MIKE TYSON: At that time, I was
about to be paroled back to New
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York, and he didn't want me
to go back because he believed
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I would get in trouble,
I'd get killed.
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He asked me would I be
interested in staying with him.
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And I said, why, sure.
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I didn't want to go back to the
disgusting, wretched tenements
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that we lived in.
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This guy had a wonderful
like 14 room mansion.
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Roses and stuff.
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I never saw that stuff.
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LARRY SLOMAN: For the
beginning of that period,
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Mike was still
living in two worlds.
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While he was in
Brownsville, he'd
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fall in with his old
friends and they'd
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go out and start jostling.
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Mike's first street
mentor, this guy
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Barqueem, I think they
saw some pictures of Mike
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with Cus and with Camille, and
they looked, and he said, man.
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Mike, these white people.
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It looks like they love you.
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And Mike said, yeah, yeah.
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They love me.
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And he goes-- Barqueem says,
what are you doing here, man.
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If I had white
people that loved me,
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I wouldn't stick around here.
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And everybody in
the neighborhood
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is telling Mike, go.
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Get out of here.
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At least 30% of all the families
in Brownsville at that time
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had no father figures.
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DAVID LEONARD: I think
when we look at boxing,
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we see a number
of men who grew up
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without a father in the home.
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But what's key is, they
grew up in circumstances
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where the family was redefined.
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The trainers became part of
this larger extended family.
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LARRY SLOMAN: Cus would tell
Mike that he was a colossus.
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He was a titan.
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And he's telling him this
and building up his ego
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to a person who has
absolutely no self esteem.
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So it's a very tricky situation.
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MICKY WARD: I heard
about this heavy weight
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that they were saying,
this guy is dangerous.
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He's from Cus D'Amato's camp and
he was trained by Kevin Rooney.
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When I finally seen
him, I was like, man.
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He was like-- He was
going through fighters
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like a hot knife on butter.
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From that moment on,
we knew he was special.
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BERNARD HOPKINS: North Philly
was known for a lot of fighters
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back in the '60s,
'70s, and in the '80s.
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I got introduced to the
amateurs, and I had the talent,
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I had the skills.
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But then as time
went on, eventually I
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started getting respect
as a street fighter
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and I shot away from boxing.
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Every time I got stabbed,
which was more than once, crazy
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as it might seem, it gave
more stock to who you are.
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In 1984, I was put in
jail for taking money.
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At that time, I
blamed the system
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for everything, even
for my ignorance.
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That same year, my brother
got in a fight and the guy
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pulled a gun out.
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He tried to run.
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He got shot.
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They couldn't find him because
he ran down the street,
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and when they found him, he
was laying across the grass.
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So can you imagine my mom?
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It had to be hard on
her to bury one son
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and then get to see me being
escorted by the sheriff's
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department from prison
to view the body
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and then go back to prison.
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So basically, she lost two sons.
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So 1984 was a really
challenging year.
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[music playing]
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EVANDER HOLYFIELD:
1984, Mike and myself,
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we were both trying to
make the Olympic team.
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-There was a big emphasis
placed back then,
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especially on the idea of
your amateur experience
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and this Olympic experience.
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It was very much a
place where your worth
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was going to be determined.
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Holyfield and Tyson
got an early taste
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of what the other was
about at the Olympics.
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-That's when I got a
chance to see him train.
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I'm one of the guys who kind of
prides myself on working hard.
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And when I worked
in the gym with him
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and I'd seen all the things that
he would do, I was just amazed.
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I was like, god, you know?
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Shoot.
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17 years old.
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He's just a kid, man.
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He's the only person
in a gym that I
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can admit that I worked with.
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I didn't think nobody
was gonna beat him.
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-Mike unfortunately lost to
a guy named Henry Tillman.
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Didn't make the Olympic team.
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He was voted as an alternate.
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MIKE TYSON: I went to
the Olympic trials.
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I didn't make the Olympics,
but the experience
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in going to the Olympics
was just incredible.
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Evander Holyfield, he was
just very competitive,
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because he was just very hungry.
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Very hungry fighter.
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And he fought.
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It reminded me of me.
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He was gonna win the
most outstanding fight,
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I thought, because he was
knocking out everybody.
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He was beating everybody easily.
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ANNOUNCER: Evander Holyfield,
United States of America.
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Kevin Barry, New Zealand.
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Holyfield came into
the competition
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the unknown American,
but he's known now,
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and he's only 21 years old.
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Look at Holyfield.
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He's ready.
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He's got the
opponent hurt again.
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He's ready to put him away.
489
00:24:09,182 --> 00:24:11,615
Even though there's
no blood there.
490
00:24:11,617 --> 00:24:13,551
Oh, there it goes.
491
00:24:13,553 --> 00:24:14,518
You saw that.
492
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,455
It was inevitable.
493
00:24:17,457 --> 00:24:20,157
Now wait a minute.
494
00:24:20,159 --> 00:24:23,961
GEORGE WILLIS: Evander launches
a lethal hook that drops Barry,
495
00:24:23,963 --> 00:24:25,262
and everybody thinks, OK.
496
00:24:25,264 --> 00:24:26,063
Fight's over.
497
00:24:26,065 --> 00:24:27,431
Move on.
498
00:24:27,433 --> 00:24:32,236
All of a sudden, the referee
starts motioning to the judges.
499
00:24:32,238 --> 00:24:35,706
He starts motioning
to Evander, and nobody
500
00:24:35,708 --> 00:24:37,541
knows exactly what's going on.
501
00:24:37,543 --> 00:24:40,244
ANNOUNCER: He is going to
disqualify Evander Holyfield.
502
00:24:44,250 --> 00:24:45,950
GEORGE WILLIS: He
makes the announcement
503
00:24:45,952 --> 00:24:51,989
that Evander is disqualified for
hitting after he called stop.
504
00:24:51,991 --> 00:24:55,125
Nobody really heard
the referee say stop.
505
00:24:55,127 --> 00:24:58,295
All they saw was
Evander drop the guy.
506
00:24:58,297 --> 00:25:00,331
LOU DIBELLA: Holyfield
got screwed royally.
507
00:25:00,333 --> 00:25:02,199
He shouldn't have been
disqualified against Barry.
508
00:25:02,201 --> 00:25:03,467
It was a joke.
509
00:25:03,469 --> 00:25:06,904
ANNOUNCER: Holyfield in
total command of the fight.
510
00:25:06,906 --> 00:25:11,375
And I just don't
understand this ruling.
511
00:25:11,377 --> 00:25:13,344
Look at Holyfield's face.
512
00:25:13,346 --> 00:25:16,313
What an untoward development.
513
00:25:19,285 --> 00:25:21,819
EVANDER HOLYFIELD:
Very conscious.
514
00:25:21,821 --> 00:25:23,287
Controlling.
515
00:25:23,289 --> 00:25:24,855
Controlling the anger.
516
00:25:24,857 --> 00:25:26,524
Controlling the tongue.
517
00:25:26,526 --> 00:25:28,192
I sit there and took it.
518
00:25:28,194 --> 00:25:31,128
Howard Cosell made
me bigger than life.
519
00:25:31,130 --> 00:25:32,630
ANNOUNCER: This is unbelievable.
520
00:25:32,632 --> 00:25:35,132
Holyfield holding
himself together.
521
00:25:35,134 --> 00:25:38,035
-A raging controversy
had reared its ugly head.
522
00:25:38,037 --> 00:25:41,205
Bill Simon, the president of the
Los Angeles Olympic Committee
523
00:25:41,207 --> 00:25:42,239
has gotten involved.
524
00:25:42,241 --> 00:25:45,342
It really is a full
blown controversy.
525
00:25:45,344 --> 00:25:47,311
GEORGE WILLIS: He
wanted that gold medal,
526
00:25:47,313 --> 00:25:51,882
but by responding to it the
way he did, not complaining,
527
00:25:51,884 --> 00:25:55,319
showing a lot of
grace, he probably
528
00:25:55,321 --> 00:25:59,690
emerged from that Olympics
as the most well known
529
00:25:59,692 --> 00:26:01,525
of all those boxers,
even the ones
530
00:26:01,527 --> 00:26:04,495
that had won the gold medal.
531
00:26:04,497 --> 00:26:07,531
That became his launching pad
was the Olympics, while Mike
532
00:26:07,533 --> 00:26:10,267
had to begin his pro
career in obscurity.
533
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:15,239
MIKE TYSON: Cus got
me into thinking
534
00:26:15,241 --> 00:26:16,574
about the great fighters.
535
00:26:16,576 --> 00:26:18,242
And every time I failed, I'd
go read about their failures
536
00:26:18,244 --> 00:26:21,579
and how they overcame
their failures.
537
00:26:21,581 --> 00:26:23,247
-Mike had a very high
skill set, and he
538
00:26:23,249 --> 00:26:27,117
had a profound understanding
of boxing and boxing history.
539
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:28,786
And that's what
made him special.
540
00:26:28,788 --> 00:26:30,287
MICKY WARD: When he
wanted to know something,
541
00:26:30,289 --> 00:26:32,790
he'd sit there and watch
numerous fights of guys
542
00:26:32,792 --> 00:26:35,159
from the '50s, and
'40s, and '30s.
543
00:26:35,161 --> 00:26:37,995
He's like a boxing encyclopedia.
544
00:26:37,997 --> 00:26:39,129
MIKE TYSON: What's
the difference
545
00:26:39,131 --> 00:26:41,799
between a good fighter
and the great fighter?
546
00:26:41,801 --> 00:26:43,167
It's how far they're
willing to go
547
00:26:43,169 --> 00:26:46,170
and how much they're
willing to endure.
548
00:26:46,172 --> 00:26:47,438
It's the hunger for the world.
549
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:48,973
You want to be that champion.
550
00:26:48,975 --> 00:26:50,374
GEORGE WILLIS: Once
you get to know Mike,
551
00:26:50,376 --> 00:26:53,310
you know he was a very insecure
human being and very insecure
552
00:26:53,312 --> 00:26:57,881
fighter, so a lot of that tough
guy image and a lot of the talk
553
00:26:57,883 --> 00:27:03,253
and the brashness was basically
to hide his own insecurities.
554
00:27:03,255 --> 00:27:05,589
CRAIG JONES: Every time he went
in the ring, he was scared.
555
00:27:05,591 --> 00:27:08,325
It wasn't like he just
knew he was gonna win.
556
00:27:08,327 --> 00:27:11,061
But Mike also knew, when he
looked in that opponent's eye,
557
00:27:11,063 --> 00:27:12,429
he'd seen fear.
558
00:27:12,431 --> 00:27:13,664
MIKE TYSON: Scared
as I was fighting,
559
00:27:13,666 --> 00:27:16,033
I realized these guys
were more afraid of me
560
00:27:16,035 --> 00:27:19,503
than I was of them, and that's
when my whole game started
561
00:27:19,505 --> 00:27:22,673
changing as far as my
approach to fighting.
562
00:27:22,675 --> 00:27:24,074
ANNOUNCER: Left
hand almost drove
563
00:27:24,076 --> 00:27:26,477
Richardson right
through the canvas.
564
00:27:26,479 --> 00:27:28,512
-I'd get all his
early fights on ESPN
565
00:27:28,514 --> 00:27:31,081
and he knocked everybody out in
the first three second round.
566
00:27:31,083 --> 00:27:32,716
So you looked at
it and said wow.
567
00:27:32,718 --> 00:27:34,885
-Anybody that wants to stay in
the business for a long period
568
00:27:34,887 --> 00:27:36,787
of time, like myself, I
plan on staying in boxing.
569
00:27:36,789 --> 00:27:38,922
I would like to box for
at least a good 20 years,
570
00:27:38,924 --> 00:27:39,923
because I love the game.
571
00:27:39,925 --> 00:27:40,758
-You took care of
business tonight.
572
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:41,558
Congratulations, Mike.
573
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:42,726
-Thank you, very much.
574
00:27:42,728 --> 00:27:45,262
-I studied every
fight that Mike fought
575
00:27:45,264 --> 00:27:46,597
and told everybody, be quiet.
576
00:27:46,599 --> 00:27:48,298
I'm watching.
577
00:27:48,300 --> 00:27:49,833
Well, you know,
because my whole thing,
578
00:27:49,835 --> 00:27:53,237
I realized that was going to be
the toughest fight in my life
579
00:27:53,239 --> 00:27:55,039
if it happened.
580
00:27:55,041 --> 00:27:58,308
This is the guy that
I've got to face one day.
581
00:28:10,222 --> 00:28:12,389
BERNARD HOPKINS:
In prison, you have
582
00:28:12,391 --> 00:28:14,558
a lot of energy
that's bottled up.
583
00:28:17,263 --> 00:28:20,030
From one way or the other,
love it, don't love it,
584
00:28:20,032 --> 00:28:24,134
agree to disagree, it
has to be released.
585
00:28:24,136 --> 00:28:28,539
After getting in a few fights, I
built a reputation on the block
586
00:28:28,541 --> 00:28:30,674
like I was building
on the streets.
587
00:28:30,676 --> 00:28:32,676
I was known, don't fight me.
588
00:28:32,678 --> 00:28:36,647
You've got to stab me.
589
00:28:36,649 --> 00:28:42,753
At home, you can hide,
but in those institutions,
590
00:28:42,755 --> 00:28:49,426
you have to see these people
every day you wake up.
591
00:28:49,428 --> 00:28:55,199
Someone is plotting
for that vulnerability.
592
00:28:55,201 --> 00:28:58,869
You gotta meet your
fears every day.
593
00:28:58,871 --> 00:29:00,904
Things going through my
head was that I'd be dead
594
00:29:00,906 --> 00:29:03,373
before I hit 18, or I'd
be in prison all my life,
595
00:29:03,375 --> 00:29:06,076
or that I'd be nothing.
596
00:29:06,078 --> 00:29:09,747
As I got more mature in
jail and I started watching
597
00:29:09,749 --> 00:29:11,815
other people, I started
saying to myself,
598
00:29:11,817 --> 00:29:14,818
what's wrong with
this situation.
599
00:29:14,820 --> 00:29:17,221
I had to stop being ignorant.
600
00:29:17,223 --> 00:29:19,823
I started doing research.
601
00:29:19,825 --> 00:29:25,829
I seen something to me
that really woke me up.
602
00:29:25,831 --> 00:29:26,830
Prison is a business.
603
00:29:34,473 --> 00:29:37,207
It's 50, it's $60,000
a year for one inmate.
604
00:29:44,216 --> 00:29:50,587
How can I keep myself from being
an employee of this business?
605
00:29:50,589 --> 00:29:52,689
JOHN PFAFF: Oftentimes, the
real problem with prison
606
00:29:52,691 --> 00:29:54,558
is this stultifying boredom.
607
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,895
There's mountains of evidence
that the supermax prisons where
608
00:29:57,897 --> 00:30:00,097
you're in a cell by
yourself 23 hours a day,
609
00:30:00,099 --> 00:30:01,732
they literally
drive people insane.
610
00:30:01,734 --> 00:30:03,734
The people who leave
are substantially
611
00:30:03,736 --> 00:30:05,435
mentally harmed
by the experience.
612
00:30:05,437 --> 00:30:09,039
It's just not what we as
humans are designed to handle.
613
00:30:09,041 --> 00:30:10,908
I think that thing that
gives you something to do,
614
00:30:10,910 --> 00:30:13,710
to hold on to, can be a very
powerful means of getting
615
00:30:13,712 --> 00:30:18,348
yourself through the
mind numbing tedium.
616
00:30:18,350 --> 00:30:21,018
EVANDER HOLYFIELD: They
had an old gym with a ring,
617
00:30:21,020 --> 00:30:26,757
with gloves, with sparring,
and Smokey Wilson, AKA Michael
618
00:30:26,759 --> 00:30:32,129
Wilson, continued to say,
come on to the gym, man.
619
00:30:32,131 --> 00:30:33,430
Come on to the gym.
620
00:30:33,432 --> 00:30:35,732
Stop fighting on the black
or you gonna go in the hole,
621
00:30:35,734 --> 00:30:37,601
or you gonna get
stabbed, or this an that.
622
00:30:37,603 --> 00:30:38,402
So, all right, man.
623
00:30:38,404 --> 00:30:39,203
All right, yeah.
624
00:30:39,205 --> 00:30:40,537
I'll go to the gym.
625
00:30:40,539 --> 00:30:44,007
And I sparred with one of
the known, respected guys.
626
00:30:50,449 --> 00:30:53,317
I didn't knock him out, but
I gave him a boxing lesson.
627
00:30:53,319 --> 00:30:56,486
And Smokey Wilson
became my trainer.
628
00:30:56,488 --> 00:31:01,592
I got a chance to get back
into what I've deviated from
629
00:31:01,594 --> 00:31:05,329
and used it to my advantage
in the penitentiary.
630
00:31:05,331 --> 00:31:09,566
It came to a thing where now, in
prison, you bet on each other.
631
00:31:09,568 --> 00:31:12,936
And I'm getting this reputation
because now, the block,
632
00:31:12,938 --> 00:31:15,639
the jail was buzzing.
633
00:31:15,641 --> 00:31:21,645
I became the celebrity
boxer in a penitentiary.
634
00:31:21,647 --> 00:31:23,380
The boxing program
was established
635
00:31:23,382 --> 00:31:29,086
in 38 penitentiaries, from
Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.
636
00:31:29,088 --> 00:31:35,659
And so we had boxing
tournaments in jail.
637
00:31:35,661 --> 00:31:40,797
In [inaudible], Rockview,
Dallas, Graterford, Smithville,
638
00:31:40,799 --> 00:31:42,566
Frackville.
639
00:31:42,568 --> 00:31:46,937
We, on buses, escorted
by guard with shot guns
640
00:31:46,939 --> 00:31:50,641
from one prison to another.
641
00:31:50,643 --> 00:31:53,810
I'm beating everybody
in every penitentiary,
642
00:31:53,812 --> 00:31:58,181
and I become the middleweight
State Penitentiary champion.
643
00:32:00,719 --> 00:32:02,786
I fell back in love
with boxing again.
644
00:32:09,728 --> 00:32:11,428
MARK WAHLBERG:
Boxing is the sport
645
00:32:11,430 --> 00:32:14,197
which all others aspire to be.
646
00:32:14,199 --> 00:32:16,600
It's you and another guy,
and who wants it more,
647
00:32:16,602 --> 00:32:18,869
and who's got the heart, and
the will, and the desire,
648
00:32:18,871 --> 00:32:21,605
but it comes down to
a lot more than that.
649
00:32:21,607 --> 00:32:24,641
GEORGE WILLIS: The best
combat is man against man.
650
00:32:24,643 --> 00:32:27,644
I mean, since Roman
times, the gladiators.
651
00:32:27,646 --> 00:32:31,114
It's human nature for people
to compete against each other.
652
00:32:31,116 --> 00:32:34,051
AL BERNSTEIN: Sometimes I feel
so guilty I'm a boxing fan.
653
00:32:34,053 --> 00:32:37,054
I know on one level,
I'm not supposed
654
00:32:37,056 --> 00:32:39,256
to really be enjoying
what I'm watching.
655
00:32:39,258 --> 00:32:43,593
And yet on another, I
can't control myself.
656
00:32:43,595 --> 00:32:44,494
LOU DIBELLA: We're violent.
657
00:32:44,496 --> 00:32:45,562
We're animals.
658
00:32:45,564 --> 00:32:47,397
Like any other animal,
there's a release
659
00:32:47,399 --> 00:32:49,700
of aggression that
comes with fighting.
660
00:32:49,702 --> 00:32:50,834
There's a drama to it.
661
00:32:50,836 --> 00:32:52,169
Boxing is theater.
662
00:32:52,171 --> 00:32:54,604
If it's not theater, you're
fucking up in presenting it.
663
00:32:54,606 --> 00:32:57,107
MARY J. BLIGE: To be
ringside, you're like wow.
664
00:32:57,109 --> 00:32:58,575
This is amazing.
665
00:32:58,577 --> 00:33:00,911
The part for me that
stuck was, people
666
00:33:00,913 --> 00:33:02,646
are literally fighting
for their lives.
667
00:33:02,648 --> 00:33:04,481
They're fighting
for their families.
668
00:33:04,483 --> 00:33:07,250
That's the thing
that attracted me.
669
00:33:07,252 --> 00:33:10,420
-It's an ancient, brutal,
some would say barbaric sport,
670
00:33:10,422 --> 00:33:12,622
but there's something
very interesting
671
00:33:12,624 --> 00:33:18,128
about the individuals who choose
to try to perform at that level
672
00:33:18,130 --> 00:33:21,098
and risk what they
risk in the ring.
673
00:33:21,100 --> 00:33:22,332
-It's raw.
674
00:33:22,334 --> 00:33:25,469
It's something that appeals
to our basic instincts
675
00:33:25,471 --> 00:33:28,238
of survival or battle.
676
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:29,973
Nobody else is going
in there with you.
677
00:33:29,975 --> 00:33:31,308
You can't call timeout.
678
00:33:31,310 --> 00:33:33,076
-It's like having
a fight with blood.
679
00:33:33,078 --> 00:33:34,945
A fighter doesn't care
who his opponent is.
680
00:33:34,947 --> 00:33:35,879
He my weight?
681
00:33:35,881 --> 00:33:37,814
Bring him.
682
00:33:37,816 --> 00:33:39,449
LOU DIBELLA: It's a
different mentality.
683
00:33:39,451 --> 00:33:41,985
They're a different breed.
684
00:33:41,987 --> 00:33:44,488
Fighters know what they
have to sacrifice and give
685
00:33:44,490 --> 00:33:48,358
up to try to perfect their game.
686
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:52,796
A fighter learns from
walking through the fire.
687
00:33:52,798 --> 00:33:55,098
ANNOUNCER: Dwight Muhammad
Qawi and Evander Holyfield
688
00:33:55,100 --> 00:33:58,468
in their WBA Junior
Heavyweight Title fight.
689
00:33:58,470 --> 00:33:59,803
And of course, you
remember Holyfield
690
00:33:59,805 --> 00:34:01,671
with the controversial
bronze medal
691
00:34:01,673 --> 00:34:03,473
at the Olympic games
in Los Angeles.
692
00:34:03,475 --> 00:34:05,842
Since then, 11
successful pro bouts.
693
00:34:05,844 --> 00:34:08,345
Is 11 enough for going
up against someone
694
00:34:08,347 --> 00:34:10,313
of the experience of Qawi.
695
00:34:10,315 --> 00:34:11,314
[ding]
696
00:34:11,316 --> 00:34:12,549
The bell rings and
this is round one.
697
00:34:12,551 --> 00:34:14,217
ANNOUNCER: And one of
Evander's biggest challenges
698
00:34:14,219 --> 00:34:16,887
here is going to be overcoming
the psychological barrier
699
00:34:16,889 --> 00:34:18,688
of going 15 rounds
for the first time.
700
00:34:24,963 --> 00:34:27,330
LOU DIBELLA: Just keeping your
hands up for three minutes
701
00:34:27,332 --> 00:34:31,668
and moving around the ring is
tremendous exertion physically.
702
00:34:31,670 --> 00:34:36,540
But running around for 15
rounds, three minutes a round,
703
00:34:36,542 --> 00:34:39,376
throwing punches at a guy who's
trying to hurt you, and getting
704
00:34:39,378 --> 00:34:42,913
hit while it's all going on,
there's just nothing like it.
705
00:34:42,915 --> 00:34:43,713
ANNOUNCER: Qawi.
706
00:34:43,715 --> 00:34:45,148
Holyfield is going for it.
707
00:34:45,150 --> 00:34:48,518
He doesn't wanna go 15 rounds.
708
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:52,189
He's only in round three and
he's using so much energy.
709
00:34:52,191 --> 00:34:56,660
Qawi breathing very heavily,
but he is relentless.
710
00:34:56,662 --> 00:34:59,129
A left and a right
combination again.
711
00:34:59,131 --> 00:35:01,098
Boy, that combo has
worked well for Holyfield,
712
00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:04,101
but now a big left right
left coming back from Qawi.
713
00:35:04,103 --> 00:35:07,571
Holyfield, back against
the ropes and sliding away.
714
00:35:07,573 --> 00:35:12,042
Qawi's slipping an awful
lot of those punches out.
715
00:35:12,044 --> 00:35:14,511
He missed about 10
consecutive punches.
716
00:35:14,513 --> 00:35:17,481
Qawi got underneath almost
every punch from Holyfield
717
00:35:17,483 --> 00:35:19,916
and came back and landed
punches of his own.
718
00:35:19,918 --> 00:35:20,884
You saw the smiling shrug.
719
00:35:20,886 --> 00:35:23,019
And that is
demoralizing to Evander.
720
00:35:23,021 --> 00:35:25,989
He built up some
energy for a flurry
721
00:35:25,991 --> 00:35:27,991
and he got nothing out of it.
722
00:35:27,993 --> 00:35:29,960
Just watching
these two go at it,
723
00:35:29,962 --> 00:35:32,462
there's no way that I could
imagine this one going 15.
724
00:35:34,967 --> 00:35:37,000
EVANDER HOLYFIELD:
Whatever I hit him with,
725
00:35:37,002 --> 00:35:41,738
that guy never stopped coming.
726
00:35:41,740 --> 00:35:43,073
ANNOUNCER: Now
we're really going
727
00:35:43,075 --> 00:35:46,309
to get to see what kind of
shape Evander Holyfield is in.
728
00:35:46,311 --> 00:35:48,879
He's only been to eight
rounds once in his career.
729
00:35:48,881 --> 00:35:51,882
Evander Holyfield started
this fight very fast.
730
00:35:51,884 --> 00:35:53,483
Won the first round in
convincing and impressive
731
00:35:53,485 --> 00:35:54,818
fashion.
732
00:35:54,820 --> 00:35:57,053
But the grabs have gotten
closer and closer since then.
733
00:35:57,055 --> 00:36:01,825
Perspiration flying off the face
of Holyfield as Qawi gets in.
734
00:36:01,827 --> 00:36:04,194
And he looks a little
slower and slower
735
00:36:04,196 --> 00:36:06,897
as this fight moves along.
736
00:36:06,899 --> 00:36:10,100
EVANDER HOLYFIELD: When
somebody's breathing on you,
737
00:36:10,102 --> 00:36:13,503
and they have the right to hit
you just as the right you have
738
00:36:13,505 --> 00:36:16,306
to hit them, they become
the toughest thing.
739
00:36:16,308 --> 00:36:19,809
ANNOUNCER: A right left,
right left combo to Holyfield!
740
00:36:19,811 --> 00:36:20,944
Holyfield is staggering!
741
00:36:20,946 --> 00:36:22,279
ANNOUNCER: He's gotta be
feeling hurt right now!
742
00:36:22,281 --> 00:36:24,014
ANNOUNCER: This is
just trench warfare.
743
00:36:24,016 --> 00:36:25,549
Right now, Dwight
Qawi is winning it.
744
00:36:25,551 --> 00:36:26,683
ANNOUNCER: The
question is, who's
745
00:36:26,685 --> 00:36:27,784
gonna get their
second wind first?
746
00:36:30,589 --> 00:36:33,623
EVANDER HOLYFIELD: And
just like somebody putting
747
00:36:33,625 --> 00:36:36,993
a mask over your head and put
your hands behind your back
748
00:36:36,995 --> 00:36:39,796
and throw you out into
the middle of the ocean,
749
00:36:39,798 --> 00:36:43,600
that's how tough this fight was.
750
00:36:43,602 --> 00:36:48,138
ANNOUNCER: Round 11 Evander
Holyfield's never gone this far
751
00:36:48,140 --> 00:36:53,143
in his professional career,
or in his career period.
752
00:36:53,145 --> 00:36:56,646
Goes for the head, and
a big, powerful right,
753
00:36:56,648 --> 00:36:58,148
the likes of which
we haven't seen
754
00:36:58,150 --> 00:37:00,483
from Holyfield in a few rounds.
755
00:37:00,485 --> 00:37:02,419
ANNOUNCER: I'm a little bit
surprised that Evander has been
756
00:37:02,421 --> 00:37:04,554
able to hang in there
as well as he did.
757
00:37:04,556 --> 00:37:06,523
He tired a little bit,
but he's come back
758
00:37:06,525 --> 00:37:08,024
and he's very much in the fight.
759
00:37:08,026 --> 00:37:10,026
ANNOUNCER: Qawi's
eyes are blood red.
760
00:37:10,028 --> 00:37:12,028
He has taken numerous shots.
761
00:37:12,030 --> 00:37:14,030
ANNOUNCER: Breathing
very, very heavily.
762
00:37:14,032 --> 00:37:16,032
Bloody in the mouth.
763
00:37:16,034 --> 00:37:18,001
Evander has a tremendous heart.
764
00:37:18,003 --> 00:37:21,004
It's a burning intensity.
765
00:37:21,006 --> 00:37:23,006
ANNOUNCER: As these two
try to chip away and chip
766
00:37:23,008 --> 00:37:25,008
away at the stamina
of each other.
767
00:37:25,010 --> 00:37:26,710
ANNOUNCER: Both men showing
unbelievable courage
768
00:37:26,712 --> 00:37:27,510
and determination.
769
00:37:31,016 --> 00:37:33,717
EVANDER HOLYFIELD: I lost
15 pounds in that fight.
770
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,519
They were talking about
my kidneys were messed up.
771
00:37:36,521 --> 00:37:39,122
All I wanted to do is not die.
772
00:37:39,124 --> 00:37:41,024
ANNOUNCER: Holyfield's
eyes have that fire.
773
00:37:41,026 --> 00:37:42,726
ANNOUNCER: He is officially
a professional fighter.
774
00:37:42,728 --> 00:37:46,596
He can go these 14, and he will
be able to go the 15 rounds.
775
00:37:46,598 --> 00:37:48,832
ANNOUNCER: Dwight Muhammad
Qawi who yesterday called
776
00:37:48,834 --> 00:37:51,534
Evander Holyfield
mediocre would not
777
00:37:51,536 --> 00:37:53,937
be saying that to us right now.
778
00:37:53,939 --> 00:37:54,904
[dinging]
779
00:37:54,906 --> 00:37:56,373
ANNOUNCER: And there's
the final bell!
780
00:37:59,778 --> 00:38:01,511
-I didn't die.
781
00:38:01,513 --> 00:38:03,880
I made it to the
land, and then they
782
00:38:03,882 --> 00:38:06,616
gave me a bonus by
giving me the belt.
783
00:38:06,618 --> 00:38:09,819
ANNOUNCER: For the winner and
new junior heavyweight champion
784
00:38:09,821 --> 00:38:12,055
of the world, Evander Holyfield!
785
00:38:17,529 --> 00:38:18,995
EVANDER HOLYFIELD:
After that, I was
786
00:38:18,997 --> 00:38:20,363
the light heavyweight champion.
787
00:38:20,365 --> 00:38:21,498
But my goal.
788
00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:22,599
I never forgot it.
789
00:38:22,601 --> 00:38:24,801
My goal was to be the
heavyweight champion
790
00:38:24,803 --> 00:38:26,369
of the world.
791
00:38:26,371 --> 00:38:28,738
-Evander Holyfield started
as light heavyweight, which
792
00:38:28,740 --> 00:38:31,775
is, you know, kinda
like being the vice
793
00:38:31,777 --> 00:38:33,743
president of the United States.
794
00:38:33,745 --> 00:38:38,848
It's-- It's not-- You don't
get a lot of attention.
795
00:38:38,850 --> 00:38:43,053
-When you talk about
boxing, for most people,
796
00:38:43,055 --> 00:38:45,188
you're talking about the
heavyweight division.
797
00:38:45,190 --> 00:38:48,358
The heavyweight champion
of the world is an icon.
798
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,727
ANNOUNCER: This is the
event of the night.
799
00:38:50,729 --> 00:38:54,698
The WBC championship
of the world.
800
00:38:54,700 --> 00:39:01,004
In the blue corner, with 27
wins, no defeats, 25 KOs,
801
00:39:01,006 --> 00:39:05,709
he is the challenger,
Mike Tyson!
802
00:39:05,711 --> 00:39:11,014
And in the red corner, he is
the WBC heavyweight champion
803
00:39:11,016 --> 00:39:14,250
of the world, Trevor Berbick.
804
00:39:17,255 --> 00:39:20,223
MILLS LANE: Any questions from
the challenger or chief second?
805
00:39:20,225 --> 00:39:21,358
-No, we're cool.
806
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,226
-Any question the
champion or chief second?
807
00:39:23,228 --> 00:39:24,394
All right, let's get it on!
808
00:39:24,396 --> 00:39:25,695
Come on.
ANNOUNCER: All right.
809
00:39:25,697 --> 00:39:27,197
And with the word of
Mills Lane, we're ready.
810
00:39:27,199 --> 00:39:29,366
I don't know about you folks,
but here at the Hilton Hotel,
811
00:39:29,368 --> 00:39:31,167
there is electricity
in the crowd.
812
00:39:31,169 --> 00:39:34,170
Mike Tyson has trained
his whole life for this.
813
00:39:34,172 --> 00:39:37,173
And let's watch how quick Tyson
will jump on Trevor Berbick.
814
00:39:37,175 --> 00:39:39,142
You get the idea
now that Berbick
815
00:39:39,144 --> 00:39:41,644
is showing a little
bravado here.
816
00:39:41,646 --> 00:39:44,147
And Tyson clubs him
with the left hand.
817
00:39:44,149 --> 00:39:45,115
Look at this!
818
00:39:45,117 --> 00:39:46,316
Combination!
819
00:39:46,318 --> 00:39:48,618
And Berbick ready to go,
but he stays on his feet.
820
00:39:48,620 --> 00:39:50,120
Another right hand clips him.
821
00:39:50,122 --> 00:39:52,589
He can't take shots
like this very long.
822
00:39:52,591 --> 00:39:54,591
And he gets [inaudible],
and he's done!
823
00:39:54,593 --> 00:39:56,593
As he stands right
up, the count's
824
00:39:56,595 --> 00:39:59,062
to four, and five,
and six, and seven,
825
00:39:59,064 --> 00:40:00,764
and eight, and he says he's OK.
826
00:40:00,766 --> 00:40:01,865
-All right?
827
00:40:01,867 --> 00:40:04,067
ANNOUNCER: Mills Lane
let's them continue.
828
00:40:04,069 --> 00:40:05,535
In comes Tyson again.
829
00:40:05,537 --> 00:40:07,036
He knows he can
hurt him any time.
830
00:40:07,038 --> 00:40:09,038
Catches him with a right
left hook, and he goes down!
831
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:10,073
He goes down!
832
00:40:10,075 --> 00:40:12,008
He should be able
to get up from this.
833
00:40:12,010 --> 00:40:13,209
His legs maybe shot.
834
00:40:13,211 --> 00:40:14,277
They are!
835
00:40:14,279 --> 00:40:16,513
As Trevor Berbick falls
back in the ropes,
836
00:40:16,515 --> 00:40:18,481
I don't know if he's
gonna be able to continue!
837
00:40:18,483 --> 00:40:20,750
He's got the heart,
but his body won't
838
00:40:20,752 --> 00:40:22,986
let him do what
his mind wants to.
839
00:40:22,988 --> 00:40:24,954
And he's counted out.
840
00:40:24,956 --> 00:40:26,456
It's all over.
841
00:40:26,458 --> 00:40:28,658
We've got a brand new
heavyweight champion
842
00:40:28,660 --> 00:40:29,459
of the world.
843
00:40:29,461 --> 00:40:30,460
Mike Tyson!
844
00:40:34,433 --> 00:40:38,034
MIKE TYSON: That was the most
exciting moment of my life.
845
00:40:38,036 --> 00:40:40,503
People patting me on the back
and saying, wow, you're great.
846
00:40:40,505 --> 00:40:41,938
I never saw anybody
like you before.
847
00:40:41,940 --> 00:40:43,840
It was incredible.
848
00:40:43,842 --> 00:40:47,177
How am I gonna articulate this?
849
00:40:47,179 --> 00:40:50,013
All I did about being
the champion and stuff,
850
00:40:50,015 --> 00:40:51,614
this is very serious,
since I was 13.
851
00:40:51,616 --> 00:40:53,483
This isn't be like,
hey, we're gonna
852
00:40:53,485 --> 00:40:54,717
box and get some trophies, guys.
853
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,019
No.
854
00:40:56,021 --> 00:40:57,921
Our purpose is to win and
win in spectacular fashion.
855
00:40:57,923 --> 00:41:00,924
[MUSIC PUBLIC ENEMY, "WELCOME TO
THE TERRORDOME"]
856
00:41:08,934 --> 00:41:10,366
CURTIS JACKSON: Mike
did something special.
857
00:41:10,368 --> 00:41:13,736
He convinced me that no man
on the planet could beat him.
858
00:41:13,738 --> 00:41:15,071
You could get up and
go to the bathroom,
859
00:41:15,073 --> 00:41:16,840
come back, the
fucking fight over.
860
00:41:16,842 --> 00:41:18,508
NAAZIM RICHARDSON: Mike
got a bad rep in the sense
861
00:41:18,510 --> 00:41:21,678
that people concentrated
on intimidation.
862
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:22,879
The only way you're
intimidated is
863
00:41:22,881 --> 00:41:25,248
because you seen
him do something.
864
00:41:25,250 --> 00:41:27,784
When you see somebody
knock out 22 other people,
865
00:41:27,786 --> 00:41:30,687
yeah, the 23rd guy may
be a little intimidated.
866
00:41:30,689 --> 00:41:33,590
LOU DIBELLA: He was
unstoppable force of nature.
867
00:41:33,592 --> 00:41:36,326
I mean, I still in my head
have visions of Welcome
868
00:41:36,328 --> 00:41:38,795
to the Terrordome being
played where Tyson was walking
869
00:41:38,797 --> 00:41:41,431
into the ring twitching
with no socks on,
870
00:41:41,433 --> 00:41:43,399
and the guy standing
in the ring looked
871
00:41:43,401 --> 00:41:44,501
like he was shitting his pants.
872
00:41:47,038 --> 00:41:49,372
-Don King told him, every
time that you knock somebody
873
00:41:49,374 --> 00:41:52,242
out in the first round, I
give you $100,000 in cash.
874
00:41:52,244 --> 00:41:54,210
ANNOUNCER: And he's down again.
875
00:41:54,212 --> 00:41:56,179
ANNOUNCER: He's not
going to make it.
876
00:41:56,181 --> 00:41:58,548
It's all over.
877
00:41:58,550 --> 00:42:01,484
MARK WAHLBERG: First big fight
I went to was a Tyson fight,
878
00:42:01,486 --> 00:42:03,253
and there was nothing
more exciting than that.
879
00:42:03,255 --> 00:42:05,655
-He put on a show.
880
00:42:05,657 --> 00:42:08,525
When the lights came on, Mike
just knew, this is my moment.
881
00:42:08,527 --> 00:42:10,760
Everybody's watching
me right now.
882
00:42:10,762 --> 00:42:11,661
-It was crazy in there.
883
00:42:11,663 --> 00:42:12,529
Just great energy.
884
00:42:12,531 --> 00:42:13,930
Unbelievable energy.
885
00:42:13,932 --> 00:42:15,431
CRAIG JONES: Every time we'd get
home, Mike said, well who came?
886
00:42:15,433 --> 00:42:16,566
How did they look like?
887
00:42:16,568 --> 00:42:19,469
He just wanted to know,
what was the crowd like.
888
00:42:19,471 --> 00:42:21,104
And it's hard to
explain it to him.
889
00:42:21,106 --> 00:42:23,439
You see Eddie Murphy,
you see Donald Trump.
890
00:42:23,441 --> 00:42:26,209
You see so many big
people in the audience.
891
00:42:26,211 --> 00:42:28,945
Like, if you was in that
front three or four rows,
892
00:42:28,947 --> 00:42:30,346
you were somebody.
893
00:42:30,348 --> 00:42:32,549
-Tyson was superhuman.
894
00:42:32,551 --> 00:42:35,318
He represented our culture.
895
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:36,586
He represented who we were.
896
00:42:36,588 --> 00:42:37,820
Mike Tyson was a phenom.
897
00:42:37,822 --> 00:42:39,289
Everybody heard about him.
898
00:42:39,291 --> 00:42:42,659
-Mike Tyson represents in the
community the American dream,
899
00:42:42,661 --> 00:42:46,162
that anybody can make it if
they have the determination.
900
00:42:46,164 --> 00:42:47,397
MIKE TYSON: Cus put
me in the mindset
901
00:42:47,399 --> 00:42:48,898
that there's no
room for everybody.
902
00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:50,466
I need to suck all the air.
903
00:42:50,468 --> 00:42:52,001
I need to reign with gods.
904
00:42:52,003 --> 00:42:54,037
REPORTER: Do you ever
stop to think about money?
905
00:42:54,039 --> 00:42:55,538
MIKE TYSON: The stage
of thinking about money
906
00:42:55,540 --> 00:42:56,639
is far gone.
907
00:42:56,641 --> 00:42:58,608
I don't have to worry
about that no more.
908
00:42:58,610 --> 00:42:59,842
I'm just having fun.
909
00:42:59,844 --> 00:43:03,746
-They were able to sell
Mike Tyson very effectively.
910
00:43:03,748 --> 00:43:06,783
He delivered, of course, because
he scored all these knock outs,
911
00:43:06,785 --> 00:43:09,586
and you got this
feeling of caged fury.
912
00:43:09,588 --> 00:43:13,656
-In our era, what would boxing
have been without Mike Tyson?
913
00:43:13,658 --> 00:43:15,158
Could you say it would've
been this exciting?
914
00:43:18,163 --> 00:43:21,664
After Ali, people
stopped liking boxing.
915
00:43:21,666 --> 00:43:26,135
It don't bother me to say
that I was in the right time,
916
00:43:26,137 --> 00:43:27,403
with Tyson.
917
00:43:27,405 --> 00:43:32,308
That's when the fire came
back in the game of boxing.
918
00:43:32,310 --> 00:43:35,011
BERNARD HOPKINS: When
Tyson came in the game,
919
00:43:35,013 --> 00:43:39,248
boxing became one
of the most popular,
920
00:43:39,250 --> 00:43:43,486
if not the popular sport
outside the walls of Graterford.
921
00:43:43,488 --> 00:43:45,154
We used to watch fights on ABC.
922
00:43:45,156 --> 00:43:48,091
We used to watch fights on ESPN.
923
00:43:48,093 --> 00:43:51,728
Alexis Arguello and the
fighters that was hot.
924
00:43:51,730 --> 00:43:53,896
And I'm like, yo.
925
00:43:53,898 --> 00:43:54,998
I can beat these guys.
926
00:44:01,606 --> 00:44:10,413
For myself to come out and be
paroled to a halfway house,
927
00:44:10,415 --> 00:44:15,184
I said to myself, I
gotta make boxing work.
928
00:44:15,186 --> 00:44:19,722
I knew that this is the only
thing that I had to gamble.
929
00:44:24,562 --> 00:44:27,597
-Most guys go back when
you're in that situation.
930
00:44:27,599 --> 00:44:29,465
When they lock you up
when you're like 17,
931
00:44:29,467 --> 00:44:31,567
and you get out when
you're like 23, 24,
932
00:44:31,569 --> 00:44:34,303
now you're thrown
into the adult world
933
00:44:34,305 --> 00:44:37,774
with no job skills, nothing
but a record on your back.
934
00:44:37,776 --> 00:44:40,410
Plus, little guy you
seen on your block,
935
00:44:40,412 --> 00:44:43,846
he comes past you in a brand
new car with a gold chain
936
00:44:43,848 --> 00:44:45,915
big enough for you to
see your reflection in.
937
00:44:45,917 --> 00:44:47,517
That's hard to deal with.
938
00:44:47,519 --> 00:44:50,219
-When you go away, if you come
back into the same environment,
939
00:44:50,221 --> 00:44:52,855
around the same circumstances,
around the same people
940
00:44:52,857 --> 00:44:55,058
that you're comfortable
making these decisions around,
941
00:44:55,060 --> 00:44:58,628
and you have influences that
make things easy for you to be
942
00:44:58,630 --> 00:45:02,832
in a bad situation,
temptation is great.
943
00:45:02,834 --> 00:45:06,102
It's the same if you're trying
not to be involved with drugs.
944
00:45:06,104 --> 00:45:07,637
REPORTER: Because
of its low price,
945
00:45:07,639 --> 00:45:11,307
crack permeates the country,
especially the inner cities.
946
00:45:11,309 --> 00:45:14,844
-When the crack came into
and flooded the streets,
947
00:45:14,846 --> 00:45:18,014
it was just hard to say no.
948
00:45:18,016 --> 00:45:20,216
The crack era
affected everybody.
949
00:45:20,218 --> 00:45:23,186
If you lived in that
area where they sold it,
950
00:45:23,188 --> 00:45:25,321
you were going to be involved.
951
00:45:25,323 --> 00:45:26,656
-You're looking at
your environment
952
00:45:26,658 --> 00:45:27,724
and no one's helping you.
953
00:45:27,726 --> 00:45:29,025
No one's doing anything.
954
00:45:29,027 --> 00:45:30,993
Just feeding you the drugs,
feeding you the alcohol,
955
00:45:30,995 --> 00:45:32,762
feeding you the
negative comments.
956
00:45:32,764 --> 00:45:35,465
They're doing exactly what
was done to you as a child,
957
00:45:35,467 --> 00:45:37,700
so you have to shift and
change your environment.
958
00:45:37,702 --> 00:45:38,501
Do something.
959
00:45:38,503 --> 00:45:40,136
Change something.
960
00:45:40,138 --> 00:45:41,871
NAAZIM RICHARDSON: For
Bernard to not violate parole
961
00:45:41,873 --> 00:45:44,907
during that era, during that
time, was the most impressive
962
00:45:44,909 --> 00:45:46,309
to me.
963
00:45:46,311 --> 00:45:50,046
He dealt with it, he came home,
he was able to move forward.
964
00:45:50,048 --> 00:45:52,081
He realized it wasn't
the life for him.
965
00:45:52,083 --> 00:45:54,150
He was gonna make sure it
wouldn't happen to him.
966
00:45:54,152 --> 00:45:58,321
-How can I beat the system?
967
00:45:58,323 --> 00:45:59,122
I fought.
968
00:45:59,124 --> 00:46:00,423
I worked.
969
00:46:00,425 --> 00:46:01,457
I worked in a kitchen.
970
00:46:01,459 --> 00:46:03,726
I worked on landscaping.
971
00:46:03,728 --> 00:46:04,594
I did roofing.
972
00:46:04,596 --> 00:46:07,296
I found some new people.
973
00:46:07,298 --> 00:46:09,532
Those new people
got me into boxing
974
00:46:09,534 --> 00:46:12,401
as far as on the business side.
975
00:46:12,403 --> 00:46:14,904
I was the only fighter
to my knowledge
976
00:46:14,906 --> 00:46:20,209
to take a team of trainers
and go to Graterford,
977
00:46:20,211 --> 00:46:26,682
and train and use that
environment to remind me
978
00:46:26,684 --> 00:46:29,585
where I came from.
979
00:46:29,587 --> 00:46:31,788
AL BERNSTEIN: I think it
speaks volumes about Bernard
980
00:46:31,790 --> 00:46:36,793
and how he looks at life
that he went back to prison
981
00:46:36,795 --> 00:46:40,630
with his team, looked at
the situation, and know,
982
00:46:40,632 --> 00:46:44,367
this is what I do not
want to fall back into.
983
00:46:44,369 --> 00:46:45,668
-There were athletes
who came along
984
00:46:45,670 --> 00:46:47,637
who had better
talent than Bernard.
985
00:46:47,639 --> 00:46:48,771
There were athletes
who came along
986
00:46:48,773 --> 00:46:51,674
who had better positions,
better situations.
987
00:46:51,676 --> 00:46:55,411
His discipline
has set him apart.
988
00:46:55,413 --> 00:46:56,846
ANNOUNCER: And the
new IBF middleweight
989
00:46:56,848 --> 00:47:00,516
champion of the world,
Barnard Hopkins!
990
00:47:05,456 --> 00:47:08,691
BERNARD HOPKINS: I won
my first title in 1994.
991
00:47:08,693 --> 00:47:12,795
From there, I went on to defend
the middleweight championship
992
00:47:12,797 --> 00:47:14,797
for 11 years.
993
00:47:14,799 --> 00:47:17,733
ANNOUNCER: Oscar de
la Hoya is knocked out
994
00:47:17,735 --> 00:47:22,171
by a left hook to the
liver by Bernard Hopkins.
995
00:47:25,076 --> 00:47:26,209
NAAZIM RICHARDSON:
Bernard Hopkins
996
00:47:26,211 --> 00:47:28,177
is our Ray Robinson of this era.
997
00:47:28,179 --> 00:47:30,646
Those guys were cut
from a different cloth.
998
00:47:30,648 --> 00:47:31,881
The ones who could sustain.
999
00:47:31,883 --> 00:47:35,251
ANNOUNCER: Tonight you
have witnessed history.
1000
00:47:35,253 --> 00:47:36,953
Boxing's ageless warrior.
1001
00:47:36,955 --> 00:47:38,354
Bernard Hopkins!
1002
00:47:43,428 --> 00:47:47,930
-He became the oldest fighter to
win a world title, at an age 48
1003
00:47:47,932 --> 00:47:52,134
when it's almost impossible to
imagine a fighter doing this.
1004
00:47:52,136 --> 00:47:53,536
NAAZIM RICHARDSON:
Bernard walked and kept
1005
00:47:53,538 --> 00:47:56,672
that middleweight weight
for 20 title defenses.
1006
00:47:56,674 --> 00:47:58,908
20 title defenses.
1007
00:47:58,910 --> 00:48:00,843
That's gonna be a
hard record to break.
1008
00:48:00,845 --> 00:48:03,145
-He's just always represented
a hungry fighter that's
1009
00:48:03,147 --> 00:48:06,215
dedicated and put
in a lot of work.
1010
00:48:06,217 --> 00:48:10,019
You can just tell he didn't
get anything handed to him.
1011
00:48:10,021 --> 00:48:12,455
-Bernard Hopkins, to me,
is a testament to the fact
1012
00:48:12,457 --> 00:48:16,792
that anyone can
reshape their thinking,
1013
00:48:16,794 --> 00:48:19,929
can reshape their
life, and continue
1014
00:48:19,931 --> 00:48:22,064
to live that reshaped life.
1015
00:48:22,066 --> 00:48:25,501
The Bernard Hopkins that
I've known all these years
1016
00:48:25,503 --> 00:48:28,337
and the man who
resurrected his life
1017
00:48:28,339 --> 00:48:32,541
is an absolute pillar
of self discipline.
1018
00:48:32,543 --> 00:48:36,746
-What saved me was knowing
that I can do this, and to be
1019
00:48:36,748 --> 00:48:38,114
able to do this
in a penitentiary.
1020
00:48:40,685 --> 00:48:43,486
Those stages are
critical, for me.
1021
00:48:43,488 --> 00:48:45,254
To be able to come
through that era
1022
00:48:45,256 --> 00:48:49,158
and come through that
time with the scars,
1023
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:53,529
but I used it to motivate
me in a different way.
1024
00:48:53,531 --> 00:48:56,899
It took time to get there.
1025
00:48:56,901 --> 00:48:58,701
-Bernard Hopkins is very
lucky to have boxing
1026
00:48:58,703 --> 00:48:59,835
and to capitalize on it.
1027
00:48:59,837 --> 00:49:01,871
He had it, and then he
took advantage of it.
1028
00:49:01,873 --> 00:49:05,408
People who don't have those
options, it gets very bleak.
1029
00:49:05,410 --> 00:49:07,109
We've cut back on a lot of
the educational options,
1030
00:49:07,111 --> 00:49:08,611
we've cut back on a
lot of the facilities,
1031
00:49:08,613 --> 00:49:10,446
we've cut back on
time out in the yard.
1032
00:49:10,448 --> 00:49:12,915
We've cut back on spots.
1033
00:49:12,917 --> 00:49:14,383
BERNARD HOPKINS:
Energized inmates
1034
00:49:14,385 --> 00:49:16,819
use their energy in
the right direction
1035
00:49:16,821 --> 00:49:18,654
by going to the boxing circle.
1036
00:49:18,656 --> 00:49:24,160
It releases energy
that won't be released
1037
00:49:24,162 --> 00:49:28,464
on authority or
on other inmates.
1038
00:49:28,466 --> 00:49:31,067
-Those kinds of
programs are no longer
1039
00:49:31,069 --> 00:49:33,569
available in today's prisons.
1040
00:49:33,571 --> 00:49:36,339
Today's prisons are
more about punishment
1041
00:49:36,341 --> 00:49:40,076
rather than recognizing the
mistakes individuals may have
1042
00:49:40,078 --> 00:49:44,313
made and helping
them grow from them.
1043
00:49:44,315 --> 00:49:46,782
JOHN PFAFF: Sometimes we
completely perverse things.
1044
00:49:46,784 --> 00:49:48,985
In New York state, at least,
the single most popular training
1045
00:49:48,987 --> 00:49:50,886
program in prison
is barber school.
1046
00:49:50,888 --> 00:49:52,121
So you have thousands
of men training
1047
00:49:52,123 --> 00:49:54,156
to be barbers in prison.
1048
00:49:54,158 --> 00:49:56,792
It's actually giving them a job
to do while they're in prison,
1049
00:49:56,794 --> 00:49:58,194
providing actually
a useful skill
1050
00:49:58,196 --> 00:49:59,595
they can use on
the outside, only
1051
00:49:59,597 --> 00:50:00,830
they're not allowed
to use it at all.
1052
00:50:00,832 --> 00:50:03,332
People on parole,
ex-felons, can't be barbers.
1053
00:50:03,334 --> 00:50:04,867
Blanket ban for licensing.
1054
00:50:04,869 --> 00:50:07,003
Once you get into that system,
we're actually setting you up
1055
00:50:07,005 --> 00:50:09,171
even more to fail down the line.
1056
00:50:09,173 --> 00:50:11,107
They just keep making
it tougher and tougher,
1057
00:50:11,109 --> 00:50:13,442
and then shaking their heads in
disappointment when they fail,
1058
00:50:13,444 --> 00:50:16,145
and making it tougher still.
1059
00:50:16,147 --> 00:50:18,681
DAVID LEONARD: Activist
Angela Davis describes prisons
1060
00:50:18,683 --> 00:50:21,417
as this place where
we don't make problems
1061
00:50:21,419 --> 00:50:23,819
disappear, we make
people disappear.
1062
00:50:23,821 --> 00:50:27,957
We want to think of ourselves
as never making mistakes,
1063
00:50:27,959 --> 00:50:31,394
and so when confronted with
individuals who make mistakes,
1064
00:50:31,396 --> 00:50:32,695
we're forced to
look in the mirror.
1065
00:50:40,071 --> 00:50:41,871
LOU DIBELLA: Muhammad
Ali in his prime
1066
00:50:41,873 --> 00:50:44,106
was served by his character.
1067
00:50:44,108 --> 00:50:46,442
Mike Tyson didn't
have that character.
1068
00:50:46,444 --> 00:50:49,345
He had tremendous ferocity,
tremendous ability, god given
1069
00:50:49,347 --> 00:50:51,113
strength, but the
people around him
1070
00:50:51,115 --> 00:50:53,616
weren't encouraging him
to develop character.
1071
00:50:53,618 --> 00:50:57,553
They were enabling him, in a
lot of ways, to destroy himself.
1072
00:50:57,555 --> 00:50:59,255
GEORGE WILLIS: His
only real mentors
1073
00:50:59,257 --> 00:51:02,124
were his managers
and his trainers.
1074
00:51:02,126 --> 00:51:04,460
They weren't really
trying to teach him
1075
00:51:04,462 --> 00:51:08,931
a lot of social skills other
than how to deal with media.
1076
00:51:08,933 --> 00:51:12,268
LARRY SLOMAN: People treat you
differently when you're famous.
1077
00:51:12,270 --> 00:51:15,805
Fame really distorts your
own perception of yourself.
1078
00:51:15,807 --> 00:51:17,239
-Just think.
1079
00:51:17,241 --> 00:51:19,108
Anybody in this
planet with 6 billion
1080
00:51:19,110 --> 00:51:22,144
people-- 6 billion right?
1081
00:51:22,146 --> 00:51:23,979
Anybody in this
planet, you could
1082
00:51:23,981 --> 00:51:26,649
beat them in a fair fight.
1083
00:51:26,651 --> 00:51:30,252
You tell me how
that'd feed your ego.
1084
00:51:30,254 --> 00:51:31,387
LARRY SLOMAN: He
starts buying all
1085
00:51:31,389 --> 00:51:32,888
these incredible sports cars.
1086
00:51:32,890 --> 00:51:35,958
He buys Bentleys, he
buys Rolls Royces,
1087
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,427
and he starts buying
these mansions,
1088
00:51:38,429 --> 00:51:40,629
and of course, it's
conspicuous consumption.
1089
00:51:40,631 --> 00:51:44,533
He's showing the world,
look how far he's come.
1090
00:51:44,535 --> 00:51:47,436
MIKE TYSON: My life only
existed through accomplishments.
1091
00:51:47,438 --> 00:51:49,371
You win this, you get this car.
1092
00:51:49,373 --> 00:51:50,639
You when this, you get this.
1093
00:51:50,641 --> 00:51:52,575
You win this, you get that.
1094
00:51:52,577 --> 00:51:54,243
BERNARD HOPKINS: And you
have that much money,
1095
00:51:54,245 --> 00:51:56,846
everything's possible.
1096
00:51:56,848 --> 00:51:58,414
SPIKE LEE: The media
was creating this image,
1097
00:51:58,416 --> 00:52:00,950
but Mike was helping
them with the image
1098
00:52:00,952 --> 00:52:03,018
that he was just a
savage, a wild man.
1099
00:52:03,020 --> 00:52:04,954
MIKE TYSON: I'll fuck you in
your ass, you punk white boy.
1100
00:52:04,956 --> 00:52:08,757
I'll eat your asshole
alive, you bitch.
1101
00:52:08,759 --> 00:52:09,558
I became a megalomaniac.
1102
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:12,094
I thought I was a god.
1103
00:52:12,096 --> 00:52:14,063
If you were old enough, you
may have seen some of my fights
1104
00:52:14,065 --> 00:52:15,731
and some of the things
I said to people
1105
00:52:15,733 --> 00:52:19,668
or said about myself as some
kind of demigod or something.
1106
00:52:19,670 --> 00:52:20,769
I'm a tyrannosaurus, man.
1107
00:52:20,771 --> 00:52:22,371
I'm a tyrannical titan.
1108
00:52:22,373 --> 00:52:23,739
I'm the best ever.
1109
00:52:23,741 --> 00:52:25,074
There's never been
anybody as ruthless.
1110
00:52:25,076 --> 00:52:26,475
That's just the
way I was trained
1111
00:52:26,477 --> 00:52:29,945
to fight to have that
kind of belief system.
1112
00:52:29,947 --> 00:52:32,481
-We all heard those stories of
people that have had nothing
1113
00:52:32,483 --> 00:52:34,817
and then had it all and
didn't know how to handle it.
1114
00:52:34,819 --> 00:52:37,119
It's one thing to be able to
have that drive and that desire
1115
00:52:37,121 --> 00:52:39,555
to become a champion,
but to stay hungry
1116
00:52:39,557 --> 00:52:45,327
when you have that success,
it becomes that much harder.
1117
00:52:45,329 --> 00:52:48,330
AL BERNSTEIN: We think of him
as this monster with huge power.
1118
00:52:48,332 --> 00:52:53,769
And he did have power, but Mike
Tyson was a small heavyweight
1119
00:52:53,771 --> 00:52:58,741
who needed to fight
well to be effective.
1120
00:52:58,743 --> 00:53:01,377
A Mike Tyson that isn't
perfectly conditioned,
1121
00:53:01,379 --> 00:53:04,780
and a Mike Tyson that isn't
fighting the right style,
1122
00:53:04,782 --> 00:53:06,815
he's beatable.
1123
00:53:06,817 --> 00:53:08,884
ANNOUNCER: Please
welcome the challenger,
1124
00:53:08,886 --> 00:53:09,818
James Buster Douglas!
1125
00:53:15,626 --> 00:53:17,826
AL BERNSTEIN: No
one expected Mike
1126
00:53:17,828 --> 00:53:20,162
Tyson to lose to Buster Douglas.
1127
00:53:20,164 --> 00:53:21,830
The odds were astronomical.
1128
00:53:21,832 --> 00:53:26,068
ANNOUNCER: Introducing
the undefeated, undisputed
1129
00:53:26,070 --> 00:53:28,470
heavyweight champion
of the world.
1130
00:53:28,472 --> 00:53:33,008
The one and only
iron Mike Tyson!
1131
00:53:36,113 --> 00:53:38,847
AL BERNSTEIN: It was in Japan,
and most news organizations
1132
00:53:38,849 --> 00:53:41,250
didn't even send anybody
to cover the fight.
1133
00:53:41,252 --> 00:53:42,051
-Larry.
1134
00:53:42,053 --> 00:53:43,419
What are we about to see?
1135
00:53:43,421 --> 00:53:48,023
Another 90 second annihilation
of an ill prepared opponent?
1136
00:53:48,025 --> 00:53:50,459
-Well, in the important
game of expectations,
1137
00:53:50,461 --> 00:53:54,263
this fight is over before it
begins or soon thereafter.
1138
00:53:54,265 --> 00:53:57,266
You have to remember
that just nobody believes
1139
00:53:57,268 --> 00:54:00,069
anybody can compete
with Mike Tyson.
1140
00:54:00,071 --> 00:54:02,905
ANNOUNCER: And there, of
course, is Evander Holyfield
1141
00:54:02,907 --> 00:54:05,507
who has a guarantee
of $12 million
1142
00:54:05,509 --> 00:54:08,010
to fight Mike Tyson in June.
1143
00:54:08,012 --> 00:54:09,411
AL BERNSTEIN: Everyone
was looking forward
1144
00:54:09,413 --> 00:54:11,714
to Mike Tyson fighting
Evander Holyfield.
1145
00:54:11,716 --> 00:54:14,116
I watched the
Douglas Tyson fight
1146
00:54:14,118 --> 00:54:16,085
with Donald Trump
and his executives.
1147
00:54:16,087 --> 00:54:18,687
They were expecting
that Tyson Holyfield
1148
00:54:18,689 --> 00:54:20,589
fight to be on one
of their properties
1149
00:54:20,591 --> 00:54:22,791
and would be a major
event for them.
1150
00:54:22,793 --> 00:54:25,794
LARRY SLOMAN: Mike went
kicking and screaming to Tokyo.
1151
00:54:25,796 --> 00:54:29,398
He thought, I knocked out guys
that beat Buster Douglas, so
1152
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:32,201
why do I have to train
for Buster Douglas.
1153
00:54:32,203 --> 00:54:35,638
So he got there and
he didn't train.
1154
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:42,077
And he instead enjoyed all the
fruits of young Japanese women
1155
00:54:42,079 --> 00:54:43,178
there.
1156
00:54:43,180 --> 00:54:45,681
GEORGE WILLIS: Buster
had nothing to lose,
1157
00:54:45,683 --> 00:54:48,017
and he was training
his heart out.
1158
00:54:48,019 --> 00:54:50,686
Evander saw this
and he knew trouble
1159
00:54:50,688 --> 00:54:51,954
might be on the horizon.
1160
00:54:51,956 --> 00:54:54,390
ANNOUNCER: Douglas is getting
Mike Tyson to reach in.
1161
00:54:54,392 --> 00:54:55,891
When you reach in,
that's what happens.
1162
00:54:55,893 --> 00:54:58,127
ANNOUNCER: That's a good
right hand, and a good right
1163
00:54:58,129 --> 00:55:01,363
uppercut, and two more
good rights by Douglas.
1164
00:55:01,365 --> 00:55:04,833
I don't think I've ever
seen Tyson absorb that kind
1165
00:55:04,835 --> 00:55:07,303
of a four or five
punch combination
1166
00:55:07,305 --> 00:55:09,505
before in his
professional career.
1167
00:55:09,507 --> 00:55:11,974
And he has swelled
up Mike Tyson's eye
1168
00:55:11,976 --> 00:55:15,911
and is dominating
the fight right now.
1169
00:55:15,913 --> 00:55:18,080
AL BERNSTEIN: It was a
perfect storm of events.
1170
00:55:18,082 --> 00:55:21,483
It was Mike Tyson not taking
Buster Douglas as seriously
1171
00:55:21,485 --> 00:55:23,352
as he should have,
and it was Buster
1172
00:55:23,354 --> 00:55:25,454
Douglas preparing
himself correctly.
1173
00:55:25,456 --> 00:55:26,655
ANNOUNCER: Brawling
willingly just
1174
00:55:26,657 --> 00:55:28,924
to try to get in the shot
that will finish things.
1175
00:55:28,926 --> 00:55:30,426
ANNOUNCER: Oh, the uppercut!
1176
00:55:30,428 --> 00:55:32,895
ANNOUNCER: What an uppercut by
Douglas, and down goes Tyson!
1177
00:55:40,271 --> 00:55:43,238
Down goes Tyson.
1178
00:55:43,240 --> 00:55:52,614
-Two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine!
1179
00:55:52,616 --> 00:55:54,083
ANNOUNCER: He's--
Well, it-- It's over!
1180
00:55:54,085 --> 00:55:55,217
ANNOUNCER: It's over!
1181
00:55:55,219 --> 00:55:56,719
ANNOUNCER: Mike Tyson
has been knocked out!
1182
00:55:56,721 --> 00:55:57,519
Unbelievable!
1183
00:56:02,693 --> 00:56:03,992
LOU DIBELLA: There
are a lot of lessons
1184
00:56:03,994 --> 00:56:06,462
fighters learn the hard way.
1185
00:56:06,464 --> 00:56:08,263
Every fighter comes
to know the fact
1186
00:56:08,265 --> 00:56:11,867
that this is an
unforgiving sport.
1187
00:56:11,869 --> 00:56:13,836
ANNOUNCER: And
suddenly, Mike Tyson
1188
00:56:13,838 --> 00:56:17,506
has been reduced to being
another heavyweight champion
1189
00:56:17,508 --> 00:56:21,243
who got defeated.
1190
00:56:21,245 --> 00:56:22,611
LOU DIBELLA: There's
no other sport where
1191
00:56:22,613 --> 00:56:24,780
you can rise and
fall so quickly.
1192
00:56:28,853 --> 00:56:30,753
EVANDER HOLYFIELD: When I
became the heavyweight champion
1193
00:56:30,755 --> 00:56:35,090
of the world for the first
time with Buster Douglas,
1194
00:56:35,092 --> 00:56:37,760
people hated the fact.
1195
00:56:37,762 --> 00:56:39,728
ANNOUNCER: [inaudible]
Holyfield-- right
1196
00:56:39,730 --> 00:56:41,196
hand stuns Douglas!
1197
00:56:41,198 --> 00:56:42,631
ANNOUNCER: Caught him going in!
1198
00:56:42,633 --> 00:56:45,067
He is not going to get up.
1199
00:56:45,069 --> 00:56:48,003
There goes the heavyweight
championship of the world!
1200
00:56:48,005 --> 00:56:50,606
ANNOUNCER: Evander Holyfield
with a third round knock out!
1201
00:56:50,608 --> 00:56:52,808
EVANDER HOLYFIELD: They said,
you can't get no credibility.
1202
00:56:52,810 --> 00:56:55,511
Man, you still ain't the champ.
1203
00:56:55,513 --> 00:56:58,147
You ain't beat Tyson.
1204
00:56:58,149 --> 00:56:59,882
REPORTER: An Indiana
grand jury has indicted
1205
00:56:59,884 --> 00:57:02,418
former heavyweight
boxing champ Mike Tyson.
1206
00:57:02,420 --> 00:57:04,520
He is charged with
raping a woman who
1207
00:57:04,522 --> 00:57:05,954
was a contestant
in this summer's
1208
00:57:05,956 --> 00:57:07,689
Miss Black America pageant.
1209
00:57:07,691 --> 00:57:09,024
REPORTER: Within the
past hour, the jury
1210
00:57:09,026 --> 00:57:10,492
has returned for indictments.
1211
00:57:10,494 --> 00:57:13,796
One for rape, two charges
of criminal deviant conduct,
1212
00:57:13,798 --> 00:57:15,030
and one charge of confinement.
1213
00:57:21,839 --> 00:57:26,041
-If I was in here for something
that I did, it would be easier,
1214
00:57:26,043 --> 00:57:29,445
but just the fact that I'm in
here for something I didn't do
1215
00:57:29,447 --> 00:57:31,747
and I'm innocent,
every day I'm walking
1216
00:57:31,749 --> 00:57:33,081
a thin line through hell.
1217
00:57:33,083 --> 00:57:35,284
I thought prison was
for the rehabilitation
1218
00:57:35,286 --> 00:57:37,486
of men or women, so to speak.
1219
00:57:37,488 --> 00:57:38,454
That's what I always thought.
1220
00:57:38,456 --> 00:57:39,421
That's what they always say.
1221
00:57:39,423 --> 00:57:40,656
We send you here
and we rehabilitate
1222
00:57:40,658 --> 00:57:42,357
you so you won't do it again.
1223
00:57:42,359 --> 00:57:45,627
People come out of prison, they
come out in worse condition
1224
00:57:45,629 --> 00:57:47,596
than they was when
they first entered.
1225
00:57:47,598 --> 00:57:49,631
ANNOUNCER: In the lackluster
heavyweight division, even
1226
00:57:49,633 --> 00:57:53,068
without his crown,
Tyson is still the man.
1227
00:57:53,070 --> 00:57:55,370
Promoters even courted
him at the prison,
1228
00:57:55,372 --> 00:57:58,207
hoping to share an estimated
$100 million payday.
1229
00:58:02,379 --> 00:58:03,879
EVANDER HOLYFIELD:
Waiting for my opportunity
1230
00:58:03,881 --> 00:58:06,482
to get a chance to fight him,
there's a lot of writers,
1231
00:58:06,484 --> 00:58:09,518
in general, that think
that really he's the champ.
1232
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:11,920
But realistic, I am the champ.
1233
00:58:11,922 --> 00:58:12,754
I have the belt.
1234
00:58:16,093 --> 00:58:18,427
REPORTER: Long before
dawn, news helicopters
1235
00:58:18,429 --> 00:58:21,430
hovered over the state prison,
and cameras were ready.
1236
00:58:21,432 --> 00:58:23,832
Hundreds of them from
around the world.
1237
00:58:23,834 --> 00:58:25,534
Tyson issued a
written statement.
1238
00:58:25,536 --> 00:58:28,170
I'm very happy to be
out and on my way home.
1239
00:58:28,172 --> 00:58:29,805
I will have more to say later.
1240
00:58:34,445 --> 00:58:36,645
GEORGE WILLIS: It was
viewed as good versus evil.
1241
00:58:36,647 --> 00:58:37,980
The good was Evander.
1242
00:58:37,982 --> 00:58:41,350
The good Christian guy who
talks about the lord and things
1243
00:58:41,352 --> 00:58:44,152
like that, versus
Mike, who at that time
1244
00:58:44,154 --> 00:58:47,556
was the ex-con convicted rapist.
1245
00:58:47,558 --> 00:58:51,527
But Evander was perceived to
have no chance against Mike.
1246
00:58:51,529 --> 00:58:53,362
When the fight was
first announced,
1247
00:58:53,364 --> 00:58:56,665
Evander was a 25
to one underdog.
1248
00:58:56,667 --> 00:58:58,033
I mean, that's huge odds.
1249
00:58:58,035 --> 00:59:01,136
For anybody to be 25 to one
is like, they've got to shot.
1250
00:59:01,138 --> 00:59:02,104
[ding]
1251
00:59:03,574 --> 00:59:08,377
ANNOUNCER: As expected,
Mike Tyson comes out fast.
1252
00:59:08,379 --> 00:59:10,279
-Don't push, don't
push, don't push.
1253
00:59:10,281 --> 00:59:11,346
Let's go.
1254
00:59:11,348 --> 00:59:13,482
EVANDER HOLYFIELD:
I'm from the hood too.
1255
00:59:13,484 --> 00:59:17,319
I may not act like I'm from
there, but I'm from there.
1256
00:59:17,321 --> 00:59:21,089
Tyson never did insult me.
1257
00:59:21,091 --> 00:59:22,324
But the press did.
1258
00:59:22,326 --> 00:59:25,761
They talking about,
Tyson gonna kill you.
1259
00:59:25,763 --> 00:59:27,696
ANNOUNCER: As we
head for the bell.
1260
00:59:27,698 --> 00:59:29,631
[dinging]
1261
00:59:29,633 --> 00:59:32,034
They continue to
go after the bell!
1262
00:59:32,036 --> 00:59:33,635
EVANDER HOLYFIELD:
Ain't nothing that he
1263
00:59:33,637 --> 00:59:36,605
was gonna do that I'm
not accustomed to.
1264
00:59:36,607 --> 00:59:38,574
ANNOUNCER: No intimidation
factor here whatsoever.
1265
00:59:38,576 --> 00:59:39,374
-Great!
1266
00:59:39,376 --> 00:59:39,841
Step easy.
1267
00:59:39,843 --> 00:59:41,043
Back.
1268
00:59:41,045 --> 00:59:43,078
EVANDER HOLYFIELD: I knew
he was gonna be tough,
1269
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,514
but I had watched
him my whole life.
1270
00:59:45,516 --> 00:59:49,184
It was almost like,
this is the fight.
1271
00:59:49,186 --> 00:59:53,589
ANNOUNCER: The crowd
behind Holyfield.
1272
00:59:53,591 --> 00:59:55,557
CROWD: (CHANTING) Holyfield!
1273
00:59:55,559 --> 00:59:58,527
ANNOUNCER: Chants of
Holyfield as the crowd sensing
1274
00:59:58,529 --> 01:00:02,965
that Holyfield might
have Tyson in trouble.
1275
01:00:02,967 --> 01:00:06,768
-Mike just wore down from not
being able to hurt Evander,
1276
01:00:06,770 --> 01:00:09,871
and that was something that he
had never experienced before.
1277
01:00:09,873 --> 01:00:10,839
ANNOUNCER: Tyson in trouble!
1278
01:00:10,841 --> 01:00:13,275
Tyson's ready to go!
1279
01:00:13,277 --> 01:00:17,212
[inaudible] stops the fight,
and Holyfield has the win!
1280
01:00:17,214 --> 01:00:18,647
ANNOUNCER: I can't
believe what I'm seeing.
1281
01:00:18,649 --> 01:00:20,115
It's the most
unbelievable thing I've
1282
01:00:20,117 --> 01:00:22,217
ever been privileged to witness.
1283
01:00:22,219 --> 01:00:23,518
BERNARD HOPKINS: It
was one of the most
1284
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:25,153
complete fights I ever fought.
1285
01:00:31,195 --> 01:00:32,661
AL BERNSTEIN: That was
Holyfield's greatest
1286
01:00:32,663 --> 01:00:33,996
achievement.
1287
01:00:33,998 --> 01:00:37,933
Evander Holyfield ended up
being in some of the largest
1288
01:00:37,935 --> 01:00:42,070
pay per view matches in
the history of the sport,
1289
01:00:42,072 --> 01:00:44,740
but it took him a long
time to get there.
1290
01:00:44,742 --> 01:00:46,708
LOU DIBELLA: Evander Holyfield
was not just a good fighter.
1291
01:00:46,710 --> 01:00:47,776
He was a great fighter.
1292
01:00:47,778 --> 01:00:49,544
He's an underrated
heavyweight in my mind.
1293
01:00:49,546 --> 01:00:52,714
Very arguably belongs in the
top 10 heavyweights of all time
1294
01:00:52,716 --> 01:00:53,882
even though he was a little guy.
1295
01:00:53,884 --> 01:00:55,283
Started as a cruiser weight.
1296
01:00:55,285 --> 01:00:56,084
Tyson.
1297
01:01:00,024 --> 01:01:02,124
I don't think he became
what he could've been.
1298
01:01:07,965 --> 01:01:10,132
DAVID LEONARD: Boxing,
as we imagine it,
1299
01:01:10,134 --> 01:01:15,537
is driven by a desire to
annihilate the opponent.
1300
01:01:15,539 --> 01:01:18,607
The focus is on the external.
1301
01:01:18,609 --> 01:01:22,778
Looking at what
boxers themselves say
1302
01:01:22,780 --> 01:01:25,747
is that it's about the internal.
1303
01:01:25,749 --> 01:01:27,049
It's about the discipline.
1304
01:01:27,051 --> 01:01:28,750
It's about the craft.
1305
01:01:28,752 --> 01:01:30,952
That it's not
about the opponent.
1306
01:01:30,954 --> 01:01:34,656
It's not about the external,
but it's about the internal.
1307
01:01:34,658 --> 01:01:37,859
It's about self.
1308
01:01:37,861 --> 01:01:40,495
MICKY WARD: When you
win, everybody wins.
1309
01:01:40,497 --> 01:01:41,830
When you lose, you lose alone.
1310
01:01:41,832 --> 01:01:43,965
And that's the
truth, because you
1311
01:01:43,967 --> 01:01:45,534
have to deal with
that by yourself.
1312
01:01:48,372 --> 01:01:50,338
LOU DIBELLA: There's a large
degree to which the fighter
1313
01:01:50,340 --> 01:01:54,109
that achieves stardom,
super stardom, they
1314
01:01:54,111 --> 01:01:56,845
represent the American
dream to people.
1315
01:01:56,847 --> 01:01:59,815
They, the underdog
that makes it.
1316
01:01:59,817 --> 01:02:00,916
But I gotta be
honest with you, I
1317
01:02:00,918 --> 01:02:02,651
think a lot of that's
greatly overstated.
1318
01:02:05,522 --> 01:02:07,689
Mike Tyson, the
biggest athlete by far
1319
01:02:07,691 --> 01:02:11,693
of the 1990s, and biggest
athlete of the 1990s,
1320
01:02:11,695 --> 01:02:15,797
and certainly a
super star boxer,
1321
01:02:15,799 --> 01:02:20,302
suffered a lot of ups and downs
and was never really protected
1322
01:02:20,304 --> 01:02:22,337
by the people that
surrounded him
1323
01:02:22,339 --> 01:02:25,173
for the majority of his career.
1324
01:02:25,175 --> 01:02:28,143
MIKE TYSON: My self worth,
even when I was a child,
1325
01:02:28,145 --> 01:02:30,846
depended on how much
I could hurt someone.
1326
01:02:30,848 --> 01:02:33,415
And as I got older and
I met Cus, that, well,
1327
01:02:33,417 --> 01:02:37,152
it continued to be how many
people I could knock out,
1328
01:02:37,154 --> 01:02:40,722
how fast I could knock them
out, how bad I could hurt them.
1329
01:02:40,724 --> 01:02:45,026
And so it just
stayed on that path.
1330
01:02:45,028 --> 01:02:47,028
LOU DIBELLA: The kid doesn't
have a normal home environment,
1331
01:02:47,030 --> 01:02:49,698
doesn't have a normal
support system around him,
1332
01:02:49,700 --> 01:02:52,367
and then he's basically trained
to be a fighting machine.
1333
01:02:52,369 --> 01:02:53,735
His life was crazy.
1334
01:02:53,737 --> 01:02:57,305
Tyson was a pit bull.
1335
01:02:57,307 --> 01:02:59,341
The ear biting incident
was a check out.
1336
01:02:59,343 --> 01:03:02,277
Mike was messed up.
1337
01:03:02,279 --> 01:03:05,580
I'm sure he'd be the first
one to tell you that.
1338
01:03:05,582 --> 01:03:07,616
MIKE TYSON: You have to
understand, this is just what I
1339
01:03:07,618 --> 01:03:10,719
did, seven years of my life,
eight years of my life.
1340
01:03:10,721 --> 01:03:13,755
My greatest moment was
when I stopped boxing.
1341
01:03:13,757 --> 01:03:15,657
It was just dark for me.
1342
01:03:15,659 --> 01:03:18,894
Boxing got real dark for me.
1343
01:03:18,896 --> 01:03:22,898
ANNOUNCER: A stunned crowd here
at the MCI Center in Washington
1344
01:03:22,900 --> 01:03:30,906
DC as McBride defeats Mike
Tyson, who quits on his stool.
1345
01:03:30,908 --> 01:03:32,440
-I got an ability
to stay in shape,
1346
01:03:32,442 --> 01:03:34,943
but I don't got the fighting
guys, I don't think, anymore.
1347
01:03:34,945 --> 01:03:36,444
REPORTER: When did
you recognize that?
1348
01:03:36,446 --> 01:03:37,612
At what part of the fight?
1349
01:03:37,614 --> 01:03:38,480
-I don't know.
1350
01:03:38,482 --> 01:03:41,483
Early into the fight.
1351
01:03:41,485 --> 01:03:42,751
I'm just sorry I
let everybody down.
1352
01:03:42,753 --> 01:03:46,922
I mean, I just don't have
this in my heart anymore.
1353
01:03:46,924 --> 01:03:48,123
REPORTER: Did you
feel as though you
1354
01:03:48,125 --> 01:03:49,624
had it coming into the fight?
1355
01:03:49,626 --> 01:03:50,926
-No.
1356
01:03:50,928 --> 01:03:54,329
I'm just fighting to take
care of my bills, basically.
1357
01:03:54,331 --> 01:03:56,598
DALTON CONLEY: We know from
studies of lottery winners,
1358
01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:58,967
of professional
athletes, anyone who
1359
01:03:58,969 --> 01:04:01,469
comes into a sudden
windfall of money,
1360
01:04:01,471 --> 01:04:03,338
be careful what you
wish for, because that
1361
01:04:03,340 --> 01:04:05,106
creates more problems.
1362
01:04:05,108 --> 01:04:07,008
You have everybody coming
out of the woodwork
1363
01:04:07,010 --> 01:04:08,276
to try to get a
piece of your action.
1364
01:04:15,586 --> 01:04:19,120
REPORTER: Tyson has pulled
in an estimated $300 million.
1365
01:04:19,122 --> 01:04:21,056
He could have made
more if he hadn't
1366
01:04:21,058 --> 01:04:22,657
racked up the prison time.
1367
01:04:22,659 --> 01:04:26,428
And who knows how much he's lost
in lawsuits or to the managers
1368
01:04:26,430 --> 01:04:28,230
he claims ripped him off?
1369
01:04:28,232 --> 01:04:31,499
The bottom line, Tyson
then, $300 million.
1370
01:04:31,501 --> 01:04:33,935
Tyson now, chapter 11.
1371
01:04:33,937 --> 01:04:36,805
-It's a sport where
you can be used.
1372
01:04:36,807 --> 01:04:39,875
There's no training
about how to handle
1373
01:04:39,877 --> 01:04:41,877
yourself outside the ring.
1374
01:04:41,879 --> 01:04:45,747
Very few boxers are taught
about how to handle their money.
1375
01:04:45,749 --> 01:04:49,117
-If you don't have a good
team of people around you,
1376
01:04:49,119 --> 01:04:50,385
you will kill yourself.
1377
01:04:50,387 --> 01:04:53,154
You will crash and burn,
because every level of success
1378
01:04:53,156 --> 01:04:56,925
you have, you hit a wall
that you have to learn more.
1379
01:04:56,927 --> 01:04:58,760
LOU DIBELLA: I will always
wonder why Mike Tyson didn't
1380
01:04:58,762 --> 01:05:03,398
declare bankruptcy years before
his tax issues became crushing.
1381
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:05,033
I mean, he clearly was bankrupt.
1382
01:05:05,035 --> 01:05:06,368
Why didn't he
declare bankruptcy?
1383
01:05:06,370 --> 01:05:09,204
Because it was in people's
interests to keep his contracts
1384
01:05:09,206 --> 01:05:11,606
alive with those he
was doing business.
1385
01:05:11,608 --> 01:05:13,174
-Days after filing
for bankruptcy,
1386
01:05:13,176 --> 01:05:16,344
boxer Mike Tyson has filed suit
against his former promoter,
1387
01:05:16,346 --> 01:05:17,479
Don King.
1388
01:05:17,481 --> 01:05:20,181
-Don was-- I mean,
he knew everybody.
1389
01:05:20,183 --> 01:05:22,350
It's like he was a
step ahead of us.
1390
01:05:22,352 --> 01:05:24,419
How could you prepare
for something like that?
1391
01:05:24,421 --> 01:05:26,321
You don't know
who's trying to take
1392
01:05:26,323 --> 01:05:28,523
from you, who loves
you, who likes you.
1393
01:05:28,525 --> 01:05:31,626
You don't know if somebody's
trying to set you up.
1394
01:05:31,628 --> 01:05:33,194
-Even when you play
by the rule book,
1395
01:05:33,196 --> 01:05:36,498
you find a person that has that
same energy that the person had
1396
01:05:36,500 --> 01:05:41,136
that was trying to rob you,
but they won't even give you
1397
01:05:41,138 --> 01:05:44,472
courtesy of pointing
a gun at you.
1398
01:05:44,474 --> 01:05:46,574
They'll rob you and do
it in black and white.
1399
01:05:46,576 --> 01:05:48,777
And I seen people do
worse things to you
1400
01:05:48,779 --> 01:05:54,349
in corporate settings than I
seen them do on the street.
1401
01:05:54,351 --> 01:05:55,517
Take everything from you.
1402
01:05:58,488 --> 01:06:02,757
BERNARD HOPKINS: There are
bottom feeders that will attach
1403
01:06:02,759 --> 01:06:05,360
themselves with
their law license,
1404
01:06:05,362 --> 01:06:11,333
with their business savvy to
a fighter from Brooklyn, New
1405
01:06:11,335 --> 01:06:14,869
York, Philly, or
any other place that
1406
01:06:14,871 --> 01:06:17,405
don't have really the education.
1407
01:06:17,407 --> 01:06:19,541
REPORTER: Just ask Atlanta
car dealer Ken Sanders
1408
01:06:19,543 --> 01:06:21,009
who took Holyfield
under his wing
1409
01:06:21,011 --> 01:06:24,946
when he needed a cosigner for
a car and became his manager.
1410
01:06:24,948 --> 01:06:26,815
EVANDER HOLYFIELD: Ken
Sanders wasn't my manager.
1411
01:06:26,817 --> 01:06:29,050
I just told people that
because he ran a car
1412
01:06:29,052 --> 01:06:31,519
dealership so he
knew about money.
1413
01:06:31,521 --> 01:06:33,755
I got into boxing
because all I had
1414
01:06:33,757 --> 01:06:35,423
to do what know how to fight.
1415
01:06:35,425 --> 01:06:37,292
I didn't know nobody
who know about money.
1416
01:06:37,294 --> 01:06:40,362
I don't know nobody who
made a lot of money.
1417
01:06:40,364 --> 01:06:43,431
BERNARD HOPKINS: I mean, even
when you hit the Powerball,
1418
01:06:43,433 --> 01:06:45,000
the first thing
people will tell you
1419
01:06:45,002 --> 01:06:47,535
is, get an accountant
and a lawyer.
1420
01:06:47,537 --> 01:06:50,939
Well, boxing is the same
way, but they don't tell you.
1421
01:06:50,941 --> 01:06:55,276
That's why most athletes wind
up not having nothing when
1422
01:06:55,278 --> 01:06:59,314
all the hard labor and
years in the ring is over.
1423
01:06:59,316 --> 01:07:01,016
-You ask Mike Tyson,
how you doing, Mike.
1424
01:07:01,018 --> 01:07:02,984
He says, just
living today today.
1425
01:07:02,986 --> 01:07:03,785
That's what he's doing.
1426
01:07:03,787 --> 01:07:05,487
Just living today today.
1427
01:07:05,489 --> 01:07:07,756
-You can look at people
like Evander Holyfield
1428
01:07:07,758 --> 01:07:12,127
that made hundreds of millions
of dollars whose houses went
1429
01:07:12,129 --> 01:07:16,765
into foreclosure and who's
struggling right now to get by.
1430
01:07:16,767 --> 01:07:19,334
REPORTER: A foreclosure notice
in the local newspaper states
1431
01:07:19,336 --> 01:07:22,370
Holyfield defaulted on
a $10 million bank loan.
1432
01:07:22,372 --> 01:07:25,073
A strange reversal of
fortune for a champion
1433
01:07:25,075 --> 01:07:27,342
believed to have
earned $200 million
1434
01:07:27,344 --> 01:07:29,644
during his storied career.
1435
01:07:29,646 --> 01:07:32,247
The house that
Holyfield built may soon
1436
01:07:32,249 --> 01:07:36,117
become his biggest loss
outside of the ring.
1437
01:07:36,119 --> 01:07:38,853
EVANDER HOLYFIELD: When you get
money, you gotta ask questions.
1438
01:07:38,855 --> 01:07:40,288
I never did have
to ask questions,
1439
01:07:40,290 --> 01:07:42,257
because I'd never had no money.
1440
01:07:42,259 --> 01:07:43,892
What happened to
me is not so much
1441
01:07:43,894 --> 01:07:46,127
they stole, but they
did take advantage
1442
01:07:46,129 --> 01:07:48,129
of what I didn't know.
1443
01:07:48,131 --> 01:07:51,366
AL BERNSTEIN: They all want
this boxer to make them money.
1444
01:07:51,368 --> 01:07:54,335
Once the boxer doesn't
make them any more money,
1445
01:07:54,337 --> 01:07:56,604
they're cast aside like rubbish.
1446
01:07:56,606 --> 01:07:58,339
LOU DIBELLA: You retire
with a great record,
1447
01:07:58,341 --> 01:08:00,909
and then you'd be sitting on
a stool in your living room,
1448
01:08:00,911 --> 01:08:02,177
where do I go from here?
1449
01:08:02,179 --> 01:08:03,478
I don't have any skills.
1450
01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:04,546
I'm not trained to do anything.
1451
01:08:04,548 --> 01:08:05,380
I'm not educated.
1452
01:08:05,382 --> 01:08:06,781
I don't have a college degree.
1453
01:08:06,783 --> 01:08:08,783
A lot of guys don't have
high school degrees.
1454
01:08:08,785 --> 01:08:11,786
LARRY SLOMAN: It's not at all
uncommon to have even boxers
1455
01:08:11,788 --> 01:08:15,290
who had great acclaim
wind up broke,
1456
01:08:15,292 --> 01:08:19,627
penniless, as greeters
at a casino in Vegas.
1457
01:08:19,629 --> 01:08:21,096
-What you don't hear
about is the guy
1458
01:08:21,098 --> 01:08:23,665
that fights on ESPN
four times a year,
1459
01:08:23,667 --> 01:08:27,335
and after he pays his manager,
and his trainer, and everyone
1460
01:08:27,337 --> 01:08:30,105
involved, is still
at the poverty line.
1461
01:08:30,107 --> 01:08:32,740
The budgets on ESPN allow
a guy in a main event
1462
01:08:32,742 --> 01:08:35,110
to get paid about 15 grand.
1463
01:08:35,112 --> 01:08:36,744
Like I said, split
that money off,
1464
01:08:36,746 --> 01:08:38,480
train for number of
weeks for that fight,
1465
01:08:38,482 --> 01:08:41,282
and you're making-- You could
make more money, honestly,
1466
01:08:41,284 --> 01:08:42,884
taking a minimum
wage job and working
1467
01:08:42,886 --> 01:08:44,953
a little bit of over time.
1468
01:08:44,955 --> 01:08:46,955
The minimum salary in
Major League Baseball,
1469
01:08:46,957 --> 01:08:50,358
even in minor league
baseball, is livable.
1470
01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:52,927
There is no minimum
salary for a fighter.
1471
01:08:52,929 --> 01:08:57,932
The top 1% fighters
probably make 99% of money.
1472
01:08:57,934 --> 01:09:01,536
-Boxing is laissez-faire
capitalism run amok.
1473
01:09:01,538 --> 01:09:05,073
There is essentially no
one running the ship.
1474
01:09:05,075 --> 01:09:07,842
There's different organizations
that run a piece of it.
1475
01:09:07,844 --> 01:09:12,113
There's promoters who go up and
down and control parts of it,
1476
01:09:12,115 --> 01:09:16,784
but there are essentially
no regulations.
1477
01:09:16,786 --> 01:09:19,587
FRANCISCO AGUILAR: Boxing is
regulated at the state level.
1478
01:09:19,589 --> 01:09:21,456
You have Nevada with
its set of rules,
1479
01:09:21,458 --> 01:09:23,525
you have California with its
set of rules, you have New York,
1480
01:09:23,527 --> 01:09:24,759
you have New Jersey.
1481
01:09:24,761 --> 01:09:26,594
Jurisdictions will have
a different perspective
1482
01:09:26,596 --> 01:09:28,329
on a different
matter, and nobody
1483
01:09:28,331 --> 01:09:30,064
is on the same
page at all times.
1484
01:09:30,066 --> 01:09:32,667
Most people think that we
need a federal commission
1485
01:09:32,669 --> 01:09:35,236
to regulate the sport of boxing.
1486
01:09:35,238 --> 01:09:37,405
The federal government
tempted to regulate boxing
1487
01:09:37,407 --> 01:09:39,307
by the passage of the Ali Act.
1488
01:09:39,309 --> 01:09:42,143
It's given some authority
to the federal government
1489
01:09:42,145 --> 01:09:45,747
to enforce boxing from
a business perspective.
1490
01:09:45,749 --> 01:09:49,984
However, there has not been any
prosecution or implementation
1491
01:09:49,986 --> 01:09:52,487
of the Ali Act for a fighter.
1492
01:09:52,489 --> 01:09:57,192
-Why is it every sport in
America is regulated or has
1493
01:09:57,194 --> 01:10:00,461
some type of union
and boxing don't?
1494
01:10:08,371 --> 01:10:10,772
-In other sports like
baseball, football, tennis,
1495
01:10:10,774 --> 01:10:14,108
you have individuals who are
well educated in those sports
1496
01:10:14,110 --> 01:10:17,011
to help guide those champions
through their effort
1497
01:10:17,013 --> 01:10:18,146
and their time.
1498
01:10:18,148 --> 01:10:20,114
-If you're an NFL
player, or an NBA player,
1499
01:10:20,116 --> 01:10:21,616
or a Major League
Baseball player,
1500
01:10:21,618 --> 01:10:23,618
there is at least a core.
1501
01:10:23,620 --> 01:10:24,852
You have the team.
1502
01:10:24,854 --> 01:10:27,422
You have whatever resources
they have to help you.
1503
01:10:27,424 --> 01:10:29,023
You have the league
that has some resources.
1504
01:10:37,300 --> 01:10:39,267
BERNARD HOPKINS:
Who do we go to?
1505
01:10:39,269 --> 01:10:42,370
It's crazy to put your
body and your mind
1506
01:10:42,372 --> 01:10:44,839
through this hard way
of making a living
1507
01:10:44,841 --> 01:10:46,741
for yourself and your family.
1508
01:10:46,743 --> 01:10:51,980
And to wind up with nothing and
not even your health, to me,
1509
01:10:51,982 --> 01:10:53,715
is a sin.
1510
01:10:53,717 --> 01:10:55,083
MAUREEN SCHAFER:
We as a country,
1511
01:10:55,085 --> 01:10:58,286
are in love with our sports,
but when these two fighters step
1512
01:10:58,288 --> 01:11:01,389
into a ring, there is a
level of violence that
1513
01:11:01,391 --> 01:11:03,758
is unlike any other
sport in terms
1514
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:06,427
of duration and intensity.
1515
01:11:06,429 --> 01:11:09,631
When a fighter receives
a blow that is so severe,
1516
01:11:09,633 --> 01:11:11,332
what's going on inside
the head is the brain
1517
01:11:11,334 --> 01:11:13,835
is suddenly slammed against
the back of your skull
1518
01:11:13,837 --> 01:11:16,638
and then thrown forward
again as the head snaps back.
1519
01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:18,873
It's commonly
called a concussion.
1520
01:11:26,916 --> 01:11:30,318
It can swell and cause
long term hematomas,
1521
01:11:30,320 --> 01:11:32,887
bleeding on the brain,
memory loss, strokes
1522
01:11:32,889 --> 01:11:34,922
or aneurysms, or
vessel breakage.
1523
01:11:44,301 --> 01:11:47,735
It can cause death depending
on how severe, how acute,
1524
01:11:47,737 --> 01:11:50,571
where the brain actually
impacts the skull.
1525
01:11:50,573 --> 01:11:54,042
It has happened where a
fighter will leave the ring.
1526
01:11:54,044 --> 01:11:56,210
Whether they've won or
lost, they look fine.
1527
01:11:56,212 --> 01:11:59,047
They head out to dinner,
everything's wonderful,
1528
01:11:59,049 --> 01:12:01,015
and one, to two, to
three days later,
1529
01:12:01,017 --> 01:12:03,651
something traumatic happens.
1530
01:12:03,653 --> 01:12:05,119
LOU DIBELLA: I had
a young champion,
1531
01:12:05,121 --> 01:12:06,921
a guy named Leavander Johnson.
1532
01:12:06,923 --> 01:12:07,955
He was walking out of the ring.
1533
01:12:07,957 --> 01:12:09,791
I walked out of
the ring behind him
1534
01:12:09,793 --> 01:12:11,959
and I saw he was a little
unsteady on his feet.
1535
01:12:11,961 --> 01:12:13,761
He put his arm on
me and I walked
1536
01:12:13,763 --> 01:12:15,697
him back to his dressing room.
1537
01:12:15,699 --> 01:12:18,566
He was apologizing for losing.
1538
01:12:18,568 --> 01:12:20,101
And I'll never forget it.
1539
01:12:20,103 --> 01:12:22,003
He sat on a stool,
then he looked at me
1540
01:12:22,005 --> 01:12:24,072
and he said, Lou,
I have a headache.
1541
01:12:24,074 --> 01:12:27,442
And then he fell forward and he
never regained consciousness.
1542
01:12:27,444 --> 01:12:31,312
He died, I think, it was
five, six days later.
1543
01:12:31,314 --> 01:12:35,283
-Every society, for the most
part, on the face of the Earth
1544
01:12:35,285 --> 01:12:38,386
has some primal
need for violence.
1545
01:12:40,957 --> 01:12:42,323
It's always there,
that bloodthirstiness.
1546
01:12:45,595 --> 01:12:49,097
GEORGE WILLIS: It's human nature
to be fascinated by violence.
1547
01:12:49,099 --> 01:12:51,632
We hear a car wreck, we
go see what happened.
1548
01:12:51,634 --> 01:12:52,767
Horror movies.
1549
01:12:52,769 --> 01:12:56,371
How's somebody gonna be
eaten alive or torn up?
1550
01:12:56,373 --> 01:12:57,739
It's all over the place.
1551
01:12:57,741 --> 01:13:01,609
We are just attracted
by confrontation,
1552
01:13:01,611 --> 01:13:04,512
by conflict, by controversy.
1553
01:13:04,514 --> 01:13:10,084
That's what sells and that's
what boxing tries to sell.
1554
01:13:10,086 --> 01:13:13,254
FRANCISCO AGUILAR: Boxing needs
something that can say, hey,
1555
01:13:13,256 --> 01:13:16,124
there is support for a fighter.
1556
01:13:16,126 --> 01:13:18,559
The fighter is the one who's
putting his life in danger
1557
01:13:18,561 --> 01:13:20,762
to enter that ring and
provide entertainment
1558
01:13:20,764 --> 01:13:22,163
to everybody that's there.
1559
01:13:22,165 --> 01:13:24,832
However, we have to weigh
the resources we have
1560
01:13:24,834 --> 01:13:26,501
with the actual
regulation of the sport.
1561
01:13:26,503 --> 01:13:29,370
Over the last year, we
generated about $5.5 million
1562
01:13:29,372 --> 01:13:32,473
in tax revenue just
from ticket sales.
1563
01:13:32,475 --> 01:13:35,109
The state legislature then
makes an appropriation
1564
01:13:35,111 --> 01:13:37,545
to the Athletic Commission,
and that allocation
1565
01:13:37,547 --> 01:13:39,647
is about $450,000.
1566
01:13:39,649 --> 01:13:43,184
So there's a huge disparity
from a regulative prospective.
1567
01:13:43,186 --> 01:13:45,453
LOU DIBELLA: I'm concerned
right now about the sport.
1568
01:13:45,455 --> 01:13:49,290
People in life have a right
to take risks and a right
1569
01:13:49,292 --> 01:13:51,426
to live the lives
they want to live.
1570
01:13:51,428 --> 01:13:54,529
Now, that being said, it's
barbaric in a lot of ways
1571
01:13:54,531 --> 01:13:58,566
that there's no standardized
health and safety
1572
01:13:58,568 --> 01:13:59,934
criteria in the United States.
1573
01:13:59,936 --> 01:14:01,569
Think about that.
1574
01:14:01,571 --> 01:14:02,937
It's preposterous.
1575
01:14:02,939 --> 01:14:05,773
LARRY SLOMAN: It's high time
that boxing began to regulate
1576
01:14:05,775 --> 01:14:08,776
just like other pro
sports like the NFL.
1577
01:14:08,778 --> 01:14:13,414
-When there's no checks and
balances, there's a problem.
1578
01:14:13,416 --> 01:14:14,882
MAUREEN SCHAFER: When
you see the people who
1579
01:14:14,884 --> 01:14:17,585
come from nothing, who come
from less than nothing,
1580
01:14:17,587 --> 01:14:20,421
to see them perform
and to see them give
1581
01:14:20,423 --> 01:14:24,826
such great entertainment
is an amazing thing.
1582
01:14:24,828 --> 01:14:27,595
But as important as it is
for us to celebrate them
1583
01:14:27,597 --> 01:14:30,064
at the top of where they
are, it's as important
1584
01:14:30,066 --> 01:14:32,867
that we figure out
how to carry them
1585
01:14:32,869 --> 01:14:34,836
when they need us the most.
1586
01:14:34,838 --> 01:14:36,504
LOU DIBELLA: There are
some great success stories
1587
01:14:36,506 --> 01:14:37,939
and some great
stories of those who
1588
01:14:37,941 --> 01:14:42,443
escape prison, escape
the street and make it.
1589
01:14:42,445 --> 01:14:44,579
But for every one of those
guys, there's a sad story
1590
01:14:44,581 --> 01:14:46,647
and there's a story of
someone who's exploited,
1591
01:14:46,649 --> 01:14:49,383
or a story of someone who loses
their health in the long term,
1592
01:14:49,385 --> 01:14:52,153
or a story that somebody
who becomes a champion
1593
01:14:52,155 --> 01:14:54,322
and toils for years,
and then winds up
1594
01:14:54,324 --> 01:14:56,591
retired with virtually nothing.
1595
01:14:56,593 --> 01:14:59,093
It's the American dream and
it's the American nightmare.
1596
01:15:15,778 --> 01:15:17,745
MIKE TYSON: When I'm over here
and I'm looking at the Vegas
1597
01:15:17,747 --> 01:15:20,648
strip, I can think about all
the trouble I got in over there.
1598
01:15:20,650 --> 01:15:22,083
All the drugs I used there.
1599
01:15:25,321 --> 01:15:28,222
I never even think about all
the great fights I had there.
1600
01:15:28,224 --> 01:15:29,957
I just think about
all the things
1601
01:15:29,959 --> 01:15:34,095
I did there, wasn't
really moral.
1602
01:15:34,097 --> 01:15:37,865
All I did is knock
people out, screw people,
1603
01:15:37,867 --> 01:15:40,034
have sex with women,
get high on drugs.
1604
01:15:43,039 --> 01:15:45,072
When me and my wife
first got together,
1605
01:15:45,074 --> 01:15:46,340
I was a full blown addict.
1606
01:15:51,214 --> 01:15:54,348
My daughter passed
away at four years old.
1607
01:15:54,350 --> 01:15:56,918
What happened was a
tragic accident at home.
1608
01:15:56,920 --> 01:15:58,252
That's my lowest point.
1609
01:16:02,992 --> 01:16:04,559
When I was at the
hospital, I realized
1610
01:16:04,561 --> 01:16:06,994
that other people's
children were dying too.
1611
01:16:06,996 --> 01:16:09,330
And those people, just
because I'm famous,
1612
01:16:09,332 --> 01:16:11,299
they took out of their way,
left their dying children,
1613
01:16:11,301 --> 01:16:13,568
their sick children, came
over here and prayed with me.
1614
01:16:13,570 --> 01:16:14,769
Then I realized, well, hey.
1615
01:16:14,771 --> 01:16:16,837
Their baby's dying too.
1616
01:16:16,839 --> 01:16:19,473
So what makes you so important
that you think you should
1617
01:16:19,475 --> 01:16:21,175
be mad and angry,
want to kill somebody,
1618
01:16:21,177 --> 01:16:22,977
and do-- just do
this whole tough guy
1619
01:16:22,979 --> 01:16:24,912
stuff because your baby's dying?
1620
01:16:24,914 --> 01:16:26,180
Their baby's dying
too, and they left
1621
01:16:26,182 --> 01:16:27,481
them to come over
here and talk to you.
1622
01:16:27,483 --> 01:16:29,550
You ain't shit, motherfucker.
1623
01:16:29,552 --> 01:16:31,185
You don't care about nobody.
1624
01:16:31,187 --> 01:16:32,453
These people left
their fucking baby
1625
01:16:32,455 --> 01:16:34,922
to talk to your no
good fucking ass.
1626
01:16:34,924 --> 01:16:37,158
And, um, that's
just what it was.
1627
01:16:40,797 --> 01:16:43,230
And it's not about me.
1628
01:16:43,232 --> 01:16:45,166
The world's bigger than me.
1629
01:16:48,538 --> 01:16:50,905
My wife, she stayed
by me and said,
1630
01:16:50,907 --> 01:16:52,540
we're gonna get through this.
1631
01:16:52,542 --> 01:16:53,941
Just kept it very positive.
1632
01:16:53,943 --> 01:16:54,842
Constantly positive.
1633
01:16:57,614 --> 01:17:00,715
I just wanted to change.
1634
01:17:00,717 --> 01:17:03,384
I wanted to break the
chain of self bondage
1635
01:17:03,386 --> 01:17:05,753
that my mother and father
and her mother and father
1636
01:17:05,755 --> 01:17:07,121
probably had.
1637
01:17:07,123 --> 01:17:10,858
And I wanted it to change with
me so my kids wouldn't have
1638
01:17:10,860 --> 01:17:14,595
to deal with that
same suffering.
1639
01:17:14,597 --> 01:17:17,932
I'm so happy to be involved
with the recovery world.
1640
01:17:17,934 --> 01:17:21,135
I met a bunch of people that
were just amazing people.
1641
01:17:21,137 --> 01:17:22,203
They didn't quit on me.
1642
01:17:22,205 --> 01:17:23,571
They didn't give up
on me like the rest
1643
01:17:23,573 --> 01:17:26,340
of the people in my life.
1644
01:17:26,342 --> 01:17:29,010
It's an ongoing struggle.
1645
01:17:29,012 --> 01:17:32,146
The pain never goes away.
1646
01:17:32,148 --> 01:17:35,116
I'm never in a situation that
I'm so secure that I could
1647
01:17:35,118 --> 01:17:39,654
never fall back into that nasty,
dirty, disgusting, wretched
1648
01:17:39,656 --> 01:17:41,088
individual that I once was.
1649
01:17:41,090 --> 01:17:45,526
I never think that
guy's gone totally.
1650
01:17:45,528 --> 01:17:47,294
It's time now where I
have to deal with things
1651
01:17:47,296 --> 01:17:50,231
from a serious perspective,
and how me and my family
1652
01:17:50,233 --> 01:17:51,532
are gonna evolve from
that perspective.
1653
01:17:59,175 --> 01:18:01,676
EVANDER HOLYFIELD: He
had to make adjustments.
1654
01:18:01,678 --> 01:18:04,845
Adjustment's part of life.
1655
01:18:04,847 --> 01:18:06,047
Disappointment.
1656
01:18:06,049 --> 01:18:07,715
That's the biggest fight.
1657
01:18:07,717 --> 01:18:11,018
You want to see how
strong somebody is?
1658
01:18:11,020 --> 01:18:13,587
Have them get disappointed.
1659
01:18:13,589 --> 01:18:15,523
ANNOUNCER: It's over.
1660
01:18:15,525 --> 01:18:16,490
That's it.
1661
01:18:16,492 --> 01:18:17,425
It is over.
1662
01:18:17,427 --> 01:18:18,759
ANNOUNCER: That's it.
1663
01:18:18,761 --> 01:18:22,730
ANNOUNCER: Evander Holyfield
has never been knocked out,
1664
01:18:22,732 --> 01:18:27,635
and Riddick Bowe is
the one to do it.
1665
01:18:27,637 --> 01:18:30,004
ANNOUNCER: If I was Holyfield
or any of his team members,
1666
01:18:30,006 --> 01:18:33,941
I'd really have to reevaluate if
he's fit to continue to fight.
1667
01:18:33,943 --> 01:18:35,876
With all the health problems
and the heart conditions,
1668
01:18:35,878 --> 01:18:37,545
is Evander Holyfield
just completely done?
1669
01:18:37,547 --> 01:18:40,047
We don't know.
1670
01:18:40,049 --> 01:18:41,148
BERNARD HOPKINS:
My mother passed
1671
01:18:41,150 --> 01:18:44,151
before I fought Mike Tyson.
1672
01:18:44,153 --> 01:18:48,289
My brother passed before
I fought Riddick Bowe.
1673
01:18:48,291 --> 01:18:50,224
I had a lot of tragedy
in my family and stuff.
1674
01:18:50,226 --> 01:18:53,194
So, you know, you have
to put them behind.
1675
01:18:53,196 --> 01:18:54,695
ANNOUNCER: And the
continuing life
1676
01:18:54,697 --> 01:18:56,297
in the ring of
Evander Holyfield.
1677
01:18:56,299 --> 01:18:58,165
Don't count me out yet, he says.
1678
01:18:58,167 --> 01:19:01,435
And tonight, with some
new gas in the tank.
1679
01:19:01,437 --> 01:19:04,305
LOU DIBELLA: Evander Holyfield
was an all time great.
1680
01:19:04,307 --> 01:19:06,674
But Evander didn't understand
that the shell life
1681
01:19:06,676 --> 01:19:08,242
of a fighter is limited.
1682
01:19:08,244 --> 01:19:12,046
ANNOUNCER: We may be
seeing the end of an era.
1683
01:19:12,048 --> 01:19:16,817
And I think they
throw in the towel.
1684
01:19:16,819 --> 01:19:18,886
LOU DIBELLA: I think he was
forced to fight way too long.
1685
01:19:18,888 --> 01:19:23,257
Fights at the end of his career
are for virtually no money.
1686
01:19:23,259 --> 01:19:26,560
GEORGE WILLIS: Evander is very
confident in what he believes.
1687
01:19:26,562 --> 01:19:29,096
His stubbornness
can be his greatest
1688
01:19:29,098 --> 01:19:34,001
asset and his
greatest liability.
1689
01:19:34,003 --> 01:19:36,771
EVANDER HOLYFIELD: I didn't
get into boxing for money.
1690
01:19:36,773 --> 01:19:39,907
I got into boxing because I
wanted to be the very best.
1691
01:19:39,909 --> 01:19:41,942
I'm the only person who's
been the heavyweight champion
1692
01:19:41,944 --> 01:19:46,580
of the world five times, because
I got that many opportunities.
1693
01:19:46,582 --> 01:19:48,849
Everybody's gonna
get off the path,
1694
01:19:48,851 --> 01:19:50,451
but the point is
to get back on it.
1695
01:19:50,453 --> 01:19:54,255
Forgive yourself
and get back on.
1696
01:19:54,257 --> 01:19:56,390
REPORTER: Evander Holyfield
has faced plenty of opponents
1697
01:19:56,392 --> 01:19:58,192
in the ring, but
nothing like this.
1698
01:19:58,194 --> 01:20:00,728
Together with his friend
and financier Yank Barry,
1699
01:20:00,730 --> 01:20:02,563
they plan to deliver
food aid and help
1700
01:20:02,565 --> 01:20:04,532
resettle Syrian
refugees in a home
1701
01:20:04,534 --> 01:20:06,734
supplied by Barry's charity.
1702
01:20:06,736 --> 01:20:07,868
EVANDER HOLYFIELD:
Yank Barry used
1703
01:20:07,870 --> 01:20:10,504
my likeness to draw the people.
1704
01:20:10,506 --> 01:20:14,842
I was on my last leg, but this
man gave me an opportunity
1705
01:20:14,844 --> 01:20:17,044
to fight back these
people who were
1706
01:20:17,046 --> 01:20:19,346
taking my memorabilia
and all this.
1707
01:20:19,348 --> 01:20:22,683
He did it himself.
1708
01:20:22,685 --> 01:20:25,286
GEORGE WILLIS: I think Evander
has come to that realization
1709
01:20:25,288 --> 01:20:28,956
that he needs to be Evander
Holyfield and not necessarily
1710
01:20:28,958 --> 01:20:31,125
Evander Holyfield, four
time heavyweight champion
1711
01:20:31,127 --> 01:20:32,426
of the world.
1712
01:20:32,428 --> 01:20:33,894
EVANDER HOLYFIELD: If
it wasn't for that Boys
1713
01:20:33,896 --> 01:20:37,765
Club and other people who
had money who sponsored me
1714
01:20:37,767 --> 01:20:41,802
as a kid, I wouldn't
be who I am.
1715
01:20:41,804 --> 01:20:44,705
The work that I'm doing
now with Global Village,
1716
01:20:44,707 --> 01:20:46,807
that's what life
is really about.
1717
01:20:46,809 --> 01:20:48,375
I go to Heaven, they
ain't gonna be asking me,
1718
01:20:48,377 --> 01:20:50,044
how many times you became
the heavyweight champion
1719
01:20:50,046 --> 01:20:51,178
of the world.
1720
01:20:51,180 --> 01:20:53,147
He's gonna ask, what did
you do for the people.
1721
01:20:53,149 --> 01:20:56,050
The reason why you exist in
the world is to help somebody.
1722
01:20:56,052 --> 01:20:58,185
Not just for yourself.
1723
01:20:58,187 --> 01:21:00,187
-One of my best friends
was Muhammad Ali.
1724
01:21:00,189 --> 01:21:01,422
Muhammad's health
started failing
1725
01:21:01,424 --> 01:21:05,159
and I had to pick a new
goodwill ambassador.
1726
01:21:05,161 --> 01:21:05,960
It was Evander.
1727
01:21:05,962 --> 01:21:08,028
And Evander brought in Mike.
1728
01:21:08,030 --> 01:21:10,564
-He brought-- You bought him in?
1729
01:21:10,566 --> 01:21:12,199
-Yep.
1730
01:21:12,201 --> 01:21:15,202
-Evander Holyfield has been
very gracious with Mike.
1731
01:21:15,204 --> 01:21:18,839
Mike bit a portion
of his ear off.
1732
01:21:18,841 --> 01:21:22,376
that takes a lot of compassion,
a lot of love in your heart,
1733
01:21:22,378 --> 01:21:23,444
to forgive someone.
1734
01:21:23,446 --> 01:21:26,347
-If you forgive, then
you'll have peace.
1735
01:21:26,349 --> 01:21:28,816
You won't have people fighting
each other all the time.
1736
01:21:28,818 --> 01:21:31,819
That's what makes the world
go around is people forgive.
1737
01:21:31,821 --> 01:21:33,921
-What did you think when
Evander called you and said,
1738
01:21:33,923 --> 01:21:36,523
I want you to get
involved in this project.
1739
01:21:36,525 --> 01:21:38,325
-Well, it's not like I was
doing anything, of course.
1740
01:21:38,327 --> 01:21:39,126
You know?
1741
01:21:39,128 --> 01:21:40,494
I said, hey, um, yeah.
1742
01:21:40,496 --> 01:21:41,662
OK.
1743
01:21:41,664 --> 01:21:43,631
-Well, Mike always talked
about that he never
1744
01:21:43,633 --> 01:21:46,533
wanted to be involved
in the sport again.
1745
01:21:46,535 --> 01:21:48,569
But now that he's
resurrected himself,
1746
01:21:48,571 --> 01:21:50,504
you see him going
back to boxing,
1747
01:21:50,506 --> 01:21:55,042
establishing his own promotional
company to not only help
1748
01:21:55,044 --> 01:21:58,545
the young boxers develop
into good boxers,
1749
01:21:58,547 --> 01:22:02,116
but to help them not make
some of the bad choices
1750
01:22:02,118 --> 01:22:03,217
that he made.
1751
01:22:03,219 --> 01:22:04,618
LOU DIBELLA: I was
very critical of Mike.
1752
01:22:04,620 --> 01:22:05,986
I'm happy to see
him at a place where
1753
01:22:05,988 --> 01:22:07,955
I think he's much more
at peace, and at a better
1754
01:22:07,957 --> 01:22:10,524
place in his life than
I've ever seen him.
1755
01:22:10,526 --> 01:22:11,992
The Mike Tyson
that's there right
1756
01:22:11,994 --> 01:22:15,396
now is an honest guy trying
to do the best he can
1757
01:22:15,398 --> 01:22:17,197
to be happy and
live a good life.
1758
01:22:17,199 --> 01:22:20,434
GEORGE WILLIS: His core love of
boxing stems from the amateurs.
1759
01:22:20,436 --> 01:22:22,803
That's when it was all
about the love of the game.
1760
01:22:22,805 --> 01:22:24,838
It wasn't so much about money.
1761
01:22:24,840 --> 01:22:27,541
And that's when boxing and
the sport is at its purest.
1762
01:22:30,446 --> 01:22:33,013
AL BERNSTEIN: It's the adversity
that you face as a boxer that
1763
01:22:33,015 --> 01:22:35,516
really brings out
the true champion.
1764
01:22:35,518 --> 01:22:38,185
Bernard, and Mike, and
Evander, all of them
1765
01:22:38,187 --> 01:22:39,853
have faced that
kind of adversity.
1766
01:22:39,855 --> 01:22:43,590
Inside the ring, to be sure,
but outside the ring as well.
1767
01:22:43,592 --> 01:22:47,328
And I don't think we can measure
the arc of some of these people
1768
01:22:47,330 --> 01:22:49,496
until we see them go
through the adversities.
1769
01:22:49,498 --> 01:22:53,133
And when they do, it takes
a lot to come back from it.
1770
01:22:53,135 --> 01:22:56,236
The one thing that I think
keeps them coming back,
1771
01:22:56,238 --> 01:22:58,939
both in the boxing
ring and in life,
1772
01:22:58,941 --> 01:23:03,143
is the fact that boxers
have perseverance.
1773
01:23:03,145 --> 01:23:07,614
-I'm on a different mission
now that some ain't gonna like.
1774
01:23:07,616 --> 01:23:08,582
And they shouldn't.
1775
01:23:12,855 --> 01:23:15,489
What I would like to do
in my second half of life
1776
01:23:15,491 --> 01:23:17,458
is to raise what
they would perceive
1777
01:23:17,460 --> 01:23:20,461
to be hell amongst the
people that want to keep
1778
01:23:20,463 --> 01:23:25,733
a society of prey to exist
so they can take advantage
1779
01:23:25,735 --> 01:23:28,535
of the backs, and blood,
and tears of a fighter.
1780
01:23:28,537 --> 01:23:30,804
-We need to start thinking
about things in the long term,
1781
01:23:30,806 --> 01:23:32,806
and I think some of
that responsibility
1782
01:23:32,808 --> 01:23:35,242
falls on those that interact
with the fighters on a more day
1783
01:23:35,244 --> 01:23:36,610
to day basis.
1784
01:23:36,612 --> 01:23:38,612
There's one particular fighter
that has really stepped out
1785
01:23:38,614 --> 01:23:40,447
in front, and that's
Bernard Hopkins.
1786
01:23:40,449 --> 01:23:42,916
BERNARD HOPKINS: Being a part
of Golden Boy Promotion, what
1787
01:23:42,918 --> 01:23:47,354
I want to do is to take every
fighter that comes through me.
1788
01:23:47,356 --> 01:23:51,058
You've got to have
your own account.
1789
01:23:51,060 --> 01:23:55,195
You've got to have
your own attorney.
1790
01:23:55,197 --> 01:23:58,332
You've got to know what
the business is about.
1791
01:24:01,437 --> 01:24:04,104
-This was the sport of kings.
1792
01:24:04,106 --> 01:24:05,606
This sport changed history, man.
1793
01:24:05,608 --> 01:24:07,141
This sport had more to
do with the advancement
1794
01:24:07,143 --> 01:24:10,044
of the civil rights movement
than any other sport.
1795
01:24:10,046 --> 01:24:14,181
From Jack Johnson to Joe
Lewis to Muhammad Ali.
1796
01:24:14,183 --> 01:24:16,417
This is a sport that is
ingrained in the fabric
1797
01:24:16,419 --> 01:24:17,718
of this country.
1798
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:20,854
I think that a
resurgence is possible,
1799
01:24:20,856 --> 01:24:25,059
but there has to be
some changes made.
1800
01:24:25,061 --> 01:24:26,860
NAAZIM RICHARDSON: The
ultimate opponent for a fighter
1801
01:24:26,862 --> 01:24:28,762
is truth.
1802
01:24:28,764 --> 01:24:29,963
If he can be truthful
with himself,
1803
01:24:29,965 --> 01:24:31,832
if he can look at his
limitations and then
1804
01:24:31,834 --> 01:24:33,967
work on them.
1805
01:24:33,969 --> 01:24:38,072
If he can understand what he
does well and then enhance it.
1806
01:24:38,074 --> 01:24:40,541
But he has to deal in truth.
1807
01:24:40,543 --> 01:24:44,578
-When you lose, you can
only blame yourself.
1808
01:24:44,580 --> 01:24:47,748
Go back and just look
at what you did wrong.
1809
01:24:47,750 --> 01:24:51,785
It's the ones that know how to
lose, and make yourself better,
1810
01:24:51,787 --> 01:24:54,021
and come back.
1811
01:24:54,023 --> 01:24:55,022
That's boxing.
1812
01:24:59,428 --> 01:25:03,464
BERNARD HOPKINS: In boxing,
you have to have challenges,
1813
01:25:03,466 --> 01:25:08,535
and you use those challenges to
take it to a different level.
1814
01:25:08,537 --> 01:25:10,938
I'm a fighter.
1815
01:25:10,940 --> 01:25:13,740
I'm that type of guy that
could've been anything else
1816
01:25:13,742 --> 01:25:17,711
in my life if I
chose to be that.
1817
01:25:17,713 --> 01:25:21,615
We all have talent in us.
1818
01:25:21,617 --> 01:25:24,985
You just gotta find it.
1819
01:25:24,987 --> 01:25:28,755
EVANDER HOLYFIELD: Everybody's
tested in one way or another.
1820
01:25:28,757 --> 01:25:30,791
It ain't easy.
1821
01:25:30,793 --> 01:25:33,127
Your priorities
gotta be lined up.
1822
01:25:33,129 --> 01:25:36,330
I have just as many
distractions as somebody else.
1823
01:25:36,332 --> 01:25:38,065
but I really wanted to be great.
1824
01:25:41,370 --> 01:25:43,504
Victory is how you're
able to inspire
1825
01:25:43,506 --> 01:25:48,208
people to want to be better.
1826
01:25:48,210 --> 01:25:49,610
MIKE TYSON: This all
comes down to family,
1827
01:25:49,612 --> 01:25:51,912
love, and forgiveness,
and respect.
1828
01:25:51,914 --> 01:25:56,283
Bridging the gaps between who
I am and who I want to be.
1829
01:25:56,285 --> 01:25:58,685
I'll find different
ways of becoming
1830
01:25:58,687 --> 01:25:59,853
more conscious about myself.
1831
01:26:03,526 --> 01:26:06,727
Human beings think a lot
of themselves, you know.
1832
01:26:06,729 --> 01:26:08,462
To think that we'll be
that privileged to see
1833
01:26:08,464 --> 01:26:11,265
the end of the world.
1834
01:26:11,267 --> 01:26:14,668
I don't think we're gonna
have that privilege.
1835
01:26:14,670 --> 01:26:18,005
I know there's things
that have been bad,
1836
01:26:18,007 --> 01:26:21,775
but you have to look at all the
good that's happening out here.
1837
01:26:21,777 --> 01:26:24,878
I see a new birth in the world.
1838
01:26:24,880 --> 01:26:26,647
I see people
respecting people more.
1839
01:26:29,151 --> 01:26:31,552
We have to evolve.
1840
01:26:31,554 --> 01:26:34,188
This is a great world,
and it's the best deal
1841
01:26:34,190 --> 01:26:35,322
we ever got in our
life, you know.
1842
01:26:35,324 --> 01:26:37,124
Life itself.
1843
01:26:37,126 --> 01:26:38,025
We got it for nothing.
1844
01:26:38,027 --> 01:26:39,526
Look at all we got in return.
1845
01:26:43,732 --> 01:26:46,767
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