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� We have
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� Say what?
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� A whole lotof superstars �
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� On this stagehere tonight �
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� But I want y'allto know one thing �
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� This is my house
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� And when I say,"Whose house?" �
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� Y'all knowwhat time it is �
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� Whose house?
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� Run's house
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� Once again, my friend,not a trend for then �
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� They said rap was crap,but never had this band �
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� Till the ruler camewith a cooler name �
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� Made you dance and pranceand drove the fans insane �
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� Name is Run, my son,number one for fun �
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� Not a gun that's doneand get done by none �
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� The other act, in fact,is just whack I kill �
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- � Why?
- � It's fun, my son, and Run heads the bill �
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� Whose house?
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� Run's house.
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( music playing )
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Nat King Cole:
� There was a boy
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� A very strange,enchanted boy �
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� They say he wanderedvery far �
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� Very far
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� Over land and sea
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� A little shy
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� And sad of eye
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� But very wise
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� Was he
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� And then one day
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� A magic dayhe passed my way �
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� And while we spokeof many things �
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� Fools and kings
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� This he said to me
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� The greatest thing
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� You'll ever learn
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� Is just to love
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� And be loved
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� In return.
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( strobes popping )
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Thank you for coming
out tonight and welcome
to my living room.
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( applause )
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This is gonna be
interesting.
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This is gonna be a fun night,
I can see.
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I know many of you
are probably wondering,
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"What the hell
is Mike Tyson gonna do
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up here onstage
tonight," right?
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And, frankly, I'm wondering
the same thing, too.
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As you know,
the name of my show
is "The Undisputed Truth."
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I personally wanted
to name it
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"Boxing, Bitches,
and Lawsuits-- Plus a Baby."
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You know?
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But my wife and attorney,
they absolutely freaked
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and I couldn't go
that way.
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But, you know,
life is great.
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You know, I really
can't complain these days.
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I'm just very grateful
that life has come full
circle for me.
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Many of you may remember
I'm the guy
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that used to knock
motherfuckers out in less
than 30 seconds.
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( cheering )
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Thank you.
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And I'll knock a motherfucker
out tonight, too,
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if shit get out of--
I'm kidding.
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No, I'm domesticated now
with kids.
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Lawsuits.
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But now I'm here
in New York City.
My hometown.
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At the Imperial Theatre
to entertain you all.
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I actually did my show
here on Broadway last summer
for the first time.
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Many people thought this was
my first time on Broadway,
but it wasn't.
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I actually got arrested on
this same block right here.
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Many years ago, though.
Many years ago.
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I like to say that
arrest was one of those
defining moments for me.
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If I hadn't gotten arrested
on that particular night,
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I wouldn't have went
to that Spofford Juvenile
Detention Center.
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And if I never went
to that detention center,
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I would never have
met my mentor.
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If I never met my mentor,
of course,
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I would never
have been the youngest
heavyweight champion
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- in the history of boxing.
- ( cheering )
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That's true.
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So I really have to thank
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that really nice New York City
police officer
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that was kind enough to arrest
that badass black kid from
Brooklyn, of course.
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But New York
has changed a lot, huh?
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Especially this whole
Broadway-Times Square area.
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Like Disney World
up in this motherfucker.
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I remember when
it looked like a war zone
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for drug addicts, pimps,
and prostitutes.
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You know, Koch was the mayor
then, of course.
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And I couldn't walk down
the street
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without a pervert
flashing his dick at me
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or somebody trying
to sell me something.
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Wanted that shitand didn't even buy.
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And this neighborhood
became a prime robbing location
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for me
and my Brownsville crew.
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Brownsville's in this house.
I know they have to be.
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( cheering )
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That'd be fucking
real, huh?
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I did this show so you'd better
understand me, of course.
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In my own words.
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You may have seen
that documentary I did
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with my good friend
Jim Toback, "Tyson."
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We won a few
awards and we kicked ass
at the Cannes Film Festival.
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But to be honest,
that was some real
dark shit, right?
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I was filming it
straight out of rehab,
so what did you expect?
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I still had that stuff
in my system
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and I'm coming at you
full speed ahead.
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But tonight, I'm promising
to be a lot lighter,
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like my personality
these days.
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And, listen,
all jokes aside,
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I don't know what
you're gonna take away
from this experience tonight,
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but to simply put it,
this is my story.
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My mistakes, my heartaches,
my joy, my sorrow,
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my gift, my life,
my undisputed truth.
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Let's get this popping.
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- ( music playing )
- ( cheering )
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This is fun.
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We got Red Hook up there.
Brooklyn Heights.
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Carroll Gardens.
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But this is where
it all started right here,
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June 30, 1966,
the day I was born
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in Cumberland Hospital
in the republic of Brooklyn,
New York.
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It's the same hospital
where ballers Bernard and
Albert King were born,
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and the legendary
Michael Jordan.
Right here.
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In Fort Greene.
Oh, fuck.
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This is fucked up.
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This is supposed to be
me and my mother up here.
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Listen, come on,
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there's no baby pictures
of Mike Tyson floating around,
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but God damn, Spike.
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You couldn't find a picture
of a nice black mother
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holding a child?
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That's really fucked.
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I'm taking it
on the chin, guys, okay?
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Wow.
This is much better.
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This is where
it really begun.
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Right here with this woman,
my mother, Lorna May Tyson.
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( cheering )
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A simple Southern woman
from the Charlottesville,
Virginia, area
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that moved up north
and tried to live out
her dreams
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that never came to form.
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I was the youngest
of three children.
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My brother Rodney
and my sister Denise,
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they were more
like my mother.
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I always felt
like the odd guy,
the black sheep.
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Ooh, ooh, ooh.
And this guy right here,
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this is my father
Curly Lee Kirkpatrick.
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Wait a minute.
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Now, if Curly Kirkpatrick
is supposed to be my father,
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then who the fuck
is this dude on my
birth certificate?
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This is where the shit
gets really tricky, right?
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So...
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listen to this.
My mom said Curly's my dad,
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but Percel fucking Tyson
is on the birth certificate.
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How did this happen?
No wonder I'm so fucked up.
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Here's the early proof.
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I'm still not sure who the hell
my father really is.
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Curly was the pimp.
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You know, Percel was the humble
Jamaican cab driver.
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A sucker.
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I so desperately wanted to be
the son of the pimp
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because in my
neighborhood of Brownsville,
that carries weight.
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So if Curly really wasn't
my father,
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him and my mother
must have made some deal
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that once a year
you come around
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and show your manhood,
show fatherhood.
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And this is what he'd do.
He'd come around.
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He always had a nice
Cadillac, of course.
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And he'd come around,
beep the horn.
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Boop, boop.
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"Oh, God, Daddy's downstairs.
Look at his car, Daddy."
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"Get down here,
you little motherfuckers!"
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And so, of course,
we'd get in the car
happy, excited,
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thinking we're gonna go
to some exotic place
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like Coney Island.
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Or Bear Mountain.
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But, you know, that was
some good shit when you're
broke back in the day.
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That was some
real good shit, right?
Especially from Brownsville.
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Don't be talking
like y'all are some
fly niggas all your life.
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You know, it's like
going to Paris.
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But anyway, right...
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to our sad surprise,
five minutes later,
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he'd go around the block,
he drops us back off.
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Five dollars richer,
of course.
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I don't know why we thought
each year would be different.
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You know, I really don't know
much about my mother.
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I remember her drinking
a lot and always angry
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and fighting.
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I knew she had dreams
of becoming a schoolteacher.
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But then
she met my father--
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well, the man I was told
was my father.
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The fast-talking,
cool-dressing pimp
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who I always credited
with changing the path
of my mother's life.
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And before long,
she was caught up
in the street life.
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But she paid
the heavy toll
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because at heart
she really wasn't
that girl at all.
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So she drank
to cover up the pain.
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And I suppose my addictions
started here with her.
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See, I was born
with the addictive gene
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and it still haunts me
to this day.
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Ready to creep up on me
in my darkest night.
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Ready to rob me
of my brightest day.
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You know, this is
the only picture I have
of my mother, Lorna May.
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But it's a good one.
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She seemed like she must
have been happy that day.
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I wish I knew
more about her.
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I know when
she took this picture,
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she never imagined her boy
would make it out of Brownsville
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unless I did it in some
handcuffs or a wooden box.
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You know, I didn't come
from a place where memories
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are cherished and displayed
proudly in a photo album.
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I came from the gutter.
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A place where dreams
are broken
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and memories
are best forgotten.
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Welcome to Brownsville.
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Our motto is
"never run and never will."
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As a matter of fact,right here is my block.
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178 Amboy Street.
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- Anybody know
where that's at?
- ( cheering )
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My memories are
of this place right, well--
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well, not this place.
I don't remember it
looking like this.
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I remember broken windows,
graffiti,
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dog shit on the sidewalk.
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"A tree grows
in Brooklyn," my ass.
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Spike--
Spike shot this shit
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a few weeks before
our Broadway run.
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But now there's white people
in the neighborhood,
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as you know,
the Whole Foods.
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And you know, once those
white people move in,
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there goes
the neighborhood.
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They will lock
your ass up.
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At that time leaving
Bed-Stuy, "do or die,"
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moving to Brownsville,
"never ran, never will,"
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it was equivalent
to being born in hell
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and then the devil
took you and moved you
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into his toilet
where he could shit
on you real good.
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And that's what he did
to me and my family.
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I can still see myself
and my friends
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roaming the streets at all
hours of the day and night.
244
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And I hung out
with a tough crew of kids.
245
00:11:18,852 --> 00:11:21,186
But my street friends
were my family, of course.
246
00:11:21,221 --> 00:11:23,605
And we all knew no one
was gonna give us anything.
247
00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:25,340
We knew if we wanted anything,
we had to take it.
248
00:11:25,358 --> 00:11:27,643
And that's
what we did a lot.
249
00:11:27,677 --> 00:11:29,678
I'm 10 years old
right here.
250
00:11:29,696 --> 00:11:32,481
I remember I scoreda couple of hundred buckson a robbing spree.
251
00:11:32,515 --> 00:11:34,233
I used to be a good
pickpocket back then.
252
00:11:34,284 --> 00:11:36,452
I bought that new jacket,
this bomber jacket,
253
00:11:36,486 --> 00:11:39,037
and I took this photo
at Woolworth's in a photo booth.
254
00:11:39,072 --> 00:11:41,038
You remember Woolworth's?
Pitkin Avenue?
255
00:11:41,073 --> 00:11:43,023
Woolworth's?
After taking this picture,
256
00:11:43,041 --> 00:11:45,192
I caught the 14 bus
off Pitkin Avenue.
257
00:11:45,210 --> 00:11:46,911
I went to Utica
Roller Skating Rink
258
00:11:46,962 --> 00:11:48,246
to meet up with some
friends of mine.
259
00:11:48,297 --> 00:11:49,530
Since we didn't
have nothing,
260
00:11:49,548 --> 00:11:51,332
we took pride
in looking good.
261
00:11:51,366 --> 00:11:54,635
Our clothes played
a great role in our identity
and our self-esteem.
262
00:11:54,670 --> 00:11:56,337
You weren't shit unless you
had some shell-toe Adidas
263
00:11:56,371 --> 00:11:58,256
or straight-legged
jeans from Lee,
264
00:11:58,307 --> 00:12:01,709
a Kangol hat and those big
stupid Star Wars ski goggles
265
00:12:01,727 --> 00:12:03,210
even though
we couldn't ski.
266
00:12:03,228 --> 00:12:06,096
Day of robbing spree would
also include keeping our eyes
267
00:12:06,147 --> 00:12:08,849
on the other little kids
in the neighborhood that were
robbing and stealing, too.
268
00:12:08,883 --> 00:12:10,734
They were
always easy scores
269
00:12:10,768 --> 00:12:12,936
and they could never
go back to the cops.
270
00:12:12,987 --> 00:12:15,388
The worst thing that can happen
there is you'd have to fight
271
00:12:15,406 --> 00:12:16,656
their big brother
or one of their friends.
272
00:12:16,691 --> 00:12:18,408
But it's still easier
than getting locked up.
273
00:12:18,442 --> 00:12:20,360
Man, we were like
a pack of wild wolves.
274
00:12:20,394 --> 00:12:22,061
God forbid if you came
to our neighborhood
275
00:12:22,079 --> 00:12:23,947
and we didn't know you.
We might have killed you.
276
00:12:23,998 --> 00:12:26,449
And we could always
be found on a corner
277
00:12:26,501 --> 00:12:28,250
unless we was hiding
from the cops.
278
00:12:28,285 --> 00:12:30,953
We'd be there talking shit,
smoking weed,
279
00:12:31,004 --> 00:12:32,505
gambling, drinking.
280
00:12:32,539 --> 00:12:35,624
Night Train, Brass Monkey,
Olde English 800.
281
00:12:35,675 --> 00:12:38,460
You name it, we drank it.
The cheaper the better.
282
00:12:39,379 --> 00:12:40,746
That's real talk.
283
00:12:40,764 --> 00:12:42,915
We'd sit around laughing
about our robbing spree,
284
00:12:42,933 --> 00:12:45,584
splitting money and laughing
about almost getting caught.
285
00:12:45,602 --> 00:12:48,253
It was always funny
until you were the one
that got caught.
286
00:12:48,271 --> 00:12:50,855
Shit, by the time
I was 12 years old,
287
00:12:50,890 --> 00:12:52,924
I was arrested
over 38 times.
288
00:12:52,942 --> 00:12:54,776
You know how it is.
289
00:12:54,810 --> 00:12:56,311
The juvenile detention center
was like "Cheers."
290
00:12:56,362 --> 00:12:57,862
There, everybody
knew my name.
291
00:12:57,897 --> 00:13:00,031
No, really.No shit.
292
00:13:00,065 --> 00:13:01,816
The whole of Brownsvillewas locked up with me.
293
00:13:01,867 --> 00:13:03,484
It was like one big
family reunion.
294
00:13:03,536 --> 00:13:05,770
No, like a summer camp.
No, even better than that.
295
00:13:05,788 --> 00:13:08,456
'Cause we got three hots
and a cot.
296
00:13:08,490 --> 00:13:11,409
For most of us,
that was royal treatment.
297
00:13:11,443 --> 00:13:13,777
But, you know,
when I wasn't locked up,
298
00:13:13,795 --> 00:13:15,462
which wasn't too often,
299
00:13:15,496 --> 00:13:18,114
only thing I enjoyed more
than stealing was my pigeons.
300
00:13:18,132 --> 00:13:19,917
My first fight startedwith one of my pigeons.
301
00:13:19,951 --> 00:13:22,002
You know, Gary the bully
stole one of my pigeons
302
00:13:22,053 --> 00:13:24,304
that I stole,
you know.
303
00:13:24,339 --> 00:13:26,957
And I'm like 10
at the time.
304
00:13:26,975 --> 00:13:29,760
"Give me my bird back.
Please, please, give me
my bird back."
305
00:13:29,794 --> 00:13:32,295
"Shut the fuck up, nigga.
You dumb fat fuck.
306
00:13:32,313 --> 00:13:34,264
You want this
motherfucking bird?
Fuck you."
307
00:13:34,298 --> 00:13:37,016
And he snapped my bird--
the fucker, he snapped
my bird's neck
308
00:13:37,067 --> 00:13:38,935
and threw the blood on me
and hit me with the bird.
309
00:13:38,969 --> 00:13:41,971
Then my rage let loose
and I beat Gary the bully's
motherfucking ass.
310
00:13:41,989 --> 00:13:45,191
- ( laughs )
- ( cheering )
311
00:13:48,161 --> 00:13:50,196
It was love
at first fight.
312
00:13:51,531 --> 00:13:52,915
It wouldn't be long beforeI got a reputation
313
00:13:52,950 --> 00:13:54,984
for being
the good street fighter
in the neighborhood.
314
00:13:55,002 --> 00:13:57,670
Older kids would bring other
kids from other neighborhoods
315
00:13:57,704 --> 00:13:59,488
who were supposed to be
good street fighters
316
00:13:59,506 --> 00:14:01,289
to come to my block
to fight me.
317
00:14:01,323 --> 00:14:03,925
Well, actually, they
had to come to my block
'cause I was only 10.
318
00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:05,493
My mother wouldn't
let me leave the block.
319
00:14:05,511 --> 00:14:08,997
Anyway, we would go into
alleyways or abandoned buildings
320
00:14:09,015 --> 00:14:12,217
and the older guys would bet
money on us, of course.
321
00:14:12,268 --> 00:14:14,135
And they couldn't believe
I was a fat kid with glasses
322
00:14:14,169 --> 00:14:15,720
and I was kicking these
kids' asses,
323
00:14:15,771 --> 00:14:18,306
punching 'em, slamming 'em,
biting 'em, too, back then.
324
00:14:18,340 --> 00:14:19,975
( cheering )
325
00:14:20,009 --> 00:14:21,693
Oh, yeah, you know
you got to--
326
00:14:21,727 --> 00:14:24,695
you know you got to bite
the motherfuckers to get
them off your ass.
327
00:14:24,729 --> 00:14:26,847
They might have you in
the headlock too tight,
328
00:14:26,865 --> 00:14:29,066
right, and you got
that leg-- arr-rr!
329
00:14:31,352 --> 00:14:34,038
I was already
a legend in the making,
at least in my mind.
330
00:14:34,072 --> 00:14:36,573
I used my newfound talent
as an asset
331
00:14:36,625 --> 00:14:39,026
to my new crime enterprise,
of course, right?
332
00:14:39,044 --> 00:14:40,911
But I guess it wasn't
a good venture
333
00:14:40,962 --> 00:14:43,030
because I got caught
and finally sent away.
334
00:14:43,048 --> 00:14:45,165
Although I had a reputation
for being a good street fighter,
335
00:14:45,199 --> 00:14:47,700
I still never thought
about being a boxer
or prizefighter.
336
00:14:47,718 --> 00:14:50,086
I just wanted to be remembered
for being something great.
337
00:14:50,137 --> 00:14:53,506
I didn't know what.
Like a gangster or stickup man
or something.
338
00:14:53,540 --> 00:14:55,091
Muhammad Ali:
I'm a bad man.
339
00:14:55,142 --> 00:14:57,226
I am the kingof the world.
340
00:14:57,261 --> 00:15:00,546
( cheering )
341
00:15:00,564 --> 00:15:02,765
I remember like it was
yesterday when Muhammad Ali
342
00:15:02,816 --> 00:15:04,901
came to Spofford Juvenile
Detention Center
343
00:15:04,935 --> 00:15:07,553
to visit the kids there.
Man, he lit the place up.
344
00:15:07,571 --> 00:15:09,522
And I was saying to myself,
"Wow."
345
00:15:09,556 --> 00:15:12,157
I didn't know how
I was gonna do it, but I knew
I wanted what Ali had.
346
00:15:12,191 --> 00:15:14,993
I wanted people to be
around me and look up to me
because I was special.
347
00:15:15,028 --> 00:15:17,913
And at the time there
was this trainer that worked
at the Tryon School for Boys,
348
00:15:17,947 --> 00:15:21,366
a place that I would
eventually get transferred to
from Spofford
349
00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:23,919
'cause I stabbed
a motherfucker, right?
350
00:15:23,953 --> 00:15:26,088
I was a beautiful child.
351
00:15:26,122 --> 00:15:28,406
( laughs )
I was a beautiful child.
352
00:15:28,424 --> 00:15:30,092
Listen, right.
353
00:15:30,126 --> 00:15:33,243
So this trainer,
he taught boys how to box.
354
00:15:33,261 --> 00:15:36,246
And I remember seeing the guys
when I was in the hold.
355
00:15:36,264 --> 00:15:38,049
They were coming back
from the other side of the dorm
356
00:15:38,083 --> 00:15:40,267
with cracked ribs,
bloody noses, knocked-out teeth.
357
00:15:40,302 --> 00:15:44,055
But they were happy.
And I wanted to be happy, too.
358
00:15:44,089 --> 00:15:45,806
So I said, "Yo, yo,
what's going on?"
359
00:15:45,857 --> 00:15:47,257
'Cause that's how I talked
back then.
360
00:15:47,275 --> 00:15:49,193
"Yo, yo, what's going on
back there, man? What's up?"
361
00:15:49,227 --> 00:15:50,978
I wanted to be in
that program so bad,
362
00:15:51,029 --> 00:15:52,863
but he ignored me.
363
00:15:52,898 --> 00:15:55,366
The trainer, Bobby Stewart,
who we're watching now,
364
00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,567
he ignored me because he
thought I was a troublemaker,
365
00:15:57,601 --> 00:15:59,435
and I was 'cause I stabbed
a guy to get there.
366
00:15:59,453 --> 00:16:02,271
It was a bad place...
367
00:16:02,289 --> 00:16:04,824
So he comes to my room
in the middle of the night
368
00:16:04,875 --> 00:16:06,442
'cause I told people
I wanted to meet him
369
00:16:06,460 --> 00:16:08,745
and this is
his white ass.
370
00:16:08,779 --> 00:16:10,964
( laughter )
371
00:16:10,998 --> 00:16:13,216
"Let me tell you something,
you little dickhead.
372
00:16:13,250 --> 00:16:15,618
I hear you want to be
in my program."
373
00:16:15,636 --> 00:16:17,087
( laughter )
374
00:16:17,121 --> 00:16:18,888
"You got to show me
you're ready to work
375
00:16:18,923 --> 00:16:21,306
without being an asshole,
asshole.
376
00:16:22,842 --> 00:16:23,959
And then you do
that with me,
377
00:16:23,977 --> 00:16:26,011
maybe I could work
with your dumb ass."
378
00:16:26,062 --> 00:16:28,430
And this is how
he talked to me.
Just met me that evening.
379
00:16:28,464 --> 00:16:29,982
It was hard,
but I did it.
380
00:16:30,016 --> 00:16:31,817
I got on honor roll.
You know the honor roll.
381
00:16:31,851 --> 00:16:34,403
The slow kids' honor roll.
Special ed honor roll.
382
00:16:34,437 --> 00:16:36,855
I made the fucking
special ed honor roll.
383
00:16:36,906 --> 00:16:39,158
Like, "what block will fit
into this hole" type shit.
384
00:16:39,192 --> 00:16:40,576
I did it. I did it.
385
00:16:40,610 --> 00:16:43,477
Who needs boxing?I got on honor roll.
386
00:16:43,495 --> 00:16:45,530
So he introduced me
to this old Italian man
387
00:16:45,581 --> 00:16:47,165
that would change
the path of my life.
388
00:16:47,199 --> 00:16:50,284
This guy would become
my mentor and his name
was Cus D'Amato.
389
00:16:50,318 --> 00:16:53,654
( applause )
390
00:16:56,992 --> 00:16:58,826
The names Mike Tyson
and Cus D'Amato
391
00:16:58,844 --> 00:17:01,179
would forever be synonymous
with one another.
392
00:17:01,213 --> 00:17:03,998
You can't mention my nameand not ever referencethe legacy of Cus
393
00:17:04,016 --> 00:17:07,333
nor can you mention Cus
without reference to my legacy.
394
00:17:07,351 --> 00:17:10,887
Cus told me from the moment
he met me what would happen
after he watched me box
395
00:17:10,938 --> 00:17:13,223
and follow his map
to success.
396
00:17:13,274 --> 00:17:15,008
He said--
just like this, he said,
397
00:17:15,026 --> 00:17:16,643
"Now, Mike, I'll tell you,
Mike, if you listen to me,
398
00:17:16,677 --> 00:17:20,513
you really want to do this,
I'm gonna put you in the locals,
399
00:17:20,531 --> 00:17:22,783
then the regionals,
then the nationals.
400
00:17:22,817 --> 00:17:24,451
You're gonna win that,
and then after that,
401
00:17:24,485 --> 00:17:27,320
you're gonna become
the youngest heavyweight
champ of all time.
402
00:17:27,354 --> 00:17:30,489
As of now,
I hold the record
with Floyd Patterson at 21.
403
00:17:30,523 --> 00:17:33,909
You could break that record
at 20 and be the youngest and
the greatest of all time.
404
00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,162
Only if you listen
to me, of course."
405
00:17:38,465 --> 00:17:41,300
And so, of course,
I'm a young black kid
from the inner city.
406
00:17:41,334 --> 00:17:44,336
Cus says this to me,
this white man said this
to me with no hesitation.
407
00:17:44,370 --> 00:17:46,722
I thought he was
a pervert at first.
408
00:17:46,756 --> 00:17:49,708
No, 'cause where I come from,
they was trying to fuck you.
409
00:17:49,726 --> 00:17:51,510
There's always somebody
trying to fuck you, right?
410
00:17:51,544 --> 00:17:53,595
But really, believe it or not,
his confidence in delivery
411
00:17:53,646 --> 00:17:56,097
made me believe this was
gonna be an easy task, right?
412
00:17:56,148 --> 00:17:58,900
At the time, I had no idea
what I was getting myself into.
413
00:17:58,934 --> 00:18:00,985
I just knew
it sounded good.
414
00:18:01,020 --> 00:18:03,404
When I got discouraged,
as I often did,
415
00:18:03,439 --> 00:18:06,241
he would massage my mind
with these great thoughts
416
00:18:06,275 --> 00:18:09,777
of exotic worlds
and masterful treasures.
417
00:18:09,829 --> 00:18:12,113
Man, everything he said
sounded so foreign to me,
418
00:18:12,164 --> 00:18:13,898
but I loved the way
it sound.
419
00:18:13,916 --> 00:18:16,950
There we were,
venturing off on this
magnificent adventure
420
00:18:17,001 --> 00:18:18,836
like two pirates
ready to claim our riches
421
00:18:18,870 --> 00:18:21,371
and to decimate anyone
that stands in our way.
422
00:18:21,405 --> 00:18:25,876
This old man made me hunger
for glory like a mad dog.
423
00:18:25,910 --> 00:18:28,462
So one of the first things
Cus ever told me
424
00:18:28,513 --> 00:18:31,265
was this invention
called the Willie.
The Willie, right?
425
00:18:31,299 --> 00:18:34,084
It's named after light
heavyweight champion
Willie Pastrano.
426
00:18:34,102 --> 00:18:36,103
Let me explain this.
427
00:18:36,137 --> 00:18:38,305
Cus would call out
a number.
428
00:18:38,356 --> 00:18:39,438
Cus would call out
these numbers.
429
00:18:39,473 --> 00:18:41,090
Cus would call
these numbers out
430
00:18:41,108 --> 00:18:44,560
and I'm gonna
do it slow
431
00:18:44,594 --> 00:18:46,445
'cause I'm an old
motherfucker now, all right?
432
00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,098
But Cus would
call out numbers
in rapid succession.
433
00:18:49,116 --> 00:18:50,283
It would go
something like this.
434
00:18:50,317 --> 00:18:51,767
One-- left hook
to the jaw. Boom.
435
00:18:51,785 --> 00:18:53,435
Two-- right hook
to the jaw. Boom.
436
00:18:53,453 --> 00:18:55,771
Three-- left uppercut.
Four-- right uppercut.
437
00:18:55,789 --> 00:18:57,240
Five-- left hook
to the liver.
438
00:18:57,274 --> 00:18:58,941
Six-- right hand
to the spleen.
439
00:18:58,959 --> 00:19:01,610
Seven-- jab to the head.
Eight-- jab to the body.
440
00:19:01,628 --> 00:19:04,045
Fuck. I'm glad I don't have
to do that for a living no more.
441
00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:05,830
God damn.
442
00:19:05,882 --> 00:19:09,450
But anyway, our early
adventures started traveling
all over the country
443
00:19:09,468 --> 00:19:11,503
fighting in these small clubs
called "smokers."
444
00:19:11,554 --> 00:19:12,971
And the reason why
they were called smokers
445
00:19:13,005 --> 00:19:14,890
is because the cigarette
and cigar smoke
446
00:19:14,924 --> 00:19:17,342
was so thick,
you could hardly see
the guy you're fighting
447
00:19:17,393 --> 00:19:18,810
let alone the guy
you're talking to.
448
00:19:18,844 --> 00:19:20,562
And Cus was a big man
in this world.
449
00:19:20,596 --> 00:19:22,647
And the fights was
pretty much unsanctioned,
450
00:19:22,682 --> 00:19:24,182
which meant lawless.
451
00:19:24,233 --> 00:19:25,650
There was never
no paramedics outside.
452
00:19:25,685 --> 00:19:28,319
If you got a concussion
and you died, it's on you.
453
00:19:28,353 --> 00:19:30,637
You know?
No, this is real talk.
454
00:19:30,655 --> 00:19:33,407
And plus, if the crowd
didn't like your performance,
they didn't boo.
455
00:19:33,441 --> 00:19:35,492
They fought each other
to show you how it
was really done.
456
00:19:35,527 --> 00:19:37,945
This is some serious
Puerto Rican shit, man.
I'm serious, all right?
457
00:19:37,979 --> 00:19:40,030
I'm serious.
You think I'm bullshitting?
458
00:19:40,081 --> 00:19:42,166
No offense, Puerto Ricans,
but listen...
459
00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:44,168
( laughter, applause )
460
00:19:44,202 --> 00:19:46,320
y'all some fighting
motherfuckers.
461
00:19:46,338 --> 00:19:47,821
You're either fighting,
fucking, or cutting.
462
00:19:47,839 --> 00:19:50,323
Y'all are doing some shit.
But anyway,
463
00:19:50,341 --> 00:19:52,825
so I'm like
14 years old, right?
464
00:19:52,843 --> 00:19:56,095
But Cus had me chiseled
in this great Michelangelo
statue right here.
465
00:19:56,130 --> 00:19:57,997
Back-- not now.
Back then, all right?
466
00:19:58,015 --> 00:20:01,184
I was really cut up
like I got in a fight with
the Latin Kings and lost.
467
00:20:01,218 --> 00:20:03,136
No, listen, really.
I won the national championship
468
00:20:03,170 --> 00:20:05,021
just like Cus said I would
at 14.
469
00:20:05,055 --> 00:20:07,190
I broke the record
for the fastest knockout.
470
00:20:07,224 --> 00:20:09,776
Never been broken.
Eight seconds.
471
00:20:09,810 --> 00:20:12,978
( applause )
472
00:20:13,012 --> 00:20:15,564
I was well on my way.
473
00:20:15,615 --> 00:20:19,868
So one day
Cus looks at me
dead in my eye
474
00:20:19,902 --> 00:20:22,955
and he goes,
"Hey, Michael, you scared
of white people?"
475
00:20:22,989 --> 00:20:26,124
What?
"You, are you scared
of white people?"
476
00:20:26,159 --> 00:20:28,460
Fuck.
477
00:20:28,494 --> 00:20:31,463
I'm scared of this
white motherfucker right here.
478
00:20:31,497 --> 00:20:33,882
Shit, I'm not worried.
He didn't get reelected.
479
00:20:33,916 --> 00:20:35,699
I'm cool.
480
00:20:35,717 --> 00:20:37,534
Elected.
I got fucked up
with the words.
481
00:20:37,552 --> 00:20:39,086
Elected.
482
00:20:39,137 --> 00:20:40,838
Shit, I can't believe
Spike's racist ass
483
00:20:40,872 --> 00:20:42,890
didn't have George Zimmerman
up here instead of him.
484
00:20:42,924 --> 00:20:44,725
Shit.
485
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,762
Oh, shit.
486
00:20:47,813 --> 00:20:49,713
Fuck.
487
00:20:49,731 --> 00:20:51,548
Love to Trayvon Martin
and family.
488
00:20:51,566 --> 00:20:53,934
But, anyway,
I'm talking shit.
489
00:20:56,721 --> 00:21:00,023
( laughter )
490
00:21:01,275 --> 00:21:04,077
But really, no,
as I'm saying this to you,
491
00:21:04,111 --> 00:21:07,580
and I'm speaking
very eloquent at the moment,
492
00:21:07,615 --> 00:21:09,732
Spike isn't worth a damn
493
00:21:09,750 --> 00:21:11,567
because Spike knew me
over 20 years,
494
00:21:11,585 --> 00:21:14,871
but he never told me
that, "Mike, you need
a fucking interpreter.
495
00:21:14,905 --> 00:21:16,840
I don't know what the fuck
you're talking about."
496
00:21:16,874 --> 00:21:19,125
( laughter, applause )
497
00:21:19,176 --> 00:21:21,411
This was not even on the show.
This is some real shit.
498
00:21:21,429 --> 00:21:25,014
So anyway...
Cus was born in like 1905.
499
00:21:25,048 --> 00:21:26,581
So he sees a big--
what's that word?
500
00:21:26,599 --> 00:21:29,218
Transition.
He sees the big transition
in the black community.
501
00:21:29,252 --> 00:21:32,771
So he goes like,
"You ain't afraid
of white men.
502
00:21:32,806 --> 00:21:34,756
You're not afraid
of mustaches and beards.
503
00:21:34,774 --> 00:21:37,526
I've been around a lot
of black fighters that are
afraid to hit white people.
504
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:39,228
You better not be
one of those kind.
505
00:21:39,262 --> 00:21:40,762
Wasting my goddamn time.
I'm an old man.
506
00:21:40,780 --> 00:21:42,097
I don't got time
to waste."
507
00:21:42,115 --> 00:21:43,816
I'm like, "Whoa, Cus.
It's the '80s.
508
00:21:43,867 --> 00:21:45,267
I'm okay with hitting
a white person.
509
00:21:45,285 --> 00:21:46,901
Just tell me.
As a matter of fact, Cus,
I'm cool.
510
00:21:46,935 --> 00:21:48,769
Just tell me.
I'll hit anybody
you tell me to, Cus."
511
00:21:48,787 --> 00:21:51,989
Because I love Cus.
512
00:21:52,041 --> 00:21:55,276
You know, even though
he's an old man and small,
513
00:21:55,294 --> 00:21:56,661
he was
very intimidating.
514
00:21:56,712 --> 00:21:58,446
Here I am,
a boy of 14 years old,
515
00:21:58,464 --> 00:22:01,799
and I have this old man
in my face intimidating me.
516
00:22:01,834 --> 00:22:04,168
Just like this.
"Mike, you got to punch
with both hands.
517
00:22:04,219 --> 00:22:06,387
And don't
let him hold you."
518
00:22:06,422 --> 00:22:09,339
He's a mean-assold Italian man.
519
00:22:09,390 --> 00:22:10,757
It's just intimidating
with his words
520
00:22:10,791 --> 00:22:12,259
telling me not
to be intimidated.
521
00:22:12,293 --> 00:22:13,643
But yet I'm intimidated
522
00:22:13,678 --> 00:22:15,262
with the way he's trying
to tell me not to be--
523
00:22:15,296 --> 00:22:16,430
you kind of getting me?
524
00:22:16,464 --> 00:22:17,731
I was intimidated
across the board.
525
00:22:17,765 --> 00:22:19,015
I was just
fucked up, man.
526
00:22:19,067 --> 00:22:21,318
But Cus was beautiful.
I love Cus
527
00:22:21,352 --> 00:22:23,403
because I'm a street kid.
528
00:22:23,438 --> 00:22:25,472
I never had a mother
or a father really that close.
529
00:22:25,490 --> 00:22:27,190
But he taught me
how to read, write.
530
00:22:27,241 --> 00:22:28,692
He was very patient
with me.
531
00:22:28,743 --> 00:22:30,944
He encouraged me to read
anything I could get
my hands on.
532
00:22:30,978 --> 00:22:33,112
So one day
I'm in Cus's living room
533
00:22:33,146 --> 00:22:35,147
and I'm reading
the boxing encyclopedia.
534
00:22:35,165 --> 00:22:37,199
"Encyclopedia."
That's a word I learned.
535
00:22:37,250 --> 00:22:38,650
I had to work on that
with a speech coach.
536
00:22:38,668 --> 00:22:40,819
Encyclopedia.
537
00:22:42,089 --> 00:22:44,840
A record of great fighters
like Sam Langford,
538
00:22:44,875 --> 00:22:47,826
Harry Greb, Jack Britton,
Ted "Kid" Lewis,
539
00:22:47,844 --> 00:22:51,130
Willie Pep
and the great legendary
Sugar Ray Robinson.
540
00:22:51,164 --> 00:22:53,883
And these are sixfunny-looking guys, right?
541
00:22:53,934 --> 00:22:56,684
But when you
add up all their fights,
that's like 1,500 fights.
542
00:22:56,719 --> 00:22:59,220
I gave up right there.
I said, "Cus, I can't
do this shit."
543
00:22:59,271 --> 00:23:01,523
I didn't say shit.
But I said, "Cus, I could
never be like them.
544
00:23:01,557 --> 00:23:03,525
I can't do this."
545
00:23:03,559 --> 00:23:05,510
Then he looked at me
in the eye with angry passion.
546
00:23:05,528 --> 00:23:07,678
"Mike, you got to read
the whole records, Mike.
547
00:23:07,696 --> 00:23:09,781
Look at 'em.
What you doing trying
548
00:23:09,815 --> 00:23:11,616
to accomplish what these guys
tried to accomplish
549
00:23:11,650 --> 00:23:14,819
if you're not willing
to endure the misery and pain
these guys endured?
550
00:23:14,853 --> 00:23:17,705
We never hear any more about
the guys that knocked them
out early in their career.
551
00:23:17,740 --> 00:23:20,574
Know why, Mike? Know why?
'Cause at one point somebody
knocked them out, Mike.
552
00:23:20,625 --> 00:23:22,876
But they quit.
But these men you're
reading about,
553
00:23:22,911 --> 00:23:24,378
these champions,
they never quit.
554
00:23:24,412 --> 00:23:25,862
They never
got discouraged.
555
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,198
You know?
And that's why
the other guys,
556
00:23:28,216 --> 00:23:29,967
their demons are following
them forever, Mike.
557
00:23:30,001 --> 00:23:32,469
'Cause they had a chance
to face their demons
and they didn't.
558
00:23:32,504 --> 00:23:34,671
No, they didn't.
You have to face your demons.
559
00:23:34,705 --> 00:23:36,590
You hear me, Mike?
'Cause if you don't,
560
00:23:36,641 --> 00:23:39,376
they will follow you
to eternity.
561
00:23:39,394 --> 00:23:42,395
And you remember, Mike,
be careful how you fight
your fights
562
00:23:42,429 --> 00:23:45,214
'cause the way you fight
your fights be the way you
live your life."
563
00:23:45,232 --> 00:23:48,267
And I never quit again.
564
00:23:48,318 --> 00:23:51,821
A little later
in my amateur career
when I had this big head--
565
00:23:51,855 --> 00:23:53,889
( audience laughs )
566
00:23:53,907 --> 00:23:55,908
What the fuck?
567
00:23:55,943 --> 00:23:57,994
This looks like the 1910--
don't I look--
568
00:23:58,028 --> 00:23:59,445
no, really,
I was psyched.
569
00:23:59,496 --> 00:24:01,564
Don't I look
like these guys?
570
00:24:01,582 --> 00:24:04,617
Look at this guy.
It was all about the
bulge back then.
571
00:24:04,668 --> 00:24:06,751
It was allabout the bulge.
572
00:24:06,786 --> 00:24:08,503
In my early career,
I had this big head.
573
00:24:08,538 --> 00:24:10,088
I was national champ.
574
00:24:10,122 --> 00:24:13,408
And my talents were pretty
awesome back then, right?
575
00:24:13,426 --> 00:24:15,627
I was a 14-year-old kid
knocking out grown men.
576
00:24:15,678 --> 00:24:18,079
Cus was so happy.
Guys in the middle
of the night,
577
00:24:18,097 --> 00:24:20,348
my sparring partners,
in the middle of the night,
they would leave.
578
00:24:20,383 --> 00:24:22,517
Pack their bags
in the middle of the night
579
00:24:22,552 --> 00:24:24,553
when there's no lights
and just walk--
580
00:24:24,587 --> 00:24:27,689
and leave
without getting paid.
581
00:24:27,723 --> 00:24:31,192
But, you know,
after getting a bad
beating by me, of course.
582
00:24:31,226 --> 00:24:33,227
But who doesn't want
to get paid?
583
00:24:33,261 --> 00:24:36,730
It was the house joke.
Cus would say, "Another one
bites the dust.
584
00:24:36,764 --> 00:24:38,148
Another bites the dust."
585
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:39,817
So Cus would be around me
telling me,
586
00:24:39,868 --> 00:24:42,036
"If you listen to me,
you'll be a god beyond means.
587
00:24:42,070 --> 00:24:44,705
People will carry
your mother's bag."
588
00:24:44,739 --> 00:24:46,624
Cus thought I would be
a god of war.
589
00:24:46,658 --> 00:24:48,626
This is what this old Italian
man kept saying to me.
590
00:24:48,660 --> 00:24:51,161
He fucked me up.
You know what I mean?
591
00:24:51,213 --> 00:24:52,778
That's why I got
in all this trouble.
592
00:24:52,796 --> 00:24:54,214
I thought I was
a fucking god.
593
00:24:54,248 --> 00:24:58,001
'Cause I was kicking
niggas' ass like I was a god.
594
00:24:58,052 --> 00:25:00,553
Cus said I was the baddest man
on the planet one day.
595
00:25:00,588 --> 00:25:03,456
I was just a kid
and I thought I was.
596
00:25:03,474 --> 00:25:06,125
I'm a local celebrity.
Catskills stuff.
597
00:25:06,143 --> 00:25:08,011
I'm always in the papers.
598
00:25:08,062 --> 00:25:10,647
The professional boxing world
had their eye on me.
599
00:25:10,681 --> 00:25:13,566
And so every now and then,
I'd go back to Brownsville
600
00:25:13,601 --> 00:25:15,651
to hang out with my old
friends I used to hustle with
601
00:25:15,685 --> 00:25:18,153
and talk about my crazy
life with these white
people, right?
602
00:25:18,187 --> 00:25:20,939
I go down there
carrying a photo album.
603
00:25:20,973 --> 00:25:23,609
Nigga, I blew my friends away
with pictures of me
604
00:25:23,643 --> 00:25:25,494
and my little happy white--
no, not white friends.
605
00:25:25,528 --> 00:25:27,996
I got
happy white friends.
606
00:25:28,031 --> 00:25:30,649
I got well-fed,
nourished,
607
00:25:30,667 --> 00:25:33,168
a happy white school,
hugging, kissing.
608
00:25:33,202 --> 00:25:34,836
I'm holding white babies.
609
00:25:34,871 --> 00:25:36,655
I looked like I was
running for mayor up there.
610
00:25:36,673 --> 00:25:39,123
You know?
I looked like a fly
in buttermilk.
611
00:25:39,157 --> 00:25:41,125
Look at my black ass
up there.
612
00:25:41,159 --> 00:25:43,377
I just don't belong
in that picture.
613
00:25:44,663 --> 00:25:45,963
Look like I'm about
to rob them
614
00:25:45,997 --> 00:25:47,682
after their last supper.
615
00:25:47,716 --> 00:25:49,433
I just don't fit there,
616
00:25:49,468 --> 00:25:51,552
but these motherfuckers
loved me, right?
617
00:25:51,603 --> 00:25:53,054
You know, they loved me.
618
00:25:53,105 --> 00:25:55,439
I was one of those guysthat lived upstate.
619
00:25:55,474 --> 00:25:57,558
I came from upstate,
lived with a good white family.
620
00:25:57,609 --> 00:25:59,810
Liberal kind
that take in
621
00:25:59,844 --> 00:26:02,195
badass blacks
and Puerto Ricans and shit.
622
00:26:02,229 --> 00:26:05,031
Like the Fresh Air Fund.
"Come up and get some
fresh air.
623
00:26:05,066 --> 00:26:06,866
They're okay,
they just need fresh air."
624
00:26:06,901 --> 00:26:08,818
You know that shit,
people that have been
in group homes.
625
00:26:08,852 --> 00:26:11,571
You know about that, right?
"They just need some fresh air.
They're good kids."
626
00:26:11,622 --> 00:26:13,573
Then I'd go back to Brooklyn
and I'm still robbing people.
627
00:26:13,624 --> 00:26:16,543
Give me the-- give me
the fucking chain,
you stupid--
628
00:26:16,577 --> 00:26:18,078
Then I'd go back upstate
with my white family.
629
00:26:18,129 --> 00:26:20,246
"Hi, guys."
630
00:26:23,334 --> 00:26:25,217
I'd go,
"What's for dinner?
631
00:26:25,251 --> 00:26:27,886
Lamb chops?
Oh, God! Oh, shit.
632
00:26:27,921 --> 00:26:30,923
Oh, God. Camille, I love
your lamb chops so much."
633
00:26:32,592 --> 00:26:34,343
I say Camille,
I'm talking about
Camille Ewald.
634
00:26:34,377 --> 00:26:37,546
That's Cus's life partner.
635
00:26:38,982 --> 00:26:40,432
She's a Ukrainian lady.
Right here.
636
00:26:40,483 --> 00:26:41,984
Not the first,
that's the sister.
But right here.
637
00:26:42,018 --> 00:26:44,603
And she was a beautiful woman
'cause she had great food
638
00:26:44,654 --> 00:26:46,438
that I never ate before
and I loved the food
639
00:26:46,489 --> 00:26:48,523
and she loved me
because I loved to eat
all her food.
640
00:26:48,557 --> 00:26:50,608
And-- I'm sorry,
I'm sorry.
641
00:26:50,659 --> 00:26:52,243
Back to the robbing spree.
642
00:26:52,277 --> 00:26:55,496
Okay, as we were passing
the joint around, of course,
643
00:26:55,531 --> 00:26:58,116
looking
in the photo album,
644
00:26:58,167 --> 00:27:01,669
Panamanian Ernie said,
"Hey, papi, what the fuck, papi?
645
00:27:01,704 --> 00:27:03,404
You fucking with
these crackers, boy.
646
00:27:03,422 --> 00:27:06,290
Papi, you kissing
these babies, bro.
647
00:27:06,342 --> 00:27:08,343
You fucking-- don't fall
for the okey doke, boy.
648
00:27:08,377 --> 00:27:09,910
I'm telling you, bro.
Don't go for it, dawg."
649
00:27:09,928 --> 00:27:12,679
So my man Black goes,
Black goes like this,
Black said,
650
00:27:12,714 --> 00:27:14,798
"Let's get this money, nigga.
You up there with them
motherfuckers,
651
00:27:14,849 --> 00:27:16,916
big-ass white motherfuckers,
let's see what they
brought you."
652
00:27:16,934 --> 00:27:20,437
And I'm saying,
"Let's do this," right?
But it's different this time.
653
00:27:20,471 --> 00:27:22,356
It's a lot different
this time.
654
00:27:22,390 --> 00:27:26,259
My friend, Barkim, he's older.
He's around 18 at the time.
655
00:27:26,277 --> 00:27:29,763
And he goes--
he's a Five Percenter.
656
00:27:32,150 --> 00:27:33,933
So I'm sure I see
Five Percenters,
657
00:27:33,951 --> 00:27:35,818
people that were
Five Percenters here.
658
00:27:35,869 --> 00:27:38,320
It's supposed to be a real--
a real righteous brother.
659
00:27:38,372 --> 00:27:40,823
Very righteous.
Supposedly.
660
00:27:40,874 --> 00:27:43,659
Supposed--
661
00:27:43,710 --> 00:27:46,445
You never heard
of a Five Percenter
in your life, have you?
662
00:27:46,463 --> 00:27:51,467
Have you?
This righteous brother,
he's smoking with us.
663
00:27:51,501 --> 00:27:56,455
"Yo, yo, Mike, man, what
the fuck you doing, nigga?
664
00:27:59,175 --> 00:28:01,459
These white people
love you, man.
665
00:28:01,477 --> 00:28:03,845
They love you, man.
This ain't--
666
00:28:03,896 --> 00:28:06,598
Go back up there
with them white people, man.
667
00:28:06,632 --> 00:28:08,299
Don't be fucking with us, man.
Fuck that shit.
668
00:28:08,317 --> 00:28:10,485
I wish I had some
white people that loved me."
669
00:28:12,521 --> 00:28:14,522
And Barkim died
shortly after that.
670
00:28:14,573 --> 00:28:16,741
Somebody murdered him, you know,
'cause he was in the game.
671
00:28:16,776 --> 00:28:18,526
I always wonder
if I didn't listen to him,
672
00:28:18,577 --> 00:28:20,912
I wonder would I be here
telling this story.
673
00:28:20,946 --> 00:28:22,979
But not everybody
was happy with my success.
674
00:28:22,997 --> 00:28:25,165
No, no, no.
Uh-uh.
675
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,868
There were some haters.
You need haters to motivate
you, though.
676
00:28:27,919 --> 00:28:29,536
Got to have 'em.
677
00:28:29,587 --> 00:28:32,423
They resented my fast rise
and close ties to Cus.
678
00:28:32,457 --> 00:28:36,093
In particular, a trainer
named Teddy Atlas.
679
00:28:36,127 --> 00:28:39,713
Yeah. He didn't like
Cus telling him to drop
other fighters
680
00:28:39,764 --> 00:28:40,997
and focus on me.
681
00:28:41,015 --> 00:28:43,884
He thought I was arrogant
and spoiled, which I was.
682
00:28:43,935 --> 00:28:45,718
But what he said
don't matter
683
00:28:45,769 --> 00:28:50,139
'cause Cus had
my back and my talent was
un-fucking-deniable.
684
00:28:50,173 --> 00:28:53,175
( cheering )
685
00:28:54,561 --> 00:28:58,681
So Teddy had this sister-in-law
who was 12 at the time.
686
00:28:58,699 --> 00:29:00,900
And I was 15.
687
00:29:00,951 --> 00:29:02,702
I knew her
for a couple of years
688
00:29:02,736 --> 00:29:05,738
'cause we went
to the same Catskill
upstate New York school.
689
00:29:05,789 --> 00:29:08,857
And we knew each other
every day 'cause Teddy was
married to her sister.
690
00:29:08,875 --> 00:29:12,494
You know, everybody's
close like a little family,
everyday stuff, right?
691
00:29:12,528 --> 00:29:16,030
And I was an awkward dude.
Never been with a girl.
692
00:29:16,048 --> 00:29:17,866
Put that one in.
Never kissed a girl.
693
00:29:17,884 --> 00:29:19,367
Well, I kissed her,
but never with the tongue.
694
00:29:19,385 --> 00:29:22,921
I kissed pigeons.
I like pigeons, so I
kissed pigeons.
695
00:29:22,972 --> 00:29:25,924
But we joked around a lot
and I felt really comfortable
around there.
696
00:29:25,975 --> 00:29:27,259
Around the ladies,
of course.
697
00:29:27,310 --> 00:29:28,760
I'm talking about
the young girls.
698
00:29:28,811 --> 00:29:31,545
So one day in a moment
of immaturity,
699
00:29:31,563 --> 00:29:34,098
with raging hormones
taking the lead,
700
00:29:34,149 --> 00:29:36,066
I grabbed her ass.
701
00:29:36,101 --> 00:29:39,553
I don't know what hand.
I know I grabbed her ass,
though, right?
702
00:29:40,989 --> 00:29:43,557
You're an older gentleman,
so I'm sure you may know, sir.
703
00:29:43,575 --> 00:29:47,244
And you look like
you've made a lot of mistakes
in your life.
704
00:29:49,498 --> 00:29:51,999
You ever do
something when the fantasy--
the fantasy in the head
705
00:29:52,033 --> 00:29:55,118
is going on in your head
and your head tells you
if you make this move,
706
00:29:55,169 --> 00:29:58,288
the fantasy
will become a reality?
707
00:29:58,339 --> 00:30:01,457
People are familiar with that?
All right, so I made the move.
708
00:30:01,509 --> 00:30:04,377
I didn't get the response
that I anticipated,
709
00:30:04,411 --> 00:30:06,462
and the response
I got back was like, "Fuck."
710
00:30:06,514 --> 00:30:08,765
And it wasn't like
she said, "Fuck you, Mike!
Why did you do that?"
711
00:30:08,799 --> 00:30:12,635
It was like, "Fuck."
And you just like, "Fuck!
Why did I do this? Fuck!"
712
00:30:12,686 --> 00:30:15,722
And she didn't say anything,
but you know it wasn't right
when you touch it
713
00:30:15,756 --> 00:30:17,557
and they, "Whoo,"
and looked at you.
714
00:30:17,591 --> 00:30:19,858
And you said,
"Oh, shit."
715
00:30:19,893 --> 00:30:21,643
And this nigga,
I know he know.
716
00:30:21,694 --> 00:30:23,195
Oh, you know
that's some shit.
717
00:30:23,229 --> 00:30:25,230
The cops are coming,
or somebody is going
to come with a gun.
718
00:30:25,264 --> 00:30:27,649
Bad idea, right?
719
00:30:27,700 --> 00:30:30,118
So now it's 6:00 p.m.
720
00:30:30,153 --> 00:30:32,704
I'm going to the gym
as I always do
721
00:30:32,739 --> 00:30:35,123
and she told Teddy.
722
00:30:35,158 --> 00:30:37,125
And I see Teddy
723
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,746
and he looks as mad
as a motherfucker.
724
00:30:40,780 --> 00:30:44,448
Teddy had a bad back
from a car accident,
725
00:30:44,466 --> 00:30:46,784
so he was always
cracking his fucking back.
726
00:30:46,802 --> 00:30:50,004
And it always reminded me
of somebody suffering
from Tourette's.
727
00:30:50,055 --> 00:30:51,889
Because he'd be talking--
even training he's like,
728
00:30:51,924 --> 00:30:53,674
"Move your head." Crack.
"Move your head." Crack. Crack.
729
00:30:53,725 --> 00:30:56,177
"Move your head."
And he's moving and shit,
and like, crack.
730
00:30:56,228 --> 00:30:58,846
And I'm looking at him
over there
731
00:30:58,897 --> 00:31:00,348
and he's mad.
732
00:31:00,399 --> 00:31:03,351
And I see him and he starts
coming towards me.
733
00:31:04,518 --> 00:31:06,653
"Mike, come here."
Crack, crack, crack.
734
00:31:10,358 --> 00:31:12,275
And he grabs me...
735
00:31:12,309 --> 00:31:13,827
crack, crack.
736
00:31:13,861 --> 00:31:17,197
But he pulls his big
motherfucking gun out.
737
00:31:17,248 --> 00:31:19,983
Not that fucking funny now,
Miss Red Dress, is it?
738
00:31:20,001 --> 00:31:22,168
All right?So...
739
00:31:24,422 --> 00:31:26,322
This is my head.
So he goes,
740
00:31:26,340 --> 00:31:29,124
"Motherfucker, you ever touch
anybody in my motherfucking--
741
00:31:29,158 --> 00:31:32,344
I'll blow your
motherfucking head off,
you motherfucker."
742
00:31:32,379 --> 00:31:34,880
- My head's here now
and he goes...
- ( gunshot )
743
00:31:34,931 --> 00:31:37,049
He don't shoot me,
but he shoots the gun
close to my ear.
744
00:31:37,100 --> 00:31:40,636
You, sir, you look
like you've been shot at
before, right?
745
00:31:40,670 --> 00:31:42,638
( laughs )
746
00:31:42,672 --> 00:31:44,556
You know that
proverbial "bong"
747
00:31:44,608 --> 00:31:47,276
that goes off when
the gun goes and, bong!
748
00:31:47,310 --> 00:31:50,195
That happened to me.
After Teddy shot the gun,
he was the one that ran.
749
00:31:50,230 --> 00:31:52,196
And I'm not saying
I was a bad motherfucker.
750
00:31:52,231 --> 00:31:53,564
I wasn't, like, going,
"Fuck you, nigga.
751
00:31:53,616 --> 00:31:54,732
Shoot me.
I'm ready to die."
752
00:31:54,783 --> 00:31:56,567
I was like, "Whoa!
Fuck! Stop! Wait!
753
00:31:56,619 --> 00:31:59,203
Hey, motherfucker, why?
Shit!"
754
00:31:59,238 --> 00:32:01,205
You know?
"Cus!"
755
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,324
God damn.
756
00:32:03,358 --> 00:32:05,076
Who's from Staten Island?
757
00:32:05,127 --> 00:32:07,161
( audience shouting )
758
00:32:07,195 --> 00:32:09,831
Raise your hand.
I see you.
759
00:32:09,865 --> 00:32:12,750
All right, so Teddy was
from Staten Island, okay?
760
00:32:12,801 --> 00:32:15,002
So on Staten Island,
you know everybody
on Staten Island
761
00:32:15,036 --> 00:32:16,536
think they're
a motherfucking gangster.
762
00:32:16,554 --> 00:32:17,971
Out there on Todt Hill.
What's that hill?
763
00:32:18,006 --> 00:32:19,473
Toot Hill?
Todt Hill?
764
00:32:19,507 --> 00:32:22,476
So...
I wish I had my ring.
765
00:32:22,510 --> 00:32:24,645
But this is the proverbial
Staten Island gangster.
766
00:32:24,679 --> 00:32:26,880
"You looking at me
up there?
767
00:32:26,898 --> 00:32:28,482
Hey, it's Staten Island."
So he went like this.
768
00:32:28,516 --> 00:32:31,068
This is a Staten
Island thing.
769
00:32:35,406 --> 00:32:37,390
"Hey, my friend.
770
00:32:37,408 --> 00:32:40,192
If you knew who I knew,
771
00:32:40,226 --> 00:32:44,196
you wouldn't be popping
at the fucking gums, you know?
772
00:32:45,732 --> 00:32:48,617
Oh, yeah?
You want--
773
00:32:48,669 --> 00:32:50,169
my fucking uncle--
yeah, my uncle.
774
00:32:50,203 --> 00:32:53,339
My fucking uncle.
My motherfucking--
my mother's brother,
775
00:32:53,373 --> 00:32:56,425
he fucking cleans Paulie
Castellano's colostomy bag,
776
00:32:56,460 --> 00:32:58,794
you fucking moolie
motherfucker!
777
00:32:58,845 --> 00:33:01,913
You fucking moolie fuck!"
778
00:33:03,582 --> 00:33:06,084
What the fuck's a moolie?
779
00:33:06,102 --> 00:33:08,887
There was a lot of rumors
that went on about this.
780
00:33:08,921 --> 00:33:10,638
Everybody thought I was
a 20-year-old pervert
781
00:33:10,690 --> 00:33:13,257
and she was 12 years old,
but I was only 15.
782
00:33:13,275 --> 00:33:17,645
And I'd never been
with a girl before.
783
00:33:17,697 --> 00:33:19,898
But Cus was outraged
784
00:33:19,932 --> 00:33:23,068
and he fired Teddy.
Teddy went to New York
785
00:33:23,102 --> 00:33:26,286
and trained some fighters
and we never spoke again.
786
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,742
You know, it was very easyfor me to block out the fact
787
00:33:31,776 --> 00:33:35,295
that my mother was sick
when I was being praised
and worshipped upstate.
788
00:33:35,330 --> 00:33:37,831
Actually, I didn't know
how sick she was until
it was too late.
789
00:33:39,417 --> 00:33:42,086
She died of cancer,
but I think she died
of a broken heart,
790
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,972
a shattered dream
that she never accomplished.
791
00:33:46,624 --> 00:33:49,291
See, my mother was always
talking about her death.
792
00:33:49,309 --> 00:33:51,460
For some crazy reason,
she had a fear of dying
793
00:33:51,478 --> 00:33:53,062
and her body going
to this place called--
794
00:33:53,097 --> 00:33:54,814
what's it called,
potter's field?
795
00:33:54,848 --> 00:33:56,933
A year before her death,
she started saving money
796
00:33:56,967 --> 00:33:58,801
and she bought a few
burial plots
797
00:33:58,819 --> 00:34:01,470
at Rose Hill Cemetery
in Linden, New Jersey.
798
00:34:01,488 --> 00:34:03,990
And it was important
that we made sure she was
buried there.
799
00:34:04,024 --> 00:34:07,994
She had a small funeral
and only a handful of
people attended.
800
00:34:08,028 --> 00:34:09,695
And it was a damn shame,
801
00:34:09,747 --> 00:34:12,497
because she should have had
a better send-off to heaven.
802
00:34:12,532 --> 00:34:14,816
But we were so poor
when my mother died,
803
00:34:14,834 --> 00:34:17,119
we had to bury her
in this thin
804
00:34:17,153 --> 00:34:20,122
wooden cardboard-looking box
without a headstone.
805
00:34:20,156 --> 00:34:22,374
So years later
when I started making money,
806
00:34:22,425 --> 00:34:24,176
I had her body exhumed
and I had her buried
807
00:34:24,210 --> 00:34:26,828
in the most lavish coffin
that money could buy.
808
00:34:26,846 --> 00:34:31,550
Well, her gravestone
to this day, it sits high
in the whole cemetery.
809
00:34:31,601 --> 00:34:34,018
And it was important for me
to do that for her
810
00:34:34,052 --> 00:34:37,688
because I wantedto give her a resting placethat was respectful.
811
00:34:37,722 --> 00:34:40,391
So that in case her grandkidsever decide to come visit,
812
00:34:40,442 --> 00:34:43,644
they would believe in lifeshe was a remarkable woman.
813
00:34:43,678 --> 00:34:45,980
( applause )
814
00:34:53,205 --> 00:34:56,690
( music playing )
815
00:35:01,796 --> 00:35:05,582
� Oh, sinner man,where you gonna run to? �
816
00:35:05,633 --> 00:35:09,302
� Sinner man,where you gonna run to? �
817
00:35:10,721 --> 00:35:12,872
� Where you gonna run to
818
00:35:12,890 --> 00:35:15,258
� All along them days?
819
00:35:15,309 --> 00:35:17,177
� Well, I run to the rock
820
00:35:17,211 --> 00:35:20,729
� Please hide me,I run to the rock �
821
00:35:20,763 --> 00:35:24,433
� Please hide me,I run to the rock �
822
00:35:24,484 --> 00:35:28,520
� Please hide me, Lord,all along them days �
823
00:35:28,554 --> 00:35:30,405
� But the rock cracked...
824
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,407
( bell rings )
825
00:35:32,442 --> 00:35:35,244
( applause )
826
00:35:37,563 --> 00:35:39,781
In the ring,
I was invincible.
827
00:35:39,833 --> 00:35:43,252
I think all my tragic
moments prepared me for
my rise to the top.
828
00:35:43,286 --> 00:35:45,586
I had a focus and drive
like no other.
829
00:35:45,621 --> 00:35:47,622
Never a moment went by
that I didn't think about
830
00:35:47,673 --> 00:35:50,074
having the heavyweight
championship belt strapped
around my waist.
831
00:35:50,092 --> 00:35:52,009
It was all I was ever
permitted to think about.
832
00:35:52,044 --> 00:35:54,378
I was gonna be a god of war
like Cus said.
833
00:35:54,412 --> 00:35:56,013
There was never anyone
who was gonna beat me.
834
00:35:56,048 --> 00:35:59,517
They would know my name
from now until the eons
of oblivion.
835
00:35:59,551 --> 00:36:01,686
Cus always thought he was
preparing me for his death
836
00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:03,587
by shoving all this
information in my ear
837
00:36:03,605 --> 00:36:05,806
even if I was in the mood
to hear it or not.
838
00:36:05,858 --> 00:36:08,692
Countless nights
he'd wake me up in
the middle of the night.
839
00:36:08,726 --> 00:36:10,426
And I'm dead asleep.
840
00:36:10,444 --> 00:36:12,112
"Hey, Mike. Hey, Mike."
"What?"
841
00:36:12,146 --> 00:36:14,147
"Don't you what me.
Don't you--
842
00:36:14,198 --> 00:36:15,699
You remember
what I told you?
843
00:36:15,733 --> 00:36:17,534
You remember, move your head,
then come back and punch
844
00:36:17,568 --> 00:36:20,436
with bad intentions?
Do you remember that, Mike?
Huh? Huh?
845
00:36:20,454 --> 00:36:22,956
I'm not gonna be here long.
I'm an old man, Mike.
846
00:36:22,990 --> 00:36:25,075
But if you listen,
you'll be ready.
847
00:36:25,109 --> 00:36:26,943
You'll be best ever."
848
00:36:26,961 --> 00:36:29,746
I knew Cus would
eventually die.
849
00:36:29,780 --> 00:36:32,281
He was this old stubborn man
with a hacking cough
850
00:36:32,299 --> 00:36:34,416
who refused
to see any doctors
851
00:36:34,450 --> 00:36:36,218
and believed he could
heal himself with his mind.
852
00:36:36,253 --> 00:36:37,619
"I can heal myself
with my mind.
853
00:36:37,637 --> 00:36:39,004
Nothing them damn
doctors can do."
854
00:36:39,055 --> 00:36:40,756
I'm like, "Damn, Cus.
Let's go to the hospital."
855
00:36:40,790 --> 00:36:42,174
"What do you know
about some doctors?
856
00:36:42,225 --> 00:36:43,976
Do you know doctors
kill more people
857
00:36:44,010 --> 00:36:45,678
than all the sports combined
in the history of sports?
858
00:36:45,729 --> 00:36:48,397
Did you know that?
You didn't know that,
did you, huh?
859
00:36:48,431 --> 00:36:50,649
They'll never kill me."
860
00:36:52,903 --> 00:36:55,636
Man:
We love you, Cus!
861
00:36:55,654 --> 00:36:58,740
Tyson:
But Cus's deathleft me directionless.
862
00:36:58,774 --> 00:37:01,576
But I had a machine
of managers, lawyers,
and accountants
863
00:37:01,610 --> 00:37:04,829
there to rob me
every single step
of the way.
864
00:37:04,863 --> 00:37:08,416
However, things were
so plentiful at the time,
865
00:37:08,450 --> 00:37:11,035
it was hard to notice
their masterful deception.
866
00:37:11,086 --> 00:37:14,539
I was now the youngest
heavyweight champion of
the world at age 20
867
00:37:14,590 --> 00:37:17,991
after defeating Trevor Berbickin just two rounds.
868
00:37:18,009 --> 00:37:19,459
Announcer:
He goes down.
869
00:37:19,493 --> 00:37:21,161
He should be ableto get up from this.
870
00:37:21,179 --> 00:37:23,130
His legs may be shot.They are!
871
00:37:23,164 --> 00:37:24,881
As Trevor Berbickfalls back,
872
00:37:24,933 --> 00:37:27,267
I don't know if he's gonnabe able to continue.
873
00:37:27,302 --> 00:37:29,019
He's got the heart,
874
00:37:29,053 --> 00:37:32,055
but his body won't let himdo what his mind wants to.
875
00:37:32,106 --> 00:37:34,775
It's all over.We've got a brand-new
876
00:37:34,809 --> 00:37:38,845
heavyweight championof the world, Mike Tyson.
877
00:37:38,863 --> 00:37:41,364
I was like the poster boy
for success.
878
00:37:41,398 --> 00:37:43,065
See?
879
00:37:44,534 --> 00:37:46,736
I really was
the poster boy.
880
00:37:46,787 --> 00:37:50,206
I know the NYPD wished they
could have kept this locked up
in their archive somewhere.
881
00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:52,241
I just had to show you,
you know,
882
00:37:52,292 --> 00:37:54,526
the irony
is just too twisted.
883
00:37:55,862 --> 00:37:59,131
Good picture, bad day.
884
00:37:59,166 --> 00:38:01,217
You know, really, you takeaway those numbers,
885
00:38:01,251 --> 00:38:03,551
it could be a yearbookpicture, football.
886
00:38:03,586 --> 00:38:05,837
I never had
a yearbook picture.
This is it.
887
00:38:05,871 --> 00:38:08,056
But, anyway...
888
00:38:08,090 --> 00:38:10,892
Of course, you know,
I had a few million bucks
in the bank.
889
00:38:10,926 --> 00:38:12,644
But still,
there's something wrong.
890
00:38:12,678 --> 00:38:14,712
There's just
something missing.
I just don't know.
891
00:38:14,730 --> 00:38:18,066
And then I found
true love.
892
00:38:18,100 --> 00:38:20,902
Check this out.
� Everything I do...
893
00:38:21,771 --> 00:38:23,855
Oh...
894
00:38:23,889 --> 00:38:25,607
Sing with me, suckers.
895
00:38:25,658 --> 00:38:28,742
� La la la la la,
la la la la la �
896
00:38:28,777 --> 00:38:33,230
� La la la la
la la-la la-la la �
897
00:38:33,248 --> 00:38:36,500
� Do do do do do do
898
00:38:36,534 --> 00:38:39,086
� Ooh-hh.
899
00:38:40,905 --> 00:38:42,906
- Whoo!
- ( gunshot )
900
00:38:42,924 --> 00:38:44,842
It's been torture.
901
00:38:44,876 --> 00:38:47,044
It's been pure hell.
902
00:38:47,078 --> 00:38:48,929
It's been worse
than anything
903
00:38:48,963 --> 00:38:51,431
- I could possibly imagine.
- Pure hell?
904
00:38:51,465 --> 00:38:53,016
I'm not talking
about once a week.
905
00:38:53,050 --> 00:38:55,751
- I'm talking about
every day has been...
- Every day?
906
00:38:55,769 --> 00:38:58,421
- ...some kind of battle,
some kind of fight.
- Shit.
907
00:38:58,439 --> 00:39:01,307
Better mention this
'cause after Robin hears
about this show--
908
00:39:01,358 --> 00:39:03,559
on HBO--
909
00:39:03,593 --> 00:39:06,396
she's gonna use it as a way
to relaunch her career
910
00:39:06,430 --> 00:39:08,614
the same way she's been trying
to do unsuccessfully
911
00:39:08,649 --> 00:39:10,933
for the last 25 years.
912
00:39:10,951 --> 00:39:13,319
- ( cheering )
- Predict.
913
00:39:13,370 --> 00:39:15,937
I know you guys
didn't know anything
about this,
914
00:39:15,955 --> 00:39:18,957
but during our separation,
me and Robin were
still fucking.
915
00:39:18,991 --> 00:39:21,776
( men shouting )
916
00:39:21,794 --> 00:39:23,462
No, no,
any kids in here?
917
00:39:23,496 --> 00:39:25,797
My kids
in this motherfucker?
918
00:39:25,832 --> 00:39:28,283
Okay.
This one particular day
919
00:39:28,301 --> 00:39:30,502
before I go to my lawyer's
office and tell him
920
00:39:30,553 --> 00:39:33,121
that these are golddiggers
and these are horrible people,
921
00:39:33,139 --> 00:39:36,807
I decide to go by Robin's house
and have sex.
922
00:39:36,842 --> 00:39:38,342
She's still my wife.
Have sex with my wife.
923
00:39:38,393 --> 00:39:40,294
She's soon to be an ex-wife,
but I'm trying to get
924
00:39:40,312 --> 00:39:43,347
all I can
before it's over, okay?
925
00:39:43,398 --> 00:39:45,349
So I go to my house--
926
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,768
well, it's actually
not really my house.
927
00:39:47,802 --> 00:39:51,655
It's her house,
but you know when you give
the girl so many gifts
928
00:39:51,690 --> 00:39:53,274
and the gifts supersede
the price of the house,
929
00:39:53,308 --> 00:39:55,409
you think the house is yours?
But it's not.
930
00:39:55,444 --> 00:39:58,946
It is not.
So I go to the house
931
00:39:58,980 --> 00:40:01,981
and I'm ringing the doorbell.
Ding-dong.
932
00:40:01,999 --> 00:40:03,950
And, of course,
no one answers.
933
00:40:03,984 --> 00:40:06,486
So I do it again.
Ding-dong.
934
00:40:06,504 --> 00:40:08,254
As soon as she don't answer
the door,
935
00:40:08,289 --> 00:40:11,291
I head back to
my Lamborghini Countach.
936
00:40:11,325 --> 00:40:14,677
Before I get there,
I see a car coming up
the winding road.
937
00:40:14,712 --> 00:40:16,463
Blair Summit in LA.
938
00:40:16,497 --> 00:40:17,830
I see her coming up
the winding road.
939
00:40:17,848 --> 00:40:19,516
And the reason why I know
it's her car is why?
940
00:40:19,550 --> 00:40:21,468
- Audience: You bought it.
- I bought it.
941
00:40:21,502 --> 00:40:23,385
So as I see the car
coming, I'm saying, "Whoa.
942
00:40:23,436 --> 00:40:25,888
I can get this quick
stroke session in before
I go to my lawyer's."
943
00:40:25,939 --> 00:40:28,273
As she comes closer,I see in the passenger seat,
944
00:40:28,308 --> 00:40:31,360
I see this grayish-whitish
silhouette.
945
00:40:31,394 --> 00:40:33,645
And so I'm thinking
it's one of her white
girlfriends
946
00:40:33,679 --> 00:40:36,064
from that whack-ass show
"Head of the Class."
947
00:40:38,118 --> 00:40:39,985
Oh, fuck.
948
00:40:40,019 --> 00:40:43,355
But when the car comes
and it's more in view,
949
00:40:43,373 --> 00:40:46,541
I notice it's not one
of her girlfriends
950
00:40:46,575 --> 00:40:48,042
from that show
"Head of the Class."
951
00:40:48,076 --> 00:40:51,045
It's a white dude that she's
probably giving head to.
952
00:40:51,079 --> 00:40:52,863
All right?
953
00:40:52,881 --> 00:40:54,665
You'll never believe
who this motherfucker was.
954
00:40:54,699 --> 00:40:58,386
- Man: Brad Pitt.
- Why you come here if you
know, motherfucker?
955
00:40:59,555 --> 00:41:01,872
Yes, yes, okay.
956
00:41:01,890 --> 00:41:04,258
Yeah,
Brad "the shit" Pitt.
957
00:41:04,309 --> 00:41:07,395
This pretty motherfucker,all right?
958
00:41:07,429 --> 00:41:09,263
He was high.
He was on something.
959
00:41:09,314 --> 00:41:11,314
He had to be on some weed.
You know I would know.
960
00:41:11,349 --> 00:41:14,267
Like a "doobie," dude.
It's like the doobie dudes
are smoking.
961
00:41:14,318 --> 00:41:15,852
So he didn't knowit was me.
962
00:41:15,886 --> 00:41:18,438
But when he gets out
of the car and he sees
my black ass,
963
00:41:18,489 --> 00:41:19,739
you should have
saw his face.
964
00:41:19,774 --> 00:41:21,858
He went pre-Matrix
on my ass.
965
00:41:21,892 --> 00:41:23,610
'Cause "The Matrix"
wasn't out then,
966
00:41:23,661 --> 00:41:24,894
but he did
that same shit.
967
00:41:24,912 --> 00:41:27,948
"Fuck, dude.
Whoa, shit.
968
00:41:27,999 --> 00:41:31,034
Oh, shit.
Oh, shit, Mike Tyson.
969
00:41:31,068 --> 00:41:33,569
Fuck, Mike.
Don't hit my face.
970
00:41:33,587 --> 00:41:35,704
Please, don't
fucking do that.
971
00:41:37,407 --> 00:41:40,342
I got an audition.
We were just going over
some lines.
972
00:41:40,377 --> 00:41:42,077
We were talking about you
the whole time.
973
00:41:42,095 --> 00:41:45,581
You're a good man.
I just put in my two cents.
974
00:41:45,599 --> 00:41:48,184
You guys could be like
the Cosbys, man. Really."
975
00:41:48,218 --> 00:41:50,803
I'm just standing there
looking at this pretty
motherfucker, right?
976
00:41:53,590 --> 00:41:55,441
I don't know if I'm gonna
fuck him up or fuck him.
977
00:41:55,475 --> 00:41:57,141
I don't know
what I'm gonna do.
978
00:41:57,193 --> 00:41:59,093
I don't know if I'm gonna
boom, boom!
979
00:41:59,111 --> 00:42:01,646
Fuck you!
Boom! Boom!
980
00:42:04,933 --> 00:42:07,318
No, I wasn't
gonna do that.
981
00:42:07,369 --> 00:42:09,604
( panting )
982
00:42:09,622 --> 00:42:12,106
( laughs )
983
00:42:15,494 --> 00:42:17,579
Oh, look at that.
984
00:42:17,613 --> 00:42:21,164
So cool.
They're so cool.
985
00:42:21,216 --> 00:42:23,050
It's funny when
you think about it,
986
00:42:23,084 --> 00:42:25,969
'cause, really,
Brad wasn't shit back then.
987
00:42:26,004 --> 00:42:27,754
And Robin kind of was.
988
00:42:27,788 --> 00:42:30,641
But now she's a cold fart
and he's hot shit.
989
00:42:30,675 --> 00:42:33,126
Give me a job, Brad,
all right?
990
00:42:33,144 --> 00:42:36,129
Shit, even better,
adopt me, know what I mean?
991
00:42:38,733 --> 00:42:42,152
Plus, you never paid
that pussy bill, motherfucker.
992
00:42:42,186 --> 00:42:44,237
Shit.
993
00:42:44,271 --> 00:42:46,822
Oh, man. Look at me.
I'm the dumbest nigga
994
00:42:46,857 --> 00:42:48,157
in the history
of dumb niggas.
995
00:42:48,191 --> 00:42:49,609
Ain't that some shit?
996
00:42:49,643 --> 00:42:51,861
Ain't this--
"I got a girl!
I got a girl!"
997
00:42:51,912 --> 00:42:53,412
Fucking stupid.
998
00:42:53,447 --> 00:42:55,081
And she's like,
"Yeah, I got you."
999
00:42:55,115 --> 00:42:58,034
She's like,"Yeah, I got you.I got you.
1000
00:42:58,085 --> 00:43:00,920
I got your wallet, Mike.
You're a dumb nigger, Michael.
1001
00:43:00,954 --> 00:43:02,922
I got your wallet."
1002
00:43:06,009 --> 00:43:09,761
Look at that ridiculous weave.
Can you believe that shit?
1003
00:43:09,795 --> 00:43:13,214
- That's some big Staten
Island hair shit, right?
- Man: Long Island, Mike.
1004
00:43:13,266 --> 00:43:15,634
No, Long Island
got the big hair.
Long Island got the big hair.
1005
00:43:15,668 --> 00:43:17,769
So me and Robin was only
married eight months,
1006
00:43:17,803 --> 00:43:20,855
but by Hollywood standards,
that's like 20 years.
1007
00:43:20,890 --> 00:43:25,009
So I was 20,
she was 21.
1008
00:43:25,027 --> 00:43:26,811
We were young.
I didn't know what
I was doing.
1009
00:43:26,845 --> 00:43:30,230
I didn't have no money,
never had no pussy.
1010
00:43:30,282 --> 00:43:33,350
So we ain't have a clue
what we were getting
ourselves into,
1011
00:43:33,368 --> 00:43:37,187
but her mama Ruth
sure did. Yeah.
1012
00:43:37,205 --> 00:43:41,358
Who I so endearinglyliked to refer to as"Ruth the Ruthless."
1013
00:43:41,376 --> 00:43:42,859
They tag-teamed me worse
1014
00:43:42,877 --> 00:43:45,913
than Hulk Hogan and Mr. T
at WrestleMania, man.
1015
00:43:45,964 --> 00:43:48,465
I tell ya, man, Rotten Robin
and Ruth the Ruthless,
1016
00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:51,385
they jumped on my wallet
like a pack of wild dogs
from Africa, man.
1017
00:43:51,419 --> 00:43:53,970
You ever watch
"National Geographic"
and "Animal Channel"?
1018
00:43:54,004 --> 00:43:57,307
Of course, it's this animal
that everybody's trying
to get in Africa.
1019
00:43:57,341 --> 00:43:58,725
He's a very slick,
1020
00:43:58,759 --> 00:44:01,260
slender, sophisticated--
"didactyl" animal.
1021
00:44:01,312 --> 00:44:04,480
He has a black last name.
Thomson gazelle. Thomson.
1022
00:44:04,515 --> 00:44:06,816
The Thomson gazelle,
the Thomson gazelle.
1023
00:44:06,850 --> 00:44:08,884
The Thomson gazelle,
you know that animal, right?
1024
00:44:08,902 --> 00:44:10,987
So he's familiar--
the Thomson gazelle--
1025
00:44:11,021 --> 00:44:13,690
so the Thomson gazelle,
he's very didactyl, he's
very sophisticated.
1026
00:44:13,724 --> 00:44:16,775
When he moves,
he's very--
1027
00:44:16,826 --> 00:44:19,661
"foomf, foomf, foomf."
1028
00:44:19,696 --> 00:44:21,730
And then we have
the wild dogs of Africa.
1029
00:44:21,748 --> 00:44:23,615
There's normally
about nine or 14 in a pack
1030
00:44:23,666 --> 00:44:26,702
and they're on your ass
like this.
1031
00:44:26,736 --> 00:44:30,288
And then, of course,
their thing is wearing you down.
Endurance.
1032
00:44:30,340 --> 00:44:32,073
So eventually
1033
00:44:32,091 --> 00:44:34,459
the Thomson dudes dropped
from exhaustion
1034
00:44:34,510 --> 00:44:37,346
and then they go
to eating his ass.
They go right into his ass--
1035
00:44:37,380 --> 00:44:40,581
they rip his stool out then
they rip through the rest of him
then they eat his balls--
1036
00:44:40,599 --> 00:44:44,084
and that's what
them ladies did to me.
They ate my ass alive, right?
1037
00:44:47,088 --> 00:44:50,224
I know when I said, "I do,"
I didn't know that meant
your mama, too, right?
1038
00:44:51,727 --> 00:44:53,194
( mimicking Robin Givens )
"Michael, we're a package deal.
1039
00:44:53,228 --> 00:44:54,812
You know you like
my mother, Michael.
1040
00:44:54,863 --> 00:44:56,697
Michael."
1041
00:44:59,785 --> 00:45:01,402
And this experience
really taught me
1042
00:45:01,436 --> 00:45:03,787
that the apple doesn't fall
too far from the tree.
1043
00:45:03,821 --> 00:45:06,122
It is what it is.
How do I get--
1044
00:45:06,157 --> 00:45:09,826
( Beethoven'sFifth Symphony plays )
1045
00:45:12,296 --> 00:45:16,916
I want me some
"Michelle 'Cicely' Tyson."
1046
00:45:16,950 --> 00:45:18,618
He's a homo.
1047
00:45:18,636 --> 00:45:20,637
Uh, baby, subject to
assimilation.
1048
00:45:20,671 --> 00:45:24,007
Don King ugly.
Tyson's ugly. He a homo.
1049
00:45:24,058 --> 00:45:25,592
Read my lips,
I'll say it nice and slow--
1050
00:45:25,626 --> 00:45:29,561
Michelle Cicely Tyson
is a ho-mo.
1051
00:45:29,596 --> 00:45:31,146
Hear me!
1052
00:45:35,351 --> 00:45:37,936
"Mean" Mitch Green, y'all.
1053
00:45:37,970 --> 00:45:41,273
Unfortunately,
this wouldn't be the last time
I would run into Mitch.
1054
00:45:41,307 --> 00:45:42,825
I would see him again.
1055
00:45:42,859 --> 00:45:45,360
This time it will be
at 4:00 a.m. in the morning.
1056
00:45:45,412 --> 00:45:47,446
At Harlem
at the most famous
1057
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,331
and luxurious
Dapper Dan boutique.
1058
00:45:52,150 --> 00:45:54,202
We up there getting fitted
for a beautiful, tailored--
1059
00:45:54,253 --> 00:45:55,870
no, it wasn't really
a tailored suit.
1060
00:45:55,921 --> 00:45:59,340
It was this bullshit-ass,
ridiculous white leather jacket
1061
00:45:59,374 --> 00:46:02,543
with "Don't Believe the Hype"
glued on the back.
1062
00:46:04,012 --> 00:46:06,764
And I got these
white, tight leather
Daisy Duke shorts.
1063
00:46:09,101 --> 00:46:11,302
Don't judge me,
motherfucker.
1064
00:46:11,336 --> 00:46:13,103
I had good legs back then,
motherfucker.
1065
00:46:13,137 --> 00:46:15,338
I liked to whip it
and whip it.
1066
00:46:17,692 --> 00:46:20,727
So this is New York
and most of you are black,
1067
00:46:20,778 --> 00:46:22,779
so you know about
Dapper Dan.
1068
00:46:22,814 --> 00:46:24,698
And for those who don't,
1069
00:46:24,732 --> 00:46:28,351
Dapper Dan was
the man back then.
1070
00:46:28,369 --> 00:46:32,522
Every hip-hop artist/
drug dealer/killer/kidnapper/--
1071
00:46:32,540 --> 00:46:35,075
whatever you slash with,
you're up there.
1072
00:46:35,126 --> 00:46:37,526
So it's not really weird
to see people up there
1073
00:46:37,544 --> 00:46:39,578
at the wee hours of the night,
of course, right?
1074
00:46:39,629 --> 00:46:42,581
So I'm there feeling good,
1075
00:46:42,632 --> 00:46:44,467
all of a sudden,
1076
00:46:44,501 --> 00:46:46,335
my cool is interrupted
1077
00:46:46,369 --> 00:46:48,554
when this uncouth motherfucker
walks in the--
1078
00:46:48,588 --> 00:46:50,256
looking just like this.
1079
00:46:50,307 --> 00:46:51,891
He didn't have the shorts
and the gloves, of course,
1080
00:46:51,925 --> 00:46:54,643
but he had the sweatpants
and he had no shirt
1081
00:46:54,678 --> 00:46:57,379
and he had the hairdo.
1082
00:46:57,397 --> 00:46:59,814
I go here
and I'm trying on clothes
1083
00:46:59,849 --> 00:47:02,317
and Mitch comes in--
and then when Mitch comes in...
1084
00:47:02,351 --> 00:47:04,486
Mitch comes in
like this.
1085
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:06,020
( laughter )
1086
00:47:06,054 --> 00:47:08,740
"Bitch-ass nigga,
what the fuck you doing
in my neighborhood,
1087
00:47:08,774 --> 00:47:10,057
you bitch-ass nigga?!
1088
00:47:10,075 --> 00:47:13,561
You "Cicely Tyson"
homo-ass-bitch nigga.
1089
00:47:14,997 --> 00:47:16,831
What-- you wanna jump?
1090
00:47:16,866 --> 00:47:18,950
Don't jump, nigga.
Don't jump--
1091
00:47:19,001 --> 00:47:20,568
don't do this, nigga."
1092
00:47:20,586 --> 00:47:23,003
And, um...
1093
00:47:25,123 --> 00:47:26,840
I'm trying to
stay cool, right,
1094
00:47:26,875 --> 00:47:30,377
because I'm in
this white world.
1095
00:47:30,411 --> 00:47:32,045
I got endorsements.
1096
00:47:32,079 --> 00:47:33,797
I got Pepsi-Cola.
1097
00:47:33,848 --> 00:47:35,749
Not now, back then.
1098
00:47:35,767 --> 00:47:37,467
I got Kodak.
1099
00:47:37,519 --> 00:47:39,019
Not now, back then.
1100
00:47:39,053 --> 00:47:42,189
I got Bank of America
before it was Bank of America.
1101
00:47:42,223 --> 00:47:44,224
Not now, back then.
1102
00:47:44,258 --> 00:47:45,725
'Cause white people love me.
1103
00:47:45,759 --> 00:47:48,594
Not now, back then.
1104
00:47:51,064 --> 00:47:54,734
So I don't got time
to fuck around with
a $2 nigga, right?
1105
00:47:56,236 --> 00:47:58,204
If you have any kind
of success anywhere
in the world,
1106
00:47:58,238 --> 00:48:00,239
you got some fuckin'
Jewish influence.
1107
00:48:00,273 --> 00:48:03,209
You got these Jewish managers,
lawyers, and accountants
and shit.
1108
00:48:03,243 --> 00:48:04,944
And they ain't
no big motherfuckers,
1109
00:48:04,962 --> 00:48:08,164
but every time I see them
in verbal altercations,
1110
00:48:08,215 --> 00:48:10,448
and they says
some slick shit from
the side of their mouth,
1111
00:48:10,466 --> 00:48:13,451
they never got
their ass whipped or hurt
or anything, right?
1112
00:48:13,469 --> 00:48:16,788
So I thought I'd try
this shit on Mitch
1113
00:48:16,806 --> 00:48:19,558
mixed with my little
Brooklyn shit, right?
1114
00:48:19,592 --> 00:48:21,343
So I say, um,
1115
00:48:23,796 --> 00:48:25,964
"Now, Mitch,
what are you doing?
1116
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:29,184
Now trust me, Mitch,
by all means,
1117
00:48:29,235 --> 00:48:32,653
I don't really believe
this is advantageous
to your health.
1118
00:48:32,687 --> 00:48:35,806
I already
kicked your ass now.
1119
00:48:35,824 --> 00:48:39,410
You need to proceed to
the nearest exit immediately."
1120
00:48:39,444 --> 00:48:43,080
And it didn't work for me.
Why did I say that shit?
1121
00:48:43,114 --> 00:48:44,782
Why did I say that shit?
1122
00:48:44,816 --> 00:48:47,484
He said, "What, bitch?!
Nigga, you ain't beat me,
nigga!
1123
00:48:47,502 --> 00:48:49,503
That Don King--
he ain't give me
no per diem, man.
1124
00:48:49,537 --> 00:48:52,322
I ain't have no food, man.
How am I gonna fight with
no food, you bitch-ass,
1125
00:48:52,340 --> 00:48:55,158
dick-sucking fool, you
Tyson-ass-bitch-ass-ho nigga.
1126
00:48:55,176 --> 00:48:57,126
Huh?"
1127
00:49:00,330 --> 00:49:02,632
I have this
speech coach, right--
1128
00:49:02,666 --> 00:49:04,934
and this is one of the words
that we worked on and stuff--
1129
00:49:04,969 --> 00:49:09,222
so suddenly I had
an epiphany.
1130
00:49:09,273 --> 00:49:12,191
I had
an epiphany, right?
1131
00:49:12,226 --> 00:49:14,027
I had an epiphany.
1132
00:49:14,061 --> 00:49:17,480
So I say, "I am Mike Tyson,
right, the baddest motherfucker
on the planet, right,
1133
00:49:17,514 --> 00:49:19,281
I do not have
to take this shit."
1134
00:49:19,315 --> 00:49:21,366
All that white world
that I wanted to be a part of
1135
00:49:21,401 --> 00:49:23,285
just went out the window.
1136
00:49:23,319 --> 00:49:26,187
I just get mad
and Mitch said,
"Fuck you, faggot!"
1137
00:49:26,205 --> 00:49:28,490
And it just slipped and I--
( yells )
1138
00:49:28,524 --> 00:49:30,525
Right? But it didn't
turn out cool.
1139
00:49:30,543 --> 00:49:33,545
I broke my hand
on this gorilla's face.
1140
00:49:35,415 --> 00:49:37,699
And listen, right,
1141
00:49:37,717 --> 00:49:39,835
you know,
after all that stuff,
1142
00:49:39,869 --> 00:49:41,703
I really don't even like
to use the word "gorilla"
1143
00:49:41,721 --> 00:49:44,755
concerning a black man,
but come on, guys,
just look at him.
1144
00:49:44,806 --> 00:49:46,757
I'm gonna
leave it up to you.
1145
00:49:46,808 --> 00:49:49,760
Gorilla,
orangutan, baboon,
1146
00:49:49,811 --> 00:49:53,230
spider monkey, you pick.
It ain't on me, all right?
1147
00:49:53,265 --> 00:49:55,016
So this is what you never
knew about the fight.
1148
00:49:55,050 --> 00:49:57,718
You all knew about
the altercation, but this
is what you didn't know--
1149
00:49:57,736 --> 00:50:00,321
Mitch was high on
some powerful shit
1150
00:50:00,355 --> 00:50:03,223
they gave him, like,
alien-like strength,
all right?
1151
00:50:05,826 --> 00:50:08,161
Angel dust.
Yeah, he was high as a kite
on angel dust.
1152
00:50:08,195 --> 00:50:10,914
I'm laying some
beautiful combinations
on this brother, right.
1153
00:50:10,948 --> 00:50:12,365
I'm laying these
beautiful combin--
1154
00:50:13,451 --> 00:50:15,251
But, um,
he doesn't go down.
1155
00:50:15,286 --> 00:50:17,570
"Weebles wobble,
but they don't fall down."
1156
00:50:17,588 --> 00:50:19,172
Remember that?
That's Mitch.
1157
00:50:19,206 --> 00:50:21,841
So I'm opening up on Mitch
and it's like the karate movie.
1158
00:50:21,876 --> 00:50:23,409
I'm moving--
1159
00:50:23,427 --> 00:50:25,712
and Mitch is not going--
but he's not going down.
1160
00:50:25,746 --> 00:50:28,348
And he's just going like this
and he's not going down.
1161
00:50:28,382 --> 00:50:30,432
Shit's not looking good for me,
so I have to resort
1162
00:50:30,467 --> 00:50:33,251
to my Bruce Lee
"Enter the Dragon,"
1163
00:50:33,269 --> 00:50:35,854
Regent Theatre
on Nostrand Avenue,
1164
00:50:35,889 --> 00:50:38,273
across the street from
the bank, roundhouse kick
1165
00:50:38,308 --> 00:50:40,142
on this motherfucker,
right?
1166
00:50:40,193 --> 00:50:41,944
You know that--
all right, but listen, right,
1167
00:50:41,978 --> 00:50:45,397
I see the people are
very excited, the expectation
is all in the air.
1168
00:50:45,431 --> 00:50:48,317
Keep in mind, though,
the kick that you're about
to witness now
1169
00:50:48,368 --> 00:50:51,904
is not gonna resemble
the kick from 1988, okay?
1170
00:50:51,938 --> 00:50:54,489
So Mitch comes, right--
1171
00:50:54,540 --> 00:50:56,324
so Mitch comes--
1172
00:50:56,375 --> 00:50:58,659
"Fuck you, nigga!"
Boom!
1173
00:50:58,711 --> 00:51:01,445
Mitch is down again.
He's fucking down.
1174
00:51:01,463 --> 00:51:03,164
He fucking down
1175
00:51:03,215 --> 00:51:04,665
and he's not moving.
1176
00:51:04,717 --> 00:51:06,283
He's not getting up.
1177
00:51:06,301 --> 00:51:09,921
I got this driver/bodyguard
that's with me at the time,
1178
00:51:09,955 --> 00:51:12,090
but he's never with me
when the fight's going down.
1179
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,677
"Yo, Mike, man,
I think you killed
this motherfucker, man."
1180
00:51:17,729 --> 00:51:20,897
And then--
1181
00:51:20,932 --> 00:51:23,350
of course I have to go back
to this Jewish etiquette shit.
1182
00:51:23,401 --> 00:51:25,152
I go, "Fuck that shit, Tom.
1183
00:51:25,186 --> 00:51:28,271
It was inevitable this shit
was going down, man."
1184
00:51:28,305 --> 00:51:29,973
And Tom goes,
1185
00:51:29,991 --> 00:51:33,744
"Fuck that, Ike.
Man, this nigga gonna hit you
with that lawsuit, man."
1186
00:51:33,778 --> 00:51:36,780
And then this is back
to my Jewish etiquette shit.
1187
00:51:36,814 --> 00:51:39,481
"Fucking Tom, do you believe
there's a court in
the fucking land
1188
00:51:39,499 --> 00:51:41,483
that will believe
this fucking baboon, man?
1189
00:51:41,501 --> 00:51:44,153
Are you fucking crazy?"
But I'm really scared.
1190
00:51:44,171 --> 00:51:47,289
I'm talking that tough shit,
but I'm really scared.
1191
00:51:47,323 --> 00:51:48,624
I'm really scared.
1192
00:51:48,658 --> 00:51:50,659
And my mind says,
"Please, I hope this
nigga moves."
1193
00:51:50,677 --> 00:51:54,329
And then this
"Night of the Living Dead,"
Jason, Michael Myers--
1194
00:51:54,347 --> 00:51:55,881
he pops up and he says,
1195
00:51:55,932 --> 00:51:58,717
"Fuck you, faggot!"
and hits me in the balls.
1196
00:52:01,838 --> 00:52:03,221
I went "Ugh!"
1197
00:52:03,272 --> 00:52:05,173
And then I said,
"Fuck that Bruce Lee shit,
1198
00:52:05,191 --> 00:52:07,192
it's time for WWE,
Bruno Sammartino--
1199
00:52:07,226 --> 00:52:09,360
and it's...
( yelling )
1200
00:52:13,348 --> 00:52:15,400
And I was gonna bite
this motherfucker, right,
1201
00:52:15,451 --> 00:52:18,069
but, um, not this
dirty motherfucker.
1202
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:20,405
'Cause I'll bite
a motherfucker before
God gets the news, right,
1203
00:52:20,456 --> 00:52:23,575
but he had that
green shit and grey shit
coming with his blood.
1204
00:52:23,626 --> 00:52:25,542
I didn't wanna catchthe "West Nine"--
1205
00:52:25,577 --> 00:52:28,579
I mean,
West Nile virus.
1206
00:52:28,630 --> 00:52:31,498
- Shit.
- West nine?
1207
00:52:31,532 --> 00:52:34,751
I'm walking to
my yellow canary
1208
00:52:34,803 --> 00:52:37,554
convertible Rolls-Royce.
1209
00:52:37,589 --> 00:52:40,808
350, 350,000--
Puffy didn't have
350 back then.
1210
00:52:40,842 --> 00:52:43,060
He does now.
He didn't have it back then.
1211
00:52:43,094 --> 00:52:45,712
I get in the car
and Tom's in the car
and I say--
1212
00:52:45,730 --> 00:52:48,381
I've still got
my Jewish etiquette
with me, though--
1213
00:52:48,399 --> 00:52:50,716
I got Jew etiquette,
so I go,
1214
00:52:50,734 --> 00:52:53,569
"Tom, um--
1215
00:52:53,604 --> 00:52:56,355
will you please be--
will you please, um,
1216
00:52:56,389 --> 00:52:58,441
pursue the road
to the emergency room
1217
00:52:58,492 --> 00:53:00,526
because I believe
I have a hairline fracture."
1218
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:03,362
And Tom goes, "Fuck, man!
You crazy motherfucker!
1219
00:53:03,396 --> 00:53:05,581
Mitch is on the back of the car!
Mitch is on the wheel!"
1220
00:53:05,616 --> 00:53:07,733
And this is not a lie,
he woke up again.
1221
00:53:07,751 --> 00:53:09,401
He-- I don't know how--
1222
00:53:09,419 --> 00:53:12,070
he woke up,
he's on the back of my car
and he's on the wheel
1223
00:53:12,088 --> 00:53:13,872
and he's,
"Fuck you, faggot!
1224
00:53:13,906 --> 00:53:16,675
You faggot!
I'm going to kill you, homo!"
1225
00:53:16,709 --> 00:53:18,126
So he's back there--
1226
00:53:18,177 --> 00:53:20,679
he does an alien-like leap
and he disappears.
1227
00:53:20,713 --> 00:53:24,382
He goes up and disappears.
Me and Tom are like,
"Oh, shit! Fuck!"
1228
00:53:24,416 --> 00:53:26,468
And comes down
and we're scared
to get out of the car.
1229
00:53:26,519 --> 00:53:30,088
And he comes down
on my side view mirror
1230
00:53:30,106 --> 00:53:31,356
and rips it off.
1231
00:53:31,390 --> 00:53:32,757
I said,
"That's 30 Gs."
1232
00:53:32,775 --> 00:53:34,943
It has to be 30 Gs
if the car's 350.
1233
00:53:34,977 --> 00:53:37,061
350,000,
it has to be 30 Gs.
1234
00:53:37,095 --> 00:53:38,896
And I'm saying to myself,
"Fuck,"
1235
00:53:38,930 --> 00:53:41,866
but I'm still in
Jewish etiquette mode,
but I'm mad as a motherfucker.
1236
00:53:41,900 --> 00:53:45,703
And I say-- I say,
"Tom, will you be kind enough
1237
00:53:45,737 --> 00:53:48,289
to wait here
patiently as I go outside
and confront Mitch
1238
00:53:48,323 --> 00:53:50,324
about this motherfucking
side view mirror?"
1239
00:53:50,375 --> 00:53:52,660
And I come out the car
like this.
1240
00:53:52,711 --> 00:53:55,079
And I jump and I grab
this motherfucker
1241
00:53:55,113 --> 00:53:56,947
and I just reel in
that Jheri--
1242
00:53:56,965 --> 00:53:59,332
I'm reeling in--
1243
00:53:59,383 --> 00:54:00,950
excuse me,
I'm from Brownsville.
1244
00:54:00,968 --> 00:54:03,219
You know we got the lisp.
"Jheri curl."
1245
00:54:03,254 --> 00:54:05,088
I'm reeling in
the Jheri curl--
1246
00:54:05,122 --> 00:54:06,673
I'm reeling in
the Jheri curl
1247
00:54:06,724 --> 00:54:09,425
and then the proverbial
Ralph Kramden--
1248
00:54:09,459 --> 00:54:11,928
boom, zoom,
to the motherfucking moon.
1249
00:54:11,962 --> 00:54:13,813
Boom!
1250
00:54:13,847 --> 00:54:16,299
( sound effect whistles )
1251
00:54:17,685 --> 00:54:19,819
I'm waiting.
1252
00:54:20,854 --> 00:54:22,321
Boom!
1253
00:54:22,355 --> 00:54:24,523
Mitch is down again, right?
1254
00:54:24,574 --> 00:54:26,808
Sometimes you hit
your head once-- boom!
1255
00:54:26,826 --> 00:54:29,027
On the concrete--
on the floor 'cause
you had a fight--
1256
00:54:29,078 --> 00:54:30,996
boom-- sometimes--
boom, you're dead.
1257
00:54:31,030 --> 00:54:32,698
Motherfucker
ain't breathing,
1258
00:54:32,749 --> 00:54:35,617
but this is something
that is really uncanny.
1259
00:54:35,651 --> 00:54:38,203
Sometimes you hear the-- boom!
And then it bounce up
and hit again. Boom!
1260
00:54:38,254 --> 00:54:40,038
And then he wakes up and
he starts throwing punches.
1261
00:54:40,089 --> 00:54:41,656
I don't know why,
but it always happens that way.
1262
00:54:41,674 --> 00:54:43,158
You hit it twice,
you get up.
1263
00:54:43,176 --> 00:54:44,826
But when Mitch came down,
1264
00:54:44,844 --> 00:54:47,011
he just did one-- boom!
1265
00:54:47,045 --> 00:54:48,495
And the breath
from his air came up
1266
00:54:48,513 --> 00:54:51,432
and he shit on himself
a little, right?
1267
00:54:51,466 --> 00:54:54,001
And my mother
always told me that--
1268
00:54:54,019 --> 00:54:56,020
ah-- that's your soul
going to Jesus.
1269
00:54:56,054 --> 00:55:00,891
I had to do
my Jewish/Brooklyn--
1270
00:55:00,943 --> 00:55:02,810
"See, Mitch, I told you.
1271
00:55:02,844 --> 00:55:06,697
This was going to be
fucking detrimental
to your health.
1272
00:55:06,732 --> 00:55:08,732
Now you forced me to put
a sign in your eye that says,
1273
00:55:08,783 --> 00:55:12,152
'Closed for
the fucking season.'"
1274
00:55:12,186 --> 00:55:15,205
This again,
this wouldn't be the last time
I see this motherfucker.
1275
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:18,158
I'm in Harlem now
with this Afrocentric sister.
1276
00:55:18,192 --> 00:55:20,660
You know, who always--
Sister Egypt is her name--
1277
00:55:20,694 --> 00:55:24,297
with the turban
on the head.
1278
00:55:24,332 --> 00:55:26,916
The flowing dress.
Likes to be very conservative.
1279
00:55:26,968 --> 00:55:29,535
Don't want to show
the curves and stuff.
1280
00:55:29,553 --> 00:55:31,371
But when she moves,
her body would, too.
1281
00:55:31,389 --> 00:55:32,554
She just couldn't help it.
1282
00:55:32,589 --> 00:55:35,341
Excuse me.
Thank you, Gwen.
1283
00:55:35,375 --> 00:55:38,394
You remember--
it was like '88--
1284
00:55:38,428 --> 00:55:40,379
the way Harlem is now,
1285
00:55:40,397 --> 00:55:44,350
they got, you know,
linen cloths outside
on tables.
1286
00:55:44,384 --> 00:55:45,818
You eat outside now.
1287
00:55:45,852 --> 00:55:48,320
But they tried--
this is like the prototype
before--
1288
00:55:48,355 --> 00:55:50,489
to see if the shit
was gonna work.
1289
00:55:50,523 --> 00:55:52,992
I'm sitting at the table
1290
00:55:53,026 --> 00:55:56,194
and from the side
of my eye,
1291
00:55:56,228 --> 00:55:59,580
I see this big guy
with some big hair on a bike.
1292
00:55:59,615 --> 00:56:03,534
Not a Harley-Davidson
or a Ducati, but a bike,
and no shirt.
1293
00:56:03,568 --> 00:56:04,786
This shit just
don't look right.
1294
00:56:04,837 --> 00:56:07,455
So I turn,
it's fucking Mitch Green.
1295
00:56:09,408 --> 00:56:13,094
Mitch Green's
around 6'5"/6'6",
1296
00:56:13,128 --> 00:56:14,796
but with his hair--
1297
00:56:14,847 --> 00:56:18,131
the hair's like 6'12"/7-foot,
you pick.
1298
00:56:18,182 --> 00:56:21,685
Anyway, he's on a bike going,
"One, two, woomp."
1299
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:23,303
And I'm saying to myself,
"Mitch is here."
1300
00:56:23,354 --> 00:56:24,521
And I'm saying,
"If he goes here--"
1301
00:56:24,555 --> 00:56:26,356
just like if the cops
are looking for you
1302
00:56:26,391 --> 00:56:28,758
and you can't move
right quick 'cause they'll
spot you if you get up--
1303
00:56:28,776 --> 00:56:30,777
I said, "If Mitch go here,
he'll go by that block,
1304
00:56:30,812 --> 00:56:32,429
and I know
he'll be gone."
1305
00:56:32,447 --> 00:56:33,897
But he doesn't,
he gets here and he looks
1306
00:56:33,931 --> 00:56:36,400
and his eye
catches my eye.
1307
00:56:36,434 --> 00:56:39,286
And he's not sure if it's me,
but he went like this.
1308
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:43,456
And Mitch goes,
"Foom, foom, foom,
foom, whoa."
1309
00:56:43,490 --> 00:56:44,957
I knew Mitch for years.
1310
00:56:44,991 --> 00:56:46,876
The most rational thing
I ever saw Mitch do--
1311
00:56:46,910 --> 00:56:49,578
he stopped,
he got off the bike,
1312
00:56:49,612 --> 00:56:52,581
and he put
the kickstand down
real easy.
1313
00:56:52,615 --> 00:56:54,667
That's the onlytransportation he had.
1314
00:56:56,219 --> 00:56:58,587
So he was very careful.
1315
00:56:58,621 --> 00:57:00,139
He comes to the ma�tre d'
1316
00:57:00,173 --> 00:57:02,458
and Mitch goes...
( groans )
1317
00:57:02,476 --> 00:57:04,560
And the girl go...
( groans )
1318
00:57:04,594 --> 00:57:07,295
See, Mitch
is a Neanderthal
1319
00:57:07,313 --> 00:57:10,315
and I am half-Neanderthal,
so I knew what he said.
1320
00:57:10,349 --> 00:57:11,516
The girl didn't
understand him.
1321
00:57:11,567 --> 00:57:14,802
What he said was,
"Is that Mike Tyson over there?"
1322
00:57:14,820 --> 00:57:17,522
The girl stepped back
and she pointed to me and said,
1323
00:57:17,573 --> 00:57:20,992
"Hey, Champ.
Mr. Green wants to see you."
1324
00:57:21,026 --> 00:57:22,744
And once she said that,
he said,
1325
00:57:22,778 --> 00:57:25,146
"You see,
you motherfucking faggot,
1326
00:57:25,164 --> 00:57:27,482
homo-bitch-ass nigga.
Fuck you, faggot.
1327
00:57:27,500 --> 00:57:29,283
Why you snuff me and run?
1328
00:57:29,317 --> 00:57:32,252
Why you snuff me, nigga?
You bitch-ass nigga.
You snuffed me.
1329
00:57:32,287 --> 00:57:36,423
Motherfucking Tyson,
homo nigga.
1330
00:57:36,458 --> 00:57:38,926
I tell you,
you ain't fucked with me.
1331
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:40,294
You ain't beat me,
I ain't have no food.
1332
00:57:40,328 --> 00:57:42,546
Fucking you and that
bitch-ass Don King.
1333
00:57:42,597 --> 00:57:44,515
You're sucking
his dick, nigga.
1334
00:57:44,549 --> 00:57:46,216
How am I gonna fight
with no food?
1335
00:57:46,267 --> 00:57:48,352
How am I gonna fight with
no motherfucking food, nigga?
1336
00:57:48,386 --> 00:57:51,171
I ain't got no per diem, nigga.
I'll fuck you, nigga."
1337
00:57:51,188 --> 00:57:53,606
So I'm eating this steak--
1338
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:55,024
I'm not a vegan--
I'm eating a steak.
1339
00:57:55,058 --> 00:57:58,144
I'm saying to myself--
I'm saying,
1340
00:57:58,178 --> 00:58:01,230
"I'm about to gut Mitch
like a fish right now."
1341
00:58:01,281 --> 00:58:04,484
I had Sister Egypt,
she said, "No! No!
1342
00:58:06,686 --> 00:58:08,738
Be cool.
Don't play yourself, brother.
1343
00:58:08,789 --> 00:58:12,458
That's that white man's trap
to get you in that white man's
prison, brother.
1344
00:58:12,493 --> 00:58:14,193
You worth too much there,
brother.
1345
00:58:14,211 --> 00:58:16,628
I'll fight him.
You're worth too much
there, brother.
1346
00:58:16,662 --> 00:58:20,999
That's that white man's
plantation nigga,
right there."
1347
00:58:21,033 --> 00:58:24,536
So my life is unraveling.
That's the right word, right?
Unraveling.
1348
00:58:24,554 --> 00:58:27,255
Mitch Green
and the street fight happens,
1349
00:58:27,306 --> 00:58:30,342
then Robin filed for divorce
later that year.
1350
00:58:30,376 --> 00:58:31,876
Yeah, yeah.
1351
00:58:31,894 --> 00:58:33,378
And then I make a deal
with the devil--
1352
00:58:33,396 --> 00:58:35,814
I sign my life away
to Don King.
1353
00:58:35,848 --> 00:58:38,215
( mimics Don King )
"Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
Only in America."
1354
00:58:38,233 --> 00:58:40,484
Fuck you, nigga,
fuck you.
1355
00:58:40,519 --> 00:58:42,770
All right, there's nothing
American about you.
1356
00:58:42,821 --> 00:58:46,157
You pull his pants down,
you'll see a stamp on his ass
says, "Made in China."
1357
00:58:48,276 --> 00:58:51,745
So my divorce is finalized
on Valentine's Day.
1358
00:58:51,780 --> 00:58:54,731
More like St. Valentine's Day
Massacre, right?
1359
00:58:54,749 --> 00:58:56,834
Then there were all these
emotional issues,
1360
00:58:56,868 --> 00:58:59,336
my pussy supply's cut off,
1361
00:58:59,371 --> 00:59:01,871
and Don has me set to fight
1362
00:59:01,905 --> 00:59:04,007
Frank Bruno two weeks
after that.
1363
00:59:04,041 --> 00:59:07,627
In spite of it all,
all the turmoil and adversity
in my life,
1364
00:59:07,678 --> 00:59:09,078
I still maintained
1365
00:59:09,096 --> 00:59:11,848
my Heavyweight Championship
with a knockout.
1366
00:59:11,882 --> 00:59:13,550
A few weeks later,
I go to Atlantic City,
1367
00:59:13,584 --> 00:59:16,102
I fight Carl
"The Truth" Williams,
find out he's a lie.
1368
00:59:16,136 --> 00:59:17,971
I knock him out
in 93 seconds.
1369
00:59:18,022 --> 00:59:19,722
Then I fly to Japan
1370
00:59:19,756 --> 00:59:22,141
to fight
James "Buster" Douglas.
1371
00:59:22,193 --> 00:59:23,560
Check this one out.
1372
00:59:23,594 --> 00:59:26,144
Commentator:
...by Buster Douglas!Look at this!
1373
00:59:26,196 --> 00:59:28,063
He's knockedMike Tyson down!
1374
00:59:28,097 --> 00:59:30,732
For the first timein his career
1375
00:59:30,766 --> 00:59:33,151
Mike Tysonhits the canvas!
1376
00:59:33,203 --> 00:59:34,486
He's in big trouble!
1377
00:59:34,537 --> 00:59:36,271
He may not be ableto recover!
1378
00:59:36,289 --> 00:59:40,108
It's up to seven and eight!He's not gonna make it!
1379
00:59:40,126 --> 00:59:43,278
Unbelievable!
1380
00:59:44,947 --> 00:59:47,466
Bad day at the office.
1381
00:59:48,750 --> 00:59:50,501
You know, I didn't think
I was gonna lose,
1382
00:59:50,552 --> 00:59:53,337
but I didn't know
how I thought I could've won.
1383
00:59:53,388 --> 00:59:55,723
I wasn't
training properly.
1384
00:59:55,757 --> 00:59:57,642
I was beating everybody
even though I wasn't training.
1385
00:59:57,676 --> 00:59:59,260
I was supposed to be
practicing--
1386
00:59:59,294 --> 01:00:00,845
and this is another word
I learned, too--
1387
01:00:00,896 --> 01:00:02,146
abstinence.
1388
01:00:02,180 --> 01:00:03,464
You know, I couldn't even
say abstinence,
1389
01:00:03,482 --> 01:00:06,400
how was I gonna
practice it, right?
1390
01:00:06,435 --> 01:00:08,152
That's some folklore tale
1391
01:00:08,186 --> 01:00:10,321
that you're not supposed to be
with any girl before a fight.
1392
01:00:10,355 --> 01:00:12,939
Nobody believes in that stuff.
Cus didn't believe in that
and I didn't either.
1393
01:00:12,973 --> 01:00:16,359
Cus would go,
"That's just a form
of control.
1394
01:00:16,410 --> 01:00:20,280
If they can get you to stop
having sex, they can get you
to stop breathing."
1395
01:00:20,314 --> 01:00:24,084
And of course I didn't
wanna stop breathing, right?
1396
01:00:24,118 --> 01:00:25,585
But to be honest,
1397
01:00:25,620 --> 01:00:27,704
I actually knocked
Buster Douglas out
in the eighth round.
1398
01:00:27,755 --> 01:00:30,507
It was a 13-second count.
You see for yourself.
1399
01:00:30,541 --> 01:00:31,958
Check it out.
1400
01:00:31,992 --> 01:00:35,761
Oh, one, two, three--
1401
01:00:35,795 --> 01:00:37,346
see the guyin the white gloves?
1402
01:00:37,380 --> 01:00:39,431
Four, five, six,
1403
01:00:39,466 --> 01:00:42,518
seven, eight, nine,
1404
01:00:42,552 --> 01:00:44,770
10, 11,
1405
01:00:44,804 --> 01:00:48,223
12, 13.
1406
01:00:48,275 --> 01:00:50,893
Un-fucking-lucky number.
1407
01:00:50,944 --> 01:00:52,478
I had that coming to me
1408
01:00:52,512 --> 01:00:54,029
because I was a spoiled
little schmuck.
1409
01:00:54,064 --> 01:00:56,865
I just left Japan,
it was an all-time low.
1410
01:00:56,900 --> 01:00:59,200
I took a vicious--
my first professional defeat--
1411
01:00:59,234 --> 01:01:01,069
and a bad one at that.
1412
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:02,403
And then a week later,
1413
01:01:02,454 --> 01:01:05,657
my sister Denise,
she just suddenly dies.
1414
01:01:05,691 --> 01:01:09,127
And I remember talking to herthe night before
1415
01:01:09,161 --> 01:01:12,029
and she was telling meI need to see a doctor
1416
01:01:12,047 --> 01:01:14,248
because my eye
was really damaged
1417
01:01:14,300 --> 01:01:18,136
and Buster gave me
a really bad beating.
1418
01:01:18,170 --> 01:01:20,421
And then the next morning,
she was just gone.
1419
01:01:20,472 --> 01:01:22,472
My sister Denise--
1420
01:01:22,507 --> 01:01:24,874
but known to everyone
in the neighborhood
as "Niecey"--
1421
01:01:24,892 --> 01:01:27,811
took on a maternal role
in my life after
my mother died.
1422
01:01:27,845 --> 01:01:30,731
She was the only person
not afraid to put me
in deep check.
1423
01:01:30,765 --> 01:01:33,016
She was loved by everybody
in the neighborhood.
1424
01:01:33,050 --> 01:01:35,051
She just had that fun,
gregarious personality
1425
01:01:35,069 --> 01:01:37,554
that everybody just wanted
to have around them.
1426
01:01:37,572 --> 01:01:40,157
Niecey was buried with
the honors of a dignitary.
1427
01:01:40,191 --> 01:01:43,160
I couldn't believe
hundreds of people--
thousands of people--
1428
01:01:43,194 --> 01:01:46,061
they just kept coming
and they just came
to the funeral.
1429
01:01:46,079 --> 01:01:47,780
I was overwhelmed.
1430
01:01:47,831 --> 01:01:50,750
And I made sure she was buried
close to my mother.
1431
01:01:50,784 --> 01:01:53,085
You know, I may not
always been a good son
1432
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:54,503
or brother
for that matter,
1433
01:01:54,538 --> 01:01:56,789
but I made sure Denise
was buried with dignity.
1434
01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:58,674
It was the very least
I could do.
1435
01:02:00,427 --> 01:02:02,128
( music playing )
1436
01:02:02,179 --> 01:02:05,881
� She's facedthe hardest times �
1437
01:02:05,915 --> 01:02:09,083
� You could imagine
1438
01:02:09,101 --> 01:02:10,885
� And many times
1439
01:02:10,919 --> 01:02:14,939
� Her eyes fought backthe tears �
1440
01:02:14,974 --> 01:02:18,026
� Lord, Lord
1441
01:02:18,060 --> 01:02:20,445
� And when heryouthful world �
1442
01:02:20,479 --> 01:02:23,948
� Was about to fall in
1443
01:02:23,983 --> 01:02:28,403
� Each timeher slender shoulders �
1444
01:02:28,437 --> 01:02:32,072
� Bore the weightof all her fears �
1445
01:02:32,106 --> 01:02:36,076
� And a sorrowno one hears �
1446
01:02:36,110 --> 01:02:39,913
� Still ringsin midnight silence �
1447
01:02:39,947 --> 01:02:43,884
� In her ears
1448
01:02:43,918 --> 01:02:47,304
� Let her cry
1449
01:02:47,338 --> 01:02:51,975
� For she's a lady
1450
01:02:52,010 --> 01:02:56,095
� Let her dream
1451
01:02:56,129 --> 01:02:59,298
� For she is a child
1452
01:02:59,316 --> 01:03:02,635
� Let the rainfall down upon her... �
1453
01:03:02,653 --> 01:03:04,320
Mm-mm-mm.
1454
01:03:04,354 --> 01:03:08,324
Mm-mm-mm
mm mm mm-mm mm.
1455
01:03:08,358 --> 01:03:11,944
Mm-mm-mm.
I should have known
it was gonna be trouble.
1456
01:03:11,978 --> 01:03:14,530
One ballroom
represented by 50 states
1457
01:03:14,581 --> 01:03:17,582
of beautiful black women.
1458
01:03:17,617 --> 01:03:19,284
And I was really bored.
1459
01:03:19,318 --> 01:03:22,621
So when I was
invited as a guest to
the Indiana Black Expo,
1460
01:03:22,655 --> 01:03:24,756
I jumped
at the opportunity.
1461
01:03:24,791 --> 01:03:27,158
I had no idea this
one decision, once again,
1462
01:03:27,176 --> 01:03:29,795
changed the course
of my life.
1463
01:03:29,829 --> 01:03:33,164
Now, there was a lot of things
I could have gone to prison
for at this time,
1464
01:03:33,182 --> 01:03:35,383
but this wasn't
one of them.
1465
01:03:35,435 --> 01:03:37,969
Although I understood
the seriousness of the case,
1466
01:03:38,003 --> 01:03:40,004
I really believed
that justice would prevail
1467
01:03:40,022 --> 01:03:42,389
and that the evidence
would exonerate me.
1468
01:03:42,441 --> 01:03:46,510
However, I was convicted
before the trial even started.
1469
01:03:46,528 --> 01:03:48,345
I really wanna go back
and read the transcripts
1470
01:03:48,363 --> 01:03:50,781
about my case and find out
what really happened.
1471
01:03:50,816 --> 01:03:53,317
'Cause I don't understand
how I was facing 63 years--
1472
01:03:53,351 --> 01:03:57,121
check this out--
and only did three years
of a 10-year sentence
1473
01:03:57,155 --> 01:03:59,356
that Judge Patricia Gifford,
known as the "hanging judge"--
1474
01:03:59,374 --> 01:04:01,158
who I had
as a judge, of course--
1475
01:04:01,192 --> 01:04:03,043
dropped four years
off my sentence.
1476
01:04:03,078 --> 01:04:05,378
Now what black man you know
got convicted of rape
1477
01:04:05,412 --> 01:04:08,331
in the state of Indiana
and only got three years,
okay?
1478
01:04:08,365 --> 01:04:10,300
It wasn't like I had
a hell of a lawyer.
1479
01:04:10,334 --> 01:04:11,701
I could've did better
with Joe Pesci
1480
01:04:11,719 --> 01:04:15,054
in "My Fucking Cousin Vinny,"
okay?
1481
01:04:15,089 --> 01:04:16,723
My brother Don King--
1482
01:04:16,757 --> 01:04:18,374
( mimics Don King )
"Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk, only
in America, motherfucker."
1483
01:04:18,392 --> 01:04:21,427
Fuck you.
He hired Vincent Fuller,
1484
01:04:21,479 --> 01:04:23,847
a tax attorney,
for my defense.
1485
01:04:23,881 --> 01:04:25,098
No, you're not
listening to me.
1486
01:04:25,149 --> 01:04:28,233
Balcony, a tax--
a goddamn tax attorney.
1487
01:04:28,268 --> 01:04:31,153
I didn't have tax problems
back then, I need his ass now.
1488
01:04:31,187 --> 01:04:33,405
You know,and I was just saying,
1489
01:04:33,439 --> 01:04:35,240
I'm tired of living
as a sex offender.
1490
01:04:35,275 --> 01:04:37,693
I have to register
wherever I go.
1491
01:04:37,727 --> 01:04:40,362
My kids are at an age
where they ask questions
1492
01:04:40,396 --> 01:04:42,664
and I want to have
better answers for them.
1493
01:04:42,699 --> 01:04:45,200
Well, really, I need
better answers for myself.
1494
01:04:45,234 --> 01:04:48,236
And I also want to
make this point that
wasn't argued in court
1495
01:04:48,254 --> 01:04:49,738
that could have
exonerated me.
1496
01:04:49,756 --> 01:04:52,206
Now I know
rape's a serious thing,
1497
01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:55,510
and I know things happen
in life,
1498
01:04:55,544 --> 01:04:57,578
but this wasn't the first time
Desiree Washington
1499
01:04:57,596 --> 01:04:59,263
claimed that
somebody raped her.
1500
01:04:59,298 --> 01:05:02,300
There was another incident
right before my case.
1501
01:05:02,351 --> 01:05:04,719
And I don't know the odds
of this happening twice
1502
01:05:04,753 --> 01:05:07,021
to the same person
in a short period of time.
1503
01:05:07,055 --> 01:05:09,423
I did not rape
Desiree Washington
1504
01:05:09,441 --> 01:05:11,108
and that's all
I have to say about this.
1505
01:05:11,143 --> 01:05:13,561
( applause )
1506
01:05:17,732 --> 01:05:20,367
So I went to prison
for something I didn't do,
1507
01:05:20,401 --> 01:05:22,202
but it turned out
to be a blessing.
1508
01:05:22,236 --> 01:05:25,956
It was the first time
in my life I was able
to be still
1509
01:05:25,990 --> 01:05:27,874
and there was a freedom
that came with that.
1510
01:05:27,909 --> 01:05:30,160
Now hold up,
I'm not recommending
1511
01:05:30,211 --> 01:05:31,745
anybody go into prison
1512
01:05:31,779 --> 01:05:34,381
to get any kind of freedom
or anything, okay?
1513
01:05:34,415 --> 01:05:36,583
Just go in the bathroom,
do what you have to do,
1514
01:05:36,617 --> 01:05:38,551
and just call it a wrap.
1515
01:05:38,585 --> 01:05:40,669
I didn't go in there
singing "Kumbaya"
1516
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:42,671
and "Don't Fucking Worry,
Be Happy," right?
1517
01:05:42,722 --> 01:05:44,390
I was pissed the fuck off.
1518
01:05:44,424 --> 01:05:46,141
And, you know,
I'm from Brownsville,
Brooklyn,
1519
01:05:46,176 --> 01:05:48,477
and I couldn't wait
to get in there and prove
to those psychopaths
1520
01:05:48,511 --> 01:05:50,813
I was just as homicidal
as they were if not more.
1521
01:05:50,847 --> 01:05:54,400
Right? So as soon
as I got in my cell,
you know--
1522
01:05:54,434 --> 01:05:55,968
of course, you know,
they give you your stuff--
1523
01:05:55,986 --> 01:05:57,319
you know what
they give you, right?
1524
01:05:57,354 --> 01:05:59,972
Your sheets--
you know what they give you.
1525
01:06:01,607 --> 01:06:03,307
The sheets--you know--
1526
01:06:04,944 --> 01:06:06,444
I'm going to my cell,
1527
01:06:06,478 --> 01:06:09,480
I packed my stuff in my cell,
and I come back out.
1528
01:06:09,498 --> 01:06:12,500
"Dig, man, Rod,
don't go near my
motherfucking house."
1529
01:06:12,534 --> 01:06:14,002
That's my jail voice.
1530
01:06:14,036 --> 01:06:16,120
"Don't go near
my motherfucking house, Rod.
1531
01:06:16,154 --> 01:06:17,922
Dig, Rod,
don't go near that mother--
1532
01:06:17,957 --> 01:06:20,008
I need a phone, nigga.
I don't know which one,
but I need one."
1533
01:06:20,042 --> 01:06:22,176
"No, fuck you!"
"No, fuck you, motherfucker!
1534
01:06:22,211 --> 01:06:25,829
And fuck you, too,
you nappyhead-Aryan-Nazi
motherfucker!"
1535
01:06:25,847 --> 01:06:28,599
And then, of course,
1536
01:06:28,633 --> 01:06:31,852
there's always some really
humble, black, Muslim brother
1537
01:06:31,886 --> 01:06:33,520
with a thick Arab accent
1538
01:06:33,554 --> 01:06:35,672
that never even met
an Arab motherfucker, right?
1539
01:06:35,690 --> 01:06:38,225
But he comes--
he comes to me and he goes,
1540
01:06:38,276 --> 01:06:39,977
"Assalamu alaikum,
Brother Mike."
1541
01:06:40,011 --> 01:06:42,980
( speaking Arabic )
1542
01:06:43,014 --> 01:06:45,148
"Brother Mike, we're here--
1543
01:06:45,182 --> 01:06:46,899
Brother Mike,
we're here
1544
01:06:46,950 --> 01:06:49,785
under the umbrella
of Allah doing time,
1545
01:06:49,820 --> 01:06:53,623
not allowing time to do us."
( speaking mock Arabic )
1546
01:06:53,657 --> 01:06:55,157
And so I say,
"Fuck you, motherfucker!
1547
01:06:55,191 --> 01:06:57,627
Get the fuck
out of here! "
1548
01:06:57,661 --> 01:06:59,962
But then, eventually
of course, you're in prison.
You chill out.
1549
01:06:59,997 --> 01:07:03,032
Some people are nice.
They got good personalities
and maybe it's not that bad.
1550
01:07:03,050 --> 01:07:06,085
When I was in prison--
you guys didn't know--
I had a visitor every day.
1551
01:07:06,136 --> 01:07:09,388
My most famous visitor
was my man Spike Lee.
He came to visit us.
1552
01:07:09,423 --> 01:07:12,090
He did a preview
1553
01:07:12,141 --> 01:07:14,976
of "Malcolm X"
before it went to the movies.
1554
01:07:15,011 --> 01:07:17,846
It was pretty awesome,
but there was actually only
like nine black people
1555
01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:20,548
in Indiana prison
and like 42,000 white people.
1556
01:07:20,566 --> 01:07:22,934
It was all Nazis
and Aryans and shit
1557
01:07:22,985 --> 01:07:25,737
and Spike almost
got us killed.
1558
01:07:27,556 --> 01:07:30,442
Shit. Oh, Whitney Houston
came to visit me.
1559
01:07:30,493 --> 01:07:34,662
Tupac Shakur,
James Brown, of course,
John Kennedy, Jr.,
1560
01:07:34,696 --> 01:07:38,248
and matter of fact,
they're not here no more,
so may they all rest in peace.
1561
01:07:39,567 --> 01:07:40,751
Wow, that's a trip.
1562
01:07:40,785 --> 01:07:43,203
Maya Angelou
came to visit me.
1563
01:07:43,237 --> 01:07:46,590
LL Cool J,
Reverend Al Sharpton--
1564
01:07:46,624 --> 01:07:48,842
the fat guy,
not the small guy.
1565
01:07:48,877 --> 01:07:51,762
Okay, so, um,
Larry King came up there.
1566
01:07:51,796 --> 01:07:53,747
The O'Jays came
to visit me, too.
1567
01:07:53,765 --> 01:07:56,249
Not O.J. Simpson,
know your R&B, the band.
1568
01:07:56,267 --> 01:07:58,301
� Backstabbers.
1569
01:08:00,921 --> 01:08:03,690
Even Florence Henderson
from "The Brady Bunch."
1570
01:08:09,096 --> 01:08:10,897
She was in town
for the Indianapolis 500,
1571
01:08:10,931 --> 01:08:14,734
which is the big-- she was
singing "God Bless America,"
1572
01:08:14,768 --> 01:08:17,403
yeah, sitting next to
the mayor and the governor,
1573
01:08:17,437 --> 01:08:19,872
and she said, "I'd like
to go see Mike Tyson."
1574
01:08:19,907 --> 01:08:22,074
And the mayor said,
"Then you should."
1575
01:08:22,108 --> 01:08:23,792
At that day,
I'm in the hole.
1576
01:08:23,826 --> 01:08:25,610
I spent a lot of my time
in the hole when I'm locked up.
1577
01:08:25,628 --> 01:08:28,080
The guard comes and he says,
"Oh, God, hey, Mr. Tyson, sir."
1578
01:08:28,114 --> 01:08:30,499
Real good guy, Christian guy.
"Mr. Tyson, sir, oh, sir,
1579
01:08:30,550 --> 01:08:33,085
you don't know who's here.
Ooh, they came.
1580
01:08:33,119 --> 01:08:35,504
You'll never believe
who's here to see you now, sir."
1581
01:08:35,555 --> 01:08:37,139
I'm saying, like,
"Who, Michael Jackson?"
1582
01:08:37,173 --> 01:08:39,725
He said, "No, not him.
Even better."
1583
01:08:39,759 --> 01:08:42,177
He said,
"Miss Florence Henderson
from 'The Brady Bunch.'"
1584
01:08:42,228 --> 01:08:44,812
I said, "Get the fuck
outta here," right?
1585
01:08:44,846 --> 01:08:48,182
And then he got insulted
1586
01:08:48,233 --> 01:08:50,067
and he said,
"Excuse me, Mr. Tyson, sir,
1587
01:08:50,102 --> 01:08:52,853
I've always treated you
like a man, sir, since
you've been here.
1588
01:08:52,904 --> 01:08:54,939
I've never disrespected you,
and, sir, and I'm a man,
1589
01:08:54,973 --> 01:08:56,490
and I'm not gonna lie
because I'm a Christian, sir.
1590
01:08:56,525 --> 01:08:57,975
Yes, I am.
I'm a Christian.
1591
01:08:57,993 --> 01:08:59,577
Yeah, I know, I know.
1592
01:08:59,611 --> 01:09:01,529
I know everybody
say they're a Christian.
Everybody's a Christian,
1593
01:09:01,580 --> 01:09:03,664
but they ain't saved.
I'm saved."
1594
01:09:03,698 --> 01:09:05,616
And I said,
"Okay, cool."
1595
01:09:05,650 --> 01:09:08,118
As I go on up, I say,
"Cool, I'm gonna go
1596
01:09:08,152 --> 01:09:10,253
meet Miss Henderson,
beautiful person."
1597
01:09:10,287 --> 01:09:12,455
And then, of course, there's
always the asshole going,
1598
01:09:12,489 --> 01:09:13,823
"Where you going, boy?
1599
01:09:13,841 --> 01:09:16,126
Heh-heh-heh-heh.
Huh, 'Champ'?"
1600
01:09:16,160 --> 01:09:18,428
"Well, I'm going to see--
Miss Henderson's outside.
1601
01:09:18,462 --> 01:09:21,214
She came to visit me
and I'd like to visit with her."
1602
01:09:21,265 --> 01:09:23,800
"Not without these."
He's holding the shackles.
1603
01:09:23,834 --> 01:09:25,501
And for people
who don't know the shackles,
1604
01:09:25,519 --> 01:09:27,670
it's like the Kunta Kinte thing,
young man, okay?
1605
01:09:27,688 --> 01:09:30,889
You're right here,
and many times I've been
in the hole,
1606
01:09:30,940 --> 01:09:33,809
as I was explaining earlier,
and sometimes my lawyer
came to visit me,
1607
01:09:33,843 --> 01:09:36,395
and if you're in the hole
and you come and you visit
your lawyer,
1608
01:09:36,446 --> 01:09:39,064
it's-- and you're shackled up,
you can't shake his hand.
1609
01:09:39,115 --> 01:09:41,016
You gotta shake
his hand like this.
1610
01:09:41,034 --> 01:09:44,203
And I'm not gonna
shake Miss Henderson's hand,
"How you doing, ma'am?"
1611
01:09:44,237 --> 01:09:47,956
"Hi, Miss Henderson, ma'am.
Well, I got caught.
1612
01:09:47,991 --> 01:09:51,410
I gots caught tryin'
to run for freedom, ma'am.
1613
01:09:51,461 --> 01:09:53,995
Hey, ma'am, do you know
Mayor Goldsmith?
1614
01:09:54,029 --> 01:09:55,913
Can you get me some help?
I need liberation.
1615
01:09:55,964 --> 01:10:00,034
I need isolation.
I need some freedom."
1616
01:10:00,052 --> 01:10:01,719
But I just couldn't do it.
1617
01:10:01,753 --> 01:10:04,672
I just decided I'd rather
not let Miss Henderson
see me like this.
1618
01:10:04,706 --> 01:10:08,876
But I was grateful
for her visit, and all
my visitors.
1619
01:10:08,894 --> 01:10:11,262
These people gave me hope
in a hopeless place.
1620
01:10:11,313 --> 01:10:14,732
They knew I wasn't the guy
the DAs wanted them
to believe I was.
1621
01:10:14,766 --> 01:10:18,652
Never did I think
I'd go to prison with all my
fucking mental issues
1622
01:10:18,686 --> 01:10:20,770
and come out
finding peace.
1623
01:10:20,822 --> 01:10:23,990
Temporarily,
but some kind of peace.
1624
01:10:24,025 --> 01:10:25,942
And one of those major
stepping-stones
1625
01:10:25,993 --> 01:10:28,061
was when I learned
about Islam.
1626
01:10:29,330 --> 01:10:30,897
You know, before this,
I wasn't very religious.
1627
01:10:30,915 --> 01:10:33,917
Pretty much
a Neanderthal.
1628
01:10:33,951 --> 01:10:36,236
There were a few Muslims,
just a few,
1629
01:10:36,254 --> 01:10:39,005
and I noticed some of them
possessed a calm demeanor,
1630
01:10:39,040 --> 01:10:41,123
something that
I'd never mastered,
1631
01:10:41,174 --> 01:10:43,008
and it intrigued me.
1632
01:10:43,043 --> 01:10:46,095
And I wanted and needed
something to enforce
some kind of feeling
1633
01:10:46,129 --> 01:10:48,464
and structure in my life,
at the time, of course,
1634
01:10:48,515 --> 01:10:50,432
and for me it was Islam.
1635
01:10:50,467 --> 01:10:53,185
So I began reading the Qur'an,
attending class,
1636
01:10:53,220 --> 01:10:54,753
and it's just who I am.
1637
01:10:54,771 --> 01:10:56,772
And after I left prison,
I have to admit,
1638
01:10:56,806 --> 01:10:58,858
I was really scared
'cause I...
1639
01:10:58,892 --> 01:11:00,442
( cash register dings )
1640
01:11:00,477 --> 01:11:03,061
I had $400 millionin my bank account coming to me
1641
01:11:03,095 --> 01:11:06,597
and not a clue
how I was going to survive
for the next 400 seconds.
1642
01:11:06,615 --> 01:11:09,901
And I wanted to stay focused
on my deen and practice Islam,
1643
01:11:09,935 --> 01:11:13,104
but my quest for righteousness
quickly halted
1644
01:11:13,122 --> 01:11:14,906
once those
prison cells opened
1645
01:11:14,940 --> 01:11:17,608
and all the snakes,
leeches, and trolls
started sucking on me.
1646
01:11:17,626 --> 01:11:20,245
And I loved snakes, leeches,
and trolls because back then--
1647
01:11:20,279 --> 01:11:21,629
because they make you
feel great, right?
1648
01:11:21,664 --> 01:11:25,800
So, on top of the list of those
parasites was my man,
1649
01:11:25,834 --> 01:11:29,553
( mimics Don King )
"Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
Only in America" Don King.
1650
01:11:29,587 --> 01:11:30,754
Fuck you.
1651
01:11:30,788 --> 01:11:33,090
So, the real beef
between me and Don
1652
01:11:33,124 --> 01:11:36,476
was fueled after I lost
my boxing license.
1653
01:11:36,511 --> 01:11:38,795
And Mr. Vince McMahon,
he approached me
1654
01:11:38,813 --> 01:11:41,014
and he wanted me to become
a part of WrestleMania.
1655
01:11:41,065 --> 01:11:42,983
So Vince McMahon goes,
"Mike, come with us, man.
1656
01:11:43,017 --> 01:11:44,768
You're gonna be bigger
than boxing.
1657
01:11:44,802 --> 01:11:46,520
You're gonna get in wrestling.
You're gonna be in our
family now.
1658
01:11:46,571 --> 01:11:49,356
Wrestling's fake,
but the checks are real."
1659
01:11:49,407 --> 01:11:51,691
And I'm like, "Cool."
1660
01:11:51,742 --> 01:11:54,310
And so they needed
clearance for some photos
1661
01:11:54,328 --> 01:11:55,811
and Don was giving them
a hard time,
1662
01:11:55,829 --> 01:11:58,664
trying to charge them $300,000
for pictures of me.
1663
01:11:58,699 --> 01:12:00,616
I started questioning my rights.
We did an investigation.
1664
01:12:00,650 --> 01:12:02,752
We found that Don
owned my rights.
1665
01:12:02,786 --> 01:12:05,788
And I really suppose it was
easy to rob me at the time
1666
01:12:05,822 --> 01:12:09,091
'cause Don so kindly
recommended his best lawyers
1667
01:12:09,126 --> 01:12:14,012
and his best accountants
that my money could buy.
1668
01:12:14,046 --> 01:12:16,264
So I made this
multimillion-dollar deal
1669
01:12:16,299 --> 01:12:19,000
with this big network
and Don was fucking both of us.
1670
01:12:19,018 --> 01:12:21,436
He would demand money
from them saying it's for me,
1671
01:12:21,470 --> 01:12:23,388
and if they didn't give it
to me, "Mike would leave.
1672
01:12:23,439 --> 01:12:25,357
He's a crazy nigga."
1673
01:12:25,391 --> 01:12:29,561
And I would never get the money,
but he would bill me for it.
1674
01:12:29,612 --> 01:12:32,230
So once we started doing
this investigation--
1675
01:12:32,281 --> 01:12:35,900
oh, this is another word
we worked on with the-- with
the-- with the voice--
1676
01:12:35,952 --> 01:12:37,368
vocal chords--
the speech coach--
1677
01:12:37,402 --> 01:12:40,687
when we did that investigating
and this "auditing shit," right?
1678
01:12:40,705 --> 01:12:42,706
The "auditing shit," right?
1679
01:12:42,741 --> 01:12:46,043
One of the line items
billed to Don
1680
01:12:46,077 --> 01:12:49,696
was he charged me
$8,000 a week...
1681
01:12:49,714 --> 01:12:51,799
for towels.
1682
01:12:51,833 --> 01:12:54,802
I ain't fucking with y'all.
Balcony, balcony--
1683
01:12:54,836 --> 01:12:57,721
8,000 fucking dollars
a week for towels.
1684
01:12:57,756 --> 01:12:59,139
I wasn't getting high
on cocaine then.
1685
01:12:59,174 --> 01:13:01,224
I wasn't sweating
like a pimp on a ho
back then.
1686
01:13:01,258 --> 01:13:02,842
Hell fucking no.
1687
01:13:02,876 --> 01:13:05,711
Just imagine all the other stuff
he was billing me for.
1688
01:13:05,729 --> 01:13:07,930
So, we finally settled,
1689
01:13:07,982 --> 01:13:10,650
and I won, but the damage
was already done.
1690
01:13:10,684 --> 01:13:12,435
I was forced
to file bankruptcy,
1691
01:13:12,486 --> 01:13:13,936
and of course you know,
1692
01:13:13,988 --> 01:13:17,556
once the money goes,
so does the hos.
1693
01:13:17,574 --> 01:13:22,061
I was homeless
and ho-less.
1694
01:13:22,079 --> 01:13:24,196
I've been trying
to work at this thing
from a forgiving place,
1695
01:13:24,230 --> 01:13:26,898
but it's fucking hard,
you know?
1696
01:13:26,916 --> 01:13:29,734
Oh, speaking of forgiveness,
I'm really very grateful
1697
01:13:29,752 --> 01:13:32,587
that Evander
forgave me for this.
1698
01:13:32,622 --> 01:13:35,090
Oh, I know that
fucking hurt so much.
1699
01:13:35,124 --> 01:13:37,575
What was
I thinking about, man?
1700
01:13:37,593 --> 01:13:40,045
He lost a piece of his ear,
I lost a piece of money--
1701
01:13:40,079 --> 01:13:42,414
a lot of money,
and I lost my license.
1702
01:13:42,432 --> 01:13:45,517
And all I can say
is that I snapped.
1703
01:13:45,551 --> 01:13:47,718
And the days following
were pure hell.
1704
01:13:47,752 --> 01:13:49,804
I went from the 10th hated man
on the planet,
1705
01:13:49,855 --> 01:13:51,555
which I could handle,
1706
01:13:51,589 --> 01:13:54,642
but to numero uno
after I bit the motherfucker,
right?
1707
01:13:54,693 --> 01:13:57,611
So, you know,
that was some hard shit.
1708
01:13:57,646 --> 01:14:02,099
I mean, I was angry.
I was just really pissed off.
1709
01:14:02,117 --> 01:14:04,952
Then I was forced to read
this contrived apology letter
1710
01:14:04,986 --> 01:14:08,456
at the press conference
for the Nevada State
Athletic Commission.
1711
01:14:08,490 --> 01:14:11,207
And to make matters worse,
I had to read it
on my birthday--
1712
01:14:11,242 --> 01:14:15,278
June 3rd, 1997.
Happy birthday, dickhead.
1713
01:14:15,296 --> 01:14:16,612
But now I really am sorry
1714
01:14:16,630 --> 01:14:18,548
and me and Holyfield
have become friends.
1715
01:14:18,582 --> 01:14:19,833
And look at him.
1716
01:14:19,884 --> 01:14:23,253
He's real debonair.
1717
01:14:23,287 --> 01:14:24,754
See, right?
1718
01:14:24,788 --> 01:14:28,058
Real class act.Debonair.
1719
01:14:28,092 --> 01:14:31,594
And me, I look like
I could be...
1720
01:14:31,628 --> 01:14:33,628
Holyfield's
fat grandmother, you know?
1721
01:14:33,646 --> 01:14:38,100
You take--
throw a wig, a dress on me,
and I'm Madea, right?
1722
01:14:38,134 --> 01:14:39,634
But irregardless...
1723
01:14:39,652 --> 01:14:43,155
That's that cocaine, man.
1724
01:14:43,189 --> 01:14:46,641
But, no, Holyfield's
just a beautiful guy, man.
A beautiful man.
1725
01:14:46,659 --> 01:14:48,243
And I just want
the best for him.
1726
01:14:48,278 --> 01:14:51,663
Guys, please go buy
his barbecue sauce, okay?
1727
01:14:57,319 --> 01:14:59,787
I really like to addresseverything I just said
1728
01:14:59,821 --> 01:15:02,823
and consider it
about my life as PT--
1729
01:15:02,841 --> 01:15:04,258
pre-tattoo.
1730
01:15:04,293 --> 01:15:06,344
Everyone wants to know,
"What the fuck are you
doing, man?
1731
01:15:06,378 --> 01:15:07,845
What you put that
on your face for?
1732
01:15:07,880 --> 01:15:09,663
What, are you crazy, nigga?
You being like those white boys.
1733
01:15:09,681 --> 01:15:11,599
Why the fuck you do that?
What does that mean, Mike?"
1734
01:15:11,633 --> 01:15:12,967
You get the gay guys
come up to me,
1735
01:15:13,001 --> 01:15:14,685
"Man, you're very--
you're very--
1736
01:15:14,720 --> 01:15:18,222
ooh, you're very-- ooh.
1737
01:15:18,273 --> 01:15:22,025
You're a very exotic-looking
man, Mr. Tyson."
1738
01:15:22,059 --> 01:15:24,227
I just wanted everybody to know,
I put this tramp stamp
1739
01:15:24,278 --> 01:15:26,646
on my face
because I wanted to.
1740
01:15:26,680 --> 01:15:29,399
Leave me alone.
You don't like it,
don't fucking look at it.
1741
01:15:29,450 --> 01:15:33,120
Fuck you, okay?
It's my face.
1742
01:15:33,154 --> 01:15:36,239
God damn.Just don't worry about it.
1743
01:15:36,290 --> 01:15:38,358
After the tattoo,
it could be argued
1744
01:15:38,376 --> 01:15:40,710
that I went
even crazier, you know?
1745
01:15:40,745 --> 01:15:44,380
I retired from boxing, and...
1746
01:15:44,414 --> 01:15:47,583
I started using cocaine.
I had nothing to hold me back,
1747
01:15:47,634 --> 01:15:49,885
and for a dude like me,
that's pretty dangerous.
1748
01:15:49,920 --> 01:15:52,254
My low self-esteem
takes over the wheel,
1749
01:15:52,305 --> 01:15:54,590
fueled by my megalomania ego
1750
01:15:54,641 --> 01:15:57,042
and, man, that's an explosion
ready to happen.
1751
01:15:57,060 --> 01:15:58,894
A lot of people
were asking me all the time,
1752
01:15:58,929 --> 01:16:00,346
"What was your rock bottom?
1753
01:16:00,380 --> 01:16:02,515
When did you know you
had a problem with cocaine,
Mike?"
1754
01:16:02,549 --> 01:16:04,150
As Oprah Winfrey
would say,
1755
01:16:04,184 --> 01:16:06,151
"What was
your 'aha moment,' Mike?"
1756
01:16:06,185 --> 01:16:08,820
� When was
your aha, aha? �
1757
01:16:08,854 --> 01:16:11,189
I knew things were bad
when I got arrested in 2006
1758
01:16:11,223 --> 01:16:13,241
before I almost hit
a cop car.
1759
01:16:13,275 --> 01:16:16,077
I mean, who does that?
So, the officer says to me,
1760
01:16:16,111 --> 01:16:18,413
"Well, Mike, man, we knew
you had a problem,
1761
01:16:18,447 --> 01:16:21,032
but we were hoping
if you made that left turn,
you'd have kept going,
1762
01:16:21,066 --> 01:16:23,785
but you kept
straight at us, man.
You just kept coming."
1763
01:16:23,836 --> 01:16:26,838
And I'm like,
"Oh, God."
1764
01:16:26,872 --> 01:16:28,840
But he's like, "We know
you've got a problem."
1765
01:16:28,874 --> 01:16:31,875
So I'm in a holding cell
right now in Phoenix, Arizona.
1766
01:16:31,909 --> 01:16:33,710
I'm in a holding cell.
1767
01:16:33,744 --> 01:16:37,747
And, no offense,
but there's always some smart,
creepy white guy--
1768
01:16:37,765 --> 01:16:39,600
small guy--
that knows the system.
1769
01:16:39,634 --> 01:16:41,018
Even though he's always
in the system,
1770
01:16:41,052 --> 01:16:43,554
he knows the system
better than anybody
in the system.
1771
01:16:43,588 --> 01:16:45,439
So he asks me,
he goes this way,
1772
01:16:45,473 --> 01:16:48,141
he says, "Mike, hey, Champ.
What are you in for?"
1773
01:16:48,193 --> 01:16:49,926
And I'm depressed,
I'm really down.
1774
01:16:49,944 --> 01:16:52,361
The cocaine's
wearing off and I'm just
really getting down.
1775
01:16:52,396 --> 01:16:55,147
And I say,
"It's blow, man. Cocaine."
1776
01:16:55,199 --> 01:16:58,201
And he says,
"Have you ever been
arrested for drugs before?"
1777
01:16:58,235 --> 01:17:01,103
I go, "Yeah, yeah,
I got a couple felonies.
Yeah, I already got a felony."
1778
01:17:01,121 --> 01:17:03,573
He said, "No, but have you
ever been arrested for drugs?"
1779
01:17:03,607 --> 01:17:05,324
I said, "No, no.
Never before, no."
1780
01:17:05,375 --> 01:17:07,460
He said, "Well, they can't
put you away.
1781
01:17:07,494 --> 01:17:09,545
They can't
lock you up, Champ.
1782
01:17:09,580 --> 01:17:11,380
Naw, they gotta
help you first.
1783
01:17:11,415 --> 01:17:15,834
According to law 4902,
'Take a puff or two,'
1784
01:17:15,885 --> 01:17:17,619
they gotta help you
before they throw you away--
1785
01:17:17,637 --> 01:17:19,504
before they lock you up,
some shit."
1786
01:17:19,555 --> 01:17:22,757
So I went from being down
to being very up, you know?
1787
01:17:22,791 --> 01:17:25,427
So I'm talking shit,
and I'm--
1788
01:17:25,461 --> 01:17:28,680
and so the intake guy
comes in and he says,
1789
01:17:28,731 --> 01:17:30,599
"Aw, Champ, this is
really a bad day in my life.
1790
01:17:30,633 --> 01:17:33,101
You're a hero of mine
and I'm really feeling bad,
but all right, Champ,
1791
01:17:33,135 --> 01:17:36,471
let's go through it.
Now, Champ, how often
do you use cocaine, Champ?"
1792
01:17:36,489 --> 01:17:38,106
I said, "Every time
I get a chance to.
1793
01:17:38,140 --> 01:17:41,642
Any time I get-- you know?
When I get a chance.
1794
01:17:41,660 --> 01:17:43,027
Whenever I get--
any time I get a chance.
1795
01:17:43,078 --> 01:17:44,862
I'm like, I need cocaine now.
I wish I had some now."
1796
01:17:44,913 --> 01:17:46,947
I was just--
I needed cocaine.
1797
01:17:46,981 --> 01:17:50,150
Um, I didn't want no help,
I just didn't want
to go to jail.
1798
01:17:50,168 --> 01:17:53,153
I was facing nine years.
Oh, I can't-- oh, fuck.
1799
01:17:53,171 --> 01:17:56,823
So, following that 2006 arrest,
I went to rehab,
1800
01:17:56,841 --> 01:18:00,377
the best forced decision
I ever made, all right?
1801
01:18:00,428 --> 01:18:01,929
I just got tired.
1802
01:18:01,963 --> 01:18:03,763
I got tired
of disappointing
my family.
1803
01:18:03,797 --> 01:18:05,348
My family wouldn't even
talk to me.
1804
01:18:05,382 --> 01:18:08,184
You know, when you're on drugs,
nobody talks to you no more.
1805
01:18:08,218 --> 01:18:10,136
You could cheat on your family,
cheat on your girlfriend,
1806
01:18:10,170 --> 01:18:12,355
but once you do drugs,
they don't talk to you no more.
1807
01:18:12,389 --> 01:18:16,476
And so eventually
I married my girlfriend,
Kiki Spicer,
1808
01:18:16,510 --> 01:18:18,344
in 2009.
1809
01:18:20,514 --> 01:18:22,398
And she was looking out for me
and taking care of me
1810
01:18:22,449 --> 01:18:24,651
through all
my relapses and stuff.
1811
01:18:24,685 --> 01:18:27,035
It's my third marriage
and her first.
1812
01:18:27,070 --> 01:18:29,020
Hopefully
both our last, right?
1813
01:18:29,038 --> 01:18:31,957
But anyway, we have
two beautiful children--
1814
01:18:31,991 --> 01:18:33,959
beautiful, beautiful,
beautiful-- Milan and Morocco.
1815
01:18:33,993 --> 01:18:36,211
And when I first got married,
when we first hooked up,
1816
01:18:36,245 --> 01:18:38,830
I was morbidly obese.
I was 380 pounds, right?
1817
01:18:38,864 --> 01:18:42,050
- Oh, wow.
- And there's nothing worse
than a fat cokehead.
1818
01:18:42,085 --> 01:18:44,219
You ain't think a motherfucker
on coke gonna be fat.
1819
01:18:44,253 --> 01:18:46,004
You don't think nobody
on coke's gonna be fat,
1820
01:18:46,038 --> 01:18:49,173
but, you know, I became a vegan.
I started exercising.
1821
01:18:49,207 --> 01:18:53,094
And I lost
over 160 pounds.
1822
01:18:53,145 --> 01:18:55,212
- ( applause )
- Yeah.
1823
01:18:55,230 --> 01:18:58,182
And, listen, I suddenly went
from wanting to die every day
1824
01:18:58,216 --> 01:18:59,934
to all of a sudden
wanting to live.
1825
01:18:59,985 --> 01:19:02,052
Now I'm four years
clean and sober,
1826
01:19:02,070 --> 01:19:05,022
a better man,
striving to be a
better father.
1827
01:19:06,408 --> 01:19:09,226
( applause )
1828
01:19:09,244 --> 01:19:11,696
( piano glissando plays )
1829
01:19:24,908 --> 01:19:27,877
You know, as a parent,
I have many regrets.
1830
01:19:27,911 --> 01:19:31,080
I regret only caring
about fame,
1831
01:19:31,098 --> 01:19:33,049
money, women,
1832
01:19:33,083 --> 01:19:35,801
sex, drugs.
1833
01:19:35,852 --> 01:19:40,305
I thought the definition
of a good parent was being
a financial provider.
1834
01:19:40,357 --> 01:19:44,226
I totally missed out
on the emotional part.
1835
01:19:44,260 --> 01:19:47,229
And for that,
I will always regret.
1836
01:19:47,263 --> 01:19:51,283
You know, I'm just blessed
that God has given me
another opportunity
1837
01:19:51,317 --> 01:19:53,702
to be a father
for the children that I have
1838
01:19:53,737 --> 01:19:55,871
and that respect me now.
1839
01:19:55,905 --> 01:19:59,707
My older kids need more time
to forgive my absence
and my relapse,
1840
01:19:59,742 --> 01:20:01,626
but I just want them
to know that I love them
1841
01:20:01,660 --> 01:20:04,912
and I will always
be there for them
whenever they need me.
1842
01:20:04,946 --> 01:20:09,050
� And I'm singingthis song to you... �
1843
01:20:09,084 --> 01:20:10,918
You know, nothing in life
can ever prepare you
1844
01:20:10,952 --> 01:20:13,638
for the loss of a child.
1845
01:20:13,672 --> 01:20:17,458
It just seemed to defy
the laws of natural order.
1846
01:20:17,476 --> 01:20:21,012
We, as parents,
we're prepared to leave
this Earth before our children.
1847
01:20:21,063 --> 01:20:23,146
Before we leave,
we plan to guide them
1848
01:20:23,181 --> 01:20:25,482
and make them
stronger people in life.
1849
01:20:30,405 --> 01:20:32,606
It was a long
Labor Day weekend,
1850
01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:35,158
and I received the call
from the paramedics
1851
01:20:35,193 --> 01:20:37,477
at the house where
Exodus lived with her mother
1852
01:20:37,495 --> 01:20:40,030
and her older brother,
my son Miguel.
1853
01:20:40,081 --> 01:20:44,201
They lived in Phoenix, Arizona,
and I lived in Las Vegas.
1854
01:20:44,252 --> 01:20:45,951
I still don't understand
what happened.
1855
01:20:45,985 --> 01:20:47,670
I don't understand
why it happened.
1856
01:20:47,704 --> 01:20:49,422
I don't know how
a cord from a treadmill
1857
01:20:49,456 --> 01:20:53,158
can get wrapped around
a four-year-old girl's neck.
1858
01:20:53,176 --> 01:20:55,428
I jumped
on a plane immediately
1859
01:20:55,462 --> 01:20:57,012
and I went straight
to the hospital.
1860
01:20:57,047 --> 01:21:01,100
Exodus was already brain-dead
when I arrived.
1861
01:21:01,134 --> 01:21:04,186
It was the hardest thing
I ever had to do.
1862
01:21:04,221 --> 01:21:06,338
When I first
went to the hospital,
I was really angry
1863
01:21:06,356 --> 01:21:09,340
and I wanted somebody to pay
and feel how I felt.
1864
01:21:09,358 --> 01:21:12,644
But when I saw other parents
there that had children
that were dying
1865
01:21:12,678 --> 01:21:15,063
or just died right there,
at that moment,
1866
01:21:15,114 --> 01:21:17,565
and they came over to me
and comforted me.
1867
01:21:17,616 --> 01:21:19,350
We are all
members of a club
1868
01:21:19,368 --> 01:21:20,952
that we didn't
want to be a part of--
1869
01:21:20,986 --> 01:21:22,787
the bereaved parents club.
1870
01:21:22,822 --> 01:21:24,989
Before we left,
1871
01:21:25,023 --> 01:21:27,242
Exodus made her final ascent
to heaven.
1872
01:21:28,527 --> 01:21:30,962
You know, I can't bring back
my baby Exodus,
1873
01:21:30,996 --> 01:21:33,630
but the only thing I can do
is honor her life
1874
01:21:33,665 --> 01:21:35,999
by making a better example
of myself
1875
01:21:36,033 --> 01:21:38,869
for my children
who are still with me now.
1876
01:21:39,971 --> 01:21:42,306
There isn't a daythat goes by
1877
01:21:42,340 --> 01:21:44,558
that I don't think aboutExodus Sierra Tyson.
1878
01:21:44,592 --> 01:21:48,896
She will forever always bemy eternal angel.
1879
01:21:52,216 --> 01:21:54,568
These are my children
right here.
1880
01:21:56,219 --> 01:21:58,237
You know, I have, like,
a 9th grade education
1881
01:21:58,272 --> 01:22:01,691
from a really, really
fucked up, bad school, right?
1882
01:22:01,725 --> 01:22:03,993
And all my kids
go to private schools
1883
01:22:04,027 --> 01:22:05,661
and Ivy League schools,
right?
1884
01:22:05,696 --> 01:22:07,580
And every now and then
I text them and I see how
they're doing,
1885
01:22:07,614 --> 01:22:09,332
and they call me back--
text me back and say,
1886
01:22:09,366 --> 01:22:11,284
"Daddy, this is not how
you spell my name, Daddy.
1887
01:22:11,335 --> 01:22:13,369
And you don't spell
'birthday' like this, Dad.
1888
01:22:13,403 --> 01:22:15,371
I can't believe
you can't spell 'birthday.'"
1889
01:22:15,405 --> 01:22:17,239
But this is what my life
is about now,
1890
01:22:17,257 --> 01:22:20,208
being with my family
and cherishing this.
1891
01:22:20,242 --> 01:22:23,628
It took me a long time
to get it, but, by God,
you know, I got this shit.
1892
01:22:23,679 --> 01:22:26,181
And-- man.
1893
01:22:26,215 --> 01:22:29,768
( audience applauding )
1894
01:22:31,437 --> 01:22:33,421
Thank you, thank you.
1895
01:22:34,924 --> 01:22:37,058
I hope you leave here
with a better understanding
of me,
1896
01:22:37,092 --> 01:22:40,111
Michael Gerard Tyson,
and my undisputed truth.
1897
01:22:40,146 --> 01:22:42,062
Thank you for allowing me
to share this
1898
01:22:42,096 --> 01:22:45,533
roller coaster ride
of emotions with you.
1899
01:22:45,567 --> 01:22:48,786
It's been a long one,
with many highs and
many lows, guys,
1900
01:22:48,820 --> 01:22:51,939
but it's molded me into
the man that stands before you
1901
01:22:51,957 --> 01:22:55,776
baring his triumphs
and his failures
in front of you,
1902
01:22:55,794 --> 01:22:58,546
emotionally naked
as I came into this world.
1903
01:22:58,580 --> 01:23:01,298
God bless you all
and thank you for coming out
and supporting me.
1904
01:23:01,333 --> 01:23:04,001
- I really appreciate it.
- ( applauding )
1905
01:23:22,686 --> 01:23:24,404
Good job, buddy.
Good to see you.
1906
01:23:24,438 --> 01:23:25,855
Yeah, man, great.
1907
01:23:27,908 --> 01:23:29,942
� For a new day
1908
01:23:29,976 --> 01:23:33,495
� Celebrate and sayay-ay-ay... �
1909
01:23:33,529 --> 01:23:35,781
- � Ay-ay-ay...
- Thank you very much.
1910
01:23:35,815 --> 01:23:38,316
� Ay-ay-ay...
1911
01:23:38,334 --> 01:23:40,535
� Ay, ay-ay-ay,ay-ay-ay... �
1912
01:23:40,587 --> 01:23:43,005
� I woke up this morningthinking 'bout the old me �
1913
01:23:43,039 --> 01:23:45,707
� When I was feeling likeMiller Lite and Ol' E �
1914
01:23:45,758 --> 01:23:47,709
� But now I rideon some conscious shit �
1915
01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:50,345
� I'm getting bread whileI toast to my accomplishments �
1916
01:23:50,380 --> 01:23:52,663
� Only one I could havea problem with is myself �
1917
01:23:52,681 --> 01:23:55,299
� That's probably why myonly competition is myself �
1918
01:23:55,333 --> 01:23:57,969
� From today to tomorrow,the Doc is just rockingthe same drum �
1919
01:23:58,003 --> 01:24:00,605
� Fuck the past, though I ain'tforgot where I came from �
1920
01:24:00,639 --> 01:24:03,274
� Uh, I got the clubrocking, rocking, uh �
1921
01:24:03,308 --> 01:24:05,977
� I got your girljocking, uh �
1922
01:24:06,011 --> 01:24:08,229
� Me and Fif' stillin this bitch, bitch �
1923
01:24:08,280 --> 01:24:10,781
� We going the distance withyou party people, come on �
1924
01:24:10,816 --> 01:24:14,402
� Party people say,party people say, ay �
1925
01:24:14,453 --> 01:24:16,953
� It's a new day
1926
01:24:16,988 --> 01:24:20,457
� It's a new day
1927
01:24:20,491 --> 01:24:22,125
� World is getting ready...
1928
01:24:22,159 --> 01:24:23,827
Mike Tyson:
Thank you for coming out,everybody. Thank you.
1929
01:24:23,861 --> 01:24:24,928
Brooklyn's in the house.
1930
01:24:24,962 --> 01:24:26,963
Brownsville.Never run, never will.
1931
01:24:26,998 --> 01:24:29,833
Thank you, DJ Clark Kent.I love you. Thank you.
1932
01:24:29,867 --> 01:24:31,401
Thanks to everyone.
1933
01:24:31,435 --> 01:24:33,503
Thanks, Spike.Thank you, Mr. Nederlander.
1934
01:24:33,537 --> 01:24:35,605
Thank you, Kiki Tyson,I love you.
1935
01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:37,374
Brooklyn rocks!
1936
01:24:37,408 --> 01:24:39,742
� Ay ay-ay-ay, ay-ay,ay ay-ay-ay, ay-ay �
1937
01:24:39,776 --> 01:24:42,244
� Now you can get your kneeson the church floor,pray it get better �
1938
01:24:42,278 --> 01:24:44,780
� Or push the doughon the liquor store andsee where it get you �
1939
01:24:44,814 --> 01:24:46,582
� But me,I got to be on top �
1940
01:24:46,616 --> 01:24:48,317
� I said, me,I got to be on top �
1941
01:24:48,351 --> 01:24:49,918
� I got the street on lock
1942
01:24:49,953 --> 01:24:52,221
� I'm on automatic pilot,ain't nobody starting me �
1943
01:24:52,255 --> 01:24:54,723
� Growing up in povertyain't fill my heartwith larceny �
1944
01:24:54,758 --> 01:24:57,426
� Niggas ride, I don't hide,I jump to get 'em off on me �
1945
01:24:57,460 --> 01:24:59,928
� I'm a leader, look and seethe natural-born boss of me �
1946
01:24:59,963 --> 01:25:01,663
� They from Bel Air,I'm from the bottom �
1947
01:25:01,697 --> 01:25:03,231
� Soon as I spot 'em,I get the drop and I got 'em �
1948
01:25:03,265 --> 01:25:04,666
� I cock my pieceand red-dot 'em �
1949
01:25:04,700 --> 01:25:06,467
� It's dinnertimewhen the nine come out �
1950
01:25:06,502 --> 01:25:07,935
� It's off with the chain,off with the ring �
1951
01:25:07,970 --> 01:25:09,937
� Move, bang,off wit' ya brain now �
1952
01:25:09,972 --> 01:25:13,908
� Party people say,party people say, ay �
1953
01:25:13,942 --> 01:25:16,678
� It's a new day
1954
01:25:16,712 --> 01:25:19,514
� It's a new day
1955
01:25:19,548 --> 01:25:23,951
� World is getting ready,everybody ready, yeah �
1956
01:25:23,986 --> 01:25:26,286
� For a new day
1957
01:25:26,320 --> 01:25:28,855
� For a new day
1958
01:25:28,890 --> 01:25:32,025
� Celebrate and sayay ay ay-ay-ay... �
1959
01:25:32,060 --> 01:25:34,394
� Ay ay ayay-ay-ay... �
1960
01:25:34,429 --> 01:25:36,963
� Ay, ay ayay ay ay-ay-ay �
1961
01:25:36,998 --> 01:25:39,599
� Ay, ay ay-ay-ay,ay ay ay-ay-ay �
1962
01:25:39,634 --> 01:25:44,037
� Marks on the wall
1963
01:25:44,072 --> 01:25:48,207
� It's now or never at all
1964
01:25:48,241 --> 01:25:50,843
� I'm gonna give it my all
1965
01:25:50,877 --> 01:25:53,279
� Oh, oh
1966
01:25:53,313 --> 01:25:55,748
� Whether I rise or fall
1967
01:25:55,782 --> 01:25:58,851
� Oh, oh.
1967
01:25:59,881 --> 01:26:59,778
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