1 00:01:29,748 --> 00:01:31,836 Knockdown! Knockdown! 2 00:01:31,875 --> 00:01:36,594 Another victory for Sweetwater! 3 00:01:38,633 --> 00:01:42,850 And now, for your entertainment pleasure... 4 00:01:42,887 --> 00:01:44,850 while we get ready for the main event... 5 00:01:44,890 --> 00:01:49,274 give it up for the Gat Boyz! 6 00:02:18,257 --> 00:02:21,138 I saw Louis the night that he beat Braddock... 7 00:02:21,178 --> 00:02:23,974 won the title. 1937. 8 00:02:24,013 --> 00:02:25,934 Louis hits him with a left and a right! 9 00:02:25,973 --> 00:02:27,310 And Braddock is down! 10 00:02:27,351 --> 00:02:29,605 Straight right hand to the jaw. 11 00:02:29,645 --> 00:02:31,982 Christ, they could've counted to fifty. 12 00:02:32,022 --> 00:02:34,486 He was the best heavyweight... 13 00:02:34,524 --> 00:02:36,612 that ever fought under the modern rules. 14 00:02:36,652 --> 00:02:38,822 No discussion, the best. 15 00:02:38,862 --> 00:02:43,246 Then the fucking government chased him about taxes. 16 00:02:43,283 --> 00:02:48,168 Fucking IRS, fucking bureaucrat assholes. 17 00:02:50,582 --> 00:02:52,001 Fuck it. 18 00:03:48,685 --> 00:03:52,233 ...in the west corner, weighing in at 230 pounds... 19 00:03:52,271 --> 00:03:54,484 wearing the green trunks with the gold trim... 20 00:03:54,524 --> 00:03:58,406 he's undefeated with eight wins and no losses. 21 00:03:58,444 --> 00:04:00,908 Representing the State Prison at Loda... 22 00:04:00,947 --> 00:04:04,078 the great white hope, Vern Van Zant! 23 00:04:07,954 --> 00:04:09,373 Now in the east corner... 24 00:04:09,414 --> 00:04:11,793 he's also undefeated and defending champion... 25 00:04:11,833 --> 00:04:15,048 with a record of 67 wins and no losses... 26 00:04:15,086 --> 00:04:18,009 weighing in at 191 pounds... 27 00:04:18,048 --> 00:04:20,093 wearing the burgundy trunks with the black trim... 28 00:04:20,133 --> 00:04:25,435 Sweetwater's own, Monroe Hutchen! 29 00:04:45,034 --> 00:04:47,998 All right now, shit birds, y'all both know the rules. 30 00:04:48,037 --> 00:04:50,960 I want a nice, clean fight, nothing below the belt. 31 00:04:50,998 --> 00:04:53,754 You understand me? Let's box. 32 00:04:59,883 --> 00:05:01,636 Now remember, brother convicts... 33 00:05:01,676 --> 00:05:03,012 if you learned how to act... 34 00:05:03,053 --> 00:05:04,555 they wouldn't have to fight inside of a cage. 35 00:05:04,595 --> 00:05:05,974 And be on your best behavior, too... 36 00:05:06,015 --> 00:05:07,768 'cause we don't want no incidents, all right? 37 00:05:07,808 --> 00:05:09,144 Now, let's see what the pride of Loda... 38 00:05:09,185 --> 00:05:10,980 has to offer against the great Monroe. 39 00:05:11,019 --> 00:05:13,065 Give Hitler's cousin his lunch, baby. 40 00:05:13,105 --> 00:05:15,485 It's all you, baby! It's all you! 41 00:05:15,524 --> 00:05:17,110 Yeah! Come on now! 42 00:05:17,150 --> 00:05:19,029 Come back from the rail... get back, 43 00:05:22,865 --> 00:05:25,203 And there go the bell. Here we go. 44 00:05:25,243 --> 00:05:27,915 Monroe comes out and peppers him... 45 00:05:27,954 --> 00:05:29,582 with a nice left hand, 46 00:05:29,622 --> 00:05:31,126 And another left hand, 47 00:05:33,834 --> 00:05:35,087 Monroe's just feeling him out... 48 00:05:35,128 --> 00:05:37,006 popping him with a little left hand, 49 00:05:37,045 --> 00:05:39,008 He going to shine that bald head up, for sure, 50 00:05:39,048 --> 00:05:42,096 Move your feet! Oh, yeah, that's right! 51 00:05:42,135 --> 00:05:43,930 Yeah! Yeah! 52 00:05:43,971 --> 00:05:45,725 Beat the teeth out of his mouth, Monroe! 53 00:05:45,764 --> 00:05:46,975 Come on, man! 54 00:05:51,854 --> 00:05:54,860 A left and a right by Monroe! 55 00:05:54,898 --> 00:05:57,403 This guy hasn't tagged Monroe yet, 56 00:05:57,443 --> 00:05:59,948 How in the hell could you be 6-6, 280... 57 00:05:59,988 --> 00:06:01,992 and look wobbly already? Ooh! 58 00:06:02,031 --> 00:06:04,535 He's down! He's down! 59 00:06:04,575 --> 00:06:07,664 He's already down! Vern Van Zant is down! 60 00:06:09,079 --> 00:06:10,750 We're not even halfway through the first round... 61 00:06:10,790 --> 00:06:12,293 and he's already down! 62 00:06:12,333 --> 00:06:15,965 Excuse me, sir, we just got some big news. 63 00:06:16,004 --> 00:06:20,054 The word is, the Iceman's day of arrival is tomorrow. 64 00:06:20,090 --> 00:06:21,761 E.T.A., 2 p.m. 65 00:06:21,801 --> 00:06:23,805 Now, Vern Van Zant said he got those... 66 00:06:23,845 --> 00:06:25,765 brand-new tattoos just for this occasion. 67 00:06:25,804 --> 00:06:26,974 Well, Vern, don't look like... 68 00:06:27,016 --> 00:06:28,936 the parry’s gonna last too long for you. 69 00:06:28,937 --> 00:06:33,192 This guy is a bum... big, uncoordinated motherfucker. 70 00:06:33,229 --> 00:06:34,565 Nine... 71 00:06:36,023 --> 00:06:39,029 Look at me! You OK? Box! 72 00:06:40,613 --> 00:06:43,201 Ah, here we go again! Monroe's on the hunt. 73 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:44,910 Vern, swinging and a-missing, 74 00:06:44,951 --> 00:06:47,580 Ooh! And another left, right to the midsection, 75 00:06:47,619 --> 00:06:49,248 Left and right uppercuts to the head! 76 00:06:49,287 --> 00:06:51,208 Right to the head! Right to the stomach, 77 00:06:51,249 --> 00:06:53,002 This guy's just a-swinging and a-missing! 78 00:06:53,042 --> 00:06:54,544 Hits him with a left and a right! 79 00:06:54,584 --> 00:06:56,505 Monroe's just tearing his ass up, 80 00:06:56,545 --> 00:06:59,802 Right in the face! Right to the head! 81 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:01,885 Left to the midsection! Right to the head! 82 00:07:01,926 --> 00:07:03,388 Another left and a right! 83 00:07:03,469 --> 00:07:04,972 Oh, my God, he shined his head up! 84 00:07:05,012 --> 00:07:06,975 I told you, he's shinin' it up! 85 00:07:09,977 --> 00:07:11,977 One more time for Monroe, 86 00:07:11,978 --> 00:07:13,898 Knockout! Knockout! 87 00:07:15,606 --> 00:07:17,568 One round, motherfucker! 88 00:07:19,110 --> 00:07:21,907 That's it! That's it! 89 00:07:21,947 --> 00:07:27,791 It's done! This fight is over! Monroe wins again! 90 00:07:29,621 --> 00:07:30,873 Spit it. 91 00:07:30,914 --> 00:07:32,918 Yeah, but I got a little announcement for you. 92 00:07:32,958 --> 00:07:34,378 Got a little announcement for you. 93 00:07:34,419 --> 00:07:35,796 Little news bulletin. 94 00:07:35,836 --> 00:07:37,923 Y'all been wondering when that day is coming. 95 00:07:37,963 --> 00:07:41,386 Well, that day is tomorrow. He's coming to Sweetwater. 96 00:07:41,425 --> 00:07:42,928 The so-called undisputed... 97 00:07:42,968 --> 00:07:44,930 heavyweight champion of the world... 98 00:07:44,971 --> 00:07:48,603 George "Iceman" Chambers! 99 00:07:50,685 --> 00:07:52,564 What do you say to that, Monroe? You ready? 100 00:08:02,906 --> 00:08:06,203 OK, here we go. Tape rolling. 101 00:08:07,827 --> 00:08:09,956 Former world heavyweight champion... 102 00:08:09,996 --> 00:08:11,750 George "Iceman" Chambers... 103 00:08:11,790 --> 00:08:13,460 now you'll be moving to a new home... 104 00:08:13,499 --> 00:08:15,670 going to live with murderers and thieves... 105 00:08:15,710 --> 00:08:17,380 in California's newly-built... 106 00:08:17,421 --> 00:08:19,342 Sweetwater Prison in the Mojave Desert. 107 00:08:19,381 --> 00:08:21,969 How's all this going for you? 108 00:08:22,008 --> 00:08:25,599 I'll be OK. I got a bad break. 109 00:08:25,638 --> 00:08:27,558 I just gotta play this thing out. 110 00:08:27,598 --> 00:08:30,771 Your lawyers have filed all the expected appeals... 111 00:08:30,809 --> 00:08:33,774 but realistically, what do you think of your chances,,, 112 00:08:33,813 --> 00:08:35,358 of getting out before serving... 113 00:08:35,397 --> 00:08:37,903 the full sentence of 6 to 8 years? 114 00:08:37,943 --> 00:08:41,699 I'm not supposed to talk about that legal stuff. 115 00:08:41,737 --> 00:08:44,117 My people don't want me commenting on that. 116 00:08:44,157 --> 00:08:46,119 Boxing experts tend to agree... 117 00:08:46,159 --> 00:08:48,664 that even as little as two years in a prison... 118 00:08:48,744 --> 00:08:51,124 without proper training could mean the end... 119 00:08:51,164 --> 00:08:53,377 for a boxer your age. Now, you're regarded... 120 00:08:53,416 --> 00:08:55,002 as one of the greatest offensive fighters... 121 00:08:55,043 --> 00:08:56,588 in the history of the sport... 122 00:08:56,628 --> 00:08:59,049 an attacker like Dempsey, Joe Louis... 123 00:08:59,089 --> 00:09:02,053 Rocky Marciano, Joe Frazier, 124 00:09:02,092 --> 00:09:04,889 Just exactly how damaging to your skills... 125 00:09:04,928 --> 00:09:06,890 is this prison stint likely to be? 126 00:09:06,930 --> 00:09:10,645 No damage. I'll stay in shape, work out... 127 00:09:10,684 --> 00:09:12,562 watch what I eat. I'll be fine. 128 00:09:12,602 --> 00:09:15,566 But when an athlete is removed from competition... 129 00:09:15,606 --> 00:09:18,487 That's where you're making one big mistake right off. 130 00:09:18,526 --> 00:09:22,951 I'm not an athlete. I'm a gladiator. 131 00:09:22,988 --> 00:09:24,574 How do you define that? 132 00:09:24,615 --> 00:09:29,207 People play baseball. Nobody plays boxing. 133 00:09:29,245 --> 00:09:32,084 Iceman, last week after you were convicted... 134 00:09:32,123 --> 00:09:35,212 boxing's various so-called governing bodies... 135 00:09:35,252 --> 00:09:37,172 began stripping you of your title belts... 136 00:09:37,211 --> 00:09:38,589 stripping you... 137 00:09:38,629 --> 00:09:40,383 Who they think they kidding? 138 00:09:40,424 --> 00:09:42,303 Everybody knows I'm the champ. 139 00:09:42,342 --> 00:09:44,513 And I'm gonna be the champ till I quit. 140 00:10:04,698 --> 00:10:07,621 This fight with Manfredy is meant to be... 141 00:10:07,659 --> 00:10:09,622 just a tune-up for George "The Iceman" Chambers... 142 00:10:09,661 --> 00:10:11,248 hopefully leading to the unification bout... 143 00:10:11,288 --> 00:10:12,624 with Montel Briscoe... 144 00:10:12,665 --> 00:10:15,338 undefeated holder of the WBC crown, 145 00:10:15,376 --> 00:10:17,964 The two biggest names in boxing on a collision course... 146 00:10:18,004 --> 00:10:19,633 sometime next year... 147 00:10:19,672 --> 00:10:22,803 assuming the Iceman gets by the South American challenger, 148 00:10:27,305 --> 00:10:30,561 It's round 1 and one to go, and it's all Iceman! 149 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,773 He's stalking Manfredy, chasing the big South American, 150 00:10:38,483 --> 00:10:40,153 Iceman with a right, another right, 151 00:10:40,194 --> 00:10:42,865 Another right and a left to the body! 152 00:10:42,905 --> 00:10:46,579 Oh, and a right-hand uppercut, That staggered Manfredy! 153 00:10:46,617 --> 00:10:49,748 Iceman stalking him, He knows he's got him hurt, 154 00:10:49,787 --> 00:10:52,751 Oh, body shots! Right, left to the body! 155 00:10:52,790 --> 00:10:55,378 Left hook and he's down! He's down! He's down! 156 00:10:55,417 --> 00:10:58,090 That's why they call him the Iceman! 157 00:10:59,712 --> 00:11:01,174 Well, Carlos Manfredy... 158 00:11:01,216 --> 00:11:03,972 gets a one-way ticket back to Brazil! 159 00:11:05,844 --> 00:11:07,390 George "Iceman" Chambers... 160 00:11:07,429 --> 00:11:10,017 remains undefeated heavyweight champion! 161 00:11:10,057 --> 00:11:12,521 And the big man on the block! 162 00:11:18,315 --> 00:11:20,821 Are you fighting Montel next? 163 00:11:20,902 --> 00:11:23,115 Just another sucker who's gonna get his ass whipped. 164 00:11:23,154 --> 00:11:25,659 If the money's right, bring on Montel. 165 00:11:25,741 --> 00:11:27,619 Nobody's running, nobody's ducking. 166 00:11:27,659 --> 00:11:31,625 Nobody... I mean, nobody... can stand up to what I got. 167 00:11:31,663 --> 00:11:33,041 Does that include Montel? 168 00:11:33,082 --> 00:11:35,086 Oh, yeah, that damn sure includes Montel. 169 00:11:37,169 --> 00:11:38,422 Mr. Lewis! 170 00:11:38,462 --> 00:11:40,967 Estimates are up to 300 million dollars... 171 00:11:41,006 --> 00:11:42,634 for the pay-per-view gate alone. 172 00:11:42,675 --> 00:11:43,969 Any comment on that? 173 00:11:44,010 --> 00:11:45,638 Let's make the deal first. 174 00:11:45,678 --> 00:11:49,978 But my first guess is you're a few million short. 175 00:11:50,016 --> 00:11:52,270 And, Iceman, it's nine months till summer. 176 00:11:52,310 --> 00:11:53,645 What's next for you? 177 00:11:53,686 --> 00:11:55,522 Well, first of all, I'm gonna go to L.A... 178 00:11:55,563 --> 00:11:57,025 you know, see some friends... 179 00:11:57,106 --> 00:11:58,985 then I'm gonna do a little partying. 180 00:12:02,820 --> 00:12:04,490 Hey, hey...that's it. 181 00:12:04,530 --> 00:12:05,907 I've done things in my life... 182 00:12:05,949 --> 00:12:07,949 maybe I shouldn't have. I know that. 183 00:12:07,950 --> 00:12:11,081 But I did not want to, and I told him "No." 184 00:12:17,794 --> 00:12:20,629 You'll be moving into a new home... 185 00:12:20,630 --> 00:12:22,927 going to live with murderers and thieves... 186 00:12:23,008 --> 00:12:24,344 in California's newly-built... 187 00:12:24,345 --> 00:12:26,802 Sweetwater Prison in the Mojave Desert, 188 00:12:26,803 --> 00:12:28,515 Without getting into legal strategy... 189 00:12:28,516 --> 00:12:29,933 let's discuss your trial. 190 00:12:30,016 --> 00:12:31,644 You continue to maintain your innocence. 191 00:12:31,725 --> 00:12:33,604 I didn't rape nobody. 192 00:12:33,644 --> 00:12:35,646 I done a lot of wrong shit in my life... 193 00:12:35,647 --> 00:12:37,648 but I ain't no punk-ass rapist. 194 00:12:37,649 --> 00:12:40,028 Look at me. What I gotta rape somebody for? 195 00:13:13,894 --> 00:13:15,438 Psst. Monroe. 196 00:13:15,479 --> 00:13:17,024 You see him through the window? 197 00:13:17,064 --> 00:13:19,110 Big deal's got his own helicopter service... 198 00:13:19,149 --> 00:13:21,028 instead of coming in here on the bus. 199 00:13:21,069 --> 00:13:23,156 He's the champ. 200 00:13:23,195 --> 00:13:26,368 What's this shit? Don't think negative, man. 201 00:13:26,408 --> 00:13:27,868 I don't want to hear that shit. 202 00:13:27,908 --> 00:13:29,954 This is your house. You own this place. 203 00:13:31,830 --> 00:13:34,209 If this was my house, I could get up and leave. 204 00:13:44,050 --> 00:13:45,386 He's here. 205 00:13:45,427 --> 00:13:47,139 Just getting out of the helicopter. 206 00:13:47,178 --> 00:13:49,976 Maybe you'd like to meet him, Mr. Ripstein. 207 00:13:50,016 --> 00:13:52,145 I could bring him over. You two could talk boxing. 208 00:13:52,183 --> 00:13:55,315 I'll tell you when I want to talk to him. 209 00:14:03,487 --> 00:14:06,367 Why couldn't your high-priced team of lawyers... 210 00:14:06,406 --> 00:14:08,368 convince a judge and a jury? 211 00:14:08,450 --> 00:14:10,955 Because I put people in body bags on TV... 212 00:14:10,995 --> 00:14:12,915 and get paid a lot of money for it. 213 00:14:12,955 --> 00:14:15,418 Because I'm a big, bad, black motherfucker... 214 00:14:15,458 --> 00:14:17,253 that's why nobody believes me. 215 00:14:17,293 --> 00:14:20,049 I have received over 170 requests... 216 00:14:20,088 --> 00:14:22,426 for interviews with you, Mr. Chambers. 217 00:14:22,465 --> 00:14:24,092 Networks, local TV, cable... 218 00:14:24,133 --> 00:14:26,178 ever newspaper organization in the country... 219 00:14:26,219 --> 00:14:29,434 foreign press, foreign TV... you name it, 220 00:14:29,473 --> 00:14:31,644 I have turned them all down, 221 00:14:31,683 --> 00:14:35,190 Mr. Chambers, here is Sweetwater, 222 00:14:35,227 --> 00:14:37,065 Maximum security, level five... 223 00:14:37,104 --> 00:14:38,858 state correctional institution... 224 00:14:38,899 --> 00:14:41,362 with nearly seven hundred prisoners. 225 00:14:41,401 --> 00:14:45,534 We house only murderers, armed robbers, rapists... 226 00:14:45,572 --> 00:14:47,284 and those with connections to gangs... 227 00:14:47,325 --> 00:14:49,454 and other forms of organized crime. 228 00:14:49,493 --> 00:14:53,459 The state is trying to spare lesser criminals... 229 00:14:53,497 --> 00:14:56,503 the contaminating influence of these more hardened types. 230 00:14:56,541 --> 00:15:00,006 Now, we don't want any incidents that might add... 231 00:15:00,045 --> 00:15:02,383 to your already great difficulties, Mr. Chambers, 232 00:15:02,422 --> 00:15:04,426 This is Mr. Mercker. 233 00:15:04,508 --> 00:15:06,972 He's the senior prison officer, He's the head guard, 234 00:15:07,011 --> 00:15:09,266 This is Ms. Early, our administrative officer. 235 00:15:09,305 --> 00:15:10,976 She can arrange for religious counsel... 236 00:15:11,015 --> 00:15:12,268 or instruction, if you wish. 237 00:15:12,308 --> 00:15:17,151 Whatever. I need a CD player and some CDs. 238 00:15:17,189 --> 00:15:18,692 Now, I'll give you a list. 239 00:15:18,731 --> 00:15:20,819 My people on the outside will pay for it all. 240 00:15:20,858 --> 00:15:22,654 Not possible for the first six months. 241 00:15:22,695 --> 00:15:24,114 It's a privilege, has to be earned. 242 00:15:24,153 --> 00:15:25,615 Any and all privileges... 243 00:15:25,697 --> 00:15:28,201 will depend upon your general conduct, 244 00:15:28,241 --> 00:15:31,038 Mr. Chambers, you have been convicted... 245 00:15:31,077 --> 00:15:32,998 and sent here for the crime of rape. 246 00:15:33,038 --> 00:15:34,666 That's a very serious mater, 247 00:15:34,707 --> 00:15:36,251 If you'd take advantage... 248 00:15:36,291 --> 00:15:38,044 of this opportunity to apologize... 249 00:15:38,085 --> 00:15:40,256 to this woman and to sports fans... 250 00:15:40,296 --> 00:15:42,216 and the American public for letting them down... 251 00:15:42,256 --> 00:15:43,925 heck, even the former president of the... 252 00:15:43,966 --> 00:15:45,678 Man, fuck the president! 253 00:15:45,718 --> 00:15:47,012 I ain't apologizing... 254 00:15:47,051 --> 00:15:49,765 not to you, not to her, not to nobody! 255 00:15:49,805 --> 00:15:52,101 And you lucky I got this damn gate between you and me... 256 00:15:52,141 --> 00:15:55,147 or I’d rip you a new asshole, you judgmental motherfucker! 257 00:15:56,730 --> 00:15:59,067 Another strong athlete in the joint! 258 00:15:59,107 --> 00:16:01,654 Welcome to Sweetwater, Chambers! 259 00:16:03,987 --> 00:16:05,656 If you need anything, champ... 260 00:16:05,697 --> 00:16:06,992 I got you covered, 261 00:16:14,748 --> 00:16:18,964 Hey, champ! Seen all your fights, man! 262 00:16:28,011 --> 00:16:29,388 You got a name? 263 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:33,394 Mingo. 264 00:16:33,433 --> 00:16:38,151 Mingo, move your shit, stay out of my way... 265 00:16:38,189 --> 00:16:41,027 and we'll get along just fine. 266 00:16:46,530 --> 00:16:49,870 Hey, listen. It's an honor to be cellmates with you. 267 00:16:49,909 --> 00:16:51,996 I don't want no trouble, champ. 268 00:16:52,036 --> 00:16:55,209 No trouble. You just gonna stay out of my way. 269 00:16:55,247 --> 00:16:56,793 He just thinks he's the king. 270 00:16:56,833 --> 00:16:59,672 Because he's the heavyweight champ, he's the man. 271 00:16:59,710 --> 00:17:01,924 Well, for some of us others, we have rights, too... 272 00:17:01,964 --> 00:17:05,720 and I had the right to say no if I didn't want to. 273 00:17:05,758 --> 00:17:09,224 I want everybody to keep your distance. 274 00:17:09,304 --> 00:17:11,642 I don't need to make no new friends... 275 00:17:11,682 --> 00:17:14,103 or hear no sad stories on why they're here. 276 00:17:14,142 --> 00:17:16,439 I got my own sad story for that. 277 00:17:16,478 --> 00:17:18,774 I ain't loanin' nobody no money... 278 00:17:18,814 --> 00:17:20,567 so you tell 'em don't even ask. 279 00:17:20,608 --> 00:17:22,946 And I don't want nobody talking to me... 280 00:17:22,986 --> 00:17:25,532 unless I talk to 'em first. 281 00:17:25,570 --> 00:17:28,243 -You got that? -Got it. 282 00:17:28,283 --> 00:17:30,495 "Leave the champ alone." 283 00:17:38,293 --> 00:17:40,755 I know boxing. 284 00:17:40,795 --> 00:17:43,509 I seen a lot of fights. 285 00:17:43,548 --> 00:17:46,887 You're a good champeen, 286 00:17:46,926 --> 00:17:48,429 Who the hell are you? 287 00:17:48,512 --> 00:17:50,307 This is Mendy Ripstein. 288 00:17:50,346 --> 00:17:51,975 He's a very important man in here. 289 00:17:52,016 --> 00:17:53,560 Ripstein, 290 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:57,984 Yeah, my manager, Yank Lewis, he told me to say hello. 291 00:17:58,022 --> 00:17:59,399 I don't remember him. 292 00:17:59,439 --> 00:18:01,901 He said you two were friends in Miami... 293 00:18:01,941 --> 00:18:03,945 about twenty-five years ago. 294 00:18:03,986 --> 00:18:07,201 I didn't have any friends in Miami. 295 00:18:07,239 --> 00:18:10,954 A lot of people, they say they knew me from the old days. 296 00:18:10,993 --> 00:18:12,663 They're full of shit. 297 00:18:12,703 --> 00:18:15,959 You're a good champeen... 298 00:18:15,998 --> 00:18:19,463 but we got a champeen right here... 299 00:18:19,543 --> 00:18:22,299 and he can kick your ass. 300 00:18:25,592 --> 00:18:26,886 Kiddin' me. 301 00:18:26,927 --> 00:18:30,558 I watch all your fights. You're not as good as you were. 302 00:18:30,597 --> 00:18:33,060 You're just looking for one big punch. 303 00:18:33,099 --> 00:18:35,855 You're not throwing combinations. 304 00:18:35,894 --> 00:18:39,693 You're not using as much head movement on defense. 305 00:18:39,731 --> 00:18:40,942 Yeah, right, old man. 306 00:18:40,982 --> 00:18:43,278 I'm just knocking motherfuckers out. 307 00:18:43,318 --> 00:18:45,782 Who's the punk in here you got in mind? 308 00:18:45,821 --> 00:18:49,996 Oh, did I hurt your feelings? 309 00:18:50,033 --> 00:18:52,746 Fuck you. 310 00:18:58,042 --> 00:19:01,882 Heh. Monroe. Name's Monroe Hutchen. 311 00:19:01,921 --> 00:19:04,635 Mr. Ripstein thinks he can whip up on you, man... 312 00:19:04,674 --> 00:19:08,974 but no offense. Not trying to cause any trouble here. 313 00:20:07,322 --> 00:20:10,077 Which one of these suckers in here is Monroe Hutchen? 314 00:20:10,117 --> 00:20:14,709 He's over there in line, wearing a white cap. 315 00:20:14,746 --> 00:20:16,541 What's happening, Mo? Yeah. 316 00:20:16,581 --> 00:20:19,003 Brought in some big guys in here. 317 00:20:19,043 --> 00:20:21,922 He beat 'em all. 318 00:20:21,961 --> 00:20:24,508 It ain't only about being big. 319 00:20:24,548 --> 00:20:27,011 You gotta have skill, son. 320 00:20:38,062 --> 00:20:40,066 You Monroe Hutchen? 321 00:20:43,067 --> 00:20:44,402 Yep. 322 00:20:44,443 --> 00:20:48,034 I guess you know who I am. 323 00:20:48,073 --> 00:20:51,746 Are you the champion in here? 324 00:20:51,784 --> 00:20:54,163 Yeah. 325 00:20:54,203 --> 00:20:57,292 Not the heavyweight champ. 326 00:20:59,375 --> 00:21:01,546 Champion... 327 00:21:01,587 --> 00:21:04,175 heavyweight or any other kind they got. 328 00:21:04,214 --> 00:21:09,140 I didn't even know they had boxing in a place like this. 329 00:21:09,178 --> 00:21:11,808 Well, it's a special program. 330 00:21:11,846 --> 00:21:14,394 We only get bouts ever six months. 331 00:21:14,433 --> 00:21:17,314 Mostly we fight guys from other prisons. 332 00:21:17,353 --> 00:21:19,774 How long you been on top? 333 00:21:19,814 --> 00:21:23,530 Ten years. Ever since I got in here. 334 00:21:23,567 --> 00:21:27,575 Damn. Brother, that's a real fine record you got. 335 00:21:27,613 --> 00:21:30,285 I gotta congratulate you. 336 00:21:30,324 --> 00:21:32,705 Yeah! You want some of this? 337 00:21:32,743 --> 00:21:34,454 Yeah! Come on! 338 00:21:34,495 --> 00:21:36,332 I'm gonna win. 339 00:21:36,372 --> 00:21:38,501 Come on! What? 340 00:21:38,541 --> 00:21:41,338 Ain't no champ in here but me! 341 00:21:43,297 --> 00:21:46,219 I'm giving you another chance. 342 00:21:46,258 --> 00:21:49,138 I'm inclined to overlook what happened this afternoon... 343 00:21:49,176 --> 00:21:51,180 and not make it a par of your official record, 344 00:21:53,347 --> 00:21:57,147 Look, let's get something straight, Mr. Warden. 345 00:21:57,185 --> 00:22:00,818 I'm not just some convict doing five to ten. 346 00:22:00,857 --> 00:22:04,363 I'm a real big deal. 347 00:22:04,443 --> 00:22:06,697 Not only am I heavyweight champ... 348 00:22:06,737 --> 00:22:09,868 I'm close to being the most famous man in the world. 349 00:22:09,906 --> 00:22:11,493 So if you think you're gonna lean on me... 350 00:22:11,534 --> 00:22:13,079 like these punks you got in here... 351 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:14,330 you better think again... 352 00:22:14,370 --> 00:22:16,458 because if anything happens to me... 353 00:22:16,497 --> 00:22:20,339 it's gonna be on the 6:00 news worldwide. 354 00:22:20,376 --> 00:22:22,004 There's gonna be a whole lot of people... 355 00:22:22,045 --> 00:22:24,090 askin' a whole lot of questions... 356 00:22:24,130 --> 00:22:26,176 and you and your little crew here better know that. 357 00:22:26,215 --> 00:22:28,219 Just my luck he got sent here. 358 00:22:28,259 --> 00:22:31,432 Iceman, my ass. He's just another goddamn thug. 359 00:22:31,471 --> 00:22:33,600 One who happens to be a world champion... 360 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,562 and a potential public relations nightmare. 361 00:22:44,067 --> 00:22:47,114 Mr. Hutchen. 362 00:22:47,153 --> 00:22:48,740 You know the little problem... 363 00:22:48,781 --> 00:22:51,035 you had with the Iceman yesterday? 364 00:22:51,075 --> 00:22:52,828 Got you in some trouble. 365 00:22:54,370 --> 00:22:56,792 Heavyweight champ. 366 00:22:56,831 --> 00:22:59,002 Man gave me a cheap shot. 367 00:22:59,041 --> 00:23:00,543 Yeah, I know, 368 00:23:00,584 --> 00:23:02,296 By the court and the higher powers... 369 00:23:02,337 --> 00:23:05,176 you contributed to a situation that threatened violence. 370 00:23:05,215 --> 00:23:07,761 One thing you ought to know by now, Monroe, 371 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,973 Life ain't fair, Not fair at all, 372 00:23:19,353 --> 00:23:20,982 The warden understands... 373 00:23:21,022 --> 00:23:22,693 what he's doing is unfortunate... 374 00:23:22,732 --> 00:23:24,987 but unless Mr. Hutchen and the Iceman are separated... 375 00:23:25,026 --> 00:23:26,487 there will be enormous pressure... 376 00:23:26,528 --> 00:23:28,825 for another physical confrontation, 377 00:23:28,864 --> 00:23:30,325 Nobody likes this... 378 00:23:30,365 --> 00:23:32,327 but Mr. Hutchen's presence is an incitement to violence... 379 00:23:32,368 --> 00:23:34,998 and he will be kept in there until such time... 380 00:23:35,037 --> 00:23:38,627 as we can make arrangements for his travel to another facility. 381 00:23:48,634 --> 00:23:50,930 OK. 382 00:23:52,555 --> 00:23:53,933 Hey, Monroe. 383 00:23:53,973 --> 00:23:55,977 Take care of yourself in there, Monroe. 384 00:24:01,189 --> 00:24:01,982 Sergeant Marinez to the hill tower, 385 00:24:01,983 --> 00:24:04,278 Sergeant Marinez to the hill tower, 386 00:24:04,318 --> 00:24:06,822 Sergeant Marinez to the hill tower, 387 00:24:10,573 --> 00:24:12,994 New duty roster just got posted. 388 00:24:13,034 --> 00:24:16,248 You're working in the kitchen with me. 389 00:24:16,287 --> 00:24:18,959 Look, since we're gonna be stuck together... 390 00:24:18,999 --> 00:24:22,714 what you in here for? 391 00:24:22,754 --> 00:24:24,757 You know, champ, I don't mean to be... 392 00:24:24,796 --> 00:24:27,719 telling you what to do or anything, but... 393 00:24:27,758 --> 00:24:32,016 it's not considered polite to ask why we're here. 394 00:24:32,053 --> 00:24:35,184 Kinda violation of the ethics. You know, the code? 395 00:24:35,224 --> 00:24:36,393 Yeah. 396 00:24:36,434 --> 00:24:39,857 People take it as disrespect. 397 00:24:39,937 --> 00:24:44,278 Yo! You keeping in shape, Mr. Iceman? 398 00:24:44,317 --> 00:24:47,406 Who's this chump? 399 00:24:47,445 --> 00:24:51,161 Call him Ratbag. Runs with Monroe. 400 00:24:51,199 --> 00:24:52,368 Shit. 401 00:24:52,408 --> 00:24:54,454 Thinks he's his manager, 402 00:24:54,494 --> 00:24:57,208 -Ratbag? -Ratbag. 403 00:25:00,083 --> 00:25:04,509 OK, Ratbag, what you in here for? 404 00:25:06,548 --> 00:25:09,345 -Me? -Yeah, you. 405 00:25:11,595 --> 00:25:13,431 Arson. 406 00:25:13,471 --> 00:25:17,604 Nothin' up close and personal. 407 00:25:17,642 --> 00:25:20,064 You hit people much? 408 00:25:20,104 --> 00:25:21,856 What do you mean? 409 00:25:21,898 --> 00:25:24,111 You know, punch people. 410 00:25:24,149 --> 00:25:26,654 When you were a kid or since you been in here. 411 00:25:26,694 --> 00:25:29,741 Sometimes. Not much. 412 00:25:29,780 --> 00:25:31,617 I never was the physical type. 413 00:25:31,657 --> 00:25:34,579 You want to hit me? 414 00:25:34,619 --> 00:25:38,585 What, are you kidding? 415 00:25:38,665 --> 00:25:40,794 You can say you did it. 416 00:25:40,834 --> 00:25:42,754 "I punched the heavyweight champ." 417 00:25:42,794 --> 00:25:44,213 You can tell people all about it. 418 00:25:44,253 --> 00:25:45,422 It might even make you... 419 00:25:45,463 --> 00:25:48,011 feel good about your little punk-ass self. 420 00:25:48,049 --> 00:25:50,721 I don't want to hit you, Iceman. Shit! 421 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:51,929 Sure you do! 422 00:25:51,970 --> 00:25:53,932 You don't even like me. Come on, man. 423 00:25:53,972 --> 00:25:56,311 Go crazy. Let one go. 424 00:25:56,349 --> 00:25:58,770 If I hit you just this once, will that end it? 425 00:25:58,810 --> 00:26:00,314 I won't have to hit you anymore? 426 00:26:00,354 --> 00:26:02,567 All you gotta do is hit me one time... 427 00:26:02,607 --> 00:26:04,986 and I'm telling you, man, it'll make you feel good... 428 00:26:05,026 --> 00:26:07,656 and it ain't gonna hurt me none. 429 00:26:07,695 --> 00:26:09,489 Aright. Just once. 430 00:26:09,529 --> 00:26:11,909 Just to satisfy whatever weird trip you're on... 431 00:26:11,949 --> 00:26:13,160 and show you that I'm a good guy... 432 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:14,829 trying to do what you want. 433 00:26:14,869 --> 00:26:16,163 Right. Thank you. 434 00:26:16,203 --> 00:26:18,583 You're welcome. 435 00:26:21,376 --> 00:26:22,503 Unh! 436 00:26:22,543 --> 00:26:24,129 Ohh! Yeah, baby! 437 00:26:24,171 --> 00:26:27,969 Oh, yeah! Yeah! I hit the Iceman! 438 00:26:28,007 --> 00:26:29,176 Yo! 439 00:26:30,509 --> 00:26:34,058 -Yeah! -Thank you. 440 00:26:34,096 --> 00:26:35,933 You still feel good, Ratbag? 441 00:26:35,973 --> 00:26:38,311 Yeah. I guess so. 442 00:26:38,351 --> 00:26:40,271 You're not mad, are you? 443 00:26:40,312 --> 00:26:42,107 Ohh! Damn! 444 00:26:42,147 --> 00:26:44,026 No, I'm not mad at you. 445 00:26:44,066 --> 00:26:47,030 Now, you go tell Monroe what I said. 446 00:26:47,069 --> 00:26:49,030 Ain't but one champ in here! 447 00:26:49,071 --> 00:26:51,700 And it ain't some nickel-and-dime convict... 448 00:26:51,740 --> 00:26:53,702 beating up on fools in prison! 449 00:26:53,742 --> 00:26:55,913 Get that bitch outta here. 450 00:27:33,117 --> 00:27:35,789 I ain't gotta spend my time makin' potato salad. 451 00:27:37,370 --> 00:27:38,580 Where I come from... 452 00:27:38,621 --> 00:27:41,002 we didn't have any kind of salads. 453 00:27:41,041 --> 00:27:43,337 Where's that? 454 00:27:43,377 --> 00:27:46,842 Indian country. Oklahoma. 455 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,010 Hmm. 456 00:27:49,049 --> 00:27:50,594 Look, man, I know I'm not supposed to ask... 457 00:27:50,635 --> 00:27:52,389 but what you in here for? 458 00:27:54,888 --> 00:27:57,351 I stole some rich guy's Mercedes in L.A. 459 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,734 I got a Mercedes. Three of 'em. 460 00:28:05,984 --> 00:28:07,737 Mr. Hutchen. 461 00:28:07,776 --> 00:28:10,907 It's Darlene Early, the G.A.O. General administration officer. 462 00:28:10,946 --> 00:28:14,829 I need to do the interview and paperwork... 463 00:28:14,868 --> 00:28:16,705 for your transfer to Folsom. 464 00:28:16,745 --> 00:28:19,959 How are your spirits? I want you to know... 465 00:28:19,998 --> 00:28:21,668 I'm not in favor of solitary confinement. 466 00:28:21,708 --> 00:28:24,505 Not for you, not for anybody else. 467 00:28:24,545 --> 00:28:26,548 It's OK in here. 468 00:28:26,589 --> 00:28:28,091 You can't be serious. 469 00:28:28,174 --> 00:28:31,347 It's all a prison. 470 00:28:31,384 --> 00:28:33,848 I live inside my head. 471 00:28:33,888 --> 00:28:36,643 So that's how you're doing your time? 472 00:28:36,681 --> 00:28:39,979 Are you really that much in control of your emotions? 473 00:28:42,020 --> 00:28:45,109 Been that way all my life. 474 00:28:45,148 --> 00:28:48,989 Only time I ever lost it is what got me in here. 475 00:28:49,028 --> 00:28:53,119 Yeah. I'm familiar with your case history. 476 00:28:53,157 --> 00:28:56,330 So you prefer your own company? 477 00:28:56,369 --> 00:28:58,373 Most of the time. 478 00:28:58,412 --> 00:29:00,834 I am supposed to recommend whether or not... 479 00:29:00,874 --> 00:29:03,964 you seem to require a detailed psychiatric evaluation. 480 00:29:04,002 --> 00:29:05,838 Other than the incident in the mess hall... 481 00:29:05,879 --> 00:29:07,508 That wasn't me. 482 00:29:07,547 --> 00:29:10,971 Why don't you go talk to the hotshot champ? 483 00:29:11,009 --> 00:29:12,638 Ask him about it. 484 00:29:12,678 --> 00:29:14,974 So you deny any responsibility? 485 00:29:15,013 --> 00:29:18,521 Yeah, I deny it. How does that affect me movin' on? 486 00:29:18,559 --> 00:29:21,899 This has no bearing in your transfer to Folsom. 487 00:29:25,023 --> 00:29:26,986 You know, this whole thing... 488 00:29:27,026 --> 00:29:30,241 this whole thing is about people bein' scared. 489 00:29:30,279 --> 00:29:32,491 Aren't you afraid of him? 490 00:29:32,532 --> 00:29:35,621 Afraid. Shit, no. 491 00:29:35,659 --> 00:29:37,246 He's a fighter. I'm a fighter. 492 00:29:37,287 --> 00:29:38,956 If I'm better on that day, I win. 493 00:29:38,996 --> 00:29:40,499 That's just the way it goes. 494 00:29:40,581 --> 00:29:45,215 Someday, ever fighter loses. 495 00:29:45,253 --> 00:29:46,965 Sooner or later, somebody comes along... 496 00:29:47,005 --> 00:29:49,677 and they got your ticket. 497 00:29:49,716 --> 00:29:54,266 Too old, just wasn't your day, whatever the reason is. 498 00:29:54,305 --> 00:29:58,062 In the end, everybody gets beaten. 499 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:04,194 The most you can hope for is that you stay on top a while. 500 00:30:04,231 --> 00:30:05,775 Be the best. 501 00:30:10,654 --> 00:30:13,034 I tried to say hello to that old gangster. 502 00:30:13,073 --> 00:30:15,662 Ripstein. He said he don't remember you. 503 00:30:15,702 --> 00:30:18,916 He remembers. He just don't want to admit it. 504 00:30:18,954 --> 00:30:21,042 Standard mob procedure. 505 00:30:21,082 --> 00:30:23,253 Guys like him deny they ever had a mother. 506 00:30:23,293 --> 00:30:25,589 Yeah. Right. 507 00:30:25,628 --> 00:30:28,216 How you makin' out, man? 508 00:30:28,256 --> 00:30:30,594 It's shit, but I can handle it. 509 00:30:30,634 --> 00:30:33,013 Yeah. Rumor goin' around you almost stared a riot. 510 00:30:33,052 --> 00:30:35,056 It was all bullshit, man. 511 00:30:35,095 --> 00:30:37,851 I had to let the peeps in here know who's the boss. 512 00:30:37,891 --> 00:30:40,062 Just keep your goddamn nose clean. 513 00:30:40,101 --> 00:30:42,022 You already got enough problems. 514 00:30:43,188 --> 00:30:45,317 And since they stripped you of your title... 515 00:30:45,357 --> 00:30:47,361 they're having this elimination tournament... 516 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:48,820 to figure out a new champ. 517 00:30:48,860 --> 00:30:52,780 Everybody thinks Briscoe's a lock to win it. 518 00:30:52,781 --> 00:30:55,745 Word is, Montel's fighting Jimmy Stubbs in July. 519 00:30:55,785 --> 00:30:57,622 Jimmy Stubbs's a bum. 520 00:30:57,661 --> 00:31:00,458 The good news is you get outta here... 521 00:31:00,498 --> 00:31:02,961 fight the new champ, we're looking at... 522 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:04,796 the biggest payday of boxing history. 523 00:31:04,834 --> 00:31:07,005 -Mm-hmm. -Yeah. 524 00:31:07,045 --> 00:31:10,093 The one thing I can tell you, you lost a lot of fan base... 525 00:31:10,174 --> 00:31:12,303 with this conviction thing. 526 00:31:12,343 --> 00:31:14,222 Fuck the fans. 527 00:31:14,261 --> 00:31:16,934 I get outta here, I'll get 'em back. 528 00:31:16,974 --> 00:31:22,025 The fans pay your bills, and don't you ever forget it. 529 00:31:22,062 --> 00:31:24,813 Yeah. 530 00:31:24,814 --> 00:31:26,818 You gotta keep the pressure on these lawyers, OK... 531 00:31:26,857 --> 00:31:28,194 and get you outta here to fight this... 532 00:31:28,235 --> 00:31:29,988 big money fight with Briscoe. 533 00:31:30,027 --> 00:31:31,196 Yeah. 534 00:31:31,239 --> 00:31:33,785 You can't be servin' no full sentence. 535 00:31:33,824 --> 00:31:36,036 You're 35 years old. Time is tickin'. 536 00:31:36,076 --> 00:31:38,372 Everything you ever worked for... 537 00:31:38,412 --> 00:31:40,082 it's going right out the window. 538 00:31:43,292 --> 00:31:44,837 Janiro's an agile boxer... 539 00:31:44,876 --> 00:31:46,421 who has the ability of a champion, 540 00:31:46,461 --> 00:31:48,048 Janiro is fresh off a victor... 541 00:31:48,088 --> 00:31:50,050 over Charlie Consario, 542 00:31:50,090 --> 00:31:51,634 The Rock turns it on, 543 00:31:51,675 --> 00:31:53,137 It's Le Graziano alone, 544 00:31:53,177 --> 00:31:55,055 He won't give Janiro punching room, 545 00:31:55,095 --> 00:31:56,348 Stays after his man, 546 00:31:56,389 --> 00:31:59,060 Hits him from all angles, 547 00:31:59,099 --> 00:32:00,602 He remembers things from a long time ago... 548 00:32:00,643 --> 00:32:02,104 clear as a bell... 549 00:32:02,145 --> 00:32:04,608 but ever day, I gotta tell him who I am. 550 00:32:04,647 --> 00:32:09,031 He's in another world: Cuba, forty years ago... 551 00:32:09,068 --> 00:32:11,531 or some fight he saw in 1953. 552 00:32:11,571 --> 00:32:13,116 Then all of a sudden... 553 00:32:13,156 --> 00:32:16,329 he's right there with you, like everything's normal. 554 00:32:16,368 --> 00:32:18,831 And mean... he can be mean as shit. 555 00:32:18,870 --> 00:32:21,167 Look, we went to the Emme. 556 00:32:21,206 --> 00:32:23,043 We paid good money for his protection... 557 00:32:23,082 --> 00:32:24,502 and his personal needs. 558 00:32:24,543 --> 00:32:26,380 They gave you the job. 559 00:32:26,420 --> 00:32:28,214 I got him an oversized cell... 560 00:32:28,254 --> 00:32:31,344 ground level, so he don't have to use the stairs. 561 00:32:31,382 --> 00:32:35,057 Food privileges. Relaxed dress code. 562 00:32:35,095 --> 00:32:36,556 Big easy chair. 563 00:32:36,597 --> 00:32:38,726 I even got him his own little boxing library. 564 00:32:38,766 --> 00:32:41,980 And he's safe. I promise. 565 00:32:42,019 --> 00:32:44,732 These guys I got, they don't let any harm come his way. 566 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,051 Hey, chief. 567 00:33:12,175 --> 00:33:13,386 Mmm. 568 00:33:14,552 --> 00:33:17,308 How you getting along with your new cellmate? 569 00:33:17,348 --> 00:33:20,646 -He's OK. -Mmm. 570 00:33:20,685 --> 00:33:24,024 Rumor has it he took down one of the skinheads. 571 00:33:25,648 --> 00:33:29,906 A lot of rumors in prison, you know? 572 00:33:29,944 --> 00:33:32,825 Ah, probably deserved it anyway. 573 00:33:32,863 --> 00:33:34,449 Maybe. 574 00:33:43,708 --> 00:33:46,213 We hear you don't want to associate with anybody here. 575 00:33:46,252 --> 00:33:49,633 Maybe you got way too much attitude, man. 576 00:33:59,182 --> 00:34:00,978 Unh. 577 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,982 Aaron's an expert. He's the man on appeals. 578 00:34:05,022 --> 00:34:07,067 But before we talk about your appeal... 579 00:34:07,108 --> 00:34:09,989 I need to tell you about Miss Tawnee Rawlins. 580 00:34:10,027 --> 00:34:13,408 She's filed a civil lawsuit in the amount of $75 million. 581 00:34:13,447 --> 00:34:16,578 You handlin' that? 582 00:34:16,618 --> 00:34:19,332 I'd recommend an outside attorney. 583 00:34:19,370 --> 00:34:20,539 Another specialist. 584 00:34:20,580 --> 00:34:23,461 However, we can handle your tax litigation. 585 00:34:23,499 --> 00:34:25,837 The government has filed an intent to audit. 586 00:34:25,877 --> 00:34:27,839 We have someone in the firm that can deal with that. 587 00:34:27,879 --> 00:34:29,006 Is any of this covered... 588 00:34:29,047 --> 00:34:31,384 by the $2 million I already paid you? 589 00:34:31,424 --> 00:34:33,595 We get the same deal as you get. 590 00:34:33,635 --> 00:34:37,059 You get paid win or lose. So do we. 591 00:34:37,096 --> 00:34:39,434 There are a couple of procedural areas... 592 00:34:39,475 --> 00:34:42,606 that are still in question... possible reversible error. 593 00:34:42,644 --> 00:34:46,025 But I'm not gonna kid you. I'd make us a long shot. 594 00:34:46,064 --> 00:34:48,151 You're looking at a six- to eight-year sentence... 595 00:34:48,191 --> 00:34:50,696 with possible time off for good behavior. 596 00:34:50,736 --> 00:34:52,531 Now, in California, that means... 597 00:34:52,571 --> 00:34:55,744 you're eligible for parole in four years. 598 00:34:55,783 --> 00:34:56,952 What you need to focus on... 599 00:34:56,992 --> 00:34:58,829 is if you become a model prisoner... 600 00:34:58,869 --> 00:35:00,957 exhibit special circumstances... 601 00:35:00,997 --> 00:35:02,960 you could be considered for a work furlough... 602 00:35:02,999 --> 00:35:04,877 as soon as eighteen months to two years. 603 00:35:07,044 --> 00:35:09,256 So it don't matter whether I did it or not? 604 00:35:09,296 --> 00:35:10,465 It doesn't work that way. 605 00:35:10,506 --> 00:35:12,217 Justice and the law are separate issues. 606 00:35:12,218 --> 00:35:14,930 Let's get back to some of your other problems. 607 00:35:14,969 --> 00:35:16,179 We've done an audit. 608 00:35:16,220 --> 00:35:18,642 Your financial situation is a mess. 609 00:35:18,682 --> 00:35:20,518 -No, that's bullshit. -No bullshit. 610 00:35:20,558 --> 00:35:24,399 Big financial settlements with your ex-wives, entourage. 611 00:35:24,437 --> 00:35:26,191 Bad investments and misrepresentations... 612 00:35:26,231 --> 00:35:27,692 by your ex-business manager. 613 00:35:27,732 --> 00:35:29,111 I'm gonna sue that motherfucker. 614 00:35:29,150 --> 00:35:33,033 And what about this IRS shit? Where do I stand on that? 615 00:35:33,072 --> 00:35:36,537 By the firm's calculations, you could end up owing them... 616 00:35:36,574 --> 00:35:39,914 $7 million in back taxes, and that's just the feds. 617 00:35:39,953 --> 00:35:42,625 Then there's the state. The bottom line... 618 00:35:42,665 --> 00:35:44,919 we need to get your black ass outta here... 619 00:35:44,958 --> 00:35:46,335 and back in the ring. 620 00:36:05,314 --> 00:36:07,025 Clive Johnson here ringside... 621 00:36:07,064 --> 00:36:09,110 for KHIL Channel 13 in the Bay Area, 622 00:36:09,150 --> 00:36:11,780 Next, round seven of the California... 623 00:36:11,861 --> 00:36:13,573 state heavyweight championship fight... 624 00:36:13,613 --> 00:36:18,414 here from the Palmer Arena in downtown Oakland, 625 00:36:18,452 --> 00:36:20,039 Challenger Monroe Hutchen's undefeated... 626 00:36:20,078 --> 00:36:21,874 takin' on state champ Butch Davis... 627 00:36:21,913 --> 00:36:24,043 in what, so far, has been a nearly even fight, 628 00:36:24,082 --> 00:36:25,791 There's the bell! 629 00:36:25,792 --> 00:36:27,755 Davis has a bad cut above his left eye... 630 00:36:27,793 --> 00:36:29,005 and Monroe Hutchen looks like... 631 00:36:29,047 --> 00:36:31,092 he wants to do something about it, 632 00:36:32,674 --> 00:36:35,095 It's all Monroe, it's all Monroe! 633 00:36:36,346 --> 00:36:38,642 A big right hand, Another right! 634 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:42,020 Davis is down, and this fight is over! 635 00:36:42,059 --> 00:36:45,065 After forty-three seconds in the seventh round... 636 00:36:45,104 --> 00:36:46,858 Monroe Hutchen is the new... 637 00:36:46,898 --> 00:36:49,027 California state heavyweight champion! 638 00:36:55,114 --> 00:36:56,950 Your attorneys have come to me and asked me... 639 00:36:56,990 --> 00:36:59,245 to handle your response to the plaintiff's filing, 640 00:36:59,286 --> 00:37:02,709 As you know, you are now facing a separate civil suit... 641 00:37:02,747 --> 00:37:04,166 that may well go to trial... 642 00:37:04,207 --> 00:37:06,963 over the criminal charges you've been convicted of. 643 00:37:07,002 --> 00:37:10,379 Briefly, "That on March 17, you and four other men... 644 00:37:10,380 --> 00:37:12,008 "took six women via private jet... 645 00:37:12,049 --> 00:37:13,593 "from Las Vegas to Los Angeles..." 646 00:37:13,634 --> 00:37:14,803 Showgirls. 647 00:37:14,843 --> 00:37:17,431 "At approximately 1:30 p. m.... 648 00:37:17,471 --> 00:37:19,016 "you checked into the penthouse suite... 649 00:37:19,098 --> 00:37:20,517 "of the Beverly Manor hotel." 650 00:37:20,557 --> 00:37:23,313 Until that point of the evening, all parties concede... 651 00:37:23,352 --> 00:37:25,314 but for minor discrepancies, the foregoing is true. 652 00:37:25,354 --> 00:37:27,065 What happened next is in question. 653 00:37:27,106 --> 00:37:30,320 No question. I ain't no punk-ass rapist. 654 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,196 She wanted it. 655 00:37:32,235 --> 00:37:34,949 Look. None of this makes any difference at this point. 656 00:37:34,989 --> 00:37:36,534 We're just trying to get an over... 657 00:37:36,574 --> 00:37:38,745 No. She didn't say no. She ain't say shit. 658 00:37:38,785 --> 00:37:39,912 She didn't have a problem with any of it. 659 00:37:39,952 --> 00:37:42,540 Miss Rawlins effectively convinced... 660 00:37:42,579 --> 00:37:44,166 the criminal trial jury that she believed that... 661 00:37:44,207 --> 00:37:46,378 you could break her in two with one arm. 662 00:37:46,418 --> 00:37:47,879 Yeah, uh-huh. 663 00:37:47,919 --> 00:37:51,134 That's why she was makin' all them happy sounds... 664 00:37:51,172 --> 00:37:54,137 'cause I was killin' her, right? 665 00:37:54,175 --> 00:37:56,179 Some women like it rough. 666 00:37:57,971 --> 00:37:59,850 You know anything about that? 667 00:37:59,889 --> 00:38:02,478 That wasn't par of your testimony. 668 00:38:02,518 --> 00:38:06,526 A lawyer said don't sound like I'm calling her a ho. 669 00:38:06,564 --> 00:38:08,943 The prosecution pegged you as a bully. 670 00:38:08,983 --> 00:38:12,406 And she could explain it away easily enough by saying... 671 00:38:12,444 --> 00:38:15,909 that you mistook what were in fact her cries for help... 672 00:38:15,948 --> 00:38:17,284 for she was just in pain. 673 00:38:17,325 --> 00:38:21,040 I heard pain before, and... ha ha ha... 674 00:38:21,078 --> 00:38:23,958 believe me, she wasn't in no pain. 675 00:38:23,998 --> 00:38:26,378 She's asking $75 million... 676 00:38:26,417 --> 00:38:30,132 but I don't like negotiating with your appeal pending. 677 00:38:30,171 --> 00:38:33,720 No negotiatin'. I ain't givin' that bitch shit. 678 00:38:36,552 --> 00:38:41,187 And then when he finished, he just put back on his pants... 679 00:38:41,224 --> 00:38:44,522 and went back out into the party... 680 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,105 and left me alone. 681 00:39:09,336 --> 00:39:10,881 Champ... 682 00:39:10,922 --> 00:39:13,927 I'm looking to be your friend, Champ, 683 00:39:13,967 --> 00:39:16,304 I'm a gift. 684 00:39:16,344 --> 00:39:18,807 Well, I don't need no gifts. 685 00:39:18,846 --> 00:39:20,847 Who sent you? 686 00:39:20,848 --> 00:39:24,439 Saladin. He want to be your friend. 687 00:39:24,478 --> 00:39:27,693 He kind of run things for El Faziz Assassins. 688 00:39:27,730 --> 00:39:29,901 You can check it out. 689 00:39:29,942 --> 00:39:32,113 You kind of pretty for a bitch. 690 00:39:32,152 --> 00:39:34,448 But I don't want to owe nobody. 691 00:39:34,487 --> 00:39:38,699 You tell him I said that. Now get outta here. 692 00:39:38,700 --> 00:39:41,372 You may be the champ, but you are only one guy. 693 00:39:41,411 --> 00:39:43,206 Let me help you out. 694 00:39:43,247 --> 00:39:47,714 El Faziz Assassins give you something, you take it. 695 00:39:47,751 --> 00:39:49,797 You do not refuse. 696 00:40:03,768 --> 00:40:05,939 I'm looking for Saladin. 697 00:40:09,774 --> 00:40:12,739 Pleased to meet a man of your great accomplishments. 698 00:40:12,777 --> 00:40:14,573 You run shit here? 699 00:40:16,196 --> 00:40:18,410 There's strength in unity, brother. 700 00:40:19,576 --> 00:40:22,080 In here we need cooperation and understanding. 701 00:40:23,330 --> 00:40:25,582 We are at times discriminated against... 702 00:40:25,583 --> 00:40:28,254 even within these walls. 703 00:40:28,293 --> 00:40:30,088 Now, if you wish to come and join with us... 704 00:40:30,128 --> 00:40:31,297 Oh! 705 00:40:33,590 --> 00:40:38,558 Brother, if you don't join with us... 706 00:40:38,596 --> 00:40:41,352 you'll be destroying the unity we create. 707 00:41:24,142 --> 00:41:26,563 Warden wants to see you. 708 00:41:26,603 --> 00:41:29,359 That's quite a show you put on there. 709 00:41:29,398 --> 00:41:31,610 Come on. Let's go. 710 00:41:35,989 --> 00:41:37,158 I'm disappointed. 711 00:41:37,198 --> 00:41:40,993 Three incidents already, one a near riot... 712 00:41:40,994 --> 00:41:43,164 one an assault and now a physical confrontation... 713 00:41:43,204 --> 00:41:45,166 that has sent five men to the hospital... 714 00:41:45,205 --> 00:41:46,792 for medical treatment. 715 00:41:46,834 --> 00:41:49,005 You've only been here ten weeks. It is undeniable... 716 00:41:49,006 --> 00:41:51,716 you are making a very poor record. 717 00:41:51,755 --> 00:41:54,135 The whole thing is, they got to respect you... 718 00:41:54,173 --> 00:41:56,303 or you nothin'. 719 00:41:56,384 --> 00:41:57,594 I believe that you're missing the point. 720 00:41:57,635 --> 00:41:59,180 The warden is trying to explain the idea... 721 00:41:59,221 --> 00:42:00,640 of acceptable behavior. 722 00:42:02,766 --> 00:42:06,148 I'm trying to explain to him how to survive. 723 00:42:06,186 --> 00:42:08,148 I don't think there are too many inmates here... 724 00:42:08,188 --> 00:42:11,153 who could challenge you physically, Mr. Chambers. 725 00:42:11,191 --> 00:42:14,156 You really don't understand. 726 00:42:14,193 --> 00:42:18,745 When you're the champ, everybody wants a piece of you. 727 00:42:18,783 --> 00:42:21,079 Everybody’s testing you. 728 00:42:21,118 --> 00:42:26,545 My whole life, I got a problem, I take care of it with these. 729 00:42:26,582 --> 00:42:29,379 People love a guy who can fight. 730 00:42:29,419 --> 00:42:34,047 Money, pussy, kiss your ass, put you on TV... 731 00:42:34,048 --> 00:42:36,218 put your picture in papers, magazines... 732 00:42:36,258 --> 00:42:40,054 anything I want, because people love a guy who can fight... 733 00:42:40,055 --> 00:42:41,975 and don't take shit. 734 00:43:29,772 --> 00:43:32,193 Who I'm with is none of your business! 735 00:43:32,233 --> 00:43:33,945 None of my business? I'll deal with you... 736 00:43:33,986 --> 00:43:36,281 Stop it! You're killing him! 737 00:43:41,617 --> 00:43:44,665 On the night of December 1, 1990... 738 00:43:44,705 --> 00:43:47,623 you beat a man to death with your bare fists... 739 00:43:47,624 --> 00:43:49,586 which because of your profession... 740 00:43:49,626 --> 00:43:51,088 and your training are considered... 741 00:43:51,128 --> 00:43:54,175 to be lethal weapons in the state of California, 742 00:43:54,214 --> 00:43:56,593 You've been found guilty by a jury of your peers... 743 00:43:56,633 --> 00:43:58,387 and you are sentenced to life imprisonment... 744 00:43:58,428 --> 00:44:01,141 without the possibility of parole, 745 00:44:08,771 --> 00:44:11,318 Good morning, Mr. Ripstein. How are you today? 746 00:44:11,357 --> 00:44:12,944 Don't give me no shit. 747 00:44:12,984 --> 00:44:14,528 How the hell is the fight comin'? 748 00:44:14,569 --> 00:44:16,072 What fight? 749 00:44:16,112 --> 00:44:19,118 We got the heavyweight champion of the world... 750 00:44:19,158 --> 00:44:21,746 and an unbeaten prospect right here in Sweetwater. 751 00:44:21,784 --> 00:44:24,790 Quit wasting time. Set the fuckin' thing up. 752 00:44:24,829 --> 00:44:26,163 I know fights. 753 00:44:26,164 --> 00:44:29,755 Long prize, Monroe kicks his ass... 754 00:44:29,793 --> 00:44:31,797 we can make a lot of money here. 755 00:44:33,255 --> 00:44:37,175 Mr. Ripstein, excuse me, but you're talking about... 756 00:44:37,176 --> 00:44:40,178 the real heavyweight champion of the world. 757 00:44:40,179 --> 00:44:42,180 Are you gonna fix the fight? 758 00:44:42,181 --> 00:44:43,767 Shit no. Boxing. 759 00:44:43,807 --> 00:44:47,106 It's a matter of style. They all can be beaten. 760 00:44:47,145 --> 00:44:50,777 Right time, right place, the right circumstance... 761 00:44:50,814 --> 00:44:53,862 they all can be beaten. 762 00:44:55,861 --> 00:44:58,115 Mr. Ripstein wants to see the Iceman... 763 00:44:58,156 --> 00:45:00,118 fight a prisoner we got in here. 764 00:45:00,158 --> 00:45:02,120 His name is Monroe Hutchen. 765 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:05,668 And a real goddamn fight. Pure. 766 00:45:05,706 --> 00:45:08,461 So, what do you want us to do? 767 00:45:08,500 --> 00:45:11,631 I talked to the head guard. He's OK. 768 00:45:11,670 --> 00:45:13,131 But the warden's a problem. 769 00:45:13,171 --> 00:45:15,342 Mr. Ripstein said you can take care of him. 770 00:45:15,382 --> 00:45:18,550 You know the drill. 771 00:45:18,551 --> 00:45:22,225 You help him or you hurt him. 772 00:45:23,391 --> 00:45:26,229 Now...about Monroe Hutchen. 773 00:45:27,561 --> 00:45:29,147 The warden thinks it's time... 774 00:45:29,188 --> 00:45:31,150 to give him a chance to rehabilitate himself... 775 00:45:31,189 --> 00:45:33,778 by socializing with the other prisoners. 776 00:45:33,818 --> 00:45:36,155 In six weeks, I'm going on vacation. 777 00:45:36,195 --> 00:45:37,698 On the fifth, I'll be gone for two weeks. 778 00:45:37,738 --> 00:45:39,283 First week in New Orleans... 779 00:45:39,323 --> 00:45:42,371 second week visiting friends in Tucson, Arizona. 780 00:45:42,410 --> 00:45:43,745 If while I am gone... 781 00:45:43,786 --> 00:45:46,580 if Mr. Hutchen happens to get into a sparring match... 782 00:45:46,581 --> 00:45:49,169 with Mr. Chambers, I don't want to hear about it. 783 00:45:49,208 --> 00:45:50,584 And when I get back... 784 00:45:50,585 --> 00:45:53,758 I want this whole goddamned enterprise finished. 785 00:45:53,797 --> 00:45:54,966 Yes, sir. 786 00:45:55,006 --> 00:45:56,759 Leaving no evidence, no videotape... 787 00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,305 and never to be spoken of in my presence. 788 00:45:59,344 --> 00:46:00,931 -Anything else, sir? -Hit the yard. 789 00:46:00,971 --> 00:46:02,223 Thank you. 790 00:46:05,100 --> 00:46:06,937 Had to have been somebody in the governor's office. 791 00:46:06,938 --> 00:46:08,104 Soon as he got the call... 792 00:46:08,146 --> 00:46:09,940 Mr. Backbone stared arranging his vacation. 793 00:46:09,941 --> 00:46:11,108 Know what that means, don't you? 794 00:46:11,148 --> 00:46:13,319 This whole load of shit comes down on you and me. 795 00:46:13,359 --> 00:46:15,029 There is no "you and me." 796 00:46:15,068 --> 00:46:17,114 I'm taking my vacation right along with the warden. 797 00:46:17,154 --> 00:46:19,074 Well, thank you for your support. 798 00:46:19,114 --> 00:46:22,120 Oh, come on. You run the fight program here. 799 00:46:22,159 --> 00:46:24,121 You want this to happen. 800 00:46:38,593 --> 00:46:39,968 Here we go, Monroe. 801 00:46:39,969 --> 00:46:42,600 Free at last, free at last. 802 00:46:44,182 --> 00:46:47,773 -I'm not going to Folsom. -What can I tell you? 803 00:46:47,811 --> 00:46:51,109 Looks like the warden went and changed his mind. 804 00:46:51,148 --> 00:46:53,110 You get to stay home with us. 805 00:46:59,458 --> 00:47:02,339 Yeah, Operator, a collect call to Yank Lewis. 806 00:47:02,379 --> 00:47:05,343 No. Yank Lewis. 807 00:47:05,382 --> 00:47:08,638 From George Chambers, the Iceman. 808 00:47:10,679 --> 00:47:13,351 Yank. Yeah, man, it's me. 809 00:47:13,390 --> 00:47:15,686 Who the hell you think it is? 810 00:47:15,726 --> 00:47:18,898 Get your ass up here and share the beauty. 811 00:47:18,937 --> 00:47:21,651 Maybe I gotaa ticket back on the gravy train, 812 00:47:21,691 --> 00:47:23,569 What? What are you talking about? 813 00:47:23,609 --> 00:47:25,905 Remember your old buddy from Miami, Mendy Ripstein? 814 00:47:25,945 --> 00:47:27,364 Yeah, 815 00:47:27,405 --> 00:47:29,367 His boy came up to me and said... 816 00:47:29,406 --> 00:47:31,368 that if I fight some punk in here... 817 00:47:31,409 --> 00:47:33,371 he could maybe get me out quick. 818 00:47:33,411 --> 00:47:38,379 If Mendy Ripstein says it, then it's the real deal. 819 00:47:38,416 --> 00:47:40,795 But you can't hear this from some other guy. 820 00:47:40,835 --> 00:47:43,256 You gotta hear this from Mendy himself. 821 00:47:43,296 --> 00:47:44,799 Then it's dope for sure. 822 00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,721 If it's on the real, I'll whip on this punk's ass... 823 00:47:47,759 --> 00:47:49,386 and be out of here. 824 00:47:49,427 --> 00:47:52,680 Who's the punk? Don't tell me Monroe Hutchen. 825 00:47:52,681 --> 00:47:56,397 He fought out of Oakland. He was undefeated. 826 00:47:56,434 --> 00:48:00,150 He was a real prospect, man. He's a full load. 827 00:48:00,189 --> 00:48:03,278 Even if he was something, he's been in here for ten years. 828 00:48:03,318 --> 00:48:06,616 I'm just saying it might not be a walk in the park. 829 00:48:06,654 --> 00:48:08,863 -I don't believe this shit. -What? 830 00:48:08,864 --> 00:48:10,701 You worried about me being out of shape. 831 00:48:10,702 --> 00:48:12,035 I've been in here for four months. 832 00:48:12,076 --> 00:48:13,663 That chump been in here for ten years. 833 00:48:13,703 --> 00:48:16,541 -You too much, man. -What? That's concern... 834 00:48:16,581 --> 00:48:18,167 Get the fuck outta here. 835 00:48:21,044 --> 00:48:23,378 Yes, I want you to fight him, 836 00:48:23,379 --> 00:48:28,263 In the cage, no gloves, bare-fisted, to the finish, 837 00:48:28,301 --> 00:48:31,182 I make a couple of calls, I put down some money... 838 00:48:31,221 --> 00:48:32,848 There's some people on the outside... 839 00:48:32,889 --> 00:48:35,725 that know you, everybody knows him... 840 00:48:35,726 --> 00:48:38,440 we'll get maybe twenty, thirty-to-one odds, 841 00:48:38,479 --> 00:48:41,610 It's easy to spread around, maybe two hundred thousand, 842 00:48:41,648 --> 00:48:46,532 You win, that's four million bucks, maybe more. 843 00:48:48,739 --> 00:48:52,454 And I think he can't wait. 844 00:48:55,413 --> 00:48:57,248 What's in it for me? 845 00:48:57,249 --> 00:48:58,793 Mr. Ripstein uses his influence... 846 00:48:58,833 --> 00:49:00,837 you stay out of solitar... 847 00:49:00,875 --> 00:49:02,879 get the privileges you been missing. 848 00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:06,553 Privileges? 849 00:49:06,590 --> 00:49:08,720 Offer me half the profit, 850 00:49:08,759 --> 00:49:10,345 Oh, I don't think so. 851 00:49:10,386 --> 00:49:13,977 I'm putting up all the dough on a real long shot. 852 00:49:14,015 --> 00:49:15,642 I'm taking all the risk. 853 00:49:15,683 --> 00:49:17,437 What are you worried about money for? 854 00:49:17,438 --> 00:49:19,564 What are you gonna buy in here? 855 00:49:19,603 --> 00:49:22,359 You in here, too. 856 00:49:22,398 --> 00:49:24,444 Probably gonna die in here. 857 00:49:24,484 --> 00:49:26,697 What the money matter to you? 858 00:49:26,737 --> 00:49:29,158 You're gonna get ten percent. 859 00:49:29,198 --> 00:49:31,369 I know that fighters usually get... 860 00:49:31,408 --> 00:49:33,787 fifty percent, minimum, on the outside. 861 00:49:33,827 --> 00:49:37,623 Yeah, but we're not outside. 862 00:49:37,624 --> 00:49:39,501 I want more. 863 00:49:41,418 --> 00:49:43,380 I got a sister, she got three kids... 864 00:49:43,421 --> 00:49:45,797 no job, no skills, no husband. 865 00:49:45,798 --> 00:49:49,680 Government gives her a check once a month. 866 00:49:49,718 --> 00:49:51,680 I could send her the money. 867 00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:56,730 You're gonna get thirty percent of everything we win. 868 00:49:56,768 --> 00:49:58,688 It's a deal? 869 00:49:58,728 --> 00:50:00,732 Forty percent. 870 00:50:00,772 --> 00:50:02,442 That's it. 871 00:50:18,456 --> 00:50:20,627 You wanted to see the Iceman? 872 00:50:20,668 --> 00:50:22,755 Mr. Ripstein thanks you for bringing him... 873 00:50:22,795 --> 00:50:24,256 to this neutral location. 874 00:50:28,717 --> 00:50:31,305 The Iceman doesn't want any disappointments. 875 00:50:31,345 --> 00:50:34,184 He expects to negotiate. 876 00:50:35,809 --> 00:50:36,978 You have to understand... 877 00:50:37,018 --> 00:50:39,648 that Mr. Ripstein is a great boxing enthusiast... 878 00:50:39,687 --> 00:50:41,774 a great student of the art... 879 00:50:41,815 --> 00:50:44,444 a great historian of the prize ring. 880 00:50:44,484 --> 00:50:46,780 Mr. Ripstein believes the truest... 881 00:50:46,819 --> 00:50:48,781 purest expression of the sport... 882 00:50:48,821 --> 00:50:51,785 was the bare-knuckle fights of the Nineteenth Century... 883 00:50:51,825 --> 00:50:53,662 the Queensbury rules. 884 00:50:53,702 --> 00:50:57,459 Oh, no, no. The London Prize Ring rules. 885 00:50:57,497 --> 00:51:01,797 Queensbury changed the rules to the ones that we got now. 886 00:51:01,835 --> 00:51:04,214 Look, let's cut through all this bullshit. 887 00:51:04,254 --> 00:51:06,591 I want out. Otherwise, no fight. 888 00:51:06,631 --> 00:51:08,051 How you gonna pull it off? 889 00:51:09,759 --> 00:51:12,390 We handle that through the Department of Corrections. 890 00:51:12,429 --> 00:51:13,889 We got a guy on the committee. 891 00:51:17,268 --> 00:51:19,230 I got your word on this? 892 00:51:20,854 --> 00:51:23,693 You better get ready to fight. 893 00:51:51,887 --> 00:51:54,183 The fight is six weeks from tomorrow night. 894 00:51:54,222 --> 00:51:56,561 Y'all got that amount of time to get your fighters in shape. 895 00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:58,102 These are the rules. 896 00:51:58,143 --> 00:52:00,105 Mr. Ripstein has gone through a lot of trouble... 897 00:52:00,146 --> 00:52:01,649 putting them together. 898 00:52:01,688 --> 00:52:04,778 What about a foul? Who's gonna ref this thing? 899 00:52:04,817 --> 00:52:07,405 There isn't any referee. That's one of the rules. 900 00:52:07,444 --> 00:52:09,448 What kind of shit is this, huh? 901 00:52:09,488 --> 00:52:12,410 Mr. Mercker can judge fouls from outside the cage. 902 00:52:12,450 --> 00:52:13,786 No kicking, butting, low blows. 903 00:52:13,826 --> 00:52:16,206 If you win or lose on a foul, all deals are off. 904 00:52:16,246 --> 00:52:17,624 This is a bunch of crap, OK? 905 00:52:17,625 --> 00:52:19,960 My guy's got a lot more to lose than this other chump. 906 00:52:19,961 --> 00:52:22,629 Nowhere to train properly, 907 00:52:22,669 --> 00:52:26,342 First there's no gloves, then these dumbass rules. 908 00:52:26,381 --> 00:52:29,345 Truth is, we don't know shit about fighting this way. 909 00:52:29,384 --> 00:52:30,929 And that makes you even. 910 00:53:27,862 --> 00:53:30,529 Mr. Ripstein, I don't want to cause no trouble, 911 00:53:30,530 --> 00:53:33,036 I wanted to talk to you about the rules, you know? 912 00:53:33,075 --> 00:53:34,411 Actually, about the gloves. 913 00:53:34,452 --> 00:53:35,704 There aren't any gloves. 914 00:53:35,705 --> 00:53:37,331 It says so on page three of the rules. 915 00:53:37,371 --> 00:53:40,836 Yeah, I know, but it'll make for a dull fight. 916 00:53:40,874 --> 00:53:43,546 I mean, bare knuckles, nobody throws a lot. 917 00:53:43,586 --> 00:53:45,088 If you watch those old films... 918 00:53:45,129 --> 00:53:48,093 of Jack Johnson and Jeffries and Cornet... 919 00:53:48,132 --> 00:53:50,929 Those guys were trained in bare-knuckle style, you know? 920 00:53:50,968 --> 00:53:53,932 It was like a news flash when somebody threw a punch. 921 00:53:53,971 --> 00:53:55,766 I just want to make it clear that I agree... 922 00:53:55,806 --> 00:53:57,310 but my boy? He don't give a shit. 923 00:53:57,350 --> 00:53:58,978 Gloves, no gloves, it don't matter. 924 00:53:59,018 --> 00:54:01,728 Bring him on. We ain't backing up for nobody. 925 00:54:01,729 --> 00:54:03,358 Jab, baby! That's right, jab! 926 00:54:03,398 --> 00:54:05,861 Be a lot more hitting with gloves. 927 00:54:05,900 --> 00:54:08,112 I gave you a copy of the London Prize Fight Rules... 928 00:54:08,152 --> 00:54:10,824 that Mr. Ripstein typed out, and it says "No gloves." 929 00:54:10,864 --> 00:54:15,373 No. Wait a minute. He's right. 930 00:54:15,409 --> 00:54:18,792 It's a better fight with six-ounce gloves. 931 00:54:18,830 --> 00:54:19,999 Get 'em, 932 00:54:46,944 --> 00:54:49,908 Monroe! How you doing, brother? 933 00:54:53,282 --> 00:54:57,874 First, there's a smile, then comes a cheap shot, huh? 934 00:54:57,912 --> 00:55:02,292 I guess nobody's dumb enough to fall for that twice, huh? 935 00:55:02,293 --> 00:55:06,258 You got that right, Mr. Iceman. 936 00:55:06,296 --> 00:55:08,467 You can call me Champ. 937 00:55:08,507 --> 00:55:10,465 Now see, you've been told. 938 00:55:10,466 --> 00:55:14,391 In here, I'm the champ. 939 00:55:14,429 --> 00:55:17,894 You believe that, you must believe in the tooth fair. 940 00:55:17,933 --> 00:55:20,062 Nobody's backing up. 941 00:55:26,318 --> 00:55:29,741 Hold on, brother. You gonna get your chance. 942 00:55:33,782 --> 00:55:36,037 Good evening, I'm Maureen O'Boyle, 943 00:55:36,076 --> 00:55:39,207 Tonight on CNO X's "The inside Story"... 944 00:55:39,246 --> 00:55:41,417 we'll be talking with Tawnee Rawlins... 945 00:55:41,457 --> 00:55:42,752 in an exclusive interview... 946 00:55:42,792 --> 00:55:45,213 that will be her first public statement... 947 00:55:45,253 --> 00:55:47,758 since the sensational trial and conviction... 948 00:55:47,797 --> 00:55:49,885 of George "Iceman" Chambers... 949 00:55:49,923 --> 00:55:52,346 former heavyweight champion of the world. 950 00:55:52,385 --> 00:55:53,929 Thanks for being with us, Tawnee. 951 00:55:55,430 --> 00:55:57,517 I was scared. 952 00:55:57,557 --> 00:56:00,480 I didn't want to be there anymore. 953 00:56:02,396 --> 00:56:06,905 I... I didn't want to do nothing with him... 954 00:56:06,942 --> 00:56:10,282 but he wouldn't stop. 955 00:56:10,321 --> 00:56:13,077 This whole thing is just such a mess. 956 00:56:13,115 --> 00:56:14,701 I've been out of work... 957 00:56:14,742 --> 00:56:16,663 since this whole thing happened... 958 00:56:16,701 --> 00:56:19,207 and I had to have lots of doctors and lawyers... 959 00:56:19,246 --> 00:56:20,832 and I got stacks of mail from people... 960 00:56:20,873 --> 00:56:22,210 saying that they hate me... 961 00:56:22,249 --> 00:56:24,086 because I took away their heavyweight champ... 962 00:56:24,126 --> 00:56:25,880 and that I'm a gold digger and all that... 963 00:56:25,881 --> 00:56:28,425 but I say walk a mile in my shoes. 964 00:56:28,465 --> 00:56:30,719 I did not want to cause him any harm... 965 00:56:30,759 --> 00:56:33,556 but he wouldn't listen to me, and he wouldn't stop. 966 00:56:39,852 --> 00:56:43,567 These dumb shits been watching too many old prison movies. 967 00:57:05,419 --> 00:57:06,713 You get on the horn. 968 00:57:06,755 --> 00:57:08,591 Get me a situation red in here. 969 00:57:09,799 --> 00:57:12,179 Central security, this is the mess hall. 970 00:57:12,219 --> 00:57:15,726 We have a situation red. Repeat, a situation red. 971 00:57:15,763 --> 00:57:18,394 We've got a situation, Get down to the mess, 972 00:57:19,892 --> 00:57:23,817 On the double, all right? Riot's coming down, 973 00:57:27,735 --> 00:57:28,987 Hey, Iceman! 974 00:57:31,447 --> 00:57:33,409 Hey, Iceman. 975 00:57:33,449 --> 00:57:35,286 Before you came here... 976 00:57:35,326 --> 00:57:37,914 we all figured you were some kind of dude. 977 00:57:37,953 --> 00:57:41,418 Then you show up actin' like you're the God... 978 00:57:41,457 --> 00:57:42,917 and we're the sod, 979 00:57:42,957 --> 00:57:44,919 Well, hey, man, ever dog in here... 980 00:57:44,959 --> 00:57:46,671 wanted to see you get your ass kicked, 981 00:57:46,712 --> 00:57:48,257 You're goin' down, man! 982 00:57:48,297 --> 00:57:49,549 Shit. 983 00:58:09,153 --> 00:58:10,989 Kick your ass, motherfucker! 984 00:58:14,158 --> 00:58:16,161 Let's go! Move! Move! Move! Move! 985 00:58:25,835 --> 00:58:27,798 Give 'em one! Take out the ceiling! 986 00:58:29,799 --> 00:58:31,510 Again! 987 00:58:46,441 --> 00:58:48,737 He cancelled the fight, 988 00:58:48,777 --> 00:58:52,827 Jesus fuckin' Christ, this fuckin' state. 989 00:58:52,863 --> 00:58:55,076 Who the fuck does this fuckin' warden... 990 00:58:55,116 --> 00:58:56,786 fuckin' think he is? 991 00:58:56,827 --> 00:59:00,792 Doesn't anybody know how to do business in this fuckin' state? 992 00:59:00,830 --> 00:59:04,754 My fuckin' wife and her fuckin' asthma and allergies. 993 00:59:04,793 --> 00:59:07,382 We had to move to the fuckin' desert. 994 00:59:07,421 --> 00:59:10,134 Goddamn fuckin' chickenshit doctors... 995 00:59:10,173 --> 00:59:13,179 I should've known better than listen to those shitheels. 996 00:59:13,218 --> 00:59:15,515 Fuckin' Palm Springs... 997 00:59:15,555 --> 00:59:18,561 Lay there in the fuckin' sun and do nothin'. 998 00:59:18,599 --> 00:59:21,731 Then this fuckin' state grabs my ass for taxes. 999 00:59:21,769 --> 00:59:24,859 Why the fuck I didn't stay in fuckin' Florida... 1000 00:59:24,897 --> 00:59:28,275 where people know how to do fuckin' business. 1001 00:59:28,276 --> 00:59:31,490 Fuckin' wife and her fuckin' asthma. 1002 00:59:31,529 --> 00:59:35,620 Shit, 1003 00:59:35,699 --> 00:59:40,120 Somethin' needs to get fuckin' done... 1004 00:59:40,121 --> 00:59:42,125 I gotta do it myself. 1005 00:59:44,125 --> 00:59:49,302 Call the fuckin' warden. I wanna meet him. 1006 00:59:50,758 --> 00:59:52,720 Yes, sir, Mr. Ripstein. 1007 01:00:07,733 --> 01:00:09,779 I don't make it a habit of meeting with prisoners. 1008 01:00:09,818 --> 01:00:11,947 I'm doing this out of deference to Mr. Mercker here... 1009 01:00:11,987 --> 01:00:13,949 who thought it'd be a good idea. 1010 01:00:13,989 --> 01:00:17,454 However, any attempt to have me reinstate the fight... 1011 01:00:17,493 --> 01:00:20,248 between Mr. Chambers and Monroe Hutchen will be futile. 1012 01:00:20,288 --> 01:00:23,086 It has been irrevocably cancelled. 1013 01:00:23,124 --> 01:00:27,002 Can I tell you a story? One of my favorites. 1014 01:00:27,003 --> 01:00:29,049 It's about how things get done. 1015 01:00:29,089 --> 01:00:32,094 This is a story that takes place in about... 1016 01:00:32,132 --> 01:00:34,513 it must've been the middle 1950s. 1017 01:00:34,552 --> 01:00:38,644 I was second in charge of certain operations... 1018 01:00:38,682 --> 01:00:42,188 second to a Mr. Meyer Lansky. 1019 01:00:42,227 --> 01:00:46,652 There was this casino... a new one... 1020 01:00:46,691 --> 01:00:49,529 that had been built in a neighboring town. 1021 01:00:49,567 --> 01:00:55,865 But the mayor, he wanted to close that casino... 1022 01:00:55,866 --> 01:00:59,791 because he did not like gambling. 1023 01:00:59,829 --> 01:01:03,837 He thought it brought the wrong kind of people. 1024 01:01:03,874 --> 01:01:07,381 So he ordered the casino closed. Ohh. 1025 01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:12,345 I had to report this to Mr. Lansky. 1026 01:01:12,383 --> 01:01:15,472 So Mr. Lansky, he told me, he says... 1027 01:01:15,511 --> 01:01:17,473 "You tell that mayor... 1028 01:01:17,513 --> 01:01:21,438 "that the casino stays open, no question"... 1029 01:01:21,476 --> 01:01:25,396 but that the mayor had a choice. 1030 01:01:25,397 --> 01:01:32,494 He could choose to be killed, or he could choose to have... 1031 01:01:32,529 --> 01:01:36,746 a great deal of money deposited in his bank account. 1032 01:01:36,783 --> 01:01:40,666 It was his choice. 1033 01:01:40,705 --> 01:01:46,090 In either case, the casino stays open. 1034 01:01:47,419 --> 01:01:49,421 What happened to the mayor? 1035 01:01:49,422 --> 01:01:50,716 He died, 1036 01:01:50,756 --> 01:01:57,060 He hit his ignition and his car exploded like a fireball. 1037 01:01:58,890 --> 01:02:01,395 You're gonna stand there and let this hoodlum threaten me? 1038 01:02:01,434 --> 01:02:06,611 Well, sir, I don't much want my car to blow up. 1039 01:02:06,648 --> 01:02:08,652 We could talk about the money... 1040 01:02:08,691 --> 01:02:10,943 when you come back from your vacation. 1041 01:02:10,944 --> 01:02:14,326 I understand you're leaving tomorrow? 1042 01:02:14,364 --> 01:02:17,328 All of us, we hope you and your family... 1043 01:02:17,367 --> 01:02:19,663 have a very pleasant time. 1044 01:02:42,978 --> 01:02:44,689 Time! 1045 01:02:44,728 --> 01:02:47,275 We're gonna limo over a few guys from Vegas... 1046 01:02:47,315 --> 01:02:49,361 act as witnesses. 1047 01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:52,406 Chuy, we've been talkin'. 1048 01:02:52,445 --> 01:02:54,574 We need you to go to the Iceman. 1049 01:02:54,614 --> 01:02:55,823 Get a number. 1050 01:02:55,824 --> 01:02:57,995 We're gettin' a hell of a price on Monroe. 1051 01:02:58,034 --> 01:03:00,247 We need the Iceman to go for it. 1052 01:03:00,285 --> 01:03:03,583 Ask him to lie down? I don't see it. 1053 01:03:03,624 --> 01:03:05,127 Offer him a million. 1054 01:03:05,166 --> 01:03:07,797 He made $25 million the last time he fought somebody. 1055 01:03:07,836 --> 01:03:10,465 -He had to fight for that one. -Talk to him. 1056 01:03:10,505 --> 01:03:11,841 You got it wrong. 1057 01:03:11,881 --> 01:03:13,885 You hired me to look after Mendy. 1058 01:03:13,925 --> 01:03:15,804 I'm looking after him right now. 1059 01:03:15,844 --> 01:03:17,764 Mendy wants a straight fight. It's not the money. 1060 01:03:17,805 --> 01:03:21,020 Bullshit! In New York, in Cuba, in Florida... 1061 01:03:21,058 --> 01:03:23,856 his whole life, it's always about the money. 1062 01:03:23,894 --> 01:03:25,857 He's got it stashed all over the place. 1063 01:03:25,896 --> 01:03:27,483 Fuckin' millions. 1064 01:03:27,523 --> 01:03:29,944 He's got ever fuckin' nickel he ever made. 1065 01:03:29,984 --> 01:03:32,280 With Mendy, it's always about the money. 1066 01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:34,490 You guys are way off Mendy's radar on this deal... 1067 01:03:34,530 --> 01:03:36,200 and I don't want to mess it up for him. 1068 01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:39,079 Mendy wants a straight fight to the finish, and that's it. 1069 01:03:39,119 --> 01:03:41,915 You want the Iceman to dump? You go talk to him. 1070 01:03:41,954 --> 01:03:44,000 But don't get your hopes up. 1071 01:03:48,337 --> 01:03:51,593 OK, Monroe, now that this thing is back on... 1072 01:03:51,631 --> 01:03:54,512 here's the deal. We got a guy in the dispensary. 1073 01:03:54,551 --> 01:03:58,308 He's gonna steal five or ten Valiums, crush 'em up. 1074 01:03:58,347 --> 01:04:01,186 And I got another guy in the commissar. 1075 01:04:01,224 --> 01:04:04,689 Last meal Iceman eats before he fights, we mix it in. 1076 01:04:04,727 --> 01:04:08,610 Just enough to slow him down, fuck him up. 1077 01:04:08,649 --> 01:04:12,740 Now, he'll still fight, but he won't be the same. 1078 01:04:12,778 --> 01:04:15,032 That'll be just enough to give you the edge. 1079 01:04:15,072 --> 01:04:16,533 You got it? 1080 01:04:16,574 --> 01:04:21,793 You do that, I'm gonna break you up into pieces. 1081 01:04:21,829 --> 01:04:26,673 I can take this guy, and I don't need no help. 1082 01:04:26,709 --> 01:04:28,919 You understand that? 1083 01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:30,965 Hey! We're just trying to give you... 1084 01:04:31,006 --> 01:04:32,634 a little something extra, man. 1085 01:04:32,674 --> 01:04:34,552 We got a lot of money on this table. 1086 01:04:42,433 --> 01:04:45,063 I may not be a real good guy... 1087 01:04:45,103 --> 01:04:51,365 but I ain't no chickenshit, either. You remember that. 1088 01:04:53,696 --> 01:04:55,365 Take him down. 1089 01:05:29,524 --> 01:05:33,866 OK. We got ourselves ninety minutes. 1090 01:05:33,903 --> 01:05:37,745 We just concentrate. We focus. 1091 01:05:37,783 --> 01:05:40,914 We mentally imagine ourselves winning. 1092 01:05:40,953 --> 01:05:45,880 Just close your eyes. We concentrate. 1093 01:05:45,916 --> 01:05:48,379 We see ourselves winning. 1094 01:05:48,419 --> 01:05:51,425 We see Iceman all beat to shit. 1095 01:05:51,464 --> 01:05:53,802 We see ourselves winning. 1096 01:05:57,886 --> 01:06:00,475 In twenty minutes, we star to loosen up, OK? 1097 01:06:00,514 --> 01:06:01,848 Break a sweat. 1098 01:06:01,849 --> 01:06:05,105 We don't want this shithead to catch you cold. 1099 01:06:05,144 --> 01:06:08,943 Hey, you get sloppy, that's when mistakes happen. 1100 01:06:15,615 --> 01:06:19,163 All right, cell blocks A, B, C, and D... 1101 01:06:19,201 --> 01:06:21,205 if all y'all are ready over there... 1102 01:06:21,244 --> 01:06:24,584 let's star movin' em in on fifteen-minute intervals. 1103 01:06:36,051 --> 01:06:38,097 Let's get the fighters in here! 1104 01:06:42,767 --> 01:06:45,856 Tear it up, Monroe, tear it up! Yeah. 1105 01:06:45,895 --> 01:06:49,360 He's shit! Iceman is shit! He is shit! Yeah. 1106 01:06:50,566 --> 01:06:54,199 That's it, that's it! That's my man! Go! 1107 01:06:54,237 --> 01:06:56,199 Go ahead, now! 1108 01:06:56,240 --> 01:06:58,953 Yeah, let it go, let it go, let it go! 1109 01:07:16,969 --> 01:07:20,930 And now, Sweetwater's the Gat Boyz... 1110 01:07:20,931 --> 01:07:24,271 will sing the national anthem! 1111 01:07:52,881 --> 01:07:55,010 You're livin'. You're hot. 1112 01:07:55,050 --> 01:07:56,887 Just listen to 'em. Yeah. 1113 01:07:56,926 --> 01:07:59,849 He is a guest, and this is your house! 1114 01:07:59,888 --> 01:08:01,600 He is an unwelcome guest. 1115 01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:17,491 Go ahead, baby! 1116 01:08:18,741 --> 01:08:20,119 Yeah, let it go! Let it go! 1117 01:08:23,954 --> 01:08:26,877 He don't look good. He's ugly. 1118 01:08:43,433 --> 01:08:46,352 It's time! It's time! 1119 01:08:46,353 --> 01:08:48,941 Fighters to the ring! Fighters to the ring! 1120 01:08:48,981 --> 01:08:52,655 Fight's on! Fight's on! 1121 01:09:18,011 --> 01:09:22,060 Good evening, honored guests, scumbags, and Mr. Mercker... 1122 01:09:22,098 --> 01:09:24,478 the time is now! 1123 01:09:26,394 --> 01:09:28,524 We got a first here, my friends... 1124 01:09:28,564 --> 01:09:31,945 courtesy of a great man, whose name I cannot say. 1125 01:09:31,984 --> 01:09:34,405 Fight fans all over the world are gonna be wishin'... 1126 01:09:34,406 --> 01:09:36,365 they's in the bottom of the barrel with us... 1127 01:09:36,405 --> 01:09:40,330 wishin' Sweetwater Prison was their home tonight! 1128 01:09:42,745 --> 01:09:44,332 Now pay close attention... 1129 01:09:44,371 --> 01:09:46,375 'cause I'm only gonna say this once. 1130 01:09:46,415 --> 01:09:48,544 The fight you're about to see follows a set of rules... 1131 01:09:48,584 --> 01:09:50,504 never been used before around here. 1132 01:09:50,545 --> 01:09:51,797 London Prize Rules: 1133 01:09:51,837 --> 01:09:53,841 No traditional rounds to speak of... 1134 01:09:53,882 --> 01:09:55,510 no regulation-size gloves... 1135 01:09:55,550 --> 01:09:58,761 just those bitty six-ounce suckers gonna tear up. 1136 01:09:58,762 --> 01:10:00,763 A fighter steps from the mark ready to fight. 1137 01:10:00,764 --> 01:10:03,560 He go down, then he got sixty seconds to come back. 1138 01:10:03,599 --> 01:10:06,480 That's it! Fight to the finish! No ref! 1139 01:10:06,519 --> 01:10:08,774 All we got is the timekeeper for the mark! 1140 01:10:08,812 --> 01:10:11,443 Our very own Mr. Mercker, the walkin' boss. 1141 01:10:13,067 --> 01:10:15,112 Now put your hands together, my friends... 1142 01:10:15,153 --> 01:10:17,032 for our favorite son... 1143 01:10:17,072 --> 01:10:19,452 Sweetwater's defending champion... 1144 01:10:19,492 --> 01:10:21,411 undefeated, with a prison record... 1145 01:10:21,451 --> 01:10:26,460 of 68 wins, no losses, weighing in at 199 pounds... 1146 01:10:26,498 --> 01:10:28,711 wearing the burgundy trunks with the black trim... 1147 01:10:28,751 --> 01:10:31,798 Monroe...Monroe... 1148 01:10:31,837 --> 01:10:34,842 Monroe Hutchen! 1149 01:10:34,881 --> 01:10:37,387 Monroe Hutchen! Monroe Hutchen! 1150 01:10:38,844 --> 01:10:40,682 Now give it up for the west corner. 1151 01:10:40,721 --> 01:10:43,936 He's also undefeated... on the outside. 1152 01:10:43,974 --> 01:10:45,520 Weighing in at 205... 1153 01:10:45,559 --> 01:10:48,774 the former heavyweight champion of the world... 1154 01:10:48,813 --> 01:10:51,777 George "Iceman" Chambers! 1155 01:10:51,816 --> 01:10:53,026 Come on, motherfucker! 1156 01:10:53,068 --> 01:10:55,656 There's only one thing I got to say... 1157 01:10:55,696 --> 01:10:57,407 put his ass between his shoulders! 1158 01:10:57,446 --> 01:10:59,952 OK, brother cons, we are ready! 1159 01:10:59,992 --> 01:11:02,204 Now, don't let your passion for the great Monroe... 1160 01:11:02,244 --> 01:11:05,792 interfere with good judgment, and don't do nothin' stupid! 1161 01:11:05,831 --> 01:11:07,292 That'll forfeit all the money... 1162 01:11:07,332 --> 01:11:08,960 that you guys bet at those big odds. 1163 01:11:09,001 --> 01:11:11,673 And welcome to our amigos from Las Vegas... 1164 01:11:11,712 --> 01:11:13,882 here to witness this contest and report it... 1165 01:11:13,922 --> 01:11:15,968 to various cities all around our great country, 1166 01:11:16,008 --> 01:11:17,720 Whole lotta bookmakers out there want to know... 1167 01:11:17,759 --> 01:11:19,095 what's comin' down. 1168 01:11:19,136 --> 01:11:21,432 Well, it's us against the world, my brothers, 1169 01:11:21,471 --> 01:11:24,812 And just like you, I too am for the great Monroe Hutchen! 1170 01:11:24,851 --> 01:11:26,938 He brought honor to our house of pain... 1171 01:11:26,978 --> 01:11:28,731 but I will call a neutral fight. 1172 01:11:28,770 --> 01:11:30,607 Come on, bitch. 1173 01:11:30,648 --> 01:11:32,402 This is the fight for what's right, 1174 01:11:32,442 --> 01:11:33,944 This is the brawl for it all! 1175 01:11:33,984 --> 01:11:35,154 This fight ain't about money! 1176 01:11:35,194 --> 01:11:36,864 This is their heavyweight champion... 1177 01:11:36,903 --> 01:11:38,532 against our heavyweight champion! 1178 01:11:38,573 --> 01:11:42,534 This fight is for respeck! R-e-s-p-e-c-k! 1179 01:11:42,535 --> 01:11:43,746 Respeck! 1180 01:11:46,456 --> 01:11:48,209 Round one! Round one! 1181 01:11:50,209 --> 01:11:52,339 And here we go, baby. 1182 01:11:54,131 --> 01:11:56,177 They move to the center of the ring... 1183 01:11:56,216 --> 01:11:57,970 feelin' each other out, 1184 01:12:02,890 --> 01:12:04,727 You gotta remember something: 1185 01:12:04,767 --> 01:12:06,729 Monroe is a forty-to-one underdog... 1186 01:12:06,769 --> 01:12:09,106 goin' up against the Iceman, a great champion, 1187 01:12:11,565 --> 01:12:15,113 Combinations, man! Combinations! 1188 01:12:15,152 --> 01:12:17,323 Monroe swings and misses, Iceman counters... 1189 01:12:17,363 --> 01:12:18,699 with a hard right hand to the head! 1190 01:12:18,740 --> 01:12:21,829 -That's it, baby, come on! -Hit that big motherfucker! 1191 01:12:23,244 --> 01:12:25,578 Monroe's backpedaling, circling, 1192 01:12:25,579 --> 01:12:26,956 Doesn't look like he's too willing... 1193 01:12:26,998 --> 01:12:30,713 to trade punches with the Iceman, 1194 01:12:30,751 --> 01:12:33,298 Watch it, Monroe, watch it, now, baby! 1195 01:12:37,842 --> 01:12:39,178 Lookin' for a way to get to Monroe, 1196 01:12:39,219 --> 01:12:41,473 Now he's tauntin' him! He's tauntin' Monroe! 1197 01:12:41,513 --> 01:12:43,557 He's taunting him! Monroe swings, 1198 01:12:43,598 --> 01:12:45,351 The Iceman hits him with a hard right... 1199 01:12:45,392 --> 01:12:46,687 and a left to Monroe's head! 1200 01:12:46,726 --> 01:12:48,688 You ain't hurt him! You ain't hurt him! 1201 01:12:48,728 --> 01:12:50,399 Hey, bullshit! 1202 01:12:51,731 --> 01:12:53,235 Oh, Monroe misses... 1203 01:12:53,275 --> 01:12:54,988 and the Iceman tags him with a hard left hand... 1204 01:12:55,027 --> 01:12:56,947 and Monroe is going backwards, baby, 1205 01:12:56,987 --> 01:12:58,991 The Iceman tauntin' him on, 1206 01:13:01,951 --> 01:13:03,413 Get in his face! Get in his face! 1207 01:13:06,789 --> 01:13:10,004 Monroe lands an overhand right! Now a combination! 1208 01:13:10,042 --> 01:13:13,294 Monroe's getting himself into this fight! 1209 01:13:13,295 --> 01:13:15,383 The Iceman counters with a hard right to the face, 1210 01:13:15,423 --> 01:13:16,675 Another right to the head, 1211 01:13:18,135 --> 01:13:20,889 Monroe is fast, but the Iceman is much stronger, 1212 01:13:20,929 --> 01:13:24,305 They hook up again! Both men exchanging combinations! 1213 01:13:24,306 --> 01:13:27,563 Right hand! Left! Right! Right! 1214 01:13:27,602 --> 01:13:31,485 And boom! The Iceman drives Monroe back! 1215 01:13:34,609 --> 01:13:37,114 Make him bleed, man, make him bleed! 1216 01:13:40,489 --> 01:13:42,618 Both men throw combinations! 1217 01:13:42,658 --> 01:13:45,331 Left! Right! Overhand right! 1218 01:13:46,830 --> 01:13:49,461 Monroe misses, The Iceman comes back... 1219 01:13:49,499 --> 01:13:51,295 with a right-left to the head! 1220 01:13:51,335 --> 01:13:53,255 Get him! 1221 01:13:53,296 --> 01:13:55,592 They're fighting at an incredible pace! 1222 01:13:55,631 --> 01:13:58,136 Can you believe it? 1223 01:13:59,217 --> 01:14:01,178 Nice overhand right by Monroe! 1224 01:14:01,179 --> 01:14:04,853 Iceman's not hurt, but he ties Monroe up in a clinch! 1225 01:14:07,268 --> 01:14:09,272 Oh, shit, baby! Go get him! 1226 01:14:11,857 --> 01:14:13,234 Hard right hand! 1227 01:14:13,274 --> 01:14:14,986 Yeah! Another one! Move! 1228 01:14:15,026 --> 01:14:16,612 Monroe swings and misses... 1229 01:14:16,653 --> 01:14:18,448 and the Iceman keeps hurting' him... 1230 01:14:18,488 --> 01:14:20,659 with an overhand right, 1231 01:14:20,698 --> 01:14:22,952 Combination, right-left! 1232 01:14:22,992 --> 01:14:24,829 Big left hook! 1233 01:14:24,870 --> 01:14:27,459 A right and a left to the stomach, 1234 01:14:27,498 --> 01:14:29,502 Another left... oh, an uppercut! 1235 01:14:29,541 --> 01:14:31,169 And Monroe is down! 1236 01:14:31,209 --> 01:14:32,671 Sixty seconds! 1237 01:14:32,711 --> 01:14:35,634 And we now know why he's the heavyweight champion... 1238 01:14:35,674 --> 01:14:37,343 of the world. 1239 01:14:37,383 --> 01:14:40,180 Huh? Huh? Huh? 1240 01:14:40,219 --> 01:14:42,306 Huh? What? What? 1241 01:14:42,346 --> 01:14:44,223 And Monroe is up! 1242 01:14:44,224 --> 01:14:46,561 Looks like he will continue, 1243 01:14:48,686 --> 01:14:50,147 Hey, Iceman, you ain't shit! 1244 01:14:50,188 --> 01:14:52,149 You just got robbed! 1245 01:14:52,189 --> 01:14:54,151 The Iceman's straight-ahead, locomotive style... 1246 01:14:54,191 --> 01:14:55,986 may be a little too much for Monroe, 1247 01:14:56,026 --> 01:14:58,490 He's never had to face anything like this, 1248 01:14:58,530 --> 01:15:00,449 -Boo! -Fuck! 1249 01:15:00,490 --> 01:15:03,287 -Boo! -Come on, big daddy! 1250 01:15:03,325 --> 01:15:05,079 The Iceman's in his corner... 1251 01:15:05,120 --> 01:15:06,455 a mighty confident man, 1252 01:15:06,495 --> 01:15:08,708 That's what you gotta do! Let's go! 1253 01:15:08,747 --> 01:15:11,128 Monroe's trademark of occasionally switching... 1254 01:15:11,168 --> 01:15:12,879 to a southpaw left-hand style... 1255 01:15:12,919 --> 01:15:14,506 ain't workin' so far, baby! 1256 01:15:14,546 --> 01:15:16,258 Ten seconds! Fighters to the line! 1257 01:15:16,298 --> 01:15:18,678 Fighters to the line! Clear the ring! 1258 01:15:19,968 --> 01:15:21,513 Pucker up, motherfucker. 1259 01:15:21,554 --> 01:15:22,764 Clear the ring! 1260 01:15:24,515 --> 01:15:26,936 Round Two! 1261 01:15:28,018 --> 01:15:29,562 And here we go, baby! 1262 01:15:29,604 --> 01:15:31,357 Despite the knockdown, Monroe looks... 1263 01:15:31,397 --> 01:15:34,194 like he's pulled himself back together, 1264 01:15:40,906 --> 01:15:42,744 The Iceman misses... 1265 01:15:42,783 --> 01:15:44,996 and Monroe lands an overhand right! 1266 01:15:48,415 --> 01:15:50,502 Right hand! Right hand! 1267 01:15:50,542 --> 01:15:52,755 A quick-hit exchange! 1268 01:15:52,794 --> 01:15:55,090 Now this is boxing! Hard combinations... 1269 01:15:55,129 --> 01:15:57,885 and they clinch! Beautiful! Beautiful! 1270 01:16:02,262 --> 01:16:04,475 Ooh, what a right hand by the Iceman! 1271 01:16:04,514 --> 01:16:07,145 Another right to the head, Monroe misses... 1272 01:16:07,185 --> 01:16:09,105 and pays for it dearly to the body... 1273 01:16:09,145 --> 01:16:10,606 and he reels back from the punishment... 1274 01:16:10,645 --> 01:16:12,107 given to him by the Iceman, 1275 01:16:12,148 --> 01:16:14,736 Another hard right and left, and Monroe is on his heels! 1276 01:16:14,775 --> 01:16:16,069 He's up against the fence! 1277 01:16:16,109 --> 01:16:17,780 The Iceman is going for the body! 1278 01:16:17,820 --> 01:16:19,658 Another one to the body, and it doesn't look good... 1279 01:16:19,659 --> 01:16:21,576 for Sweetwater’s own favorite son, 1280 01:16:21,616 --> 01:16:24,993 The Iceman's all over him! He's tearin' Monroe up! 1281 01:16:24,994 --> 01:16:26,956 Oh, another right to the head! 1282 01:16:26,996 --> 01:16:30,461 Monroe's down, and he's dizzy as a motherfucker! 1283 01:16:30,500 --> 01:16:33,589 He's talkin' shit, baby! He's talkin' shit! 1284 01:16:33,628 --> 01:16:35,465 Who the hell you think... I know he ain't talkin' to me, 1285 01:16:35,505 --> 01:16:36,632 He's talkin' to y'all! 1286 01:16:36,673 --> 01:16:39,303 That's right! Yeah! Uh-huh! 1287 01:16:39,343 --> 01:16:42,014 Monroe's wobbly, He's shaky, 1288 01:16:42,053 --> 01:16:44,809 There's no question about it, Monroe is hurt! 1289 01:16:44,848 --> 01:16:46,309 Come on! Come on! 1290 01:16:46,350 --> 01:16:49,731 Don't get careless. Knock him on his ass! 1291 01:16:49,770 --> 01:16:52,021 Now take a whiff of this. Come on. 1292 01:16:52,022 --> 01:16:53,856 This fight is far from over. 1293 01:16:53,857 --> 01:16:55,778 You're gonna get him. We got plenty of time. 1294 01:16:55,819 --> 01:16:58,490 He just loves to taunt the crowd, 1295 01:16:58,529 --> 01:17:00,616 He's got everything going his way, 1296 01:17:00,656 --> 01:17:03,328 Oh, that Iceman is one cocky son of a bitch, 1297 01:17:03,367 --> 01:17:06,123 He's already knocked him down twice, Eddie! 1298 01:17:06,162 --> 01:17:08,082 I don't know how much longer this has got to go. 1299 01:17:08,122 --> 01:17:09,583 You gotta fight your fight! 1300 01:17:09,624 --> 01:17:11,962 You're fightin' his fight. You control the rhythm. 1301 01:17:12,001 --> 01:17:14,378 You gotta turn this fight around! 1302 01:17:14,379 --> 01:17:16,382 You can do it, Monroe! Come on, now! 1303 01:17:16,422 --> 01:17:17,758 This is your round! 1304 01:17:17,799 --> 01:17:20,053 The Iceman lookin' supremely confident, 1305 01:17:20,093 --> 01:17:21,763 He's got it all goin' his way! 1306 01:17:21,803 --> 01:17:24,349 Round three! 1307 01:17:27,559 --> 01:17:29,354 They come out, and it seems like the Iceman... 1308 01:17:29,394 --> 01:17:31,356 is just trin' to find that one big shot... 1309 01:17:31,396 --> 01:17:33,150 that'll put Monroe on his ass... 1310 01:17:33,190 --> 01:17:34,860 and give him a one-way ticket to Bootyville. 1311 01:17:37,569 --> 01:17:40,198 Oh! A big right hand by the Iceman! 1312 01:17:41,741 --> 01:17:44,287 And another right hand by the Iceman! 1313 01:17:44,326 --> 01:17:46,288 This can't go much furher! 1314 01:17:46,328 --> 01:17:47,789 That's it! That's it! 1315 01:17:47,830 --> 01:17:49,876 Come on, Mo! Dance with him! 1316 01:17:49,915 --> 01:17:52,587 Both of these men are great warriors, 1317 01:17:52,626 --> 01:17:55,086 Iceman has a look of determination in his eye... 1318 01:17:55,087 --> 01:17:57,133 but like I said before, brother scumbags... 1319 01:17:57,173 --> 01:18:01,056 he's lookin' for that big punch to end it all for Monroe, 1320 01:18:03,763 --> 01:18:06,142 The Iceman is clearly in control of this fight, 1321 01:18:06,182 --> 01:18:07,685 But Monroe is still there, baby. 1322 01:18:07,725 --> 01:18:09,812 Our favorite son is still standin', 1323 01:18:13,690 --> 01:18:15,944 Oh, that right hand just keeps shakin' Monroe up! 1324 01:18:15,945 --> 01:18:17,946 Stay strong! Stay strong! 1325 01:18:22,074 --> 01:18:24,411 Big left and right comin' from the Iceman! 1326 01:18:24,451 --> 01:18:26,580 He is all over Monroe! 1327 01:18:26,620 --> 01:18:28,374 And the Iceman is on the hunt! 1328 01:18:28,413 --> 01:18:29,789 He's on the prowl! 1329 01:18:29,790 --> 01:18:31,835 He's goin' in for the kill! 1330 01:18:33,627 --> 01:18:36,424 Oh, God! 1331 01:18:36,463 --> 01:18:39,176 What a devastating left hook from Monroe! 1332 01:18:39,216 --> 01:18:41,261 The Iceman is staggering, and he's hurt! 1333 01:18:44,304 --> 01:18:46,433 Oh, Monroe hits him with another shot! 1334 01:18:46,474 --> 01:18:48,896 He's drivin' him back up against the cage... 1335 01:18:48,935 --> 01:18:50,562 punishing him with wicked combinations! 1336 01:18:50,603 --> 01:18:52,190 Monroe is all over him! 1337 01:18:56,609 --> 01:18:59,072 He's hurt! He's hurt! Left, and right! 1338 01:18:59,112 --> 01:19:00,407 Oh, shit. 1339 01:19:00,446 --> 01:19:02,450 Can you believe it?! 1340 01:19:02,491 --> 01:19:05,079 Ohh! And a right hand puts the Iceman down! 1341 01:19:05,118 --> 01:19:06,913 The Iceman is down... 1342 01:19:06,953 --> 01:19:08,581 for the first time in his career! 1343 01:19:08,621 --> 01:19:09,873 Sixty seconds! 1344 01:19:09,915 --> 01:19:11,376 Shit! 1345 01:19:11,416 --> 01:19:13,294 This is unbelievable, 1346 01:19:13,335 --> 01:19:14,668 Unbelievable! 1347 01:19:14,669 --> 01:19:16,089 Way to go, Monroe! 1348 01:19:16,130 --> 01:19:17,883 I can't believe it! The Iceman is down! 1349 01:19:17,923 --> 01:19:21,805 And the Iceman is up, He's staggerin' around, 1350 01:19:21,843 --> 01:19:24,098 He doesn't know where he is, 1351 01:19:24,139 --> 01:19:27,019 Oh, my God, he's gone plum-fuckin'-crazy in there! 1352 01:19:27,056 --> 01:19:29,311 The Iceman's gone absolutely crazy, 1353 01:19:29,352 --> 01:19:31,690 This could be it, This could be a disqualification, 1354 01:19:31,691 --> 01:19:34,188 Somebody get in there and stop this thing! 1355 01:19:34,189 --> 01:19:36,193 I got a lotta damn money ridin' on this! 1356 01:19:42,157 --> 01:19:43,994 Pandemonium! Out of control! 1357 01:19:44,034 --> 01:19:45,745 Pandemonium! Out of control! 1358 01:19:47,203 --> 01:19:49,833 Monroe has definitely turned this fight around, 1359 01:19:52,208 --> 01:19:54,838 What goes on in the mind of George "Iceman" Chambers... 1360 01:19:54,878 --> 01:19:56,757 at this moment is anybody's guess, 1361 01:19:56,796 --> 01:19:58,842 This is one for the record books, baby, 1362 01:19:58,882 --> 01:20:00,217 People are gonna be talking about this... 1363 01:20:00,218 --> 01:20:01,553 for the rest of their life, and if I knew... 1364 01:20:01,554 --> 01:20:03,347 I had to go to jail to see a fight like this... 1365 01:20:03,386 --> 01:20:05,098 I'd have did a crime a long time ago! 1366 01:20:05,138 --> 01:20:07,476 This is your night! This is your house, baby! 1367 01:20:07,515 --> 01:20:10,146 Don't let up! Go at him! Stick him hard! 1368 01:20:10,185 --> 01:20:13,063 Take him out, baby! Come on! 1369 01:20:13,064 --> 01:20:15,193 Ten seconds! Fighters to the line! 1370 01:20:15,232 --> 01:20:18,572 You can do it! Kick his ass! 1371 01:20:18,610 --> 01:20:20,781 Let's go, Monroe, let's go! 1372 01:20:22,073 --> 01:20:23,701 That was the toughest round... 1373 01:20:23,741 --> 01:20:25,202 in the Iceman's whole career, 1374 01:20:25,242 --> 01:20:28,207 He must regain momentum, He must come out strong, 1375 01:20:28,245 --> 01:20:30,208 He must get back in this fight! 1376 01:20:32,166 --> 01:20:35,339 Oh! And he is back! A left and a right to Monroe! 1377 01:20:39,007 --> 01:20:41,720 Monroe hits him with a right hand, left hand... 1378 01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:43,097 and another right hand... 1379 01:20:43,098 --> 01:20:45,182 and the Iceman is forced to clinch! 1380 01:20:45,222 --> 01:20:47,226 Stick him, baby! Go at him now! 1381 01:20:49,267 --> 01:20:51,855 Monroe switches to southpaw! 1382 01:20:56,483 --> 01:20:58,904 They're hookin' up! Toe to toe! 1383 01:20:58,944 --> 01:21:00,906 Punch for punch! Back and forth! 1384 01:21:00,947 --> 01:21:03,076 This is a war! 1385 01:21:05,242 --> 01:21:08,248 Oh, my god, what a fight! And I am so happy... 1386 01:21:08,287 --> 01:21:11,168 that it's happenin' right here at Sweetwater Prison, 1387 01:21:11,207 --> 01:21:12,418 Let's go, baby! 1388 01:21:12,457 --> 01:21:15,672 He's on the hunt! Monroe's on the prowl! 1389 01:21:15,712 --> 01:21:18,049 Right hand! A left to the stomach! 1390 01:21:18,088 --> 01:21:19,508 Overhand right! 1391 01:21:19,549 --> 01:21:21,678 Another left and a right, and an overhand right... 1392 01:21:21,718 --> 01:21:23,178 to the head! 1393 01:21:24,555 --> 01:21:26,559 Monroe is punishing him... 1394 01:21:26,598 --> 01:21:28,476 with blows to the head and the body, 1395 01:21:28,477 --> 01:21:31,476 Say what you want to say about George "Iceman" Chambers... 1396 01:21:31,477 --> 01:21:33,523 but he is dead game! 1397 01:22:10,435 --> 01:22:12,686 It's over! It's over! 1398 01:22:12,687 --> 01:22:15,360 Monroe wins again! It's over! 1399 01:22:15,398 --> 01:22:16,609 It's over! 1400 01:22:16,649 --> 01:22:18,820 That's it! Monroe wins... 1401 01:22:18,860 --> 01:22:22,325 and I just won a lot of goddamn money! 1402 01:22:23,448 --> 01:22:25,077 Yeah! Yeah! 1403 01:22:25,116 --> 01:22:27,454 You owe me money, Eddie! You owe me money! 1404 01:22:27,494 --> 01:22:30,416 Monroe! Monroe! 1405 01:22:31,874 --> 01:22:33,877 Yeah! Yeah! 1406 01:22:53,396 --> 01:22:55,608 Monroe! Yeah! 1407 01:23:29,725 --> 01:23:34,146 But this... this is a thing of beauty. 1408 01:23:34,147 --> 01:23:37,148 A great thing of beauty. 1409 01:23:37,149 --> 01:23:39,571 Two guys fightin' to the finish... 1410 01:23:39,610 --> 01:23:43,279 but just one guy wins because he's the better man... 1411 01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:46,746 and that's what the goddamn sport is about. 1412 01:23:56,669 --> 01:24:00,135 Mendy Ripstein died 3 weeks after the big fight, 1413 01:24:00,174 --> 01:24:03,008 He kept his word, Monroe got his money... 1414 01:24:03,009 --> 01:24:05,556 and the Iceman got out on special parole, 1415 01:24:05,596 --> 01:24:07,558 I can personally thank Mr. Ripstein... 1416 01:24:07,598 --> 01:24:09,142 for another thing, 1417 01:24:09,183 --> 01:24:11,980 His lawyers contacted my family, 1418 01:24:12,019 --> 01:24:15,067 He left me $2 million, free and clear, 1419 01:24:15,105 --> 01:24:17,526 So I guess I'm not gonna have any excuses... 1420 01:24:17,565 --> 01:24:19,904 when I get out of here, 1421 01:24:19,944 --> 01:24:22,783 I read in the sports page that Iceman and his manager... 1422 01:24:22,821 --> 01:24:25,494 both denied the fight with Monroe ever happened... 1423 01:24:25,533 --> 01:24:29,083 and the story about him losing was only a big rumor... 1424 01:24:29,120 --> 01:24:30,664 a fairy tale, 1425 01:24:30,705 --> 01:24:32,876 Once upon a time in prison, 1426 01:24:38,088 --> 01:24:39,758 Our panel of experts... 1427 01:24:39,798 --> 01:24:42,344 have the fight even at two rounds apiece, 1428 01:24:42,383 --> 01:24:43,803 Both fighters fighting... 1429 01:24:43,844 --> 01:24:46,265 for the heavyweight championship of the world... 1430 01:24:46,304 --> 01:24:49,352 the greatest title in all of sports, 1431 01:24:49,391 --> 01:24:51,603 One thing I can tell you for sure... 1432 01:24:51,643 --> 01:24:55,567 life in prison hasn't changed the Iceman's fighting style, 1433 01:24:55,605 --> 01:24:57,898 Both fighters feeling each other out now, 1434 01:24:57,899 --> 01:24:59,528 Briscoe trying to work the jab, 1435 01:24:59,568 --> 01:25:01,113 He can't get anything in, 1436 01:25:07,159 --> 01:25:09,205 A left to the body! And here comes Chambers! 1437 01:25:09,244 --> 01:25:10,831 Another right! A left to the body! 1438 01:25:10,871 --> 01:25:13,042 Right-left combination! A left! A right! 1439 01:25:13,082 --> 01:25:15,378 A left hook, and down goes Briscoe! 1440 01:25:15,418 --> 01:25:17,338 Down goes Briscoe! 1441 01:25:17,378 --> 01:25:19,382 Chambers over to the neutral corner... 1442 01:25:19,422 --> 01:25:22,052 and referee Mathew Kerrigan is counting it out! 1443 01:25:22,091 --> 01:25:24,804 Briscoe, desperately trying to stand up, 1444 01:25:24,844 --> 01:25:26,054 He wants to continue, 1445 01:25:27,305 --> 01:25:30,019 Kerrigan has called it off! 1446 01:25:30,058 --> 01:25:31,478 And by knockout... 1447 01:25:31,518 --> 01:25:34,064 with one minute, 22 seconds into the fifth round... 1448 01:25:34,104 --> 01:25:36,233 Right here! Always was the champ! 1449 01:25:36,272 --> 01:25:38,610 ...Briscoe is knocked out, and the now-undisputed... 1450 01:25:38,611 --> 01:25:40,445 heavyweight champion of the world... 1451 01:25:40,485 --> 01:25:44,076 is George "Iceman" Chambers! 1452 01:25:47,242 --> 01:25:51,121 Hey, Monroe! Iceman won! 1453 01:25:51,122 --> 01:25:52,791 Guess what, cat? 1454 01:25:52,831 --> 01:25:56,338 They say he's the heavyweight champ of the whole world! 1455 01:25:56,377 --> 01:25:59,633 Undisputed! Haaaa! 1456 01:25:59,672 --> 01:26:01,258 Monroe!