1 00:00:06,966 --> 00:00:08,468 You got to fight back, baby. 2 00:00:08,468 --> 00:00:10,053 - Fight back! - (speaks indistinctly) 3 00:00:10,053 --> 00:00:11,471 I know, he's a bum, champ. 4 00:00:11,471 --> 00:00:12,555 Let's go get him. 5 00:00:12,555 --> 00:00:14,265 Let's go get him, champ, right now. 6 00:00:14,265 --> 00:00:15,475 We got to have it right now. 7 00:00:15,475 --> 00:00:17,977 - And fight! 8 00:00:24,025 --> 00:00:25,902 No, no, no. Fuck that shit. 9 00:00:25,902 --> 00:00:28,613 - We're not gonna start here. 10 00:00:32,909 --> 00:00:35,161 Listen, there's a lot of fucked-up shit we'll get to. 11 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,624 But right now... 12 00:00:39,624 --> 00:00:41,876 I've got a show to do. 13 00:00:54,514 --> 00:00:56,182 Listen, listen, listen. 14 00:00:56,182 --> 00:00:58,518 So this is interesting. 15 00:00:58,518 --> 00:01:00,436 So I was in prison, right? 16 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,064 I was on the phone talking to my car dealer, like you do, 17 00:01:03,064 --> 00:01:05,149 and he's discussing how he's gonna get him some horses. 18 00:01:05,233 --> 00:01:06,776 I say, "Horses? You can get horses?" 19 00:01:06,776 --> 00:01:09,695 I mean, I'm from Brooklyn, you know, I didn't know. 20 00:01:09,779 --> 00:01:11,364 He's like, "Yeah, man, I can get you anything. 21 00:01:11,364 --> 00:01:13,783 I can get cougars, lions, tigers." 22 00:01:15,326 --> 00:01:17,745 That's a picture of me and my tiger. 23 00:01:20,498 --> 00:01:21,999 It's crazy. 24 00:01:22,083 --> 00:01:23,918 That's how you know you're not in Brownsville anymore. 25 00:01:23,918 --> 00:01:26,629 That's when I was, you know, insane. 26 00:01:29,632 --> 00:01:31,259 I'm not gonna lie about anything in this show. 27 00:01:31,259 --> 00:01:32,468 I'm gonna tell you guys everything. 28 00:01:32,552 --> 00:01:35,638 I'm gonna be completely honest with you guys, you know. 29 00:01:35,722 --> 00:01:38,266 You know, sometimes I think of myself back then. 30 00:01:38,266 --> 00:01:40,852 I took all those trips to the psych ward and stuff. 31 00:01:40,852 --> 00:01:42,478 What was wrong with me back then? 32 00:01:42,562 --> 00:01:43,980 I was really disturbed back then. 33 00:01:43,980 --> 00:01:46,607 I was a really strange kid back then. 34 00:01:46,691 --> 00:01:48,151 You know, who am I? 35 00:01:48,151 --> 00:01:49,569 Then I come out here. 36 00:01:49,569 --> 00:01:51,112 I'm who you guys want to see. 37 00:01:53,865 --> 00:01:55,074 Who am I? 38 00:01:59,746 --> 00:02:02,957 I'm the most brutal, the most vicious, 39 00:02:02,957 --> 00:02:04,876 ruthless champion that's ever been. 40 00:02:04,876 --> 00:02:07,003 There's no one like me. There's no one can match me. 41 00:02:07,003 --> 00:02:09,338 My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable. 42 00:02:09,422 --> 00:02:11,174 I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. 43 00:02:11,174 --> 00:02:12,633 I want to eat your children. 44 00:02:12,717 --> 00:02:14,218 Praise be to Allah! 45 00:02:22,894 --> 00:02:24,687 Is that who I am? 46 00:02:28,399 --> 00:02:29,692 Yes. 47 00:02:31,444 --> 00:02:32,695 No. 48 00:02:33,905 --> 00:02:36,115 Well, I'm just scratching the surface, man. 49 00:02:36,199 --> 00:02:37,658 I'm Iron Mike. 50 00:02:45,458 --> 00:02:47,293 You mess with my bro, you mess with me, ugly. 51 00:02:47,377 --> 00:02:48,753 Go tell your friends. 52 00:02:54,926 --> 00:02:57,178 You a worthless, weak, crybaby piece of shit, 53 00:02:57,178 --> 00:02:58,930 Michael Gerard Tyson. 54 00:02:58,930 --> 00:03:00,556 You always gonna be that fat fuck 55 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:02,642 - that everybody fucks with. - Why? 56 00:03:02,642 --> 00:03:04,769 - Unless you fight back. - I don't want to fight. 57 00:03:04,769 --> 00:03:07,313 You fight, or you die, so what you gonna do about it? 58 00:03:07,397 --> 00:03:08,689 Run? 59 00:03:09,399 --> 00:03:10,858 Shit, Mike. Where? 60 00:03:10,942 --> 00:03:12,860 Where you gonna run to? Ain't nowhere to run. 61 00:03:14,237 --> 00:03:16,072 I grew up in Brownsville, New York. 62 00:03:16,072 --> 00:03:17,573 Back in 1971, 63 00:03:17,657 --> 00:03:19,784 they had the highest murder rate in the country. 64 00:03:19,784 --> 00:03:21,661 There was hookers and drugs and murders 65 00:03:21,661 --> 00:03:23,413 on every street corner. 66 00:03:23,413 --> 00:03:26,082 Now, you put a little fat fuck like me in that environment, 67 00:03:26,082 --> 00:03:28,835 I get up in the morning, get my ass whupped. 68 00:03:28,835 --> 00:03:31,796 I go to school, get my ass whupped. 69 00:03:31,796 --> 00:03:35,091 I go home from school, and I get my ass whupped. 70 00:03:35,091 --> 00:03:37,635 That's all I knew. I'm not gonna lie. 71 00:03:37,719 --> 00:03:39,846 - A quarter? - Cheap-ass pussy, bro. 72 00:03:39,846 --> 00:03:42,014 I had some issues. 73 00:03:44,058 --> 00:03:46,269 Used to talk to myself out loud. 74 00:03:46,269 --> 00:03:48,688 I was just a weird little kid. 75 00:03:48,688 --> 00:03:51,733 But my mom, she took me to see some doctor. 76 00:03:53,818 --> 00:03:57,196 He's retarded... your son. 77 00:03:57,864 --> 00:04:01,117 So you'll need to be prepared for that. 78 00:04:05,329 --> 00:04:06,998 No. 79 00:04:06,998 --> 00:04:08,291 You sure? 80 00:04:11,878 --> 00:04:13,671 I saw him kill any dreams she had for me 81 00:04:13,755 --> 00:04:15,089 in that one moment. 82 00:04:16,340 --> 00:04:18,885 I never saw her believe in me after that. 83 00:04:21,054 --> 00:04:23,556 So I was a retarded fat fuck with a lisp. 84 00:04:24,515 --> 00:04:26,142 So, yeah, I took a beating. 85 00:04:28,603 --> 00:04:30,271 But the way I saw it, 86 00:04:30,271 --> 00:04:32,315 everyone took a beating at some point. 87 00:04:40,198 --> 00:04:42,742 That was my new gold tooth, motherfucker. 88 00:04:44,285 --> 00:04:47,163 Mike, help me in the kitchen. 89 00:04:47,163 --> 00:04:49,957 Denise, Rodney, under the quilt. 90 00:04:50,041 --> 00:04:51,292 Now! 91 00:04:51,292 --> 00:04:52,710 Time for bed. 92 00:04:58,674 --> 00:05:00,802 I want you to stay out of the way, Mike. 93 00:05:00,802 --> 00:05:02,095 Hmm? 94 00:05:02,095 --> 00:05:04,430 We ain't got nowhere else to go. 95 00:05:04,514 --> 00:05:06,724 But that don't mean we got to take his shit, right? 96 00:05:12,105 --> 00:05:13,606 You want some soup, Eddie? 97 00:05:13,606 --> 00:05:14,774 Yeah, baby. 98 00:05:14,774 --> 00:05:16,901 Yeah. Thank you. 99 00:05:16,901 --> 00:05:18,694 Oh, now, this move's gonna surprise you, Mike. 100 00:05:18,778 --> 00:05:21,364 Mike, come here. Come here. Now, watch. 101 00:05:21,364 --> 00:05:22,824 When he does this right here? 102 00:05:22,824 --> 00:05:24,033 Watch this. 103 00:05:24,117 --> 00:05:25,368 Now, when he gets up on that rope-- 104 00:05:28,538 --> 00:05:30,206 They used to beat the hell out of each other, 105 00:05:30,206 --> 00:05:31,416 then have sex. 106 00:05:31,416 --> 00:05:32,834 And that was normal to me. 107 00:05:32,834 --> 00:05:34,168 I think they loved each other. 108 00:05:34,252 --> 00:05:37,004 Probably when they weren't stabbing each other. 109 00:05:39,090 --> 00:05:42,927 Before Brownsville, she lived a nicer kind of life. 110 00:05:42,927 --> 00:05:45,888 She'd been a nurse and dietitian, 111 00:05:45,972 --> 00:05:47,473 was in college studying to be a teacher 112 00:05:47,557 --> 00:05:50,226 before she met the man who was probably my dad. 113 00:05:51,978 --> 00:05:54,230 She always had terrible taste in men. 114 00:05:55,565 --> 00:05:57,233 The last one took all her money, 115 00:05:57,233 --> 00:05:58,985 and we were put out on the street. 116 00:06:01,237 --> 00:06:04,323 Now, there are three types of poor. 117 00:06:04,407 --> 00:06:06,993 There's poor, there's dirt poor... 118 00:06:06,993 --> 00:06:09,412 And there's fucked-up poor. 119 00:06:10,163 --> 00:06:11,789 When a Black single mom with three kids 120 00:06:11,873 --> 00:06:14,542 falls into fucked-up poor, there's no way out. 121 00:06:15,293 --> 00:06:16,836 And she knew it. 122 00:06:16,836 --> 00:06:19,797 We lost our whole community. 123 00:06:19,881 --> 00:06:21,507 It was a life sentence. 124 00:06:22,759 --> 00:06:26,179 We moved from one abandoned building to another. 125 00:06:26,179 --> 00:06:28,723 Every time we moved, it got worse. 126 00:06:28,723 --> 00:06:30,975 Any dreams she had died. 127 00:06:31,059 --> 00:06:32,643 She did things she had to do. 128 00:06:33,770 --> 00:06:35,688 That shit would fuck any kid up. 129 00:06:38,024 --> 00:06:40,651 I stopped going to school because of the bullying. 130 00:06:40,735 --> 00:06:41,861 I was in second grade, 131 00:06:41,861 --> 00:06:43,654 and that was the end of my education. 132 00:06:43,738 --> 00:06:46,115 I'd show up to school with my sister and leave. 133 00:06:46,199 --> 00:06:48,326 I'd show up again for lunch, and then I'd leave. 134 00:06:48,326 --> 00:06:49,577 - You got any money? - No. 135 00:06:49,577 --> 00:06:51,120 Anything we find, we keep. 136 00:06:51,204 --> 00:06:52,705 Man, he's trying to steal our birds. 137 00:06:52,789 --> 00:06:53,748 You got birds? 138 00:06:53,748 --> 00:06:55,500 We got lots of birds. Shit. 139 00:06:57,502 --> 00:06:58,628 Looks hungry. 140 00:06:58,628 --> 00:07:00,671 I never saw birds like that up close. 141 00:07:02,006 --> 00:07:03,591 Those birds, they were the only things 142 00:07:03,591 --> 00:07:05,301 I loved that loved me back. 143 00:07:06,803 --> 00:07:09,764 They could fly anywhere, but they'd always come back home. 144 00:07:09,764 --> 00:07:11,516 I got to know each one of them. 145 00:07:11,516 --> 00:07:12,934 I learned to love them. 146 00:07:12,934 --> 00:07:15,144 Hey, shorty, go downstairs to the pet store 147 00:07:15,228 --> 00:07:17,146 and get us some birdseed. 148 00:07:17,230 --> 00:07:20,024 I had names for each one of those 30 pigeons. 149 00:07:20,108 --> 00:07:21,609 The guys still picked on me. 150 00:07:21,609 --> 00:07:24,362 Jesus, shorty. You a stinky motherfucker. 151 00:07:24,362 --> 00:07:26,364 Don't you know how to wash yourself? 152 00:07:26,364 --> 00:07:28,157 But I didn't give a shit. 153 00:07:28,241 --> 00:07:30,201 I was happy... 154 00:07:30,201 --> 00:07:33,121 until Gary Flowers fucked with my pigeon Georgie. 155 00:07:33,121 --> 00:07:35,456 That's the day I became a fighter. 156 00:07:35,540 --> 00:07:37,458 And that's the fucking truth. 157 00:07:37,542 --> 00:07:39,544 Come on, man, give me my bird back. 158 00:07:39,544 --> 00:07:40,878 What bird? 159 00:07:40,962 --> 00:07:42,547 Please, man. 160 00:07:42,547 --> 00:07:44,215 What are you gonna do about it? 161 00:07:44,215 --> 00:07:49,053 What the fuck are you gonna do about it, Mike? 162 00:07:49,762 --> 00:07:51,431 Tell me, why should I give him to you? 163 00:07:52,515 --> 00:07:54,183 'Cause by the looks of it, he--he's mine. 164 00:07:54,267 --> 00:07:55,685 - Maybe-- 165 00:07:55,685 --> 00:07:57,770 maybe I'll eat this fucking bird. 166 00:07:57,854 --> 00:07:59,439 Yeah! 167 00:07:59,439 --> 00:08:01,607 I-I bet he tastes like chicken. 168 00:08:01,691 --> 00:08:03,526 Come on, what do you want? 169 00:08:03,526 --> 00:08:05,903 - Here, I'm sorry. 170 00:08:10,575 --> 00:08:13,995 Oh! 171 00:08:29,135 --> 00:08:32,263 Everything Tyson does is intimidating. 172 00:08:32,263 --> 00:08:35,975 He doesn't wear a robe. He's worked up a full sweat. 173 00:08:36,059 --> 00:08:38,394 He's got a scornful look on his face that says, 174 00:08:38,478 --> 00:08:40,938 "Let's get this going. Let's get it over with." 175 00:08:45,443 --> 00:08:47,862 The heavyweight champion of the world 176 00:08:47,862 --> 00:08:49,572 comes into the ring. 177 00:08:49,572 --> 00:08:52,033 This is why we are all here. 178 00:08:56,913 --> 00:08:59,874 It's Tyson all the way here in round one. 179 00:09:03,378 --> 00:09:05,380 Vicious shot to the body. 180 00:09:05,380 --> 00:09:07,006 Down he goes! 181 00:09:12,095 --> 00:09:14,305 That was a body shot that brought him down. 182 00:09:14,389 --> 00:09:17,225 Five. You good? Let's go. 183 00:09:18,935 --> 00:09:20,728 Here comes Spinks again. 184 00:09:31,781 --> 00:09:33,074 Down he goes! 185 00:09:33,074 --> 00:09:34,617 I don't think he'll get up from this. 186 00:09:34,617 --> 00:09:37,328 Spinks is laying flat on his back. 187 00:09:37,412 --> 00:09:41,624 Six, seven, eight, nine. 188 00:09:41,624 --> 00:09:44,293 It's all over. Mike Tyson has won it. 189 00:09:44,377 --> 00:09:46,504 A dramatic first-round knockout. 190 00:09:46,504 --> 00:09:47,922 And now the question is, 191 00:09:47,922 --> 00:09:52,009 who in the world has any chance against this man? 192 00:09:52,093 --> 00:09:54,262 That's when things started to change. 193 00:09:58,433 --> 00:10:00,268 Barkim introduced me to these guys. 194 00:10:00,268 --> 00:10:02,186 We'd steal anything we can get our hands on-- 195 00:10:02,270 --> 00:10:04,564 money, clothes, jewelry. 196 00:10:04,564 --> 00:10:06,274 I chose them over family. 197 00:10:06,274 --> 00:10:09,193 My mom fell into a system rigged to make us powerless. 198 00:10:09,277 --> 00:10:11,362 With these guys, I had power. 199 00:10:11,446 --> 00:10:13,823 I was 8. They were maybe 12. 200 00:10:13,823 --> 00:10:16,284 We called ourselves the Rutland Road Crew. 201 00:10:16,284 --> 00:10:17,744 We only went to school for lunch. 202 00:10:17,744 --> 00:10:19,287 It didn't even have to be our school. 203 00:10:19,287 --> 00:10:21,539 We were just poor Black kids no one cared about. 204 00:10:29,881 --> 00:10:31,924 Hey! Give me that purse back! 205 00:10:32,008 --> 00:10:34,218 By the time I was ten, this is what I knew. 206 00:10:39,307 --> 00:10:41,309 Whoo! Yeah! 207 00:10:42,810 --> 00:10:44,562 The badder you were, the better. 208 00:10:44,562 --> 00:10:46,147 You live big and fast and hard, 209 00:10:46,147 --> 00:10:47,732 'cause no one's gonna live for long. 210 00:10:51,277 --> 00:10:52,653 I figured it was just a matter of time 211 00:10:52,737 --> 00:10:54,781 until it was my brains on the sidewalk. 212 00:10:58,576 --> 00:11:01,996 All these lying, smiley street hustlers said I was great. 213 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:03,790 Those are the people I surrounded myself with. 214 00:11:03,790 --> 00:11:05,124 I felt at home there. 215 00:11:05,208 --> 00:11:07,377 It's a pattern I fell back to all my life. 216 00:11:07,377 --> 00:11:10,046 Mike Tyson, my brother, my brother. 217 00:11:10,046 --> 00:11:12,131 Let me introduce myself, please. 218 00:11:12,215 --> 00:11:13,383 I'm Don King. 219 00:11:16,803 --> 00:11:18,262 Oh, if only. 220 00:11:21,099 --> 00:11:22,225 Michael. 221 00:11:28,439 --> 00:11:31,442 Nettie and Sal from upstairs was over here drinking, 222 00:11:31,526 --> 00:11:33,986 and somebody robbed their place-- 223 00:11:34,070 --> 00:11:35,571 stole the money and the baby's food, everything. 224 00:11:35,655 --> 00:11:36,906 Mom, look around. It wasn't me. 225 00:11:36,906 --> 00:11:39,158 Don't you look me in the eye and lie to me. 226 00:11:39,242 --> 00:11:40,493 I know it was you. 227 00:11:40,493 --> 00:11:42,453 I was here the whole time. I didn't go anywhere. 228 00:11:42,537 --> 00:11:45,164 Your brother and sister stay out of trouble. 229 00:11:45,248 --> 00:11:48,710 Denise gets good grades. Rodney does science and shit. 230 00:11:48,710 --> 00:11:51,003 - Rodney's a freak. - Rodney has a future. 231 00:11:51,087 --> 00:11:52,672 As what? A mad scientist? 232 00:11:52,672 --> 00:11:54,882 Science don't mean nothing out here. 233 00:11:54,966 --> 00:11:56,676 Rodney became a surgeon. 234 00:11:56,676 --> 00:11:57,927 Why you do this shit? 235 00:11:57,927 --> 00:11:59,929 Walking around here with your nice clothes, 236 00:11:59,929 --> 00:12:01,681 you thief? 237 00:12:01,681 --> 00:12:03,182 I never stole nothing in my life. 238 00:12:03,266 --> 00:12:04,726 - You'd rather beg. - Than be a fucking 239 00:12:04,726 --> 00:12:06,352 low-life thief, you piece of shit. 240 00:12:07,645 --> 00:12:09,480 Got to do to get through to you? 241 00:12:09,564 --> 00:12:10,857 You take the money I give you fast enough, 242 00:12:10,857 --> 00:12:11,899 and you never pay me back. 243 00:12:11,983 --> 00:12:13,234 I never have to pay you back, 244 00:12:13,234 --> 00:12:14,861 you cheap-ass motherfucker. 245 00:12:15,945 --> 00:12:17,196 I gave you life. 246 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:19,157 Now you're gonna spend that life in jail. 247 00:12:19,157 --> 00:12:21,534 - I don't care. - Keep not caring. 248 00:12:21,534 --> 00:12:23,494 What kind of bird don't fly? 249 00:12:25,997 --> 00:12:29,417 Jailbird. 250 00:12:29,417 --> 00:12:31,586 You need to listen, or you gonna die. 251 00:12:31,586 --> 00:12:32,879 I ain't never been arrested. 252 00:12:32,879 --> 00:12:34,547 What ten-year-old says that? 253 00:12:34,547 --> 00:12:36,674 It ain't nothing to brag about. 254 00:12:36,758 --> 00:12:40,219 You heading down the path of a doomed child. 255 00:12:40,303 --> 00:12:42,138 It's coming, Mike. 256 00:12:42,138 --> 00:12:44,098 It's coming. 257 00:12:44,182 --> 00:12:45,141 You don't know shit. 258 00:12:50,313 --> 00:12:51,981 First time I got arrested? 259 00:12:52,106 --> 00:12:53,566 Yeah, ten. 260 00:12:54,942 --> 00:12:57,653 Oh, and that whole Sal and Nettie thing... 261 00:12:59,155 --> 00:13:00,615 Okay, it was me. 262 00:13:02,909 --> 00:13:05,036 Oh, you can never understand the action and excitement of it. 263 00:13:05,036 --> 00:13:07,955 I mean, being able to outsmart somebody... 264 00:13:08,039 --> 00:13:09,415 it's a rush. 265 00:13:09,499 --> 00:13:11,084 Being in someone's home, and... 266 00:13:13,044 --> 00:13:14,629 There's so much luxury there... 267 00:13:16,005 --> 00:13:18,091 And it's yours... 268 00:13:18,091 --> 00:13:19,634 it gives you power. 269 00:13:19,634 --> 00:13:21,844 You're the man. You're in charge. 270 00:13:22,678 --> 00:13:24,097 I started to get a reputation on the street 271 00:13:24,097 --> 00:13:25,556 that I would fight anyone. 272 00:13:27,058 --> 00:13:28,434 I didn't think I'd make it to 20, 273 00:13:28,518 --> 00:13:30,353 so why not go out swinging? 274 00:13:41,948 --> 00:13:43,574 But I was so ashamed, man. 275 00:13:43,658 --> 00:13:46,160 I didn't go to school, so I couldn't read or write good. 276 00:13:46,244 --> 00:13:48,996 I was just a lying piece of shit back then. 277 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:51,124 And, you know, when you hate yourself like that, 278 00:13:51,124 --> 00:13:52,708 you can't love nobody. 279 00:13:52,792 --> 00:13:54,419 Is it harder being called a convicted rapist, 280 00:13:54,419 --> 00:13:56,170 or is it more nerve-racking for you to box? 281 00:13:56,254 --> 00:13:57,880 Oh, well, it's more nerve-racking 282 00:13:57,964 --> 00:13:59,257 to be talking to a rat piece of shit like you. 283 00:13:59,257 --> 00:14:00,425 Oh, come on, Mike. 284 00:14:00,425 --> 00:14:01,551 Nah, because you're a piece of shit. 285 00:14:01,551 --> 00:14:02,635 We're on live TV here. 286 00:14:02,719 --> 00:14:03,761 What do I care? You're a piece of shit. 287 00:14:03,845 --> 00:14:05,430 We're gonna wrap up this interview. 288 00:14:05,430 --> 00:14:06,639 Thank you for coming in. 289 00:14:06,723 --> 00:14:07,974 Fuck you. 290 00:14:07,974 --> 00:14:09,976 Yeah, we'll talk about that later. 291 00:14:09,976 --> 00:14:11,602 Man, we out of here. 292 00:14:17,859 --> 00:14:19,569 Why should I have compassion? 293 00:14:19,569 --> 00:14:21,279 I didn't have a future. 294 00:14:23,531 --> 00:14:25,575 (vocalizing) 295 00:14:25,575 --> 00:14:27,034 I was more interested in getting revenge 296 00:14:27,118 --> 00:14:28,703 on bullies from my past. 297 00:14:31,164 --> 00:14:34,333 Yo, what's the matter, Mike? What'd you stop for? 298 00:14:39,881 --> 00:14:41,132 Before I was born, 299 00:14:41,132 --> 00:14:43,051 my mother worked as a prison matron, 300 00:14:43,051 --> 00:14:46,387 so she saw Black faces behind bars firsthand. 301 00:14:46,471 --> 00:14:47,722 It scared her. 302 00:14:47,722 --> 00:14:50,016 She was trying to scare me too. 303 00:14:53,728 --> 00:14:56,689 When I started getting arrested... 304 00:14:56,773 --> 00:14:58,775 she'd come down to the police station... 305 00:15:00,401 --> 00:15:02,570 And do the only thing she knew how to do. 306 00:15:04,614 --> 00:15:06,616 It was a regular occurrence. 307 00:15:08,326 --> 00:15:09,744 Once, she came and beat me so bad, 308 00:15:09,744 --> 00:15:11,704 the police didn't even charge me. 309 00:15:11,788 --> 00:15:14,582 Now, a white family would see that violence and disapprove. 310 00:15:14,582 --> 00:15:16,334 I see you shaking your head. Am I right? 311 00:15:17,460 --> 00:15:18,419 But, now, no. 312 00:15:18,503 --> 00:15:19,670 A Black family would see a woman 313 00:15:19,754 --> 00:15:21,339 who's just trying to keep her child alive. 314 00:15:21,339 --> 00:15:22,465 How many times I-- 315 00:15:22,465 --> 00:15:24,175 She didn't know how to get through to me. 316 00:15:24,175 --> 00:15:25,843 I didn't make it easy. 317 00:15:25,927 --> 00:15:28,554 I think the harder she hit me, the more afraid she was. 318 00:15:28,638 --> 00:15:31,474 She died before she could see any of the success I had. 319 00:15:31,474 --> 00:15:32,725 She never knew. 320 00:15:32,809 --> 00:15:35,311 I never got to do anything good for her. 321 00:15:35,395 --> 00:15:38,022 My sister and brother never got in trouble like me. 322 00:15:38,064 --> 00:15:40,108 I just wish she knew I was gonna be okay. 323 00:15:40,108 --> 00:15:42,985 She tried, but she could never keep me out of prison. 324 00:15:43,069 --> 00:15:45,905 Yo, you ever been to Spofford before? 325 00:15:49,659 --> 00:15:53,121 My cousin said some guys held him down, 326 00:15:53,121 --> 00:15:55,248 shaved him his first night there. 327 00:15:55,248 --> 00:15:57,875 It's a freak show, man. 328 00:15:57,959 --> 00:16:01,003 And young ones like you, well... 329 00:16:01,087 --> 00:16:03,131 freaks really like 'em ripe. 330 00:16:09,971 --> 00:16:12,348 Yo, Mike, what up, baby? 331 00:16:12,432 --> 00:16:13,766 Yo! Barkim. 332 00:16:13,850 --> 00:16:15,768 Yo, chill. All your boys is here, baby. 333 00:16:15,852 --> 00:16:18,020 It's like a fucking class reunion. 334 00:16:18,104 --> 00:16:19,605 Except we ain't never go to class. 335 00:16:19,689 --> 00:16:22,817 After that, Spoff became a second fucking home to me. 336 00:16:22,817 --> 00:16:24,694 - I was in group homes, 337 00:16:24,694 --> 00:16:27,989 special ed, some facility on Staten Island. 338 00:16:27,989 --> 00:16:29,282 By the time I was 13, 339 00:16:29,282 --> 00:16:32,368 I was too much for all five boroughs. 340 00:16:32,452 --> 00:16:35,663 So I got sent up to the Tryon Juvenile Facility upstate. 341 00:16:35,747 --> 00:16:36,831 You know, I don't even think 342 00:16:36,831 --> 00:16:38,541 my mom said goodbye at that point. 343 00:16:38,541 --> 00:16:40,793 At Tryon, I was always in trouble and shit, 344 00:16:40,877 --> 00:16:42,670 but I was like, "Fuck you, I'm from Brooklyn." 345 00:16:42,754 --> 00:16:44,714 - Hey! - Hey! 346 00:16:44,714 --> 00:16:46,257 - Hey! - Hey! 347 00:16:51,387 --> 00:16:52,847 Man, I almost had him, 348 00:16:52,847 --> 00:16:54,682 if he hadn't fucked my teeth up. 349 00:16:54,766 --> 00:16:57,477 Man, fuck you. Look what he did to my fucking ribs. 350 00:16:57,477 --> 00:16:59,103 Shit, he didn't even know you were there. 351 00:16:59,187 --> 00:17:00,813 Hey, what happened to you guys? 352 00:17:00,897 --> 00:17:02,982 Mr. Stewart, that's what happened. 353 00:17:03,066 --> 00:17:04,859 - He a guard? - Nah, man. 354 00:17:04,859 --> 00:17:05,985 Guidance counselor. 355 00:17:06,069 --> 00:17:08,488 He was, like, a boxing champ-- amateur champ or some shit. 356 00:17:08,488 --> 00:17:10,156 I could take him. 357 00:17:10,156 --> 00:17:12,200 Okay, buddy. 358 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,118 Fuck you. 359 00:17:29,884 --> 00:17:31,094 I heard about you. 360 00:17:33,054 --> 00:17:34,263 Suit up. 361 00:17:34,347 --> 00:17:36,057 Whoo! 362 00:17:36,057 --> 00:17:37,475 I figured the only thing standing in the way 363 00:17:37,475 --> 00:17:39,894 of everyone sucking up to me was this little white guy. 364 00:17:41,604 --> 00:17:43,022 I'm gonna fuck his shit up. 365 00:17:44,065 --> 00:17:45,024 Come on, go! 366 00:17:51,364 --> 00:17:52,698 Ooh! 367 00:17:52,782 --> 00:17:55,576 - ♪ I'm a man, yeah ♪ 368 00:17:58,121 --> 00:18:00,623 I remember I thought I was dying... 369 00:18:00,623 --> 00:18:02,625 literally dying. 370 00:18:02,625 --> 00:18:05,545 But I also thought if I learned how to punch like that, 371 00:18:05,545 --> 00:18:08,131 I'd be able to knock anyone out and steal everybody's shit. 372 00:18:08,131 --> 00:18:09,757 - Excuse me, sir. 373 00:18:09,841 --> 00:18:11,134 Could you teach me to punch like that? 374 00:18:11,134 --> 00:18:12,260 No. 375 00:18:12,260 --> 00:18:13,428 Sir, I'd really like to learn. 376 00:18:13,428 --> 00:18:14,971 No, you wouldn't. Get out of here. 377 00:18:14,971 --> 00:18:17,682 - I want to be a fighter. - Oh, yeah? 378 00:18:17,682 --> 00:18:19,308 Well, so do the rest of these guys. 379 00:18:20,601 --> 00:18:22,812 But none of you have the balls to work to be a fighter. 380 00:18:23,896 --> 00:18:25,523 I heard about you. 381 00:18:25,523 --> 00:18:28,025 You're a badass motherfucker, right? 382 00:18:28,109 --> 00:18:29,902 You were sent to the hole second night you're here? 383 00:18:31,696 --> 00:18:32,947 Nah, you don't want to work for anything. 384 00:18:32,947 --> 00:18:34,365 I'm not teaching you shit. 385 00:18:36,534 --> 00:18:37,910 I do. 386 00:18:37,994 --> 00:18:40,288 Please, I'm not conning you, man. 387 00:18:40,288 --> 00:18:42,373 - I need you. - Well, I don't need you. 388 00:18:43,249 --> 00:18:45,334 You know, you need credits to train with me anyway. 389 00:18:45,418 --> 00:18:46,669 Maybe if you straighten up your act, 390 00:18:46,753 --> 00:18:48,629 stop being such an asshole, show some respect, 391 00:18:48,713 --> 00:18:49,839 I'll work with you. 392 00:18:49,839 --> 00:18:52,592 Until then, get the fuck out of my way. 393 00:19:00,475 --> 00:19:02,518 So I started applying myself. 394 00:19:04,479 --> 00:19:06,272 Eventually I made the honor roll. 395 00:19:06,272 --> 00:19:07,732 Me, right? 396 00:19:07,732 --> 00:19:10,234 I always thought I was the stupidest guy in the world. 397 00:19:10,318 --> 00:19:12,320 Turns out, I'm smarter than stupid. 398 00:19:15,448 --> 00:19:17,283 So I started training with Bobby Stewart. 399 00:19:17,283 --> 00:19:19,202 Months in, turns out-- 400 00:19:19,202 --> 00:19:21,746 well, I guess you all know this part. 401 00:19:25,792 --> 00:19:27,502 Turns out, I'm pretty good at this shit. 402 00:19:30,213 --> 00:19:31,881 It was the first time I was good at something 403 00:19:31,881 --> 00:19:33,633 that wasn't totally illegal. 404 00:19:42,308 --> 00:19:45,436 - Come on, man, call her. - 405 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:47,105 - Call her. - All right. 406 00:19:47,105 --> 00:19:48,856 I want my mom to know that I'm good at something. 407 00:19:48,940 --> 00:19:49,982 Okay. 408 00:19:50,066 --> 00:19:51,150 She'll believe it if a white man tells her. 409 00:19:51,234 --> 00:19:52,235 All right, all right. Come on, come on. 410 00:19:52,235 --> 00:19:54,278 Mike, I want to talk to you for a second, seriously. 411 00:19:54,362 --> 00:19:57,240 - I didn't do anything. - No. No, I know. I know. 412 00:20:02,328 --> 00:20:04,247 There's someone I want you to meet. 413 00:20:04,247 --> 00:20:07,959 Cus D'Amato. He's a big-time boxing trainer. 414 00:20:07,959 --> 00:20:09,544 He could take you to the next level. 415 00:20:11,295 --> 00:20:13,840 Why? What did I do? 416 00:20:15,049 --> 00:20:17,427 - What do you mean? - I train with you, man. 417 00:20:17,427 --> 00:20:18,803 No, Mike. 418 00:20:18,803 --> 00:20:20,138 Look, he trained Floyd Patterson. 419 00:20:20,138 --> 00:20:21,389 He made him a champion. 420 00:20:21,389 --> 00:20:23,015 He trained José Torres. 421 00:20:23,099 --> 00:20:25,017 All right? Come on, trust me on this. 422 00:20:26,144 --> 00:20:28,646 I'll do better. I promise. 423 00:20:28,730 --> 00:20:30,064 No, Mike. 424 00:20:30,148 --> 00:20:32,567 - Mike, this is a good thing. - Come on, man. 425 00:20:32,567 --> 00:20:35,278 What did I do? What did I do? 426 00:20:35,278 --> 00:20:36,988 No, Mike, Mike, you didn't do anything. 427 00:20:36,988 --> 00:20:38,239 Look... 428 00:20:42,034 --> 00:20:43,578 You're gonna be paroled soon. 429 00:20:44,787 --> 00:20:46,122 I don't want you going back to Brownsville, 430 00:20:46,122 --> 00:20:47,373 getting into trouble. 431 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,002 Mike, I'm doing this for you, not to you. 432 00:20:52,378 --> 00:20:53,671 All right? 433 00:20:53,755 --> 00:20:56,716 - - Hey, come on, Mike. 434 00:20:56,716 --> 00:20:58,801 Come on, cheer up. This is good news. 435 00:21:02,972 --> 00:21:04,140 Okay. 436 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,772 Cus D'Amato trained not one but two world champions. 437 00:21:10,772 --> 00:21:12,398 He was a legend. 438 00:21:14,609 --> 00:21:16,736 But Cus only had a small gym in Catskill, New York, 439 00:21:16,736 --> 00:21:17,862 when I met him. 440 00:21:20,073 --> 00:21:22,075 He'd fallen into obscurity. 441 00:21:25,578 --> 00:21:27,538 Fighters thought he was old-timey. 442 00:21:29,624 --> 00:21:31,125 I was his last Hail Mary... 443 00:21:31,209 --> 00:21:32,585 All right, that's enough. 444 00:21:32,585 --> 00:21:34,128 His golden meal ticket back. 445 00:21:34,212 --> 00:21:35,505 Here's the truth. 446 00:21:35,505 --> 00:21:39,926 This is the heavyweight champion of the world. 447 00:21:39,926 --> 00:21:42,762 I made Floyd Patterson the youngest champion of the world. 448 00:21:42,762 --> 00:21:44,472 If you listen to me, 449 00:21:44,472 --> 00:21:47,683 I can make you the youngest champion of all time-- 450 00:21:47,767 --> 00:21:51,312 a beast, a terror, a monster. 451 00:21:51,396 --> 00:21:53,231 What do you think about that? 452 00:21:53,231 --> 00:21:56,275 I thought he was a pervert. 453 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:57,902 Back home, right, when people say that shit, 454 00:21:57,902 --> 00:21:59,821 they're about to perv out on you. 455 00:21:59,821 --> 00:22:02,532 I can't believe you're just 13 years old. 456 00:22:03,574 --> 00:22:05,034 Yes, sir. 457 00:22:05,118 --> 00:22:08,121 You have a natural talent, Mike. 458 00:22:08,121 --> 00:22:09,705 You looked splendid. 459 00:22:10,790 --> 00:22:12,166 In time, 460 00:22:12,250 --> 00:22:15,253 you will be the greatest fighter that has ever lived. 461 00:22:16,796 --> 00:22:17,755 Do you believe that? 462 00:22:18,673 --> 00:22:20,049 I didn't know what to think about that. 463 00:22:20,133 --> 00:22:22,677 I was honestly just thinking how I was gonna rob his house. 464 00:22:24,262 --> 00:22:26,514 - I don't know what to say. - It's the truth. 465 00:22:26,514 --> 00:22:28,391 Everyone thinks I'm finished. I'm not finished. 466 00:22:28,391 --> 00:22:29,892 I've been waiting, 467 00:22:29,976 --> 00:22:32,895 and I think you're the one I've been waiting for. 468 00:22:32,979 --> 00:22:34,772 Now I'm glad I lived as long as I did. 469 00:22:36,441 --> 00:22:40,278 So you up for it? You gonna work together? 470 00:22:40,278 --> 00:22:41,612 What do you think, Mike? 471 00:22:43,698 --> 00:22:45,116 Are those roses? 472 00:22:45,116 --> 00:22:46,576 What? 473 00:22:46,576 --> 00:22:48,202 Roses. 474 00:22:48,286 --> 00:22:51,706 I never seen them in real life before... 475 00:22:51,706 --> 00:22:53,499 only on television. 476 00:22:58,087 --> 00:22:59,464 You okay, Mike? 477 00:23:00,798 --> 00:23:01,883 Hey. 478 00:23:04,427 --> 00:23:05,636 What you thinking? 479 00:23:08,556 --> 00:23:10,683 I think I'm gonna be somebody. 480 00:24:09,075 --> 00:24:11,619 Captioned by Captionmax