1 00:00:42,794 --> 00:00:45,088 {\an8}I'm back, back to what my mother 2 00:00:45,088 --> 00:00:47,507 {\an8}and everyone else said was my destiny. 3 00:00:47,507 --> 00:00:50,593 {\an8}No matter how many fights I won or millions I earned, 4 00:00:50,593 --> 00:00:53,096 {\an8}right back where I started, man. 5 00:00:53,096 --> 00:00:55,056 {\an8}Maybe this is who I am. 6 00:00:58,643 --> 00:01:01,312 {\an8}Racing pigeons can fly 1,000 miles, 7 00:01:01,396 --> 00:01:02,647 {\an8}but they always come right back 8 00:01:02,647 --> 00:01:04,315 {\an8}to the dirty boxes they call home. 9 00:01:08,236 --> 00:01:10,279 {\an8}Six years might as well be life. 10 00:01:13,616 --> 00:01:16,285 {\an8}I'm 25, in my prime. 11 00:01:16,369 --> 00:01:18,746 {\an8}Snatching the title back from Buster would've been cake. 12 00:01:21,416 --> 00:01:24,419 {\an8}But when I get out, I'll be 30-fucking-1. 13 00:01:24,419 --> 00:01:26,546 {\an8}Not a lot of 31-year-old champions of the world 14 00:01:26,546 --> 00:01:28,339 {\an8}out there... 15 00:01:28,423 --> 00:01:31,843 {\an8}especially after six years no training, bad food. 16 00:01:31,843 --> 00:01:33,678 {\an8}Bend and spread. 17 00:01:33,678 --> 00:01:36,055 {\an8}Prison steals everything it can from you. 18 00:01:36,139 --> 00:01:38,725 Every hope I have is all fucked up now. 19 00:01:38,725 --> 00:01:42,562 Who will I be when I get out of here? 20 00:01:43,938 --> 00:01:46,566 Welcome home, Champ. 21 00:01:49,569 --> 00:01:52,572 And by then, will anyone even care? 22 00:01:52,572 --> 00:01:55,199 Hey, Mike. 23 00:01:55,283 --> 00:01:57,368 I'm Ray Ray. 24 00:02:05,168 --> 00:02:08,504 I feel a little bad about how Ray Ray and I got started. 25 00:02:08,588 --> 00:02:10,339 It was fucking prison, man. 26 00:02:10,423 --> 00:02:12,133 I needed to claim that shit. 27 00:02:12,133 --> 00:02:15,011 I wasn't about to be anyone's bitch. 28 00:02:15,011 --> 00:02:17,638 Can you imagine livin' with me in a 8-by-9-foot cell? 29 00:02:19,599 --> 00:02:22,602 Ray Ray turned out to be more patient than Job, man. 30 00:02:22,602 --> 00:02:25,396 Ray Ray tried to keep me out of trouble-- 31 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:27,482 as if anyone had ever succeeded at that. 32 00:02:30,610 --> 00:02:32,361 Now is the time for you to figure out 33 00:02:32,445 --> 00:02:34,781 what you're gonna do when you get out this place. 34 00:02:34,781 --> 00:02:36,824 But you got time to figure that shit out. 35 00:02:38,743 --> 00:02:40,620 Keep fuckin' around, though, 36 00:02:40,620 --> 00:02:42,705 the system will steal your future from you. 37 00:02:42,789 --> 00:02:45,333 Take it from one who knows. 38 00:02:45,333 --> 00:02:48,294 I ain't got no future. 39 00:02:48,378 --> 00:02:50,630 You want to make this worth something? 40 00:02:50,630 --> 00:02:53,424 Read books, real ones, 41 00:02:53,508 --> 00:02:55,551 starting with The Constitution. 42 00:02:55,635 --> 00:02:57,512 Fuck you. 43 00:03:02,058 --> 00:03:04,519 Those first months, I had to prove I wasn't a punk, 44 00:03:04,519 --> 00:03:06,229 because everyone was looking to make their name 45 00:03:06,229 --> 00:03:08,439 by taking a shot at me. 46 00:03:08,523 --> 00:03:09,982 Or so I thought. 47 00:03:12,068 --> 00:03:13,277 You eat that shit. 48 00:03:13,361 --> 00:03:15,321 Probably pissed in it, creepy fuck. 49 00:03:15,405 --> 00:03:16,406 Damn! 50 00:03:23,663 --> 00:03:26,541 Tyson, you tree jumper fuck! 51 00:03:28,501 --> 00:03:30,420 "Tree jumper"? 52 00:03:30,420 --> 00:03:32,588 Never heard that one before. 53 00:03:32,672 --> 00:03:34,674 Sir, tree jumper. 54 00:03:34,674 --> 00:03:36,634 What do you think it mean? 55 00:03:36,718 --> 00:03:39,679 Uh, probably some kind of racial... 56 00:03:39,679 --> 00:03:41,139 "You're a monkey, climbing trees." 57 00:03:42,682 --> 00:03:44,392 You know, I should kick your ass for saying that. 58 00:03:44,392 --> 00:03:45,935 - You're wrong. 59 00:03:45,935 --> 00:03:47,895 Turns out it's a nickname for a rapist 60 00:03:47,979 --> 00:03:49,021 hiding behind a tree, 61 00:03:49,105 --> 00:03:51,983 waiting for women to walk by so he can pounce on them. 62 00:03:51,983 --> 00:03:54,360 I ain't fuckin' do nothin' like that. 63 00:03:54,444 --> 00:03:56,362 So I let him know he'd been misinformed. 64 00:03:57,447 --> 00:04:00,408 They put me in solitary for that one. 65 00:04:00,408 --> 00:04:03,119 Alone in a small dark pit 23 hours a day 66 00:04:03,119 --> 00:04:05,204 with nothing but my thoughts. 67 00:04:05,288 --> 00:04:07,123 And my thoughts weren't that healthy to begin with. 68 00:04:10,001 --> 00:04:12,336 -♪ Somebody, everybody ♪ -♪ Everything busted ♪ 69 00:04:17,425 --> 00:04:19,677 It's designed to murder hope. 70 00:04:19,761 --> 00:04:21,512 It works. 71 00:04:21,596 --> 00:04:23,556 Psst, Mike! 72 00:04:23,556 --> 00:04:24,807 Big fan. 73 00:04:24,891 --> 00:04:26,309 I brought you your mail, homey. 74 00:04:35,026 --> 00:04:36,486 Keep the faith. 75 00:04:36,486 --> 00:04:40,364 We are showin' up strong. I put the article in here. 76 00:04:40,448 --> 00:04:42,909 Your people love you, Mike. 77 00:04:42,909 --> 00:04:43,993 People were talking. 78 00:04:44,077 --> 00:04:47,789 We will not let Desiree get away with using us 79 00:04:47,789 --> 00:04:51,250 to destroy one of the greatest men we've ever known! 80 00:04:51,334 --> 00:04:53,544 - I had my supporters, 81 00:04:53,628 --> 00:04:54,670 including this guy. 82 00:04:54,754 --> 00:04:56,506 We're gonna argue that Desiree perjured herself. 83 00:04:56,506 --> 00:04:57,965 She denied retaining an attorney 84 00:04:58,049 --> 00:04:59,092 to go after you in that civil court 85 00:04:59,092 --> 00:05:00,968 before the criminal case even started, 86 00:05:01,052 --> 00:05:03,513 meaning she is all about the money, honey! 87 00:05:03,513 --> 00:05:05,056 Alan Dershowitz, 88 00:05:05,056 --> 00:05:06,933 Harvard professor-- 89 00:05:06,933 --> 00:05:09,018 best lawyer in the world. 90 00:05:09,102 --> 00:05:11,312 More like all talk, big bill. 91 00:05:11,396 --> 00:05:13,731 - An albino Don King. 92 00:05:13,815 --> 00:05:15,149 I lost my appeal, 93 00:05:15,233 --> 00:05:18,111 and the Indiana Supreme Court refused to review it. 94 00:05:18,111 --> 00:05:20,113 That's the day I lost faith in the system. 95 00:05:20,113 --> 00:05:21,447 Time got real. 96 00:05:28,663 --> 00:05:30,498 Ah, fuck. 97 00:05:32,125 --> 00:05:34,502 You got to stop fucking with the guards. 98 00:05:43,219 --> 00:05:44,887 From my sister. 99 00:05:54,063 --> 00:05:56,107 They can't break Iron Mike. 100 00:05:59,444 --> 00:06:00,695 Can I borrow that? 101 00:06:02,071 --> 00:06:03,489 - The Constitution? - Yeah. 102 00:06:09,328 --> 00:06:10,872 Better yet. 103 00:06:10,872 --> 00:06:12,123 Keep it. 104 00:06:17,128 --> 00:06:18,254 It was hard for me to believe 105 00:06:18,254 --> 00:06:20,256 people telling me I had a bright future-- 106 00:06:20,256 --> 00:06:23,134 Barkim, Cus, now Ray Ray. 107 00:06:23,134 --> 00:06:24,844 I came from shit. 108 00:06:24,844 --> 00:06:26,846 As far as I knew, I was shit. 109 00:06:26,846 --> 00:06:29,599 Now, I know some of y'all think I deserved to be locked up. 110 00:06:29,599 --> 00:06:31,476 - Agree to disagree. 111 00:06:31,476 --> 00:06:34,562 Point is, I became just another nigga with a number. 112 00:06:34,562 --> 00:06:37,231 And in the '90s, niggas with numbers was big business. 113 00:06:42,028 --> 00:06:43,321 You got to understand, 114 00:06:43,321 --> 00:06:45,490 in the '90s, there was a war on "drugs." 115 00:06:45,490 --> 00:06:47,158 GEORGE H.W. BUSH: This... 116 00:06:47,158 --> 00:06:49,827 this is crack cocaine, 117 00:06:49,911 --> 00:06:53,790 seized a few days ago by drug enforcement agents 118 00:06:53,790 --> 00:06:57,377 in a park just across the street from the White House. 119 00:06:57,377 --> 00:06:59,545 Ray Ray's bag was half that size. 120 00:06:59,629 --> 00:07:01,506 They took half his life. 121 00:07:01,506 --> 00:07:04,384 It was 100-to-1 disparity between the amount of cocaine 122 00:07:04,384 --> 00:07:08,471 that triggered a mandatory minimum sentence versus crack. 123 00:07:08,471 --> 00:07:12,266 You want to know why there's so many brothers in here? 124 00:07:12,350 --> 00:07:14,310 In an Indiana cornfield? 125 00:07:14,394 --> 00:07:17,105 'Cause white boys selling coke got suspended sentences, 126 00:07:17,105 --> 00:07:19,440 while brothers selling crack got 20 years. 127 00:07:19,524 --> 00:07:20,983 GEORGE H.W. BUSH: We need more prisons, 128 00:07:21,067 --> 00:07:24,320 more jails, more courts, more prosecutors. 129 00:07:24,404 --> 00:07:25,863 Even with all those new prisons, 130 00:07:25,947 --> 00:07:28,032 we were packed tight and wound tighter. 131 00:07:28,116 --> 00:07:29,367 These people don't need prisons. 132 00:07:29,367 --> 00:07:31,994 They need psychiatrists, myself included. 133 00:07:32,078 --> 00:07:35,832 It's not about correction. It's about punishment. 134 00:07:35,832 --> 00:07:38,000 Treat people like animals... 135 00:07:38,084 --> 00:07:40,461 Who the fuck do you think you are? 136 00:07:40,545 --> 00:07:42,588 They're gonna fuckin' roar. 137 00:07:46,008 --> 00:07:48,511 Ah, what can I say? I'm a stubborn fuck. 138 00:07:49,929 --> 00:07:51,514 Let's go. 139 00:07:51,514 --> 00:07:53,099 But so was Ray Ray. 140 00:07:53,099 --> 00:07:56,853 And eventually he got me reading all kinds of shit. 141 00:07:56,853 --> 00:07:58,813 Better than comic books, young blood? 142 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,192 Not better but interesting. 143 00:08:03,276 --> 00:08:05,737 He never let the pigs get him down. 144 00:08:05,737 --> 00:08:07,989 Even in prison. 145 00:08:07,989 --> 00:08:10,283 He saw the system for how it really works. 146 00:08:12,034 --> 00:08:14,370 Don King used to say he didn't serve his prison time, 147 00:08:14,454 --> 00:08:16,372 his prison time served him. 148 00:08:16,456 --> 00:08:18,458 I never knew what he was talking about. 149 00:08:18,458 --> 00:08:19,834 Now you do. 150 00:08:21,794 --> 00:08:25,423 Inmate number 856951, time to go. 151 00:08:25,423 --> 00:08:26,507 What's this about? 152 00:08:26,591 --> 00:08:28,426 Oh, you're being transferred to Supermax, 153 00:08:28,426 --> 00:08:30,803 - effective immediately. - What? 154 00:08:30,887 --> 00:08:32,972 This don't make no sense! 155 00:08:33,056 --> 00:08:35,266 - Hey, let him go! - Ah, ah, ah, ah! 156 00:08:35,266 --> 00:08:37,393 Give me an excuse. 157 00:08:37,477 --> 00:08:39,145 My people ain't gonna know where I am! 158 00:08:39,145 --> 00:08:40,938 Mike, call my sister! 159 00:08:41,022 --> 00:08:45,151 317-555-0153! 160 00:08:45,151 --> 00:08:46,611 Mike, call my sister! 161 00:08:46,611 --> 00:08:50,656 317-555-0153! 162 00:08:52,992 --> 00:08:56,037 I never saw Ray Ray again, and I was looking for revenge. 163 00:08:56,037 --> 00:08:57,205 Mike Tyson. 164 00:08:57,205 --> 00:08:59,207 And thanks to the stupid fucking guards, 165 00:08:59,207 --> 00:09:01,501 - I found it. - Lloyd Franklin. 166 00:09:03,044 --> 00:09:05,213 Shut the fuck up and don't touch my shit. 167 00:09:07,173 --> 00:09:09,300 I know Ray Ray taught you better. 168 00:09:10,468 --> 00:09:12,303 When I got transferred here in '88, 169 00:09:12,387 --> 00:09:13,930 Ray Ray showed me the terrain. 170 00:09:16,057 --> 00:09:18,184 Like your fan mail, for example. 171 00:09:18,184 --> 00:09:19,435 Solid gold, brother. 172 00:09:23,064 --> 00:09:25,274 "As per your request, I have deposited $50 173 00:09:25,358 --> 00:09:26,401 "in your commissary account. 174 00:09:26,401 --> 00:09:27,652 God Bless you, Champion." 175 00:09:27,652 --> 00:09:29,153 That's, like, $1,000 already. 176 00:09:29,237 --> 00:09:31,030 Uh-uh, move that decimal point, playboy. 177 00:09:31,114 --> 00:09:33,533 More like 10,000, and rising. 178 00:09:33,533 --> 00:09:35,368 This young lady sent photos. 179 00:09:35,368 --> 00:09:37,245 Vicky? 180 00:09:37,245 --> 00:09:39,247 Even the uglies get 40 in trade. 181 00:09:39,247 --> 00:09:41,040 But like any solid franchise, 182 00:09:41,124 --> 00:09:42,625 it expanded quickly. 183 00:09:46,838 --> 00:09:49,924 This joint was ripe for a takeover. 184 00:09:49,924 --> 00:09:52,885 It was like Let's Make a Deal, prison edition, 185 00:09:52,969 --> 00:09:54,929 and I was Monty fucking Hall. 186 00:09:54,929 --> 00:09:56,764 Okay, sweetie, I'm gonna put you on the phone 187 00:09:56,848 --> 00:09:57,807 with my good buddy... 188 00:09:57,807 --> 00:09:59,016 - Cephus. - Cephus. 189 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:00,852 I want you to show him a good time, okay? 190 00:10:03,396 --> 00:10:04,856 Hi. 191 00:10:04,856 --> 00:10:07,608 Man, fuck the outside world. 192 00:10:07,692 --> 00:10:11,070 In here, I don't have to train every morning at 5:00. 193 00:10:11,154 --> 00:10:13,072 I don't need to be beating up motherfuckers 194 00:10:13,156 --> 00:10:15,074 for your entertainment. 195 00:10:15,158 --> 00:10:17,076 In here, I'm an entrepreneur. 196 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,289 Safe, pressure's off. 197 00:10:29,172 --> 00:10:31,049 -♪ This is how we do it ♪ 198 00:10:31,049 --> 00:10:33,676 I had everyone on the inside working for me. 199 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,304 Shit, I even had this dumb motherfucker bring me doughnuts. 200 00:10:40,892 --> 00:10:42,894 So I was the king of the prison. 201 00:10:42,894 --> 00:10:44,937 And I liked it that way. 202 00:10:45,021 --> 00:10:47,356 What I wanted was to just stay in prison and hide. 203 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,484 Outside felt like prison. 204 00:10:49,484 --> 00:10:52,070 And, you know, I'm just being real with you guys right now. 205 00:10:52,070 --> 00:10:53,321 I just kept pushing the envelope 206 00:10:53,321 --> 00:10:54,947 with the kind of shit I was getting into. 207 00:10:55,031 --> 00:10:57,617 But instead of tacking more time on my sentence, 208 00:10:57,617 --> 00:10:59,744 they just kept shaving it off for my "good behavior." 209 00:11:02,747 --> 00:11:03,706 Hey, you sure about this? 210 00:11:03,790 --> 00:11:05,541 They'll throw the book at you for sure if you get caught. 211 00:11:05,625 --> 00:11:07,919 Don't worry about it. 212 00:11:07,919 --> 00:11:11,547 A'ight. Don't say I didn't warn you. 213 00:11:29,357 --> 00:11:31,859 It was the perfect cover. 214 00:11:31,943 --> 00:11:35,154 I stayed out of their Islam shit, 215 00:11:35,238 --> 00:11:37,073 and they stayed out of my shit. 216 00:11:45,957 --> 00:11:49,252 We started spending a lot of time there. 217 00:11:51,671 --> 00:11:53,089 These guys were always busy 218 00:11:53,089 --> 00:11:54,590 praying to their higher power. 219 00:11:57,427 --> 00:11:59,178 I had my own higher power. 220 00:12:04,851 --> 00:12:07,061 They never said a fucking word to me, 221 00:12:07,145 --> 00:12:08,104 until one day... 222 00:12:08,104 --> 00:12:10,857 Hey, Champ. Champ, check this out. 223 00:12:10,857 --> 00:12:13,192 $900 value, all right? You can get faxes on this shit. 224 00:12:13,276 --> 00:12:14,485 One-hour battery life. 225 00:12:14,569 --> 00:12:15,778 You even got a stylus, and you can write 226 00:12:15,862 --> 00:12:17,071 in your calendar, you know what I'm saying? 227 00:12:17,155 --> 00:12:18,239 I'm in jail, nigga. 228 00:12:18,239 --> 00:12:20,408 What kind of appointments I'm makin'? 229 00:12:20,408 --> 00:12:21,826 - You right, Champ, you right. - Yeah. 230 00:12:21,826 --> 00:12:23,161 So, I mean, if you don't want it-- 231 00:12:23,161 --> 00:12:24,412 Just take this shit out of here. 232 00:12:24,412 --> 00:12:25,496 Okay, all right. 233 00:12:27,373 --> 00:12:29,625 The new toy of yours won't work. 234 00:12:29,709 --> 00:12:31,127 Bullshit, it's a phone. 235 00:12:31,127 --> 00:12:33,296 Ain't nothing but a brick 236 00:12:33,296 --> 00:12:35,006 unless it talk to the upstairs. 237 00:12:37,050 --> 00:12:39,343 Satellite. 238 00:12:39,427 --> 00:12:41,095 We don't get that kind of signal out here. 239 00:12:42,889 --> 00:12:45,600 You use this space to transact your business. 240 00:12:47,727 --> 00:12:50,104 But you always stay for the prayers. 241 00:12:51,439 --> 00:12:52,899 You can join us in prayer, if you like. 242 00:12:54,650 --> 00:12:56,861 The only thing I ask... 243 00:12:56,861 --> 00:12:58,821 is that you remove your shoes. 244 00:13:02,617 --> 00:13:04,243 At first, the appeal of Islam was, 245 00:13:04,327 --> 00:13:05,870 they're just the baddest of the bad. 246 00:13:05,870 --> 00:13:09,582 First time I saw it was Don's chauffeur, Captain Joe. 247 00:13:09,582 --> 00:13:11,167 Larry Holmes a multimillionaire. 248 00:13:11,167 --> 00:13:13,252 Mike Tyson sleeps on a bed of money! 249 00:13:13,336 --> 00:13:15,797 I make you HBO motherfuckers a fortune. 250 00:13:15,797 --> 00:13:17,215 You love my Black ass! 251 00:13:17,215 --> 00:13:19,675 So don't waste my motherfucking time! 252 00:13:22,220 --> 00:13:24,680 I need something to eat. 253 00:13:24,764 --> 00:13:26,432 This bean pie's pretty delicious. 254 00:13:26,516 --> 00:13:27,475 Mm. 255 00:13:27,475 --> 00:13:29,560 Man, Captain Joe was no joke. 256 00:13:29,644 --> 00:13:31,646 This dude taught Malcolm X, 257 00:13:31,646 --> 00:13:33,356 and he was Elijah Muhammad's ace. 258 00:13:34,941 --> 00:13:36,692 Now, I'm sitting here trying to make motherfuckers money. 259 00:13:36,776 --> 00:13:38,069 I tell you I need something to eat, 260 00:13:38,069 --> 00:13:39,695 and the best thing you can come up with 261 00:13:39,779 --> 00:13:41,072 is a motherfucking bean pie? 262 00:13:41,072 --> 00:13:42,824 God damn it! 263 00:13:42,824 --> 00:13:45,368 I need some real food! 264 00:13:46,411 --> 00:13:49,205 Pick it up, fry it up. 265 00:13:49,205 --> 00:13:51,165 Come on. 266 00:13:51,249 --> 00:13:53,835 You know I don't touch pork. 267 00:13:53,835 --> 00:13:55,294 Then motherfucker, you fired. 268 00:14:05,513 --> 00:14:07,890 What'd you do that for, Don? 269 00:14:07,974 --> 00:14:10,101 Mike, sometimes you got to show 270 00:14:10,101 --> 00:14:12,145 these motherfuckers who's in charge. 271 00:14:12,145 --> 00:14:13,771 I said I'll call you tomorrow. 272 00:14:13,855 --> 00:14:16,107 And don't worry about HBO. They'll come around. 273 00:14:16,107 --> 00:14:18,776 They always do. 274 00:14:24,574 --> 00:14:26,117 Who the fuck are these niggas? 275 00:14:26,117 --> 00:14:27,869 Brother King. 276 00:14:27,869 --> 00:14:32,874 I'm here to respectfully convey Captain Joe is never terminated. 277 00:14:33,833 --> 00:14:36,669 If anyone is to be terminated, 278 00:14:36,753 --> 00:14:38,254 it will be you. 279 00:14:38,254 --> 00:14:41,007 Yeah, Don didn't fuck with Captain Joe after that. 280 00:14:44,969 --> 00:14:46,763 These guys were bad motherfuckers, 281 00:14:46,763 --> 00:14:50,016 but they also had some really interesting stuff to say. 282 00:14:50,016 --> 00:14:51,476 - You-- 283 00:14:52,769 --> 00:14:54,854 It's chicken. It's not pork. 284 00:15:01,069 --> 00:15:03,154 I should probably jog more. 285 00:15:03,154 --> 00:15:06,449 There's no boxing in here-- Indiana prison rules. 286 00:15:08,201 --> 00:15:10,036 That's all external. 287 00:15:12,705 --> 00:15:16,876 How exactly do you intend to address your flabby spirit? 288 00:15:19,420 --> 00:15:21,798 You got less than a year in here, 289 00:15:21,798 --> 00:15:24,133 if you manage to stay out of trouble. 290 00:15:26,344 --> 00:15:29,180 But the true freedom... 291 00:15:29,180 --> 00:15:31,808 the true freedom... 292 00:15:31,808 --> 00:15:35,269 comes from elevating above base pursuits. 293 00:15:38,272 --> 00:15:40,066 Are you ready to do that? 294 00:15:41,234 --> 00:15:43,236 The fucking guy knew his shit. 295 00:15:43,236 --> 00:15:45,238 I got to say, I liked him. 296 00:15:45,238 --> 00:15:48,574 Nobody had talked to me like that since Cus. 297 00:15:48,658 --> 00:15:52,245 I started getting in shape spiritually, then physically. 298 00:15:52,245 --> 00:15:54,414 You know, Don only cared about the second part. 299 00:15:54,414 --> 00:15:56,416 - I had maybe six months left, 300 00:15:56,416 --> 00:15:59,127 and he was hyping the world for my triumphant return. 301 00:15:59,127 --> 00:16:00,837 Every million dollars added to my purse 302 00:16:00,837 --> 00:16:03,131 was another million pounds of pressure, 303 00:16:03,131 --> 00:16:06,134 scaring me shitless about whether I could still bring it, 304 00:16:06,134 --> 00:16:07,760 for all of you-- 305 00:16:07,844 --> 00:16:10,346 I mean, if you even still wanted to see me. 306 00:16:10,430 --> 00:16:12,432 Ah, man, I was freaking the fuck out. 307 00:16:12,432 --> 00:16:14,892 So I asked for help. 308 00:16:18,104 --> 00:16:21,774 Dr. Angelou, I didn't-- I didn't think you'd show. 309 00:16:21,858 --> 00:16:23,401 You asked. 310 00:16:23,401 --> 00:16:27,238 And if I'm being honest... 311 00:16:27,238 --> 00:16:31,033 I'm not exactly sure what I can say to you. 312 00:16:31,117 --> 00:16:34,287 But if a word from me can help, 313 00:16:34,287 --> 00:16:38,124 then certainly I can find that word. 314 00:16:38,124 --> 00:16:41,669 Still? Even with all they're saying about me? 315 00:16:41,753 --> 00:16:45,256 I approach people as they are now, 316 00:16:45,256 --> 00:16:49,135 without judgment for what they have been, 317 00:16:49,135 --> 00:16:51,888 even Mike Tyson. 318 00:16:51,888 --> 00:16:56,059 That we all have the possibility of becoming. 319 00:16:56,059 --> 00:16:57,560 "You may write me down in history 320 00:16:57,560 --> 00:16:59,604 "with your bitter, twisted lies. 321 00:16:59,604 --> 00:17:01,397 "You may trod me in the dirt, 322 00:17:01,481 --> 00:17:04,025 but still, like dust, I'll rise." 323 00:17:04,025 --> 00:17:07,945 I love when someone quotes me to me. 324 00:17:08,029 --> 00:17:11,949 I wish I was as knowledgeable about prizefighting. 325 00:17:12,033 --> 00:17:14,160 Well, the thing is, I've been really trying. 326 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:18,998 Been training again and, even better, reading. 327 00:17:19,082 --> 00:17:21,834 Just trying to be a better man, you know? 328 00:17:21,918 --> 00:17:24,921 For you or for them? 329 00:17:27,382 --> 00:17:32,929 Where does that leave you when you're not their champ anymore? 330 00:17:40,061 --> 00:17:41,604 No touching. 331 00:17:42,897 --> 00:17:45,858 You can be more than that. 332 00:17:48,111 --> 00:17:50,488 Excuse me, Officer. 333 00:17:50,488 --> 00:17:52,949 Would you be so kind 334 00:17:52,949 --> 00:17:55,410 as to take a picture 335 00:17:55,410 --> 00:17:59,956 of me and Mr. Tyson? 336 00:18:11,676 --> 00:18:14,303 It's beautiful, brother. 337 00:18:14,387 --> 00:18:16,431 Maya be reppin' the culture for real. 338 00:18:17,890 --> 00:18:19,600 50. 339 00:18:19,684 --> 00:18:21,477 Say what? 340 00:18:21,561 --> 00:18:23,813 For the photo. 50 bucks. 341 00:18:23,813 --> 00:18:25,565 Yeah, I sold the picture... 342 00:18:25,565 --> 00:18:26,983 And doughnuts. 343 00:18:26,983 --> 00:18:30,153 You know how hard it is to get fucking doughnuts in prison? 344 00:18:30,153 --> 00:18:32,655 - Yeah. 345 00:18:37,452 --> 00:18:41,080 But those words, they stayed with me. 346 00:18:45,460 --> 00:18:47,628 The thing is, no fighter in history 347 00:18:47,712 --> 00:18:50,465 ever got back on top after three years away. 348 00:18:50,465 --> 00:18:52,633 No one ever came out of prison in one piece, 349 00:18:52,717 --> 00:18:56,471 mentally, spiritually, anything else. 350 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:59,599 What made everyone think I would be the one? 351 00:19:01,851 --> 00:19:04,062 The world is waiting for your return tomorrow. 352 00:19:04,062 --> 00:19:06,147 Not mine, Mike Tyson's. 353 00:19:06,147 --> 00:19:09,025 Don says he's worth $100 million. 354 00:19:09,025 --> 00:19:11,319 What's Mike Tyson worth? 355 00:19:11,319 --> 00:19:13,571 Mike Tyson ain't worth shit. 356 00:19:13,571 --> 00:19:15,990 Mike Tyson feels safer in here. 357 00:19:16,074 --> 00:19:17,700 And why do you think that is? 358 00:19:18,910 --> 00:19:20,203 I know what you're trying to do. 359 00:19:20,203 --> 00:19:21,913 You're trying to say this is Allah's way 360 00:19:21,913 --> 00:19:23,915 of telling me to leave the game behind. 361 00:19:23,915 --> 00:19:26,626 Devote my life to what? 362 00:19:26,626 --> 00:19:29,087 Look, I walk out these doors tomorrow. 363 00:19:29,087 --> 00:19:30,838 I don't need no more riddles or stories, 364 00:19:30,922 --> 00:19:31,964 none of that bullshit. 365 00:19:32,048 --> 00:19:33,925 Just tell me what the fuck I need to do. 366 00:19:53,528 --> 00:19:54,946 Mike Tyson... 367 00:19:56,531 --> 00:19:59,575 You serve no one but Allah. 368 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,454 And with that knowledge, 369 00:20:03,538 --> 00:20:06,457 you can choose whatever path you want. 370 00:20:10,169 --> 00:20:13,756 Man, I was terrified to walk out those doors. 371 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,217 My life was so out of control out there. 372 00:20:16,217 --> 00:20:19,262 In prison, I made the rules, and I ran things. 373 00:20:19,262 --> 00:20:21,097 In prayer, I was finally able to make 374 00:20:21,097 --> 00:20:23,516 all those outside voices shut the fuck up. 375 00:20:27,145 --> 00:20:33,484 Peace and mercy of Allah be on you. 376 00:20:35,737 --> 00:20:38,698 All right, Mike... time to go. 377 00:20:43,995 --> 00:20:46,122 What if I couldn't fight no more? 378 00:20:46,122 --> 00:20:49,125 I was just so scared you guys were gonna hate me. 379 00:20:49,125 --> 00:20:50,293 But I was just as scared 380 00:20:50,293 --> 00:20:52,712 of going back to the old fucked-up Mike, 381 00:20:52,712 --> 00:20:54,297 the guy who had everyone, including me, 382 00:20:54,297 --> 00:20:57,133 convinced I was gonna end up in an early grave. 383 00:21:01,137 --> 00:21:02,555 Those were my choices. 384 00:21:11,022 --> 00:21:14,150 I could go back to being Cus's monster... 385 00:21:14,150 --> 00:21:17,361 Don's meal ticket... 386 00:21:17,445 --> 00:21:21,115 or I could be the elevated man Ray Ray, 387 00:21:21,199 --> 00:21:23,743 Imam Siddiq, and Maya saw inside of me... 388 00:21:25,870 --> 00:21:27,497 That I wanted to be. 389 00:21:29,082 --> 00:21:30,792 And I had to decide now. 390 00:22:31,644 --> 00:22:34,647 {\an8}Captioned by Captionmax