[Music] he was the most amazing thing you had ever seen he was this blur in the ring that just came in and destroyed anything he's just a bully that's all it is and it worked he was like the human pit bull against mike tyson who is described as 5 11 looks closer to 5 10 because of the squarishness of his bill he disposed of hector mercedes inside a single round and the question that most of the ring signers are asking is can he do the same thing again well i'm not from it i'm from the
dirt hard bones segregated his life was very very sad very poor kid lived in brownsville with a rough neighborhood he stopped going to school around age seven he was constantly getting evicted his mother with different kinds of men in order to keep her roof over their heads while mike was in the bed like inches from him his mother had sex with a man into robbing people when you were seven you really had no supervision mike tyson was sent to the tryon youth correctional facility in upstate new york after growing up as a mugger and predator
on the streets of brooklyn at 12 tyson was a tough young mother i got into trouble and i went away to this um informatory upstate new york and i met a gentleman named bobby stu that was a boxer tyson told stewart that he wanted to learn how to box stewart then brought tyson to a gym above the police station in catskill new york to meet customato who was a legendary fight manager and a legendary trainer and a magnificent man he taught mike from the age of 13 to the age of 19 how to control his
emotions we saw mike tyson's professional debut hard to believe this just about a month ago in watching the early mike tyson fights he seems to be like an unstoppable force uniquely devastated uniquely offensively capable this boy is tough trent singleton in all sorts of trouble were already in round one the referee humanely has seen enough tyson shrugs almost as if disappointed that the fight is over so quickly christie motto had a tremendous influence on mike tyson i met this white guy he was strange a little odd and he started saying things like why you could
be the greatest fighter i ever lived earlier i think so i think so that's enough when customato trained you you were fierce that's it see ain't no way he's gonna hit you down right and remember it's always good to throw the punch where you could hit him they can't hit you that's what the science of boxing is all about he's wearing the white trunks with green trim he is undefeated in three professional bouts all victories all knockouts ladies and gentlemen a big hand for mike tyson you would get into the ring and people were scared
of you were you channeling the anger that you had from your childhood i think a lot of it had to do with that you know and i realized every fight was um a decision or if i'm gonna go back to that lifestyle or not [Music] like a steam ammo the legs have gone this is all over yes it is i don't believe it that's at well inside a minute the tyson was he was like a sponge he just absorbed everything that cuss had to teach him you know the head movement throwing the punches with bad
intent cuss took us to the gym and pointed to a young boy who was hitting the heavy bag very ferociously and said that's mike tyson not only is he here but he will undoubtedly go on to become the youngest heavyweight champion in history look at the size of him he looks like the incredible hulk he looked unstoppable he looked like a different planet of ability [Music] i'll tell you michael jack johnson earned his money the hard way tonight well there's not much to say about that knockout except to watch but he was far more than
a big pantry he's a very good boxer it's a big win to let everybody know that donny long is back so his fresh youngsters only 19 years of age long his 27 oh wow the left hand puts him down he collapses and this one is over as the doctors rush into the ring forget what the the press releases say he's only five foot ten some would have you believe he's six foot he is not a big heavyweight he's only a kid he had this body that could really fool you into forgetting that he was still
a kid who had to develop left hook good night what a great shot okay look at the stats 10 fights 10 wins seven inside the first round i want to do something that no fight ever done jack dempsey broke people's eye sockets and that's to me and that's that's how high you have to see like i did this when he was being trained by customato he was he was living the complete total existence of a man hellbent on becoming a world champion the help that cascade mike was not only in the ring but out of
the ring being part of customato's family was therapeutic he gave him direction he gave him order he gave him care loving tyson's teens were spent in the demato family cass eventually adopted him there's only so much punishment anybody can take that is the limit of sterling benjamin's endurance the other side you know but it's getting harder and harder now to find anybody who wants anything to do with them i mean no fighter wants to get run over by a truck one of the things that's always fascinated me about you is this ability you have to
intimidate opponents a lot of them seem to have been beaten before they got in the ring almost or when they caught your eye when they got in the ring you're aware of that [Applause] when the bell rings he conducts himself as if someone stole something from so short and he had this crazy style of bobbing and weaving and ripping ridiculous power and speed punching mike tyson without a doubt one of the bright stars in the heavyweight picture now goes to 11-0 with 11 knockouts it was the first punch thrown in the fight if you look
at early mike tyson the way he was running his way through the heavyweight division but he was far more than a big country he was a very good boxer he could jab he could move as well as punk so he was virtually the complete article and he had that knockout punch in both hands and of course when anybody goes to see heavyweight boxing that's what they want to see they want to see people get knocked out and god forbid if anything happened to us we're all professionals and we're going to continue and the outcome is
going to be the same then in 1985 customarto died she was like my father i never really had a father figure the late and legendary trainer customato was the only real father figure mike tyson ever knew the death of costa motto was clearly a huge issue well when cluster master died i think is when it all starts to really go to crap tyson what led him to success was having a very strict mentor slash coach customato fight number 13 for mike tyson we're back in latham it's the same mike tyson it is not the same
camp this second fight since the tragic death of customato on the 4th of november oh he's shaking he's so shaky and we're only in round one and this is a good fighter i can hardly believe what i'm seeing as the left hook which is fast becoming the tyson trademark sends him down so now mike tyson is 13-0 all of his victories coming by knockout and no bout has gone past the fourth round every every fight is a 30-second assault those 80s fights with tyson where he would just show up and look at people they would
melt you blink in the first round you'll probably miss a mike tyson fight and down goes mark young the crowd channing the next heavyweight champion mike tyson you definitely are going to hear more about him and the next thing you know mike tyson was like the hottest up-and-coming fighter has an ability to slip punches that has not been seen in the heavy rate rank since muhammad ali everybody up in the first round it's the way he ran through the division [Applause] but here the spotlight falls most directly on 20 year old mike tyson whose public
appeal grows every time he fights he was a special force most scariest fighter on earth [Applause] and he's going to stop the fight it did not last 20 seconds he will have a shot it appears at the heavyweight title he is the wbc heavyweight champion of the world when you would enter the ring already pop and sweat black shoes no socks black [Applause] in the trunks i've got goosebumps on the line the wbc heavyweight championship of the world as soon as you stepped in the ring the other guy across the ring what were you thinking
i mean because he was thinking oh that's my ass any question from the champion or chief sucks all right let's get it on come on he absolutely destroyed it he knocked him all over the ring pound for pound mike tyson the greatest fighter of all don't forget tyson already obvious still his problem this is round two he goes down he should be able to get up from this his legs may be shut as mike is a boy prodigy he's 20 years old he is uh quite an incredible force in the heavyweight division but he's just
a [Applause] champion of the boy mike tyson and a devastating second round knockout mike tyson age 20 became the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history his managers cornermen and friends ran to congratulate him tyson kissed jim jacobs 20 years old after less than two rounds of the heavyweight champion of the world but in march of 1988 jacobs died and tyson lost his second father substitute before jacobs was buried don king made his move and that created the opening the opportunity for don king to move in on a very confused 21 year old kid watching complex
of promoter don king has become a home away from home for heavyweight champion mike tyson in 1988 once mike got married robin gibbons and ruth of course were very interested in taking over mike's career they moved into a grand new jersey mansion but as soon as she got married she called up and said she's mrs mike tyson i'm taking over i want to see all the books [Music] i happen to know robin gibbons tyson and i just want to leave you with this i've seen a lot of different things she is one hell of a
fine lady how does a woman who went to sarah lawrence and harvard medical school wind up falling in love with a guy who's a graduate of the school of hard knocks god i want to know too the winner has still the undisputed undefeated heavyweight champion of the world iron mike green reaches at the deepest core of people just reaches deep at them and they're fighting for me and stuff and all that crap and then that made it easy for donald king to sneak in and it was reported to us here in new york that robin
and ruth were at the bank already claiming mike's account no one can challenge mike tyson right now you could take anybody out there was a line in the front yard loose wow he was on the steps like this with a heavyweight belt what's happening what the title brought fame money and temptation four and a half million on automobiles and motorcycles once crashed your rolls-royce and told cops to keep it pretty much he was on coke all the time he would walk around with a brick of coke as his personal stash tyson reverted back to what
he thought he was at heart which was just like this dirty ghetto person that just wanted to have sex and do drugs ladies and gentlemen the undefeated man who brings the drinks michaels [Music] [Applause] this heavy metal sound that you hear is mike tyson about to make his way in i believe the sound is deafening here in the arena so i won't try to yell over it all i can say is the heavyweight champion is about to make his appearance in the ring everything that tyson does is intimidating there he is he comes out he
doesn't wear a coat in he's worked up a full sweat i want to tell you the electricity in this crowd is awesome and now ladies and gentlemen once and for all let's get ready to rumble there he goes i don't think you'll get up from this mike's face is laying flat on his back it's all over mike jason has won it speaks almost fell back through a dramatic first round knockout for mike tyson unbelievable it came in the first round how many people could handle that too i mean the money the fame at that age
you're the champion the baddest man alive it's my belief mike really turned into the mic we know today as his marriage to robin gibbons came apart so did he in a nationally televised interview robin gibbons told barbara walters that tyson was a manic depressive he gets out of control um [Music] throwing screaming a charge that would later prove groundless he shakes he pushes he um he swings but when i look back at it now i can't believe i sat there and didn't say anything the soap opera marriage of boxing champ mike tyson and actress robin
gibbons is coming to an end so she brought a guy home to see her into my mansion in my car that i'm not allowed to be at you want to know who it is brad pitt brad must have been smoking a joiner he must have been drinking something because he was real close to me in the car he had no idea he didn't see me but then when he got out the car he saw me [Applause] tyson's in japan to defend his heavyweight boxing title against james buster douglas within two hours of the champions arrival
here tyson mania was in full crime i'll leave it at this he clearly was very distracted coming into the fight stressed out beyond comprehension i wonder why that is he was 37-0 at that particular moment in time he was fierce he was menacing before the fight rumors had swirled about tyson's mental and physical state he'd been knocked down and sparring he stopped moving his head he began to accept clinches he started to jab less you could see that that under don king not only did his character and morals decline in the road his boxing technique
began to decline you begin to file through your memory for the biggest upsets in heavyweight championship fight history douglas insists that he's going to shock the world in this fight if he should upset mike tyson it would make the shots in eastern europe seem like local ward politics [Music] like when you're fighting at the real top level of a sport if you start missing training and start taking drugs start sleeping around they had neglected to bring a standard piece of equipment called an end swell an ice-cold steel press used to reduce the swelling around the
eyes of a battered fighter they were trying to put icy water into a latex glove to hold against his eye and and suddenly it became clear they didn't have a cut man they didn't have any equip mike tyson had actually won the fight in the eighth round when he dropped buster douglas and that count was excessively long [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] that was a long count but the government should have been counted out he should have been counted down still wobbly let's see what mike can do to finish and the bell ends to save buster
douglas at the end of round eight it was the beginning of the end of mike tyson the mike tyson that we knew [Music] so at the peak of your career you were convicted and sent to prison for rape which you you write and you talk about in your broadway show that you you did not do [Music] and he's dumb you saw what robin gibbons got out of here he's someone that he has so much money he's always throwing it around i might as well get a piece of it you know that's how people looked at
it serving a six-year term at the indiana youth center tyson was back in the setting he knew all too well everything his adopted father cus d'amato had tried to prevent had come true under the tutelage of don king and they destroyed the greatest fighter i've ever seen the debt is paid the prison term over three years ago tomorrow mike tyson entered an indiana penitentiary tyson went straight into training and the fights came back yes tyson is back and with him comes the attention and excitement that only a superstar can generate through all the upheaval tyson
remained the sport's most famous and infamous figure and its biggest box office draw now if the former champion is to climb the mountain one more time that journey must begin tonight in impressive fashion protect yourself at all times i expect a tough clean fight any questions from mcniely's corner any questions from mr tyson's corner let's get along [Applause] this time steve [Applause] and that is it just like that it's over the convict was still a draw his very first fight after release won him 25 million how much money do you think he spent on drugs
and then you're an incredibly wealthy man i don't know um i think enough most of my jokes are free you know but um yeah i had fun with drugs he fought on coke he used a fake dick a fake dick to pass drug tests cocaine is a hell of a drug mike tyson mike tyson [Applause] mike person and here is the walking powerhouse mike tyson who says his objective simply is to throw punches at all times a very loose looking bruce sheldon a very serious looking at unified championship again when i beat bruce sheldon i
for him and beat him in the one-round knockout and i had two belts on my waist after being out of prison out of 11 months [Music] i really thought i was somebody special because no one's ever done that not even muhammad ali and then um once again i let everything go go away and i believe that was god i believe i was great i didn't believe i had to train for nobody everybody was afraid of me apparently holyfield kept headbutting him over and over again the ref didn't do anything about it and no one wanted
no one took any points for him what am i to do this is my career i can't continue getting buddy like that i got children to raise and this guy keeps butting me trying to cut me and get me stopped on cut i gotta retaliate so tyson got really dazed and confused and finally snapped and fit his ear [Music] what happened here he got [Applause] [Applause] oh my goodness he's got a bloody right ear holyfield fit by a dirty vibration we go back in and all of a sudden for the second time [Applause] mike tyson
will fight again and you'll pay to see him but this time you're going to pay twice as much my style is impetuous my defense is impregnable and i'm just ferocious i want your heart i want to eat his children praise be to allah. [Applause] there's a lack of challenge then there's a lack of a goal there's no more mountain so now it's just chaos and cocaine and women and and then eventually the wheels fall off i was madly in love with custom motto i became um he broke me down and rebuild me back up and
um i became totally loyal to him and hell bent on becoming the world champion remember from the side you can let that punch go stewart has stated categorically that he knows he needs to keep throwing punches and try to keep tyson occupied if he stops throwing he'll be dead this could be quick i was afraid of a 30-second sound bite this [Applause] tyson was it was exceptional to use the word animal might be the bit of disrespect really but he certainly was in the ring but he feared nothing mike permits himself to be pushed around
he is one person in the ring and a completely different person when uh we go out look at you scared now you hurt scared like a little white scared of the real man i'll this is not consensual sex we're talking about kevin told us this guy's gonna be champion as long as he wants to be champion and it's obvious he wants to [Applause] of the continue what will people remember about mike tyson 50 years from now 50 years i don't know the most destructive ferocious fighting machine that god ever created yeah that's what i think
