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Most of the time, I feel safe,
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but I still have my weak moments.
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I ask my counselor all the time.
I'm like, "It's almost nine years."
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"When am I gonna get over it?"
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She says,
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"You're not."
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Throughout my life, the only place
I felt safe was in the boxing ring.
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She's had the most knockouts
in the history of women's boxing.
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Number one, there are rules.
Every punch is planned.
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She is the world's best.
The most famous female boxer.
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Number two, I had so much anger.
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The only place that I could let it out
was in the boxing ring.
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And number three,
boxing was my survival.
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A champion female boxer
living a secret double life.
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It was preparing me for how
I was gonna escape my own destiny.
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Hit me as hard as you want,
as many times as you want,
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and I might get beaten,
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and I might get knocked down,
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but, motherfucker, you cannot kill me.
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♪ Stranger's arms ♪
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♪ Reach out to me ♪
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♪ 'Cause they know ♪
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♪ I'm so lonely ♪
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♪ Then my mind ♪
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♪ Goes back to you ♪
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♪ And your sweet love ♪
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♪ Sees me through ♪
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Christy just started boxing
on a dare from her classmates in college
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to enter a Toughman Contest.
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She'd never done
any fighting or anything.
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Well, she'd been in some fights,
but...
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it wasn't in a ring.
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I was going like this.
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Christy threw one punch,
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and she was looking around in the ring,
trying to find her.
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She was laying at her feet.
She done knocked her out.
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She was big.
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Five-nine, 150 pounds,
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and I knocked her out with one punch.
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I've never even been
in a boxing gym before.
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To land that knockout punch is like
the biggest high you could ever have.
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Whoo!
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I fought three times.
I won 300 dollars.
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But I got hooked.
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Money, money, money!
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And after one of the fights,
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a promoter told me
that he had this trainer
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from Bristol, Tennessee
that could train me.
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Christy Salters. Champion.
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His name was Jim Martin.
He had 26 professional boxing matches.
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He sparred with Marvin Johnson,
the great light heavyweight champion.
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So it got me excited, like,
"Wow, I can do this. I've got it."
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The first day I went into the boxing gym
to meet Jim Martin,
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my mother was with me,
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and I had my little baby Pomeranian,
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but as I walked in,
you could feel the air go out of the gym.
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Like, "Oh my God,
what's about to happen?"
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And when I first met Jim,
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I asked, you know,
"Where's the dressing room
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for me to change?"
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He wouldn't even tell me.
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No one would even tell me
where the bathroom was.
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You get inside that gym,
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inside that ring, inside that arena,
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you're on my territory.
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I didn't want nothing to do
with women boxing,
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and I didn't wanna be
laughed out of the sport.
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A promoter pressured me
into training Christy,
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but instead,
I told one of my little fighters,
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"Look, I'm gonna put her in with you
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and bust her up a little bit
and get her outta here."
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He wanted him to break my ribs
so I wouldn't wanna be in the gym,
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but it didn't happen
because my mother was there.
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I got her mother
and a little baby Pomeranian dog,
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which hated me.
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So I had to cancel it.
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My fighters kept saying,
"Give her a chance. Give her a chance."
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"Work with her a bit
and see what happens."
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I said, "Okay, I'll give her a chance.
Let's see what she's got."
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Keep your punches up.
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When I first trained Christy,
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I'm going like, "Man, this... this woman,
she don't know anything."
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She's like walking on crutches
she's so damn clumsy.
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But then we seen she had a real good chin.
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You have a chin or you don't.
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Christy's got a granite chin.
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Hit her with a sledgehammer, and she's
still standing there, looking at you.
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I said, "I'm gonna make you a fighter."
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Come on.
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So we start looking
for the ideal sparring partner.
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And she found him.
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Jim was like, "Hey, I got somebody
wants to spar with you."
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I'm like, "Shit. Where they at?"
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I walk in, and I'm seeing the new guy.
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You know, I hear, "Pow. Pow, pow."
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It sounds like a bomb.
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"Damn, who... who's this?"
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I look closer, and it was a girl.
"What the hell?"
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"That's who they want you to spar."
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"What? Hell no! I'm not getting in a ring
with that girl. You crazy?"
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But I guess we clicked.
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She gave me several black eyes
and fat lips and all that good stuff.
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I tell a lot of the guys I spar with,
"I know a girl who hits harder than you."
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She does. She hits harder
than half the lightweights out there.
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As time went on, I proved to him
that, "I'm here. I'm gonna stay here."
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"I don't care what you dish out,
no matter how hard you make me work."
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"Because of who I am,
I'm gonna try to do it better
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than everybody else in the gym."
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Come on!
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Man, she works harder
than my men fighters.
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She does everything I say.
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If I'd told her to jump off the roof,
I believe she'd do it.
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Then he started saying
what he's famous for saying, that...
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I said, "Christy, I'm gonna make you
the best woman fighter in the world."
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I thought he was full of crap.
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I didn't think it was gonna go anywhere.
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Even if you make me
the best woman fighter, so...
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No one's doing it.
No one's getting paid to do it.
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In the lightweight division,
from West Virginia,
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let's welcome Christy Martin.
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When Christy came onto the scene,
I called fight promoters.
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"I'm trying to get Christy
on this fight card."
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They said, "Tell you what. I'll put her
on there, but I'm not paying her."
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Everybody thought it was a joke.
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The next fight,
a promoter gave us a bunch of tickets.
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I said, "What's this?"
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He said, "Whatever tickets you sell
is gonna be your purse."
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We sold two tickets.
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Christy fought for 60 dollars.
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I was so broke,
but Jim kept saying,
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"This boxing thing is gonna work."
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And the trainer-boxer relationship,
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you have to believe in them,
trust in them.
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Your life is in... in that trainer's hands.
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I looked up to him.
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He was in my corner.
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I always ranked myself
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between the number one to the number five
best coach in the world,
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but I needed a good product to work with,
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and I feel like I had a good product
with Christy.
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She was a Mike Tyson-type fighter.
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Boy, this girl can punch.
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Yeah!
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Yeah!
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She's gone! She's gone!
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We had everybody
standing on their feet.
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Everybody couldn't believe
a woman was doing this.
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Fight promoters, they would even tell us,
"My God, she stole my crowd."
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"She was the best fight of the night.
Everybody loved her."
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Christy!
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But it wasn't about being a woman fighter.
I just wanted to be a fighter.
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After one of the fights,
you're so excited. Everybody's so happy.
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And I kissed him.
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I can't... I don't even...
I don't even know what happened.
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...by way of West Virginia,
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introducing
Christy "The Coal Miner's Daughter..."
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I am truly
a coal miner's daughter,
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coal miner's granddaughter.
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So I grew up in coal mining country.
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It's good people.
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There's just not a lot there.
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Not even a town.
It's just a little stretch of road.
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But when my grandmother passed,
I wanted to buy the house,
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so I would have a place to stay
when I came to visit my family.
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And...
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I feel guilty
because I have let it run down.
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But, hopefully,
we'll get that all turned around
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and get it back to where it should be.
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Hmm.
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I think it's important for you
to always be able to go home.
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When Christy was growing up,
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everybody calls her Sis.
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Sis was just energetic.
She didn't ever just sit and watch TV.
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My dad was an athlete,
so I played Little League baseball.
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Actually, I played for the boys' team.
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And she didn't play just anyplace.
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She was a catcher.
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And I played basketball.
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I was pretty good, actually.
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She was All-State two years,
so she was great.
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I met Sherry through basketball.
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She was, like,
the star athlete of Mullins High School.
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You wanna be friends and be close
to the person that's the star.
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She just asked me,
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"Could we work out together and...
and shoot ball together?"
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But then feelings
started to happen that were,
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you know,
they're not the normal kind of feelings.
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It was the blooming of a...
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I didn't know what it was.
There wasn't references.
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There's no Internet.
There's no talking to anybody.
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And, you know,
you know you had to hide it.
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In my opinion,
most everyone knew or suspected,
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but my parents turned a blind eye.
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In high school,
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Sis always had girlfriends.
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I mean, you know, friends.
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There's no way they couldn't know
with me coming in at those times.
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I think they were just in denial.
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That's not what you want for your child.
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I just wasn't raised like that.
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I had to hold in who I truly am,
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and I was angry.
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But I'm not so sure if I didn't have
all this stuff inside of me
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that I could have become
the fighter that I was.
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I just ended up caring for her.
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I always wanted to protect her.
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That was in everything.
I don't know why... how that came about.
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Went from a hate situation
to a love situation,
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'cause I hated she was in the gym,
you know, when she first come in.
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We were very surprised
when they became romantically involved
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because he was so much older than she was.
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There was a big age difference,
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because he's older than I am.
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Smile.
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Jim was good to her.
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He looked out for her.
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I loved him just like he was a son.
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I was never with any other woman
like I was with Christy.
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Nothing ever embarrassed her
to talk to me about.
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I felt like I could tell him
all about me,
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even all the bad things
about past relationships with women.
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That bothered me.
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And if I'd known that off the bat,
she wouldn't even have stayed in the gym.
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But Christy's past is her past.
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Her past has nothing to do
with our future.
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I think we went to Kmart or Walmart
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and bought two rings, you know,
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and, uh, went and got married.
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Really, when I married Jim,
I married boxing.
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He gave me an opportunity, and I was ready
to take advantage of the opportunity
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and... and ride it to the fullest.
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Now, it's up to me as a promoter to create
what I call the magic of excitement,
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and this is what separates me
from "mediocracy" to excellence.
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Love him or hate him, Don King was
the world's greatest boxing promoter.
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Brought some of the greatest fights
to boxing.
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A new era in boxing.
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And promoted all these legends.
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I never sat back and thought,
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"I'm gonna be boxing
for Don King someday."
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I mean, why would he sign a woman?
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But everything's about timing.
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Finally, we arrange a meeting
to go down to Don King's office.
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Don King Productions.
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First time a woman boxer
was gonna meet him,
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so I take a VHS tape. I pop it in.
246
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Well, his VCR is not working.
247
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So I just get up
and start shadow boxing for him.
248
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And he starts that famous Don King laugh.
249
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And he says, "I love you.
Sign her up. Let's get it done."
250
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And we said, "Can we take that contract
and let our lawyer read it?"
251
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He said,
"That contract don't leave this table."
252
00:16:15,808 --> 00:16:18,268
Then he said,
"What'd you fight for your last fight?"
253
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"Well, we only made
a few hundred dollars."
254
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He said, "Do you wanna fight
for 5,000 dollars a fight
255
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or for a couple hundred dollars?"
256
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We said, "Give us that contract."
257
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How'd you feel?
258
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Rich.
259
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Well, let me introduce to you
the first lady of boxing, Christy Martin.
260
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A dynamic, beautiful
boxing/fighting sensation.
261
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He promoted me
just like he promotes his male fighters.
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"I'm gonna put you out there, Christy,
sink or swim."
263
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I fought all over. I mean,
I was fighting in Vegas every two weeks.
264
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I got no breaks.
265
00:16:56,515 --> 00:16:58,350
I got no special treatment.
266
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I felt like I had to bring a lot of action
because I can't give anyone an excuse
267
00:17:03,605 --> 00:17:06,233
to say something negative about my fight.
268
00:17:07,234 --> 00:17:10,779
Christy Martin in the pink,
going right after Sonja Dunlavey.
269
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She can hit, and she's an athlete,
so watch her moves.
270
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Look at this!
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Whoo!
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Oh! Right hand!
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She may be out.
274
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It's all over.
275
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King's all about the dollar,
276
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and he knew that I was making waves
and I was getting the fans excited.
277
00:17:27,963 --> 00:17:30,382
When Christy fought
"Slammin'" Sue Chase,
278
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I hear this, "Boom, boom, boom."
279
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I look back, and I was like, "Oh my God!"
280
00:17:35,429 --> 00:17:38,432
It's Mike Tyson right there, man.
Just cheering Christy on.
281
00:17:38,515 --> 00:17:40,684
What an exchange this is!
282
00:17:40,768 --> 00:17:42,644
I believe I was in jail,
283
00:17:43,228 --> 00:17:45,689
and they were talking about
Coal Miner's Daughter,
284
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she's knocking out people,
and she's really exciting.
285
00:17:49,026 --> 00:17:51,487
And I'm like, "Get the fuck outta here,"
you know?
286
00:17:52,321 --> 00:17:54,865
But then I started going
to some of her fights.
287
00:17:56,658 --> 00:17:58,619
She throws a lot of hard punches,
288
00:17:58,702 --> 00:17:59,953
crowd-pleasing.
289
00:18:00,662 --> 00:18:02,664
She gave everybody their money's worth.
290
00:18:02,748 --> 00:18:04,458
She's not being thrown off.
291
00:18:04,541 --> 00:18:07,252
So I said,
"Put Christy Martin on my undercard."
292
00:18:09,254 --> 00:18:12,883
I could never dream
that I would be on Mike Tyson's card.
293
00:18:13,550 --> 00:18:18,180
I mean, how can this be? I'm from a town
of 500 people in southern West Virginia,
294
00:18:19,181 --> 00:18:23,060
and here I am in the middle
of this huge fight on a pay-per-view show.
295
00:18:23,143 --> 00:18:27,272
Mike Tyson returning live
on pay-per-view from the MGM Grand.
296
00:18:27,356 --> 00:18:31,610
That might have been the first time
where I was like, "Oh shit," you know,
297
00:18:31,693 --> 00:18:34,738
"I've made it if I can pull it off today."
298
00:18:49,419 --> 00:18:52,631
Martin taking on
Ireland's Deirdre Gogarty.
299
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The first women's bout
shown on pay-per-view.
300
00:18:56,009 --> 00:18:58,637
From a fighter's perspective,
this is really big.
301
00:18:59,513 --> 00:19:01,265
Half of the planet's watching her.
302
00:19:01,348 --> 00:19:04,309
- Bruno!
- Fifth round, Tyson knocks him out!
303
00:19:04,393 --> 00:19:06,353
Bruno! Bruno!
304
00:19:06,937 --> 00:19:08,814
Phew. Wow.
305
00:19:09,439 --> 00:19:11,650
- Okay.
- I don't know if it's gonna be my day.
306
00:19:11,733 --> 00:19:14,278
It's all right.
Just all tension and nerves.
307
00:19:14,862 --> 00:19:16,864
Christy prayed before the fight.
308
00:19:17,531 --> 00:19:18,824
I'm a nervous wreck too,
309
00:19:19,783 --> 00:19:21,160
but I don't let her see it.
310
00:19:21,827 --> 00:19:24,121
My job was to build her up.
311
00:19:25,831 --> 00:19:26,707
You okay?
312
00:19:26,790 --> 00:19:28,709
Don King was scared to death.
313
00:19:28,792 --> 00:19:31,503
He said,
"Oh my God, if this thing falls through,
314
00:19:31,587 --> 00:19:33,380
people are gonna hang me."
315
00:19:33,463 --> 00:19:34,816
- Gonna be good.
- Good to see you.
316
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He said,
"Christy, don't let me down."
317
00:19:36,633 --> 00:19:39,803
"Please don't let me down.
Make this a good fight."
318
00:19:40,387 --> 00:19:41,305
Come on, Christy.
319
00:19:41,388 --> 00:19:45,058
As I walked out into the fight,
I can hear that people booed me.
320
00:19:47,895 --> 00:19:51,064
Like, "Oh my God, I'm getting booed
in front of 100,000 people."
321
00:19:51,148 --> 00:19:53,150
I didn't wanna see a girls' fight,
322
00:19:53,233 --> 00:19:56,236
and I wasn't too impressed
by the fact that we had one.
323
00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:57,863
It made me so damn mad.
324
00:20:00,199 --> 00:20:04,244
There was a lot of drunk people
shouting obscenities.
325
00:20:04,786 --> 00:20:07,873
"Now we gotta watch
a women's novelty sideshow."
326
00:20:08,874 --> 00:20:11,877
"Oh lord,
this is not going well already."
327
00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:16,173
This is a female special
attraction in the lightweight division.
328
00:20:16,256 --> 00:20:17,633
I was so excited,
329
00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:19,551
but yet I was so scared.
330
00:20:23,597 --> 00:20:26,516
But then it was like, boom,
the switch flipped.
331
00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,019
Go to your corner
and wait for the bell. Good luck.
332
00:20:29,102 --> 00:20:32,147
If you want the fans
to remember your name,
333
00:20:32,231 --> 00:20:34,149
you have to go out and make a statement.
334
00:20:39,529 --> 00:20:42,491
She can punch!
Look at that, what an athlete!
335
00:20:43,075 --> 00:20:44,451
Oh, down goes Gogarty.
336
00:20:48,664 --> 00:20:51,333
And she fights back,
unloading on Christy Martin.
337
00:20:51,416 --> 00:20:52,793
Martin swinging wildly.
338
00:20:53,460 --> 00:20:55,212
Oh man!
339
00:21:00,175 --> 00:21:01,635
Back comes Gogarty again.
340
00:21:02,386 --> 00:21:04,429
Whoo! It was just a war, back and forth.
341
00:21:05,973 --> 00:21:07,516
The crowd was going crazy.
342
00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:10,560
Everybody, everybody,
they were cheering both of us.
343
00:21:10,644 --> 00:21:12,396
Yeah! Yeah!
344
00:21:12,479 --> 00:21:15,232
I'm no doctor,
but that's a broken nose.
345
00:21:15,315 --> 00:21:17,859
They couldn't get my nose
to stop bleeding.
346
00:21:17,943 --> 00:21:18,860
Good job.
347
00:21:18,944 --> 00:21:21,321
The doctor
would come into my corner,
348
00:21:21,405 --> 00:21:23,991
and I said, "Look, I'm fine.
Do not stop the fight."
349
00:21:24,074 --> 00:21:27,369
She is bleeding profusely.
I've never seen this.
350
00:21:27,995 --> 00:21:30,580
All the movie stars
come out of their seats.
351
00:21:31,873 --> 00:21:34,084
"Damn, there's a hell of a fight
going on here."
352
00:21:34,167 --> 00:21:38,130
- This is entertainment.
- Boy, it showed the whole world
353
00:21:38,213 --> 00:21:40,924
two women that could fight like that,
354
00:21:41,717 --> 00:21:44,970
that had heart like that,
that could bleed like that,
355
00:21:45,929 --> 00:21:49,057
and still come out
from round to round to round.
356
00:21:49,141 --> 00:21:51,143
Another furious exchange.
357
00:21:51,226 --> 00:21:54,855
And it was a great feeling.
Boy, the crowd went nuts over it.
358
00:21:55,814 --> 00:21:58,442
Both fighters
showing tremendous heart.
359
00:21:59,985 --> 00:22:03,655
I guarantee neither of those young ladies
was paid enough
360
00:22:03,739 --> 00:22:05,907
for the efforts
they put forth here tonight.
361
00:22:07,576 --> 00:22:09,995
I was uncertain
about the decision,
362
00:22:10,078 --> 00:22:12,706
but I knew
we had put on one hell of a fight.
363
00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:16,960
All three in favor of the winner,
364
00:22:17,669 --> 00:22:22,883
"The Coal Miner's Daughter"
Christy Martin.
365
00:22:22,966 --> 00:22:23,967
Yes!
366
00:22:30,182 --> 00:22:32,184
I'm standing over in the corner.
367
00:22:32,267 --> 00:22:36,271
I'm just proud when I know
that she does what I taught her.
368
00:22:38,315 --> 00:22:41,985
I had given it every ounce
of energy that I had for that fight.
369
00:22:43,779 --> 00:22:47,407
I remember, I actually laid down
in the shower and I thought I was dying.
370
00:22:49,993 --> 00:22:54,081
When I got back to my room that night,
my voicemail in my hotel room was full,
371
00:22:54,164 --> 00:22:58,085
and the requests were from, um,
The Today Show, Leno Show,
372
00:22:58,168 --> 00:22:59,544
Conan O'Brien,
373
00:22:59,628 --> 00:23:02,714
and I was hurt because I...
I called my PR guy,
374
00:23:02,798 --> 00:23:05,967
and I'm like, "Why would somebody play
such a bad joke on me?"
375
00:23:06,051 --> 00:23:08,178
"I fought... I really fought hard."
376
00:23:08,261 --> 00:23:11,306
He says, "You don't understand, honey.
That's for real."
377
00:23:11,390 --> 00:23:12,682
I'm like, "What?"
378
00:23:12,766 --> 00:23:16,561
Christy Martin battled Deirdre Gogarty
for six brutal rounds
379
00:23:16,645 --> 00:23:19,898
in front of millions
on television in 170 countries.
380
00:23:19,981 --> 00:23:22,692
All the talk was about Martin-Gogarty.
381
00:23:22,776 --> 00:23:26,446
There wasn't a person I was with who
didn't come away tremendously impressed.
382
00:23:26,530 --> 00:23:28,532
Many boxing fans
said the Martin-Gogarty fight,
383
00:23:28,615 --> 00:23:30,242
with no disrespect to the others,
384
00:23:30,325 --> 00:23:33,495
was the most exciting
and competitive bout that night.
385
00:23:33,578 --> 00:23:37,666
To get fight of the night on a Tyson show,
you don't even dream that.
386
00:23:37,749 --> 00:23:41,044
I believe she broke her nose,
blood streaming the entire fight.
387
00:23:41,128 --> 00:23:44,423
The blood everywhere
made everybody stand up and take notice.
388
00:23:45,132 --> 00:23:48,885
Probably the most lucrative bloody nose
in the history of boxing.
389
00:23:48,969 --> 00:23:52,222
Christy Martin's fight that night
put women's boxing on the map.
390
00:23:52,305 --> 00:23:53,849
No doubt she put it on the map.
391
00:23:55,142 --> 00:23:57,644
Eighty million viewers
actually watched our fight.
392
00:23:58,770 --> 00:24:02,315
I feel like I was ready
to take advantage of the opportunity.
393
00:24:02,399 --> 00:24:06,027
So many people were telling me,
"You can't do it. You'll never make it."
394
00:24:06,695 --> 00:24:08,321
All right, just watch.
395
00:24:08,405 --> 00:24:12,200
Christy Martin!
396
00:24:12,284 --> 00:24:15,412
The best female boxer out there.
Please welcome Christy Martin.
397
00:24:18,498 --> 00:24:20,542
She's a star.
398
00:24:20,625 --> 00:24:23,670
All the movie stars knew her.
All the sports people knew her.
399
00:24:24,379 --> 00:24:25,797
People overseas knew her.
400
00:24:25,881 --> 00:24:28,633
We're discouraged
from getting involved romantically
401
00:24:28,717 --> 00:24:30,093
with the people we cover.
402
00:24:30,177 --> 00:24:32,053
I thought, "Oh, there's Sis."
403
00:24:32,137 --> 00:24:33,638
"Sis is famous."
404
00:24:35,182 --> 00:24:37,827
If I'm gonna hit someone,
I'm gonna try to hit them on the chin or...
405
00:24:40,187 --> 00:24:43,106
I went on to all those shows.
Just one after another.
406
00:24:43,190 --> 00:24:45,942
Christy Martin took the boxing world
by storm last month.
407
00:24:46,026 --> 00:24:49,779
Her performance in the ring landed her
on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
408
00:24:49,863 --> 00:24:52,703
When they told me, "You're gonna be
on the cover of Sports Illustrated."
409
00:24:52,741 --> 00:24:54,159
"You gotta be kidding me!"
410
00:24:54,242 --> 00:24:57,329
She is the first female boxer
to earn that distinction.
411
00:24:57,412 --> 00:24:59,206
I went to the store
and bought one
412
00:24:59,289 --> 00:25:01,875
so the guy would have to look
at the magazine, look up at me,
413
00:25:01,958 --> 00:25:03,084
and he doesn't notice!
414
00:25:04,628 --> 00:25:07,268
Once considered
the lowest rung on the boxing ladder,
415
00:25:07,297 --> 00:25:09,883
women are now a curiosity
and great demand.
416
00:25:09,966 --> 00:25:11,009
All of a sudden,
417
00:25:11,092 --> 00:25:13,845
promoters were putting
a women's fight on every single card.
418
00:25:13,929 --> 00:25:17,516
She's taking some shots
from Christy Martin right now. Wow!
419
00:25:18,099 --> 00:25:20,060
Everybody fought their A game against me,
420
00:25:20,143 --> 00:25:22,562
their A-plus game
because it was their Super Bowl.
421
00:25:22,646 --> 00:25:24,564
Look at them, toe-to-toe!
422
00:25:24,648 --> 00:25:27,817
And I always felt like everybody's
waiting for me to make a mistake.
423
00:25:27,901 --> 00:25:30,612
Look at this war!
Wow, how about that?
424
00:25:30,695 --> 00:25:33,156
That wasn't gonna happen.
I would just go harder.
425
00:25:33,949 --> 00:25:35,575
Look at this spinning...
426
00:25:35,659 --> 00:25:39,246
She goes in the ring for one play.
That's to put you on the mat.
427
00:25:42,499 --> 00:25:44,751
She hurts when she hits!
428
00:25:45,919 --> 00:25:48,922
Every punch I threw,
I wanted to knock someone out.
429
00:25:49,506 --> 00:25:52,092
I mean, the adrenaline rush
puts you so high.
430
00:25:56,930 --> 00:25:59,891
Don King signed Christy
to a four-year contract,
431
00:25:59,975 --> 00:26:01,768
promising to make her a millionaire.
432
00:26:01,851 --> 00:26:04,521
We got cars.
We got basketball courts.
433
00:26:04,604 --> 00:26:06,856
We got a swimming pool. We got jewelry.
434
00:26:06,940 --> 00:26:09,276
We got clothes
that would fill half this room.
435
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:10,902
We got everything.
436
00:26:11,945 --> 00:26:12,988
We were really rich.
437
00:26:13,572 --> 00:26:15,782
Best in the world, baby.
Best in the world.
438
00:26:15,865 --> 00:26:19,369
Look at how far she made it,
how high she made it.
439
00:26:19,452 --> 00:26:22,330
It's a dream come true for all of us.
440
00:26:24,249 --> 00:26:26,084
I was on top of the world.
441
00:26:26,876 --> 00:26:30,088
The crowd was going nuts,
chanting, "Christy, Christy, Christy!"
442
00:26:40,807 --> 00:26:43,852
90% of every punch
that we threw in the gym
443
00:26:43,935 --> 00:26:46,771
had Christy Martin's face on it.
444
00:26:48,023 --> 00:26:49,023
Yeah!
445
00:26:49,357 --> 00:26:53,486
From Crawford, Texas,
it's Lisa Holewyne!
446
00:26:56,531 --> 00:27:00,744
She was the champion that
other fighters couldn't wait to see fall.
447
00:27:01,703 --> 00:27:03,872
I get a lot of criticism
from other women fighters
448
00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:06,291
because they think
I should put them on my shoulders
449
00:27:06,374 --> 00:27:07,709
and carry them to the forefront.
450
00:27:07,792 --> 00:27:11,504
Hey, this is business, you know.
I worry about promoting Christy Martin.
451
00:27:12,297 --> 00:27:14,549
Christy was outspoken,
452
00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:16,426
easy to dislike.
453
00:27:16,509 --> 00:27:20,639
Women today are making
more money than ever for one reason.
454
00:27:20,722 --> 00:27:24,601
That's because of the show Christy Martin
puts on every time that I go out there.
455
00:27:24,684 --> 00:27:28,647
So, I really think they should all be
sending me 10% of their purse.
456
00:27:28,730 --> 00:27:31,316
There was a huge difference
457
00:27:31,399 --> 00:27:34,486
between Christy Martin
and all the other females.
458
00:27:35,403 --> 00:27:37,656
Certainly, every female fighter had a job
459
00:27:37,739 --> 00:27:40,450
and had to figure out a way
to take off for fights.
460
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,037
And she could have said,
461
00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:46,498
"There are other women out there
that are good."
462
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,834
Occasionally,
she could have mixed that in.
463
00:27:50,627 --> 00:27:53,505
I always said
when Christy gets out of boxing,
464
00:27:53,588 --> 00:27:55,965
there isn't gonna be more women boxing.
465
00:27:56,049 --> 00:27:57,049
You know why?
466
00:27:57,676 --> 00:27:59,386
'Cause she was effeminate.
467
00:28:00,595 --> 00:28:04,557
Christy's image was
as important as her boxing skills.
468
00:28:05,809 --> 00:28:08,812
Christy was known as the girl next door,
469
00:28:09,688 --> 00:28:13,400
and she wasn't going in there
looking like a boy, acting like a boy.
470
00:28:13,483 --> 00:28:18,154
She's like a typical housewife. She cooks,
does her hair, does her fingernails.
471
00:28:18,238 --> 00:28:20,657
Am I allowed to make you blush
a little bit?
472
00:28:20,740 --> 00:28:22,660
- Sure.
- You have a very lovely smile.
473
00:28:22,742 --> 00:28:25,078
You have very attractive features.
474
00:28:25,161 --> 00:28:26,079
Okay.
475
00:28:26,162 --> 00:28:28,873
I mean, who puts butts in the seats?
476
00:28:28,957 --> 00:28:30,083
Men.
477
00:28:30,166 --> 00:28:32,293
If Christy didn't sell any tickets,
478
00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:34,462
I don't care how good she was,
479
00:28:34,546 --> 00:28:36,756
Don King would not have had her
on those cards.
480
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,467
I'd like to say one thing.
Andrea, you have a nice dress.
481
00:28:39,551 --> 00:28:43,054
This is the first time I've seen you
dressed respectable, looking like a woman.
482
00:28:43,138 --> 00:28:44,222
Oh!
483
00:28:45,974 --> 00:28:48,518
The whole pre-fight
hype bullshit,
484
00:28:49,477 --> 00:28:51,396
I... I enjoyed it.
485
00:28:54,399 --> 00:28:57,444
You know, small town West Virginia,
Coal Miner's Daughter, baby.
486
00:28:57,527 --> 00:29:01,239
She ain't for ****. That's why
she gotta steal on somebody.
487
00:29:01,322 --> 00:29:03,116
I told Christy Martin, "Good luck."
488
00:29:03,992 --> 00:29:07,203
I got told,
"Good luck getting knocked the fuck out."
489
00:29:07,287 --> 00:29:08,997
Well, I said so many bad things.
490
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,666
I'm gonna put something on you
you never had before.
491
00:29:12,542 --> 00:29:15,670
Maybe only from your girlfriend.
I don't know. Maybe she put it on you.
492
00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:17,172
- Oh!
- What's that?
493
00:29:17,255 --> 00:29:18,548
You know what.
494
00:29:18,631 --> 00:29:22,385
I mean, I said a lot of really rude
comments about, uh,
495
00:29:23,762 --> 00:29:24,762
homosexuals.
496
00:29:24,804 --> 00:29:27,390
There are women fighters
who come in like, you know,
497
00:29:27,474 --> 00:29:30,518
wear a flannel shirt, driving a Jeep,
498
00:29:30,602 --> 00:29:33,980
chopped-off hairdo, and sorta manly type.
499
00:29:34,063 --> 00:29:37,650
But also,
Jim did encourage that behavior,
500
00:29:37,734 --> 00:29:40,028
and I would tell him,
"Jim, you don't understand."
501
00:29:40,111 --> 00:29:41,780
"I'm gonna keep saying this stuff,
502
00:29:41,863 --> 00:29:43,865
and somebody from my past
is gonna peep up."
503
00:29:43,948 --> 00:29:47,744
Because Christy Martin has
a problem with her opponent's sexuality,
504
00:29:47,827 --> 00:29:50,330
she'll throw her kisses before the fight.
505
00:29:50,997 --> 00:29:53,625
Mmm.
That oughta rile her up.
506
00:29:53,708 --> 00:29:58,129
But it didn't happen,
and I continued to say negative things.
507
00:29:58,213 --> 00:30:02,842
First, she will have to prove to me
and doctors that she is a woman,
508
00:30:02,926 --> 00:30:06,763
and, um, we can... we can hook that fight up
as soon as she proves that.
509
00:30:06,846 --> 00:30:08,966
- That she's a woman?
- That she's a woman.
510
00:30:09,557 --> 00:30:14,479
We were all struggling
with the same identity in a male sport.
511
00:30:14,562 --> 00:30:16,981
There weren't many female athletes
512
00:30:17,774 --> 00:30:20,443
brave enough to be
who they were at that time,
513
00:30:20,527 --> 00:30:22,195
myself included.
514
00:30:24,072 --> 00:30:27,367
You think you're a man and punch
like a man. You don't even hit like a boy.
515
00:30:27,450 --> 00:30:28,576
You're a punk.
516
00:30:28,660 --> 00:30:31,955
Christy, I like the way you talk.
You walk that walk and talk that talk.
517
00:30:32,038 --> 00:30:35,500
But if you're gonna open your mouth
and say it, you better back it up.
518
00:30:40,713 --> 00:30:43,591
I was getting ready to fight her,
and I was pumped.
519
00:30:44,092 --> 00:30:47,595
"I'm way too strong for this girl.
I'm way too big for this girl."
520
00:30:47,679 --> 00:30:51,349
"Have her come at me.
Have her come at me."
521
00:30:51,432 --> 00:30:52,433
"She's going down."
522
00:30:53,893 --> 00:30:56,271
She was much bigger,
much stronger than me.
523
00:30:56,354 --> 00:30:58,439
Lisa was a world champion too,
524
00:30:58,523 --> 00:31:00,817
so I had to actually use my brain.
525
00:31:02,151 --> 00:31:04,988
So I watched
how all these big legends fought.
526
00:31:06,281 --> 00:31:09,075
Sugar Ray Robinson,
Ali, Frazier, Carmen Basilio.
527
00:31:10,577 --> 00:31:12,537
All those guys are great chess players.
528
00:31:13,413 --> 00:31:16,165
They're able to set you up for,
not your next move,
529
00:31:16,791 --> 00:31:17,917
their next move.
530
00:31:19,419 --> 00:31:21,880
I'm like,
"She's gonna come right to me.
531
00:31:21,963 --> 00:31:23,673
She's gonna come right to me.
532
00:31:24,424 --> 00:31:26,092
Well, Christy didn't do that.
533
00:31:26,926 --> 00:31:29,846
I decided when to step in
and throw combinations,
534
00:31:29,929 --> 00:31:32,473
when to load up
and throw one big right hand.
535
00:31:34,642 --> 00:31:37,437
I was frustrated, surprised.
536
00:31:37,979 --> 00:31:41,399
You couldn't have told me
that this girl had good feet
537
00:31:41,482 --> 00:31:43,568
and good moves and good defense,
538
00:31:44,569 --> 00:31:47,947
because most women
didn't make her have to show that.
539
00:31:48,865 --> 00:31:50,617
Oh, Christy could box.
540
00:31:51,534 --> 00:31:53,828
She would keep everything short and sweet.
541
00:31:53,912 --> 00:31:54,912
Slip. Come back.
542
00:31:55,371 --> 00:31:56,539
Back.
543
00:31:56,623 --> 00:31:58,124
Back.
544
00:31:59,417 --> 00:32:01,920
When Lisa and Christy
both came in the ring,
545
00:32:02,003 --> 00:32:05,590
George Foreman said,
"This little girl won't win this fight."
546
00:32:07,008 --> 00:32:08,968
At about the third round, he said,
547
00:32:09,052 --> 00:32:11,763
"This little girl
is gonna win this fight."
548
00:32:11,846 --> 00:32:14,682
She couldn't stand toe-to-toe
with Christy.
549
00:32:14,766 --> 00:32:16,267
Lisa got her ass beat.
550
00:32:16,351 --> 00:32:19,395
The winner,
"The Coal Miner's Daughter"
551
00:32:19,479 --> 00:32:23,274
Christy Martin.
552
00:32:24,442 --> 00:32:27,612
Biggest stage of my career. It sucks.
553
00:32:28,905 --> 00:32:30,031
After that fight,
554
00:32:30,114 --> 00:32:33,201
Christy was well on the way
of being almost untouchable.
555
00:32:37,747 --> 00:32:40,583
Yeah, in front of the camera,
it was great.
556
00:32:40,667 --> 00:32:43,795
I mean, I would not trade my career
for anyone's.
557
00:32:45,546 --> 00:32:47,548
But my personal and private life,
558
00:32:47,632 --> 00:32:49,175
it was so much the opposite.
559
00:32:49,884 --> 00:32:52,845
This is her husband
and trainer, Mr. Martin.
560
00:32:52,929 --> 00:32:53,929
He's a tough guy.
561
00:32:53,972 --> 00:32:57,725
From early on, Don King
used being married as a selling point,
562
00:32:58,393 --> 00:33:00,061
so Jim also became a star.
563
00:33:00,144 --> 00:33:01,312
Talk about packing a punch.
564
00:33:01,396 --> 00:33:04,273
You're about to meet
a husband and wife team you won't forget.
565
00:33:04,357 --> 00:33:08,528
She is the professional boxer.
He is the trainer. They're a knockout.
566
00:33:08,611 --> 00:33:09,696
One little kiss.
567
00:33:09,779 --> 00:33:11,823
People in the media
would always say,
568
00:33:11,906 --> 00:33:13,574
"You guys made history together."
569
00:33:13,658 --> 00:33:14,492
Mwah.
570
00:33:14,575 --> 00:33:17,912
You say Christy, you say Jim.
You say Jim, you say Christy.
571
00:33:17,996 --> 00:33:20,999
Jim, get in here and turn around
and get in that shot. First time...
572
00:33:21,082 --> 00:33:23,167
His identity became me.
573
00:33:23,918 --> 00:33:27,005
He would call somebody.
He never said, "This is Jim Martin."
574
00:33:27,088 --> 00:33:28,589
"This is Jim and Christy Martin."
575
00:33:29,215 --> 00:33:33,720
Oh, obviously, we have our ups and downs,
as any fighter-trainer would,
576
00:33:33,803 --> 00:33:35,805
but, um, sometimes it's a little tougher
577
00:33:35,888 --> 00:33:39,058
because if we have problems at the gym,
it'll go home with us.
578
00:33:39,142 --> 00:33:41,936
Or if we have problems at home,
it'll come to the gym with us,
579
00:33:42,020 --> 00:33:43,229
but we're doing better.
580
00:33:43,312 --> 00:33:46,566
It was just all so intertwined
that I couldn't get away.
581
00:33:46,649 --> 00:33:49,193
We've been together seven years.
In seven years,
582
00:33:49,944 --> 00:33:52,405
maybe we've spent
one night away from each other.
583
00:33:52,488 --> 00:33:56,242
Christy and I, we have no children.
We don't get tired of each other.
584
00:33:57,076 --> 00:34:00,580
We just do everything together,
and that's just what we like, you know.
585
00:34:01,289 --> 00:34:03,124
She didn't go out
with women friends.
586
00:34:03,207 --> 00:34:04,625
I didn't go out with men friends.
587
00:34:04,709 --> 00:34:06,961
I didn't want to go out
with any men friends.
588
00:34:07,462 --> 00:34:09,130
She was my life. She was my whole life.
589
00:34:10,131 --> 00:34:14,302
I mean, he was a great coach
for an amateur just starting out.
590
00:34:14,844 --> 00:34:15,845
One, two.
591
00:34:15,928 --> 00:34:20,224
But now, when I would
watch guys that train real champions...
592
00:34:20,308 --> 00:34:21,308
Again.
593
00:34:21,350 --> 00:34:25,271
I realized that I wanted to have
a better trainer.
594
00:34:27,231 --> 00:34:28,524
After so many years,
595
00:34:29,025 --> 00:34:31,486
Jim had taught me all he could teach me.
596
00:34:33,863 --> 00:34:36,365
And even if he wants
to still be the co-trainer,
597
00:34:36,449 --> 00:34:39,702
I would ask him
to at least bring in somebody else,
598
00:34:39,786 --> 00:34:41,621
so I could go to that next level,
599
00:34:42,663 --> 00:34:45,500
but he didn't want me to have
anybody else in my corner.
600
00:34:49,504 --> 00:34:53,174
We worked so hard
to make this great big bill.
601
00:34:55,218 --> 00:34:57,720
You would think she'd had
a little bit more respect for me.
602
00:34:57,804 --> 00:35:02,517
My husband's my trainer and my manager,
full-time, like, 24-hour-a-day boss.
603
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:03,976
Could you knock him out?
604
00:35:04,060 --> 00:35:06,479
Um, no, but some days I might like to.
605
00:35:06,562 --> 00:35:08,231
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
606
00:35:08,314 --> 00:35:09,816
I bet when this couple fights...
607
00:35:09,899 --> 00:35:11,234
Bam, buh-bam, bam.
608
00:35:13,569 --> 00:35:16,489
Christy needed some sparring,
so we put the gloves on.
609
00:35:17,198 --> 00:35:19,075
You know, we sparred.
610
00:35:20,993 --> 00:35:22,495
He's 25 years older,
611
00:35:23,037 --> 00:35:26,541
so I was hesitant to go 100% all-out.
612
00:35:29,293 --> 00:35:32,922
But then, he just, he...
613
00:35:33,005 --> 00:35:33,923
He knocked me out.
614
00:35:37,802 --> 00:35:39,262
I've never been knocked out.
615
00:35:40,221 --> 00:35:41,764
I've never been dropped, even.
616
00:35:44,183 --> 00:35:46,894
You know when you're hitting someone
in the right spot,
617
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,897
hitting someone hard enough
to knock them out.
618
00:35:49,981 --> 00:35:51,774
He knew exactly what he was doing.
619
00:35:51,858 --> 00:35:54,527
I wasn't trying to kill her.
You know what I mean?
620
00:35:54,610 --> 00:35:57,864
But I was letting her know
she didn't belong in there with me.
621
00:35:59,198 --> 00:36:01,617
No matter how good
I thought I was
622
00:36:01,701 --> 00:36:05,204
or how tough I thought I was,
he wanted to show me he was the boss.
623
00:36:06,038 --> 00:36:08,416
It takes a little cockiness out of them.
624
00:36:10,293 --> 00:36:11,293
You know?
625
00:36:12,336 --> 00:36:13,462
Is it abuse?
626
00:36:14,005 --> 00:36:15,256
Yeah, he's smart.
627
00:36:16,424 --> 00:36:17,466
He disguised it.
628
00:36:19,552 --> 00:36:21,179
Have you ever been knocked out?
629
00:36:21,262 --> 00:36:23,472
- No.
- Oh no. Wow.
630
00:36:24,182 --> 00:36:26,434
And all I wanted to do
was leave him.
631
00:36:27,351 --> 00:36:30,271
All I wanted to do
was live my life freely.
632
00:36:33,816 --> 00:36:34,816
So, yeah.
633
00:36:35,776 --> 00:36:36,776
I should have.
634
00:36:41,532 --> 00:36:43,784
Christy Martin reached out
and wanted to fight.
635
00:36:43,868 --> 00:36:47,246
I remember thinking
it was a joke. Like, "Really?"
636
00:36:47,330 --> 00:36:48,539
Like, "Really?"
637
00:36:51,209 --> 00:36:53,211
Oh my God! Because, come on.
638
00:36:53,294 --> 00:36:56,005
I mean, I'm 168 pounds. I'm five-eleven.
639
00:36:56,088 --> 00:36:57,089
I'm big, I'm strong.
640
00:36:57,173 --> 00:36:58,925
What is little Christy gonna do with me?
641
00:37:03,387 --> 00:37:08,893
Laila Ali!
642
00:37:09,852 --> 00:37:11,812
Most people assume
I started boxing
643
00:37:11,896 --> 00:37:13,773
'cause I said, "I wanna be like my dad."
644
00:37:13,856 --> 00:37:15,483
That isn't what happened at all.
645
00:37:16,442 --> 00:37:20,780
When I saw Christy and Deirdre fighting,
I remember thinking...
646
00:37:20,863 --> 00:37:22,031
"I wanna do that."
647
00:37:22,114 --> 00:37:24,200
So I decided, "I'm gonna start training."
648
00:37:28,287 --> 00:37:30,206
I got a call to spar with Christy
649
00:37:30,289 --> 00:37:32,625
when she was getting ready
to fight Laila Ali.
650
00:37:34,835 --> 00:37:37,421
And I was over it enough.
651
00:37:39,215 --> 00:37:41,342
Almost. You never really get over a loss.
652
00:37:44,512 --> 00:37:47,431
I remember feeling like, "This is odd."
653
00:37:47,515 --> 00:37:49,267
Ali's a big girl.
654
00:37:49,767 --> 00:37:52,853
Ali was bigger than me by 15-20 pounds.
655
00:37:53,646 --> 00:37:57,942
I was bigger than Christy by ten pounds,
and Ali was the younger one.
656
00:37:58,734 --> 00:38:00,194
That was an insane matchup.
657
00:38:01,612 --> 00:38:03,739
We were the two biggest names
at the time.
658
00:38:04,532 --> 00:38:05,449
And Jim was all about,
659
00:38:05,533 --> 00:38:08,077
"It'll be the biggest fight
in women's boxing history."
660
00:38:09,662 --> 00:38:11,831
I had never seen Laila Ali in person.
661
00:38:11,914 --> 00:38:15,584
So when I actually saw her, I was like,
"Oh shit, this is a big woman."
662
00:38:16,585 --> 00:38:20,256
Christy had to weigh in
with army pants on, boots,
663
00:38:20,339 --> 00:38:22,508
and quarters in her pockets.
664
00:38:22,591 --> 00:38:24,844
You stood up to me, little mama.
You stood up...
665
00:38:26,012 --> 00:38:27,471
Laila! Break it up! Break it up!
666
00:38:27,555 --> 00:38:30,808
She wasn't intimidating me.
I was talking down to her,
667
00:38:30,891 --> 00:38:32,768
and she felt my power,
668
00:38:32,852 --> 00:38:34,937
and I did notice a bit of a change in her
669
00:38:35,021 --> 00:38:38,190
because now she realized,
"Okay, this is real."
670
00:38:39,859 --> 00:38:43,988
Jim was talking to me, and I said,
"I don't know about this fight,"
671
00:38:44,071 --> 00:38:46,198
and I'm watching my words
672
00:38:46,282 --> 00:38:49,910
because I'm talking to somebody's
husband and trainer
673
00:38:50,661 --> 00:38:52,621
about their fighter and wife.
674
00:38:53,497 --> 00:38:56,625
Everybody always says to me,
"It's your wife in there."
675
00:38:57,710 --> 00:38:59,378
I say, you know what,
676
00:38:59,462 --> 00:39:03,007
if I sat there and said, "Oh wow,
my wife just took a hard shot,"
677
00:39:03,090 --> 00:39:07,011
"Oh wow, my wife's
got eyes a little bit swelled-up,"
678
00:39:07,094 --> 00:39:08,929
by focusing on that,
679
00:39:09,013 --> 00:39:10,639
I'm not doing my job.
680
00:39:12,516 --> 00:39:15,353
And so, he said,
"Well, I think she can do it."
681
00:39:15,436 --> 00:39:17,521
It was, like, "Conversation over."
682
00:39:18,314 --> 00:39:21,317
We're about to witness
the most important fight
683
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,235
in the history of women's boxing.
684
00:39:23,319 --> 00:39:25,780
We've waited for months,
and now it's here.
685
00:39:25,863 --> 00:39:27,865
We sold
over 100,000 pay-per-view buys.
686
00:39:27,948 --> 00:39:31,410
We sold the arena out in Biloxi.
They had to add chairs.
687
00:39:31,494 --> 00:39:34,872
To this day, it's still the biggest fight
in women's boxing history.
688
00:39:34,955 --> 00:39:39,460
The anticipation,
the sizzle in this arena is tremendous.
689
00:39:39,543 --> 00:39:42,546
The title of women's pound-for-pound best.
690
00:39:44,215 --> 00:39:46,675
Christy Martin will be outweighed.
691
00:39:46,759 --> 00:39:49,261
She promises not to be outgunned.
692
00:39:50,304 --> 00:39:54,350
First bell rang, Laila hit me
with a right hand high on my head...
693
00:39:55,309 --> 00:39:57,311
Ali, that overhand right!
694
00:39:57,395 --> 00:40:00,773
...and it just knocked my equilibrium off.
695
00:40:00,856 --> 00:40:03,943
I felt like I was fighting
and standing on an angle.
696
00:40:04,026 --> 00:40:06,821
Look at the look
on Christy Martin's face.
697
00:40:06,904 --> 00:40:09,532
She's doing everything in her power
to hang in there.
698
00:40:10,574 --> 00:40:14,662
Christy came back to the corner,
and she said, "Am I fighting crooked?"
699
00:40:14,745 --> 00:40:16,789
And I said,
"No, you're fighting up straight."
700
00:40:16,872 --> 00:40:19,333
She said,
"I feel like I'm fighting on a slant."
701
00:40:19,417 --> 00:40:22,294
I can see the glaze
and distance in her eyes.
702
00:40:22,837 --> 00:40:24,922
She was fighting on pure gut and instinct.
703
00:40:25,005 --> 00:40:28,092
...as Laila Ali
continues to drop bombs.
704
00:40:28,175 --> 00:40:30,302
And Martin is in trouble!
705
00:40:30,386 --> 00:40:33,222
I kept trying to hang in there,
go a little bit longer,
706
00:40:33,305 --> 00:40:34,807
thinking my head would clear.
707
00:40:34,890 --> 00:40:37,268
Martin just not able to punch back!
708
00:40:37,351 --> 00:40:39,812
But no matter
what I hit her with, she was on me,
709
00:40:39,895 --> 00:40:42,273
and I couldn't get her off of me.
I couldn't breathe.
710
00:40:42,356 --> 00:40:45,818
She just collapses in the corner.
711
00:40:45,901 --> 00:40:48,988
That's a dangerous fight when you're
in there with someone bigger, stronger,
712
00:40:49,071 --> 00:40:50,364
and you're not seeing straight.
713
00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:52,450
How much punishment
can she absorb?
714
00:40:52,533 --> 00:40:54,493
It's the corner's responsibility
715
00:40:54,577 --> 00:40:57,997
to throw in the towel if they have to.
It's important for that person to step up.
716
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,749
- Put the heat on her, okay?
- Right.
717
00:41:00,833 --> 00:41:03,335
- I told him I'm dizzy.
- Run around, okay?
718
00:41:03,419 --> 00:41:05,171
I'm sure I have a concussion,
719
00:41:05,254 --> 00:41:08,757
but he was just like,
"Nah, you'll be fine. You'll be fine."
720
00:41:08,841 --> 00:41:10,718
Rapid fire.
721
00:41:10,801 --> 00:41:13,137
Again and again and again!
722
00:41:13,637 --> 00:41:15,389
Jim could have saved me.
723
00:41:15,473 --> 00:41:17,850
He could have stepped up
and stopped the fight.
724
00:41:17,933 --> 00:41:19,185
That's what a coach does.
725
00:41:19,268 --> 00:41:22,396
That's what a good coach does
for their fighter, but he didn't.
726
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,232
Laila Ali has driven her to her knees.
727
00:41:25,316 --> 00:41:26,692
So I took a knee.
728
00:41:28,903 --> 00:41:31,864
Probably if I have to say
what's the worst ten seconds of your life,
729
00:41:31,947 --> 00:41:34,366
that's probably
the worst ten seconds of my life.
730
00:41:35,034 --> 00:41:37,203
That I stayed on... on the knee.
731
00:41:38,746 --> 00:41:41,665
She has never been
off her feet until now.
732
00:41:42,166 --> 00:41:44,710
He could have stepped up
and stopped it.
733
00:41:44,793 --> 00:41:48,464
I could always say,
"Jim stopped it. I didn't quit."
734
00:41:48,547 --> 00:41:52,092
But I quit,
and that's hard for me to live with.
735
00:41:52,176 --> 00:41:53,719
It is over,
736
00:41:53,802 --> 00:42:00,559
and Laila Ali is the reigning champion
of women's boxing.
737
00:42:01,227 --> 00:42:03,771
When she hit Christy,
that was a lucky punch.
738
00:42:04,271 --> 00:42:06,440
I wanted a rematch on that fight.
739
00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:11,111
I remember
laying in my dressing room that night.
740
00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:13,948
Jim wasn't even there to...
to make sure I was okay.
741
00:42:14,031 --> 00:42:16,158
He was out talking to everybody else.
742
00:42:17,576 --> 00:42:21,247
Christy had at least
30-something fights she never lost.
743
00:42:22,039 --> 00:42:23,707
After so many years being on top,
744
00:42:25,084 --> 00:42:26,418
just seeing your...
745
00:42:27,628 --> 00:42:31,131
...you know, your best friend, basically,
pretty much getting whooped.
746
00:42:32,925 --> 00:42:34,260
Yeah, it was pretty rough.
747
00:42:36,929 --> 00:42:39,431
...absorbing
the worst beating of her career.
748
00:42:40,015 --> 00:42:41,183
At age 35,
749
00:42:41,267 --> 00:42:43,727
you wonder where she goes from here.
750
00:42:58,909 --> 00:43:02,371
- You get some coke?
- No, but I'm about to get some.
751
00:43:02,454 --> 00:43:04,498
- Huh?
- I'm about to get some.
752
00:43:08,586 --> 00:43:09,920
Oh my lord.
753
00:43:12,881 --> 00:43:15,509
One of my fighters
brought some cocaine over one night
754
00:43:15,593 --> 00:43:18,095
and says, "You've been asking me
to give up cocaine."
755
00:43:18,178 --> 00:43:20,347
"I'm giving it up. Here's my cocaine."
756
00:43:20,848 --> 00:43:23,809
I take it in the house.
"Christy, look what Derek gave me."
757
00:43:25,102 --> 00:43:27,146
I left it laying there
for a couple days.
758
00:43:27,229 --> 00:43:30,149
And then finally, I was like,
"You know, I'm so miserable."
759
00:43:30,941 --> 00:43:33,152
"Just let... let me try it. Let me do it."
760
00:43:33,235 --> 00:43:37,698
It went from Friday, Saturday
to Friday, Saturday, and Sunday...
761
00:43:37,781 --> 00:43:39,533
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
762
00:43:39,617 --> 00:43:41,619
...to six and seven days a week.
763
00:43:42,494 --> 00:43:44,038
We had coke at the gym.
764
00:43:44,538 --> 00:43:45,538
She'd work out.
765
00:43:45,581 --> 00:43:46,790
Work on that right hand.
766
00:43:46,874 --> 00:43:47,874
Take coke.
767
00:43:47,916 --> 00:43:49,168
Work out.
768
00:43:49,251 --> 00:43:50,251
Take coke.
769
00:43:50,836 --> 00:43:53,672
If I would be hitting the heavy bag,
like, "Jim, I'm so tired."
770
00:43:53,756 --> 00:43:54,798
"I don't have any more."
771
00:43:54,882 --> 00:43:57,718
He would say, "Keep hitting the bag."
He would cut up a line, bring it.
772
00:43:57,801 --> 00:43:59,261
I had still my gloves on.
773
00:44:00,638 --> 00:44:02,473
You know, I was high all the time,
774
00:44:03,432 --> 00:44:04,933
but I couldn't stop.
775
00:44:05,017 --> 00:44:06,226
I didn't wanna stop.
776
00:44:06,852 --> 00:44:10,189
I would cut up lines
into my own little baggie and hide it,
777
00:44:10,814 --> 00:44:14,485
and then I would go back to get it,
and it would be gone,
778
00:44:14,568 --> 00:44:16,820
but, you know,
that's because he had cameras.
779
00:44:16,904 --> 00:44:20,074
He was videotaping everything
I was doing in the house
780
00:44:20,157 --> 00:44:21,575
without me knowing.
781
00:44:22,576 --> 00:44:26,205
Oh shit. Now, James, you get to scaring me
when you do that stuff.
782
00:44:26,288 --> 00:44:28,749
- What?
- You scare me when you do that stuff.
783
00:44:30,084 --> 00:44:31,084
Whoo!
784
00:44:34,463 --> 00:44:36,548
I would call him
the Puppet Master.
785
00:44:37,049 --> 00:44:38,967
He's controlling everything.
786
00:44:40,552 --> 00:44:43,180
I would have to perform
whatever it might be
787
00:44:43,263 --> 00:44:45,307
in order to get the next line of coke.
788
00:44:45,391 --> 00:44:48,102
Oh, I got you on candid camera
when you come in.
789
00:44:48,185 --> 00:44:50,896
What do you mean?
I wasn't coming in there.
790
00:44:50,979 --> 00:44:55,651
Anyone that's addicted, they're gonna do
just about anything to get that next line.
791
00:44:56,193 --> 00:45:00,322
Christy Martin is ready to come in
with a big dick on.
792
00:45:01,782 --> 00:45:06,328
He got sexual satisfaction from me
wearing a strap-on all the time,
793
00:45:07,121 --> 00:45:09,915
and that was strange to me.
794
00:45:09,998 --> 00:45:12,042
Why do you wanna see this?
795
00:45:12,126 --> 00:45:13,711
Oh, look for me.
796
00:45:15,003 --> 00:45:16,755
Okay. Hang on. Right there.
797
00:45:16,839 --> 00:45:18,966
I would tell him,
"You know that I'm a lesbian
798
00:45:19,049 --> 00:45:22,803
so let's get divorced.
I'm begging you to please divorce me."
799
00:45:22,886 --> 00:45:25,431
I went as far as to write up a contract.
800
00:45:25,514 --> 00:45:28,642
"I'll take care of all these expenses.
Just please leave,"
801
00:45:28,726 --> 00:45:33,439
and, um, he hit me and, you know,
knocked my tooth through my lip.
802
00:45:33,522 --> 00:45:34,648
Blood went everywhere.
803
00:45:35,441 --> 00:45:38,193
Did she talk to you
about wanting a divorce?
804
00:45:38,277 --> 00:45:39,403
No. Never.
805
00:45:40,237 --> 00:45:43,115
She mentioned to me
that she drew up a contract at one point
806
00:45:43,198 --> 00:45:45,200
that said,
"Let's just go our separate ways."
807
00:45:45,284 --> 00:45:48,746
- Yeah, we did talk about that one time.
- [producer[ Can you tell me about that?
808
00:45:49,246 --> 00:45:50,246
Uh...
809
00:45:51,915 --> 00:45:54,626
I don't think it was...
I think it was short-lived.
810
00:45:55,210 --> 00:45:59,214
But she would say things like that,
then she'd come back and apologize.
811
00:46:00,549 --> 00:46:02,509
My parents came to see me,
812
00:46:02,593 --> 00:46:06,263
and I took my mom outside
and told her then,
813
00:46:06,346 --> 00:46:08,474
"Jim is videotaping and audiotaping
814
00:46:08,557 --> 00:46:11,810
everything that's said
and happens inside the house."
815
00:46:13,312 --> 00:46:15,981
I could see her
standing right now telling me,
816
00:46:17,483 --> 00:46:22,529
and I thought she was just
more or less saying that Jim was crazy.
817
00:46:24,531 --> 00:46:26,492
Jim was a master manipulator,
818
00:46:28,243 --> 00:46:33,123
and he had conned my mother into thinking
that she had to stay close to him
819
00:46:33,207 --> 00:46:35,793
in order to know what I was doing.
820
00:46:36,710 --> 00:46:38,378
So I don't think she believed me,
821
00:46:38,462 --> 00:46:42,883
but maybe, you know,
I thought she would tell my dad.
822
00:46:44,301 --> 00:46:47,012
She told me
there was some of that going on,
823
00:46:47,679 --> 00:46:50,641
but there was...
there was nothing I could do.
824
00:46:51,850 --> 00:46:53,685
I can't live your life for you.
825
00:46:53,769 --> 00:46:55,270
You have to live it yourself.
826
00:46:56,063 --> 00:46:57,898
You have to make your own decisions.
827
00:47:00,776 --> 00:47:03,529
The women have put on a show tonight.
828
00:47:05,113 --> 00:47:08,116
I don't even know
what my record is from that point on.
829
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:09,827
It's more losses than wins,
830
00:47:10,661 --> 00:47:12,538
but he wouldn't allow me to quit.
831
00:47:13,705 --> 00:47:17,000
And I'm like, "Why am I here?"
832
00:47:19,169 --> 00:47:21,713
'Cause I was Jim Martin's personal ATM,
833
00:47:23,882 --> 00:47:27,261
and I didn't know
how to get out of the situation I was in.
834
00:47:33,892 --> 00:47:37,646
I was high one night
and just looked at my Facebook page,
835
00:47:39,106 --> 00:47:40,899
and I had a message from Sherry.
836
00:47:42,317 --> 00:47:46,655
So after 20-some years or whatever,
Facebook comes up.
837
00:47:46,738 --> 00:47:49,950
There comes Christy's picture up
on "you might be friends."
838
00:47:50,868 --> 00:47:52,703
So I sent her a friend request
839
00:47:52,786 --> 00:47:54,705
with a little note that said,
840
00:47:55,289 --> 00:47:57,207
"Is friends what we should be called?"
841
00:47:59,042 --> 00:48:00,836
So it just started, back and forth.
842
00:48:00,919 --> 00:48:03,589
"Hey, how are you?
What's up with your mom and dad?"
843
00:48:03,672 --> 00:48:06,800
I mean, she knows my family,
I know all of her family.
844
00:48:06,884 --> 00:48:09,720
So it was easy. It was comfortable.
845
00:48:11,179 --> 00:48:16,268
From the beginning, she was telling me
very deeply serious things.
846
00:48:17,477 --> 00:48:20,188
So I knew she was unhappy in her marriage.
847
00:48:20,981 --> 00:48:23,942
At first, it was just on Facebook,
then I'm like, "This is crazy
848
00:48:24,026 --> 00:48:26,862
because he's reading everything
that is said on Facebook,"
849
00:48:26,945 --> 00:48:27,988
so she would text me.
850
00:48:28,071 --> 00:48:31,533
I'm like, "He's reading everything,
all my texts, too, so just call me."
851
00:48:32,409 --> 00:48:34,161
I didn't ask her about it
for a while.
852
00:48:34,244 --> 00:48:36,121
I didn't wanna ask her about it.
853
00:48:36,622 --> 00:48:38,373
I'm going, "What the hell?"
854
00:48:39,249 --> 00:48:40,542
"What's this all about?"
855
00:48:41,043 --> 00:48:42,753
I was so unhappy,
856
00:48:42,836 --> 00:48:45,547
and so finally I just told him,
"I'm gonna go see Sherry."
857
00:48:45,631 --> 00:48:48,842
"So what are you gonna meet...
You gonna meet Sherry over there?"
858
00:48:49,343 --> 00:48:52,220
That's like me
meeting one of my ex-girlfriends.
859
00:48:52,304 --> 00:48:56,183
She told me,
"Just talked about old times," you know.
860
00:48:56,266 --> 00:48:57,893
Of course I didn't believe that.
861
00:48:57,976 --> 00:48:59,311
First he said, "Can I go?"
862
00:48:59,811 --> 00:49:02,189
And I said, "Uh, absolutely not."
863
00:49:02,272 --> 00:49:04,650
And, um, then he said,
864
00:49:05,734 --> 00:49:07,736
"You know, if you leave, I'll kill you."
865
00:49:08,528 --> 00:49:12,074
And I turned around and stopped,
and I looked him straight in the eye,
866
00:49:12,157 --> 00:49:14,034
and I said, "Do what you have to do,"
867
00:49:15,118 --> 00:49:16,118
and I left.
868
00:49:24,252 --> 00:49:27,339
When she shows up,
we see each other, and it...
869
00:49:28,048 --> 00:49:29,841
You know, it was...
870
00:49:29,925 --> 00:49:31,343
I could barely breathe.
871
00:49:32,928 --> 00:49:34,179
And she grabs me.
872
00:49:34,763 --> 00:49:36,098
And when she kisses me,
873
00:49:37,015 --> 00:49:40,227
we took that time
to shoot right back to high school.
874
00:49:41,353 --> 00:49:42,896
I think we both were floating.
875
00:49:46,483 --> 00:49:48,610
Jim started calling.
876
00:49:48,694 --> 00:49:51,822
"Sis has done this,
and she's not coming home."
877
00:49:51,905 --> 00:49:54,241
"Will you call her? Will you call her?"
878
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,411
Jim was calling everybody,
trying to find me.
879
00:49:57,494 --> 00:49:59,454
Yeah, he called looking for her.
880
00:49:59,538 --> 00:50:02,332
He just couldn't get her
back on the leash.
881
00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:07,129
I did call Sis,
and I told her she needed to get home.
882
00:50:07,879 --> 00:50:11,258
And then her mom
couldn't get her back on the leash either.
883
00:50:13,593 --> 00:50:16,930
So I'm waiting at home.
I don't know where she's at.
884
00:50:17,597 --> 00:50:19,725
Finally, she went and picked up the phone,
885
00:50:20,517 --> 00:50:22,728
She told me I was gonna crash and burn.
886
00:50:26,356 --> 00:50:30,736
Then he starts calling everybody,
from my relatives to friends, you know,
887
00:50:30,819 --> 00:50:33,572
"Christy's a lesbian.
She's left me for a woman."
888
00:50:34,448 --> 00:50:37,951
And he had started
texting pictures to everybody.
889
00:50:38,035 --> 00:50:39,035
Everyone.
890
00:50:39,619 --> 00:50:42,205
Jim said,
"I'm gonna send you a picture."
891
00:50:42,289 --> 00:50:44,124
It was a terrible picture.
892
00:50:44,207 --> 00:50:48,336
I'd come to find out he had sent
that same picture to a lot of people.
893
00:50:50,714 --> 00:50:54,801
He was taking a wrecking ball
to everything in her life.
894
00:50:54,885 --> 00:50:56,511
This was my revenge.
895
00:50:57,846 --> 00:50:59,681
Well, what more can you do to me?
896
00:51:01,558 --> 00:51:03,935
Monday, I went to Daytona to see Sherry,
897
00:51:04,644 --> 00:51:05,520
and he called me,
898
00:51:05,604 --> 00:51:08,732
and he said, "I'm so close,
I could reach out and touch you."
899
00:51:10,484 --> 00:51:13,653
And I looked around, and I'm...
you know, trying to find him.
900
00:51:13,737 --> 00:51:15,447
I... I can't see him anywhere.
901
00:51:16,198 --> 00:51:17,783
"I seen you and Sherry."
902
00:51:18,533 --> 00:51:20,327
"You didn't see Sherry and I."
903
00:51:20,410 --> 00:51:22,788
I said, "Yes, I did."
"So what did Sherry have on?"
904
00:51:22,871 --> 00:51:26,083
I said, "She had a purple backpack
on her left shoulder."
905
00:51:27,709 --> 00:51:29,127
She just got quiet.
906
00:51:31,379 --> 00:51:33,715
She didn't say... She knew I did then.
907
00:51:33,799 --> 00:51:36,051
And I said, "Let's go home."
908
00:51:39,679 --> 00:51:42,265
Fifteen to four, he called me.
He told me,
909
00:51:43,058 --> 00:51:44,058
"She's home."
910
00:51:46,603 --> 00:51:49,439
I go in to go to the bedroom.
911
00:51:50,524 --> 00:51:52,359
She's coming down the hallway.
912
00:51:52,442 --> 00:51:56,613
I'm like, "Look, my head is killing me.
I'm gonna lay down for about 30 minutes."
913
00:51:56,696 --> 00:51:58,990
And the entire time I'm laying down,
914
00:51:59,074 --> 00:52:01,451
I hear him out there sharpening a knife.
915
00:52:01,535 --> 00:52:05,497
Christy went to take her nap.
She called me when she got up.
916
00:52:05,580 --> 00:52:06,580
And, um...
917
00:52:07,541 --> 00:52:08,834
Jim came in the room.
918
00:52:08,917 --> 00:52:12,337
She says to me,
"He's got something behind his back."
919
00:52:12,420 --> 00:52:15,132
He kept putting his hand behind his back,
behind his back,
920
00:52:15,215 --> 00:52:17,384
like, three or four times.
921
00:52:17,467 --> 00:52:20,679
I heard him saying to her,
"I've got to talk to you about something."
922
00:52:20,762 --> 00:52:22,597
And then she says out loud,
923
00:52:22,681 --> 00:52:26,601
"Jim, I'll talk to you
when I'm done talking to Sherry."
924
00:52:28,728 --> 00:52:31,773
I could feel
how that was gonna impact him.
925
00:52:32,399 --> 00:52:36,069
And, sure enough,
she goes, "I gotta go," and...
926
00:52:38,321 --> 00:52:41,032
And it was, like,
instantaneously, he hit me,
927
00:52:41,116 --> 00:52:43,785
bam, bam, bam, three times,
right under my arm.
928
00:52:44,411 --> 00:52:46,830
And the fourth one,
he stabbed me in my breast.
929
00:52:46,913 --> 00:52:48,331
Blood squirted everywhere.
930
00:52:50,167 --> 00:52:52,794
We get in a fight. We fell to the floor.
931
00:52:52,878 --> 00:52:56,089
Someway, we got
from the side of the bed onto the floor.
932
00:52:56,173 --> 00:52:58,758
I try to kick him away from me.
And when I kicked him...
933
00:52:58,842 --> 00:53:00,343
My leg got cut.
934
00:53:01,094 --> 00:53:03,847
I really don't know
how that happened, okay?
935
00:53:03,930 --> 00:53:06,474
He's taking my head
and banging it into the dresser.
936
00:53:06,558 --> 00:53:10,896
Now, I get ahold of the knife handle.
My hand slips and cuts me right here.
937
00:53:12,439 --> 00:53:15,025
He stopped everything
and just left me laying there
938
00:53:15,108 --> 00:53:17,277
and went to take care of that cut.
939
00:53:18,486 --> 00:53:23,158
I can hear my lung gurgling,
so I know that it's filling up with blood.
940
00:53:23,241 --> 00:53:26,494
He keeps walking in and out the room,
coming to see if I had died yet.
941
00:53:26,578 --> 00:53:28,872
I was begging him,
"Please don't let me die."
942
00:53:28,955 --> 00:53:32,626
I mean, "I'm sorry, Jim. I made a mistake.
Truth is, I love you."
943
00:53:32,709 --> 00:53:35,420
But then, by the time I realized
he can't let me live,
944
00:53:35,503 --> 00:53:38,131
I was already like,
"Fuck you. I've never loved you."
945
00:53:38,215 --> 00:53:39,674
"You've been a piece of shit."
946
00:53:39,758 --> 00:53:42,469
"I've been your personal ATM.
You've done nothing but use me."
947
00:53:42,552 --> 00:53:45,430
And then he stands at my feet
948
00:53:46,139 --> 00:53:48,016
with my own pink 9-millimeter.
949
00:53:49,309 --> 00:53:51,228
I told him
he didn't have the balls to shoot me.
950
00:53:53,563 --> 00:53:54,814
And he shot me.
951
00:53:58,026 --> 00:54:00,570
Then all of a sudden, my body is dying.
952
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:05,533
And my mind's like,
"No, I don't wanna die."
953
00:54:06,785 --> 00:54:08,995
"I have to get out. I have to save me."
954
00:54:09,871 --> 00:54:11,790
"Someway, I have to save me."
955
00:54:12,707 --> 00:54:15,710
Prayed so hard.
"God, please, let me get out of here."
956
00:54:17,420 --> 00:54:20,840
And instantaneously,
I heard the shower water turn on.
957
00:54:23,969 --> 00:54:25,804
I knew that was the answer to my prayer
958
00:54:25,887 --> 00:54:28,807
and also the only time
I was ever gonna be able to get out.
959
00:54:30,934 --> 00:54:33,895
It was like, you know, the switch flipped.
960
00:54:34,813 --> 00:54:36,940
I ran to the middle of the road.
961
00:54:37,899 --> 00:54:39,693
The first guy went by me,
962
00:54:40,443 --> 00:54:43,697
but then the second guy,
Rick Cole, my angel, he stopped.
963
00:54:44,572 --> 00:54:46,366
I said, "Please don't let me die, sir."
964
00:54:46,449 --> 00:54:49,995
And, um, "I'm sorry,
but I'm bleeding all over your back seat."
965
00:54:59,838 --> 00:55:01,673
He got me to the hospital.
966
00:55:02,340 --> 00:55:05,885
They have a gurney thing out there
and put me on.
967
00:55:06,428 --> 00:55:07,428
It all started.
968
00:55:08,096 --> 00:55:11,975
Late breaking tonight, a world-class boxer
wanted to get out of her marriage,
969
00:55:12,058 --> 00:55:13,601
then barely made it out of her house.
970
00:55:13,685 --> 00:55:17,147
Christy Martin shot
and stabbed and left for dead.
971
00:55:17,230 --> 00:55:20,984
One of my friends texted me, I'm driving,
and I almost went off the road.
972
00:55:21,067 --> 00:55:23,695
I was like, "What the..." You know?
973
00:55:23,778 --> 00:55:26,298
Jim Martin shot
and stabbed her in their Apopka home
974
00:55:26,364 --> 00:55:29,409
after she told him
she was leaving him for another woman.
975
00:55:29,492 --> 00:55:32,120
The story seemed to grow and grow,
976
00:55:32,203 --> 00:55:35,373
and you were just like,
"Oh my God, did I know anything?"
977
00:55:35,457 --> 00:55:39,711
Deputies say they're still
trying to find 66-year-old James Martin.
978
00:55:39,794 --> 00:55:42,172
They believe
he is armed and dangerous.
979
00:55:42,255 --> 00:55:44,095
When I ran from the police,
where I went wrong,
980
00:55:44,132 --> 00:55:45,759
when I got scared and left,
981
00:55:46,384 --> 00:55:48,845
I should never have left.
I should've stayed right there.
982
00:55:49,679 --> 00:55:53,099
I slept in a tool shed with lawn mowers.
983
00:55:53,975 --> 00:55:56,436
One night,
we went to this fella's place
984
00:55:56,519 --> 00:56:00,315
that was a good friend of Jim
that lived right down the street from him.
985
00:56:00,398 --> 00:56:05,028
We smelled Jim's cologne,
and we knew he was somewhere close.
986
00:56:05,612 --> 00:56:08,365
Deputies found the wanted man
holding a bloody knife,
987
00:56:08,448 --> 00:56:10,867
hiding out near this shed
behind a vacant home.
988
00:56:11,451 --> 00:56:14,412
If I could've got ahold of him,
I'd have killed him right then.
989
00:56:17,540 --> 00:56:19,542
And I wouldn't have made it easy either.
990
00:56:20,919 --> 00:56:25,215
Did you know that Christy's dad
and brother were sort of looking for you
991
00:56:25,298 --> 00:56:26,383
while you were missing?
992
00:56:26,466 --> 00:56:28,176
- Did you know that?
- Nuh-uh. Mm-mm.
993
00:56:30,178 --> 00:56:32,389
Why would they do that,
do you think?
994
00:56:34,432 --> 00:56:35,432
I don't know.
995
00:56:35,934 --> 00:56:38,603
Well, maybe shoot me
since it's their daughter.
996
00:56:42,732 --> 00:56:46,027
Sherry actually had
called my mom from the hospital
997
00:56:46,694 --> 00:56:48,196
to try to tell her how I was.
998
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:52,617
She told Sherry that she better
not be there when she got there.
999
00:56:55,620 --> 00:56:58,456
You know, here, all these years later,
she shows up,
1000
00:56:58,540 --> 00:57:03,420
and I get shot and stabbed,
and, you know, in my mom's mind,
1001
00:57:03,503 --> 00:57:04,838
it was Sherry's fault.
1002
00:57:06,047 --> 00:57:10,009
There was no acknowledgment
that it was Jim's fault.
1003
00:57:10,093 --> 00:57:13,513
That it was her fault and my fault
for a month or two.
1004
00:57:16,975 --> 00:57:18,685
I talked to my mother,
1005
00:57:18,768 --> 00:57:21,563
and I told her
that he had tried to kill me.
1006
00:57:23,231 --> 00:57:26,234
And I told my mother
she might as well have pulled the trigger.
1007
00:57:28,278 --> 00:57:29,279
Because...
1008
00:57:31,197 --> 00:57:33,241
I felt like she always took his side.
1009
00:57:34,033 --> 00:57:37,495
She would hardly talk to me then,
and it was...
1010
00:57:38,246 --> 00:57:40,748
it was a long time before she did.
1011
00:57:52,385 --> 00:57:56,806
I called to talk to Christy,
and I'm like,
1012
00:57:57,557 --> 00:57:58,850
"Are you okay?"
1013
00:58:01,936 --> 00:58:03,313
"Who's Sherry?"
1014
00:58:03,396 --> 00:58:06,149
One thing's for sure,
I didn't creep out of the closet.
1015
00:58:06,649 --> 00:58:09,110
I pretty much kicked the door down
and said, "I'm here."
1016
00:58:10,195 --> 00:58:12,739
The incident
caused everything just to go out.
1017
00:58:13,531 --> 00:58:16,659
I remember hearing the news
with her husband trying to kill her
1018
00:58:16,743 --> 00:58:18,369
that she was a lesbian.
1019
00:58:18,995 --> 00:58:22,582
I remember thinking, "Wow, you never know
what someone's going through."
1020
00:58:23,166 --> 00:58:25,126
Sometimes we're afraid to be ourselves.
1021
00:58:25,210 --> 00:58:27,378
We don't think people
accept us or like us.
1022
00:58:28,379 --> 00:58:31,382
You know what I mean?
We all have that mask of sanity.
1023
00:58:31,466 --> 00:58:34,427
We have to be something
that the whole community loves.
1024
00:58:35,136 --> 00:58:37,347
Jim had told me
for all those years
1025
00:58:37,430 --> 00:58:39,474
how the boxing world
would turn against me,
1026
00:58:39,557 --> 00:58:40,808
fans would turn against me.
1027
00:58:41,434 --> 00:58:43,478
It was... It was so much the opposite.
1028
00:58:44,354 --> 00:58:47,482
That's what happens all the time.
Our fears never happen.
1029
00:58:47,565 --> 00:58:50,860
But the fear of it happening
causes us to do damage to ourselves.
1030
00:58:51,861 --> 00:58:54,948
You know, no one in the boxing community
cares that she's gay.
1031
00:58:55,448 --> 00:58:59,202
Christy Martin here,
walking into dangerous territory.
1032
00:59:01,162 --> 00:59:04,541
If you can fight like that,
you know, big deal.
1033
00:59:04,624 --> 00:59:07,502
It's like, "Yeah. Okay, so she's gay."
1034
00:59:07,585 --> 00:59:10,088
"What the heck?
Her husband tried to kill her?"
1035
00:59:10,838 --> 00:59:14,425
Not only being stabbed,
but then being sliced,
1036
00:59:14,509 --> 00:59:16,261
then being pistol-whipped,
1037
00:59:16,344 --> 00:59:18,846
then having your head
bashed into a dresser,
1038
00:59:19,430 --> 00:59:21,015
and then being shot.
1039
00:59:21,099 --> 00:59:24,394
Christy Martin sat silently
while the prosecutor described
1040
00:59:24,477 --> 00:59:26,521
how she claims to have been
viciously attacked
1041
00:59:26,604 --> 00:59:28,898
by her 67-year-old husband, Jim.
1042
00:59:30,024 --> 00:59:32,277
The trial, which is now
set for May in this case,
1043
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:35,196
and Jim Martin's
already filed a plea of not guilty.
1044
00:59:36,072 --> 00:59:40,326
We look forward to Christy's day in court
and to a just result.
1045
00:59:40,910 --> 00:59:43,454
I'm a fighter, and I love boxing.
1046
00:59:44,247 --> 00:59:46,207
I am determined to go on with my career
1047
00:59:46,291 --> 00:59:48,751
and not let what happened to me
slow me down.
1048
00:59:53,506 --> 00:59:55,383
I wanted
to get back in the ring,
1049
00:59:56,843 --> 01:00:00,805
but more than anything, I wanted
to show Jim I could win without him.
1050
01:00:03,474 --> 01:00:05,101
Everything that happened,
1051
01:00:05,184 --> 01:00:09,939
in every way that Jim Martin
ever said he was gonna destroy her,
1052
01:00:10,523 --> 01:00:12,734
if she did not come back and fight,
1053
01:00:13,610 --> 01:00:15,194
would have been true.
1054
01:00:15,987 --> 01:00:19,282
I was never jealous of Christy,
never whatsoever,
1055
01:00:19,365 --> 01:00:21,117
'cause I know what I'd done.
1056
01:00:21,909 --> 01:00:23,953
They're looking at my Rembrandt
1057
01:00:25,455 --> 01:00:26,456
that I made,
1058
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:28,541
and they're praising it,
1059
01:00:28,625 --> 01:00:31,919
and they don't know
they're praising me, and I don't care,
1060
01:00:32,003 --> 01:00:36,007
but I know she's there
'cause I put her there.
1061
01:00:37,258 --> 01:00:38,468
Okay.
1062
01:00:38,551 --> 01:00:39,551
One, two.
1063
01:00:42,930 --> 01:00:44,807
My first call
was to Miguel Diaz.
1064
01:00:46,142 --> 01:00:48,102
Miguel Diaz is my cutman.
1065
01:00:49,020 --> 01:00:51,147
He always laughs and says,
"Make sure everybody knows
1066
01:00:51,230 --> 01:00:53,983
I wasn't in your corner
the night of the Gogarty fight."
1067
01:00:54,567 --> 01:00:56,486
But Miguel is mi papi. I love him.
1068
01:00:56,569 --> 01:00:58,571
And I just asked him, um,
1069
01:00:59,405 --> 01:01:00,615
would he train me?
1070
01:01:00,698 --> 01:01:04,744
I said, "Are you sure? You think
you're gonna be okay for fighting?"
1071
01:01:05,787 --> 01:01:08,498
She say,
"I just wanna know if you will train me."
1072
01:01:09,332 --> 01:01:11,542
And that's when I say, "Yeah, absolutely,"
1073
01:01:12,043 --> 01:01:15,672
thinking that maybe this is
gonna be five months from now,
1074
01:01:15,755 --> 01:01:17,215
six months from now.
1075
01:01:17,298 --> 01:01:20,468
But, like, within 24 hours,
I was in the boxing gym,
1076
01:01:20,968 --> 01:01:22,220
bullet still in my back.
1077
01:01:23,638 --> 01:01:24,972
I was down for it.
1078
01:01:25,598 --> 01:01:26,849
"Let's get that 50th win."
1079
01:01:28,518 --> 01:01:30,770
- Again, I know her heart.
- There we go.
1080
01:01:30,853 --> 01:01:32,188
She fights to win.
1081
01:01:33,898 --> 01:01:36,359
It's very hard
for fighters to understand
1082
01:01:36,442 --> 01:01:38,653
when is the finish of their career,
1083
01:01:38,736 --> 01:01:41,364
because inside their brains,
1084
01:01:41,447 --> 01:01:43,950
they're still fighting to the last point.
1085
01:01:45,076 --> 01:01:47,161
It's the only thing they know what to do.
1086
01:01:47,745 --> 01:01:50,623
Once we get in that ring
and those people start applauding us,
1087
01:01:50,707 --> 01:01:52,667
we're addicted. We're hooked.
1088
01:01:53,918 --> 01:01:55,712
No drug is gonna replace that feeling.
1089
01:01:55,795 --> 01:01:59,257
I can't even explain that feeling to you,
and you don't wanna let it go.
1090
01:02:04,387 --> 01:02:07,849
It was so hard to give support,
1091
01:02:07,932 --> 01:02:12,228
and, to me,
not just demand the right thing be done,
1092
01:02:12,311 --> 01:02:13,938
and that's not fight.
1093
01:02:14,647 --> 01:02:19,569
She didn't like Christy Martin.
She wanted me to be just Christy Salters.
1094
01:02:19,652 --> 01:02:20,987
Well, I-I'm not.
1095
01:02:22,321 --> 01:02:25,199
You tell me I can't do something,
then sit back and watch.
1096
01:02:25,783 --> 01:02:28,411
If you tell me I can't do it,
I'm gonna do it or die.
1097
01:02:31,873 --> 01:02:34,601
Ladies and gentlemen,
continuing now at the Staples Center
1098
01:02:34,625 --> 01:02:36,377
with a very special attraction,
1099
01:02:36,461 --> 01:02:38,504
scheduled for six two-minute rounds,
1100
01:02:38,588 --> 01:02:40,590
featuring the women of boxing.
1101
01:02:43,050 --> 01:02:44,886
She just wasn't gonna stop.
1102
01:02:45,887 --> 01:02:47,930
And there wasn't gonna be no stopping her.
1103
01:02:48,014 --> 01:02:50,641
Introducing first,
fighting out of the blue corner,
1104
01:02:50,725 --> 01:02:52,393
from Auburn, Washington,
1105
01:02:52,477 --> 01:02:57,356
here is Dakota "Solid" Stone!
1106
01:02:57,440 --> 01:02:59,358
Out of the red corner,
1107
01:02:59,442 --> 01:03:01,944
tonight, she looks for win number 50,
1108
01:03:02,028 --> 01:03:04,530
from Bluefield, West Virginia,
1109
01:03:04,614 --> 01:03:08,117
Christy Martin!
1110
01:03:13,456 --> 01:03:15,541
Christy!
1111
01:03:15,625 --> 01:03:18,002
First round,
we're exchanging good exchanges.
1112
01:03:22,882 --> 01:03:25,802
There's that right hand!
Right on the mark! Right on...
1113
01:03:25,885 --> 01:03:27,970
Christy Martin, in my book, got that win.
1114
01:03:28,554 --> 01:03:29,847
She was doing good.
1115
01:03:31,599 --> 01:03:34,185
Oh, big shot by Christy Martin.
1116
01:03:34,268 --> 01:03:37,730
I was telling Christy,
"Use the jab a bit. Don't go crazy."
1117
01:03:37,814 --> 01:03:39,894
Always a crowd-pleaser,
Christy Martin.
1118
01:03:39,941 --> 01:03:43,986
But, for Christy, it's almost impossible
to give those kind of instructions.
1119
01:03:48,324 --> 01:03:51,369
And again,
the reach advantage. It is a four...
1120
01:03:51,452 --> 01:03:53,663
Good right hand
by Christy Martin, on the button!
1121
01:03:54,497 --> 01:03:56,415
It looks like
she might have hurt her hand.
1122
01:03:56,499 --> 01:03:59,377
She needs to get under that jab,
then push her off that...
1123
01:04:01,629 --> 01:04:03,172
Oh! Good right hand!
1124
01:04:03,256 --> 01:04:05,216
Big one! Big one!
1125
01:04:05,299 --> 01:04:08,302
I knock her down. First time she's ever
been knocked down in her career.
1126
01:04:08,386 --> 01:04:12,181
What a right hook
by Christy Martin, set up beautifully.
1127
01:04:12,265 --> 01:04:13,641
But I broke my hand.
1128
01:04:13,724 --> 01:04:17,103
That's the worst thing you can do,
throw the right hand over right hand,
1129
01:04:17,186 --> 01:04:18,312
on top of the head.
1130
01:04:18,396 --> 01:04:19,397
Time.
1131
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:22,066
That was a 10-8 round
for Christy Martin.
1132
01:04:22,149 --> 01:04:25,319
The referee come and say,
"How is she?"
1133
01:04:25,403 --> 01:04:28,739
"It's okay. She's all right.
She's... No problem."
1134
01:04:28,823 --> 01:04:31,325
"The last two rounds,
we're gonna be jabbing. Don't worry."
1135
01:04:31,409 --> 01:04:34,954
- That right hand...
- She did hurt her hand.
1136
01:04:35,037 --> 01:04:38,416
The only time I could say
I actually felt pain in the boxing ring
1137
01:04:38,499 --> 01:04:39,917
was when I broke my hand,
1138
01:04:40,001 --> 01:04:43,337
but, um, it wasn't painful enough
for me to stop.
1139
01:04:43,421 --> 01:04:46,632
So I still was able to throw
that broken hand.
1140
01:04:46,716 --> 01:04:50,094
She's scoring points.
She's working with one hand.
1141
01:04:51,888 --> 01:04:55,308
I was winning the fight easily,
had knocked down Dakota Stone,
1142
01:04:55,391 --> 01:04:58,060
ahead by at least three points
on all cards.
1143
01:04:58,769 --> 01:05:00,146
Fifty seconds to go.
1144
01:05:00,229 --> 01:05:03,041
- She hurt her hand again!
- Yes, she did.
1145
01:05:03,065 --> 01:05:04,984
She landed the right hand.
1146
01:05:05,067 --> 01:05:06,527
She hit it and went like that.
1147
01:05:06,611 --> 01:05:10,990
The doctor says, "You're not throwing it.
You winced when you did throw it once."
1148
01:05:11,073 --> 01:05:12,074
I'm pleading with him.
1149
01:05:12,158 --> 01:05:14,660
"I'm not even getting hit.
I'm winning the rounds."
1150
01:05:14,744 --> 01:05:17,163
Fifty seconds from my fiftieth win.
1151
01:05:17,246 --> 01:05:20,750
- I don't care. I have to finish.
- She wants to continue.
1152
01:05:20,833 --> 01:05:23,961
- Please, let me finish.
- She wants to continue.
1153
01:05:25,755 --> 01:05:27,965
I'm calling it off. It's over. I'm sorry.
1154
01:05:28,049 --> 01:05:30,468
David Mendoza saying it's over!
1155
01:05:30,551 --> 01:05:32,845
And, um, he waved it off.
1156
01:05:34,597 --> 01:05:37,600
Fucking doctor come in
and tell everybody to stop the fight.
1157
01:05:37,683 --> 01:05:39,894
She's kicked her mouthpiece.
1158
01:05:39,977 --> 01:05:41,354
She's not able to continue.
1159
01:05:42,521 --> 01:05:45,149
If she wouldn't have
thrown that right...
1160
01:05:45,232 --> 01:05:47,652
She was winning the fight,
dropped her opponent,
1161
01:05:47,735 --> 01:05:48,903
and she was ahead.
1162
01:05:49,904 --> 01:05:50,988
And I was like,
1163
01:05:52,740 --> 01:05:54,575
"How? How?"
1164
01:05:54,659 --> 01:05:58,412
Ladies and gentlemen, after consulting
with the ringside physician,
1165
01:05:58,496 --> 01:06:01,123
referee David Mendoza
has to stop this contest
1166
01:06:01,207 --> 01:06:04,418
due to a broken right hand
sustained by Christy Martin.
1167
01:06:04,502 --> 01:06:07,463
Therefore, the winner by TKO victory,
1168
01:06:07,546 --> 01:06:10,633
Dakota "Solid" Stone.
1169
01:06:11,133 --> 01:06:13,386
The doctor said,
"Christy, remember you spoke
1170
01:06:13,469 --> 01:06:15,763
at our physicians' ringside conference
a few years ago,
1171
01:06:16,389 --> 01:06:20,101
and you said ringside physicians
have to protect fighters from themselves."
1172
01:06:21,477 --> 01:06:24,105
And I said,
"Fuck you. I wasn't talking about me."
1173
01:06:30,736 --> 01:06:33,114
Her hand was literally gravel.
1174
01:06:33,197 --> 01:06:37,451
I mean, the doctor said that's
the worst broken hand she'd ever seen.
1175
01:06:40,579 --> 01:06:44,208
The doctors told my family
surgery would take about two hours
1176
01:06:44,291 --> 01:06:45,292
and I would be out.
1177
01:06:46,752 --> 01:06:48,546
Um, surgery took seven hours.
1178
01:06:50,923 --> 01:06:52,675
When I finally woke up,
1179
01:06:52,758 --> 01:06:55,803
like, I knew that something was wrong.
1180
01:06:55,886 --> 01:06:57,263
I... I couldn't walk.
1181
01:06:57,763 --> 01:06:59,974
I-I couldn't talk. Um...
1182
01:07:00,057 --> 01:07:02,184
My vision was really messed up.
1183
01:07:02,685 --> 01:07:06,272
And I look at her and immediately go,
"She's had a stroke."
1184
01:07:06,814 --> 01:07:09,025
Six months after being shot and stabbed.
1185
01:07:15,740 --> 01:07:19,869
With Sherry,
we had decided before the stroke
1186
01:07:19,952 --> 01:07:22,580
that she was gonna go her separate way.
1187
01:07:22,663 --> 01:07:24,290
We were... We were gonna break up.
1188
01:07:25,541 --> 01:07:27,710
We just were different people.
1189
01:07:27,793 --> 01:07:29,920
Uh, it just wasn't gonna work.
1190
01:07:31,464 --> 01:07:33,799
And you know what? She could have left.
1191
01:07:36,010 --> 01:07:37,887
That was... That was the agreement.
1192
01:07:37,970 --> 01:07:39,638
But she didn't. She stayed there.
1193
01:07:40,723 --> 01:07:43,309
She took care of me
and helped me get through the stroke,
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01:07:44,101 --> 01:07:47,021
and she gave me a lot of support
in the courtroom.
1195
01:07:56,530 --> 01:07:57,406
You ready?
1196
01:07:57,490 --> 01:07:59,370
Christy Martin
entered the courtroom
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01:07:59,450 --> 01:08:02,453
prepared for what's been described
as the fight of her life.
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01:08:03,329 --> 01:08:06,665
It's he said, she said, and you know what?
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01:08:06,749 --> 01:08:08,834
It's not who's right and wrong.
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01:08:08,918 --> 01:08:11,087
It's who can tell the best story.
1201
01:08:11,587 --> 01:08:14,799
Martin claims
his boxer wife was the aggressor.
1202
01:08:14,882 --> 01:08:18,052
Yes, I talked to his attorney,
and that will be their defense.
1203
01:08:18,135 --> 01:08:21,597
I was just trying to defend myself.
I wasn't even trying to hurt her.
1204
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:24,600
Jim Martin's attorney
painted a picture of confusion.
1205
01:08:24,683 --> 01:08:28,354
That cocaine made her paranoid.
The gun belonged to Christy.
1206
01:08:28,437 --> 01:08:29,980
At that point in time,
1207
01:08:30,064 --> 01:08:32,149
Christy Martin felt threatened,
1208
01:08:32,233 --> 01:08:33,984
her life felt threatened,
1209
01:08:34,068 --> 01:08:36,320
and her career felt threatened.
1210
01:08:36,821 --> 01:08:41,450
He would look out the corner of his eye
to see who was back there.
1211
01:08:42,159 --> 01:08:45,079
I just wanted to run up there
and beat him.
1212
01:08:46,956 --> 01:08:51,001
Christy and I said the whole time
leading up to the trial, "Let's get him."
1213
01:08:51,085 --> 01:08:53,295
Christy Martin laid it all out
for the jury,
1214
01:08:53,379 --> 01:08:56,048
the good, the bad, and the ugly.
1215
01:08:56,132 --> 01:09:00,344
The jury saw the bloody T-shirt
Christy used to try to stop the bleeding.
1216
01:09:00,427 --> 01:09:03,180
The clothes she wore,
complete with knife holes.
1217
01:09:03,264 --> 01:09:05,975
Christy said
Jim walked into the room a second time
1218
01:09:06,058 --> 01:09:08,227
with her pink 9-millimeter gun.
1219
01:09:09,061 --> 01:09:10,938
The whole time, I looked straight at Jim.
1220
01:09:11,021 --> 01:09:15,442
When he would try to look away from me,
I would tell him to look at me.
1221
01:09:16,068 --> 01:09:17,945
I wasn't about to let him see me cry.
1222
01:09:18,654 --> 01:09:20,698
It's time for me to stand on my own.
1223
01:09:20,781 --> 01:09:23,033
It's time for me
to show him that I'm strong.
1224
01:09:23,617 --> 01:09:26,495
You shot me with my own gun,
1225
01:09:27,746 --> 01:09:29,248
basically point-blank.
1226
01:09:31,625 --> 01:09:33,544
And guess what, mother****?
1227
01:09:34,295 --> 01:09:35,295
I walked out.
1228
01:09:36,046 --> 01:09:37,673
I walked out.
1229
01:09:38,257 --> 01:09:42,803
I've come to some realization that I got
my 50th win when I got up off the floor,
1230
01:09:43,721 --> 01:09:45,389
November 23, 2010.
1231
01:09:46,140 --> 01:09:50,019
That was not just my 50th win,
but that was the biggest win of my life.
1232
01:09:53,522 --> 01:09:57,359
If Madam Clerk
would please publish our verdict.
1233
01:09:57,443 --> 01:09:58,652
Yes, Your Honor.
1234
01:10:00,237 --> 01:10:01,405
Count one.
1235
01:10:01,488 --> 01:10:05,701
We, the jury, find the defendant
guilty of attempted second-degree murder.
1236
01:10:05,784 --> 01:10:08,996
The jury convicted
on attempted second degree in one count
1237
01:10:09,079 --> 01:10:11,081
and attempted manslaughter on the other.
1238
01:10:11,165 --> 01:10:13,310
When they announced my sentence,
I didn't flinch.
1239
01:10:13,334 --> 01:10:15,252
It says in the paper I didn't flinch.
1240
01:10:15,336 --> 01:10:18,214
I wasn't gonna show any, um...
1241
01:10:19,298 --> 01:10:20,298
weakness.
1242
01:10:21,258 --> 01:10:22,258
You know?
1243
01:10:24,386 --> 01:10:26,639
She's the worst thing
that ever happened in my life
1244
01:10:26,722 --> 01:10:29,391
if you would look at where I'm at.
1245
01:10:30,142 --> 01:10:31,977
But I lived a pretty good life.
1246
01:10:33,437 --> 01:10:34,813
And I was happy.
1247
01:10:36,899 --> 01:10:37,983
You know.
1248
01:10:44,114 --> 01:10:45,950
Well, it was my choice.
1249
01:10:48,786 --> 01:10:50,287
I done what I said I would do.
1250
01:10:51,372 --> 01:10:55,751
I said, "Christy, I'm gonna make you
the best woman athlete in the world."
1251
01:10:57,294 --> 01:11:00,506
It's probably the only thing
I ever said in my life to come true.
1252
01:11:01,006 --> 01:11:04,176
Jim Martin faces
a minimum of 25 years in prison.
1253
01:11:04,260 --> 01:11:05,719
His attorney will appeal.
1254
01:11:05,803 --> 01:11:09,682
You know, in 25 years,
if he lives to be 92, he'll get out.
1255
01:11:10,307 --> 01:11:11,767
And honestly,
1256
01:11:13,394 --> 01:11:16,480
he's such a son of a bitch,
I think he will live to be 92.
1257
01:11:17,147 --> 01:11:19,108
If he lives long enough, he'll get out.
1258
01:11:19,984 --> 01:11:23,153
And if I live long enough,
he won't never walk nowhere.
1259
01:11:37,167 --> 01:11:40,546
I have a recurring dream
that happens here in my granny's house.
1260
01:11:41,380 --> 01:11:42,756
And Jim's chasing me,
1261
01:11:43,590 --> 01:11:45,426
and chasing me all around the house,
1262
01:11:46,302 --> 01:11:48,679
and trying every way I can
to get away from him,
1263
01:11:50,139 --> 01:11:51,807
so he... he can't stab me.
1264
01:11:53,851 --> 01:11:57,146
I-I guess I wake up
before anything happens every time,
1265
01:11:57,229 --> 01:12:00,858
but it's this same dream... I've been having
the same dream for nine years.
1266
01:12:02,401 --> 01:12:03,401
Here.
1267
01:12:04,528 --> 01:12:05,528
Again, I...
1268
01:12:05,571 --> 01:12:06,864
Why this house,
1269
01:12:07,740 --> 01:12:11,452
why I keep having the dream,
you know, I don't have an answer for.
1270
01:12:13,954 --> 01:12:16,832
I talk to my counselor
about that all the time,
1271
01:12:16,915 --> 01:12:18,751
like, "When am I gonna get over it?"
1272
01:12:20,252 --> 01:12:21,503
And, um...
1273
01:12:23,422 --> 01:12:25,257
she says, "Probably never, Christy."
1274
01:12:25,341 --> 01:12:28,927
"This is... You have to figure out
how to deal with it."
1275
01:12:30,346 --> 01:12:33,599
And so, that's what I do.
And, I mean, I-I'm getting better.
1276
01:12:33,682 --> 01:12:37,144
I mean, we're coming up
on, uh, nine years.
1277
01:12:38,312 --> 01:12:39,438
Um...
1278
01:12:39,521 --> 01:12:41,857
I-I... I'm gonna be okay. I am okay.
1279
01:12:41,940 --> 01:12:44,109
I'm not gonna be okay. I am okay.
1280
01:12:44,193 --> 01:12:45,486
Thank you for coming.
1281
01:12:45,569 --> 01:12:47,780
Thank you for being part
of Christy Martin Promotions.
1282
01:12:47,863 --> 01:12:49,031
I truly appreciate it.
1283
01:12:49,114 --> 01:12:52,743
It means a lot to have guys like you
come in here to fight on my show.
1284
01:12:52,826 --> 01:12:57,331
Finally, I got to the point
in my life where I'm gonna be me.
1285
01:12:57,414 --> 01:12:58,624
It's kinda like this.
1286
01:12:58,707 --> 01:13:01,752
You can either get on or you can get off.
It doesn't matter.
1287
01:13:01,835 --> 01:13:03,921
I really don't care anymore.
1288
01:13:11,804 --> 01:13:14,765
And then out of nowhere,
here comes Lisa Holewyne.
1289
01:13:17,851 --> 01:13:22,106
I don't really know what happened,
what change, what directionally...
1290
01:13:22,189 --> 01:13:24,316
The world tilted on its axis?
1291
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:25,609
I'm not really sure.
1292
01:13:26,652 --> 01:13:30,406
I don't... I don't know. I think everything
came together at the right moment,
1293
01:13:30,489 --> 01:13:33,075
and we realized we were a good match.
1294
01:13:34,576 --> 01:13:36,787
I-I love her without question,
1295
01:13:36,870 --> 01:13:40,082
and, um, I'm the happiest
I've ever been in my life.
1296
01:13:40,666 --> 01:13:42,459
I'm happy in my own skin.
1297
01:13:45,087 --> 01:13:49,007
It feels great to have a wife
that is Christy.
1298
01:13:50,134 --> 01:13:51,677
She's everything that...
1299
01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:55,764
makes things right by me.
1300
01:13:57,641 --> 01:14:03,397
So what I want is for her
to feel full of love and life
1301
01:14:03,480 --> 01:14:06,150
and the possibilities of everything else
1302
01:14:06,233 --> 01:14:08,777
and not that she's just a fighter.
1303
01:14:09,736 --> 01:14:15,492
And I think that she was a fighter
and a meal ticket for other people.
1304
01:14:20,539 --> 01:14:24,334
I hope it's everlasting, and that, um...
1305
01:14:27,212 --> 01:14:30,048
I just hope I can make her
as happy as she makes me.
1306
01:14:37,306 --> 01:14:41,435
It was very important
that Lisa stay here with me this week
1307
01:14:42,269 --> 01:14:44,062
to hear my true story
1308
01:14:44,813 --> 01:14:46,857
and to see how hard it is.
1309
01:14:47,441 --> 01:14:48,442
Hmm?
1310
01:14:48,525 --> 01:14:50,027
And because of that,
1311
01:14:50,110 --> 01:14:54,072
she will have a better understanding
of who I am.
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