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This is what a nightmare looks like.

It was the richest fight in boxing history.

Mike Tyson wasn't ready.

Lennox Lewis was... rang.

You

know what I mean?

I just go find my pigeons on the roof.

What I want.

Why can't I work hard for it?

I sweated for it.

I didn't steal it.

I bled in the gym for it.

I beat my body up and I allow people to beat me up.

Why shouldn't I have it all?

Nobody should take nothing from me.

He's earned more prize money than any athlete in the

history of sports and he still works out in a public gym.

In Mike's world, things are never as they seem.

Never.

Just like Mike, it is unfulfilled promise.

The world I've come from, I've

got some enraged animals that I want to hang out and love life.

But I'm not going to tell everybody to push me around like

after Lennox Lewis, right?

He was just, I don't know, totally different.

He was more humble.

He's just a regular person like everyone else, that he's not this animal,

you know, that people think he is.

He's just a beautiful person with a big heart,

very giving and sensitive and emotional.

I know his past and, you know, is there?

You can't just overlook it.

I'm here to show him that there's people he can

trust because it's very hard for him to trust people.

You know, he's been burned a lot and people used to look at him as a target.

They were like, you know, he's someone that he has so much money.

He's always throwing it around.

I might as well get a piece of it.

You know, that's how people looked at it.

He's got a lot of love to give him.

People don't know that.

So I know that I'm that person.

I'm here to make him happy.

I'm glad the fact she says she's in love.

Then again, you know, all this stuff, all these

goodies and stuff is easy to love this stuff.

You know, I mean, let me see a couple of my episodes,

a couple of my episodes, and we'll find out.

What does a man do to himself when he gets ready to fight another man?

Tune in the body is one thing, but get in your mind there is something else.

And then you got to go back.

It doesn't matter that you're fighting some guy named Clifford at the end.

A guy you're expected to destroy.

You headed back to Memphis.

Back to a place of bad memories.

On his face, only 11 days before the battle.

Finish.

I had to stop because people were complaining.

So when I get finished, then you talk about my tattoo.

This is nothing.

This is not even halfway done.

I did speak to Shelley Finkel, Mike Tyson's manager.

He did tell me that Mike spent most of the day today in seclusion, very focused,

much, much different than when he was here in June against Lennox Lewis.

In fact, he said I wished he'd have had this

attitude and this focus going into that fight.

So do I talk to you?

Do you want to do with me?

Watch my eating technique there?

Get a gauge to chicken.

I eat like a barracuda.

Thank you very much.

I have no etiquette skills whatsoever.

I hate Mike Tyson.

So I don't like Mike Tyson.

I mostly wish to work for Mike Tyson.

So I don't just go that way.

That's probably why I don't like my friends and my friends.

I'm a pretty decent individual, but I sometimes

I go to the cross too hard, too tough.

So people think, they see how everybody and for

all these years and nobody will consider helping.

And even if I'm embarrassed to accept it, can't they?

If I'm friendly, can't they please get somebody to help?

Can't they get them put me in the same asylum or mental water, whatever place I

need to be in a hospital or just... I'm just going to extreme, so what to do?

Everybody, I don't seem for weeks, girls.

I can't ever get the numbers.

They call me always the day of the fight.

We can throw up like, this shows me how I'm just... I'm never with these girls

because if I don't want them to day before the fight or

something like that, I'm never going to see them again.

So I just really don't... Maybe my next life, I have a better life.

And that's why I'm just looking forward to go to the other world.

Because I really hate the way I live now.

I hate my life now.

I'm going to practice a little bit of man.

I'm going to work.

None of my friends have any respect for me.

Those respect that thing.

Because

I was a man too.

It's so easy to love a person like that.

They haven't seen me when I'm... I'm a psycho.

The more my bank account growth, the more.

..

I'm probably cheated on every woman I ever been with.

Three to 25 years.

And I haven't received any dignity from it.

I've received a lot of pain from it.

I'd have probably received just my average everyday life if I didn't fight.

But just...

It made me not like Mike Tyson no more.

So when y'all guys show me love, I hate you.

Because I don't like myself.

So we got a little... I got to catch 22 with some of my own identity.

You know what I mean?

That's how come I'm very harsh with you sometime.

Because I'm very tyrannical.

Because I'm not happy with myself.

I don't care if I live in there.

I don't give a **** about any of y'all.

But I do.

All right, Gina.

This one's the only fight?

Yeah.

Yeah, this one's right.

Well, you happy?

Yeah.

All right.

We're gonna try to keep them like that short and get them out of it, right?

Yeah,

I'm letting my baby go back to sleep.

I just want to tell her I love her.

And I want to tell her that I know they ain't gonna know where.

I

really have nothing to lose in my life.

I have nothing.

I lost my soul as a human being.

I lost my social spectrum.

I was just a monster as a kid.

The beast survived.

The toughest survived for me.

And so you have to be one with no one else with the mean ferocious blood,

or you have to be the man.

My sister and brother used to kill me all the time.

And I just didn't want to fight.

My brother was always a genius.

Everyone in the black loved him.

And where did she live?

I was a good piece.

I was a good piece of s***.

I started breaking houses in the Brooklyn.

I like the armed robberies.

You have to go with the money that you have to go in the stores and houses and stuff.

I was more inclined to that kind of stuff when I was a child.

My mother, my brother, my sister, they would never steal, they would prefer the bag.

They embarrassed me a lot because they were too honest.

I got a lot of beatings.

A lot of real horrific beatings.

I was very afraid all the time.

My mother made dope high school and water on a boyfriend.

A boyfriend made beater and fracture her eye socket or something.

A break of finger.

Emotions was high and they had

this functionality at its highest level.

The strongest woman figure in our life is our mother.

And more normally, most young black in the city

kids see that figure destroyed by a black man.

So

hatred for our mother's boyfriend or black man in general.

My age 13, he was locked up but the abuse didn't stop in jail.

I wasn't really abused by the kids, mostly by the staff members.

They beat the **** out of me.

I think I deserved at least 95% of the beatings.

And it's always for bad.

I was always successful, always for bad.

Tyson was sent to a detention center a hundred miles from Brooklyn.

Not far from a town called Catskill.

We're an old boxing legend toiled an obscurity in a gym above a local police.

That's it.

No, I'll do it the other way.

Customado had turned around street kids before.

He had trained the youngest heavyweight champion ever, Floyd Patterson.

We get a phone call from this Bobby Stewart who's a amateur

fighter and he was a god in a correctional facility.

He called Cuss one day and said, you know, I got this young kid up here who

never parks and nothing doesn't know anything but he gets in trouble.

I was wondering if you and Teddy would take a look.

I met this white guy.

He was strange.

A little odd and he started saying things like,

why you'd be the greatest fighter ever lived.

You're good.

I'm thinking he's like, oh, pervert got him.

Okay, cool.

I knew Cuss was thinking, wow, I got somebody

to have be young about again, to have some hope.

But Cuss didn't want to wait.

He was an older man who years earlier had fame but didn't have it for a long time,

had money, but didn't have it for a long time.

And now he saw a chance to have it again, but

he wasn't young and he had to speed it up.

When he came, actually, I talked to him like everybody else.

He had to go to the same thing of preparing about

the minds and the body and so forth and so on.

He has basically destroyed me and wore my habits and he reformed me.

Members from the side, you can let that punch go with the worst kind of attention.

He, my first exposure to a white guy who didn't judge me.

I was madly in love with Cuss's motto.

I became, um, he broke me down and rebuilt me back up.

And, um, I became totally loyal to him.

I became a slave.

I was a young kid.

I just wanted to love him forever.

I wanted to be...

Be a champ of the world someday.

Just keep your mind where it's supposed to be.

Each week I teach him something new.

He's time to come back.

You could see he learned real fast.

Sure, he concentrated on the most evident thing, that

he could punch and he was going to be a knockout artist.

He had this outer body that could really fool you into

forgetting that he was still a kid who had to develop.

The belt that he was physically, he was lacking emotionally.

He's unsure of himself.

He wants to be reaffirmed, that this is worthwhile, that he is worthwhile,

that he has merit that he can handle this.

I feel an affection fan, that I want him to be okay.

I want him to not just win physically, but win emotionally.

I want him to be able to get through this.

Let's go get ready for a fight.

Go on.

I was just 15.

I was just for this big time.

I'm emotionally afraid.

I'm a street kid.

I used to pull him out of my gun and people and I'm getting ready to fight a guy.

Head up with rules now.

He might beat my ass.

This is why he might beat me.

Because it's a matter about you being big strong

and not you fighting the skinny white boy.

This is a discipline sport.

To the outside world, it seemed like boxing's version of a fairy tale.

Kids

and with teachers and getting in trouble.

It was over 100 reports of girls in one way or another being not treated right,

being abused.

That stuff was kept quiet because Cuz had some meetings with people in the house

convinced them that Tyson was going to make the town famous.

Eventually he was permanently expelled from school.

Cuz told him that hey if they kick you out don't worry about it.

I'll get you a tutor.

The problem was he didn't get him a tutor.

He didn't get his GED because they didn't care about it.

You know I mean he was knocking guys out.

For

middle class life, I'm in my white world.

And I go to high school and I see my mother.

I had no idea.

I've seen movies.

I've never saw anyone sick with cats and so

I expect to see, well you know I love you.

But I'm a con and how, Johnny.

I know I'm used to seeing movies.

I'm actually going in with this.

My mother, I'm stricken with this illness.

It was over.

Wow man.

Oh man.

The sunken eyes, the skeleton like head with the skin tightly around the cranium.

It was whoa man.

It was mine boggling.

So I mean she was briefly naked.

You can see her breath and I'll just, I didn't understand.

I used to understand that the whole scenario there was.

I covered up.

I kissed her.

I had never returned.

But I kept telling my sister.

I'm going there every day.

I mean going every day.

But I was out getting high and drinking every night.

Because that knock.

Ooh, that took me for a minute.

I smoked the angel.

I really did a man called cat.

I must have been 15.

I blew my mind.

So one day my sister came home.

And I guess I was I was slept because I was hung over there again.

So I was sleeping.

I was minding when I was walking.

I guess to open the door for her.

And soon I opened the door.

She punches me right in my face.

Wow.

And she said, why didn't you tell me mommy was dead?

And I said, oh.

And I didn't want to get killed right there.

So I said, I didn't want to hurt you.

I couldn't tell you.

I went there.

But I never went.

And oh, I don't know.

I couldn't even go down and witness the body.

But my cousin, everyone would.

It was wild.

I didn't want to do that.

That boy.

I'm not into that.

So that was just interesting.

That was just interesting in my life.

That was just a turning point.

That um, that was what happened.

That poor man.

I was going to be famous in the rich.

You ever seen a grinder?

You know the grinder that you take a wood and you

put it in and it comes out the other hand and shreds.

That's my heart.

It's grounded beef.

I don't say people have regarded somebody wants to take care of.

Oh, he's weak.

He's all we can help him.

He's gone to dog.

I've never been looked at like that.

I'm a big black nigga.

And he's, he's um, semi-beast.

So um, be careful.

He doesn't need help.

He needs to be locked up.

When my mother died, that's just really overwhelming.

I didn't care.

I lived in this really crushing me at the time.

In the fall of 1982, Customado became Tyson's legal guardian.

Cuss' companion Camille Ewald became his surrogate mother.

Cuss was saying, you're not in jail no more.

You have a chance to make yourself something productive.

But in the same breath, we're still showing them.

You were still going to get away with things and someone else couldn't get away with.

You were still going to break the rules.

Because you could punch him.

Because now you have the ability to be a world champion fighter.

Cuss was playing a dangerous game I thought.

Ted, he had married to young lady.

We were all kids then.

And he had a sister and lord.

I was a young girl and we were all friends.

And I guess I was young when I was fresh and I grabbed a butt.

She was 11 years old.

And she was part of my family, my wife's family.

And he kind of cornered him into a situation outside to jump in the town.

And this wouldn't be tolerated.

I went and found him.

And I put a gun to his head

and told him that he would never put his hands on any one of my family or to do

anything like that to any one of my family again.

Or he'd be dead.

Just to make sure he understood I stuck the gun in his

ear and then put it out of his ear and shut it off.

He crumbled away.

And I told him, don't make the mistake again.

Understand that he or not going to violate any one of my family ever, ever.

Kevin Rooney took over his Tyson's trainer.

First

round knockout became his trademark.

And the TV commentators began equating him with animals.

Let

me cuss, Jim Jacobs, and my trainer Kevin Rooney all planned.

And Scott forbid, if anything happened to cuss,

we're all professionals and we're going to continue.

And the outcome is going to be the same.

I also say to me, you know, I owe you a lot

because here I probably wouldn't be alive today.

The fact that he is here and doing what he's doing and doing as well as he's doing

and improving as he has gives me the motivation and interest to stay alive.

I will stay alive and I will watch him become a

success because I will not leave until that happens.

He was a cold old man.

I've been to a lot.

That was.

..

Customata was 77 when he died 1985.

He was the only father Mike had ever known.

Now what do you do?

Who do you trust?

Who do you believe?

You're an alien in your own world.

Enter Jim Jacobs.

Cuss's confidant and financial backer.

Jacobs had paid for Tyson's bills all along but now he had to lend his emote.

Nine days after Cuss died, Tyson was back in the ring.

Knockouts continued.

I

Tyson would get his title shot.

A day with destiny at the age of 20.

Now he's some big gorilla knocking everybody out.

Didn't stare for anything.

He didn't really care about anything.

He just wanted to fight everybody.

The good people, the bad people, the bad people, the bad people.

He just hate you all.

He just **** you.

Fighting.

Stepped over the body of his beaten champ and began his courtship of Mike Tyson.

Six months later, he gave him a coronation.

Key of the corners of the fourth square wing.

You have won the ultimate championship of the world.

You are hereby proclaimed throughout the

world as the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion.

One man, one pound, one champion.

Stand firm and hold face.

I don't have to talk to eyes because I don't know what to say.

It's so complicated to think that you're trying to

somehow save somebody, but you're kind of drowning.

You know what I mean?

You kind of jump in the pool to save them and you're kind of going under.

I wanted to take care of him.

He made me want to protect him and have everything be okay for him and he made me

want to right every wrong ever done to him.

I held him a lot and I cry a lot.

Michael's a person you could just fall in love with.

You know, there's really something about him where you're like, gaga over him.

What the escapas Joe say, show me a hero and I write you a tragedy.

What they build this up is the breakers down.

The breed beauty and the beast.

They're a great story.

But the beauty couldn't train the beast.

And he ate her.

That's f***ing man.

Come on.

That's real white.

To make you look like a evil black monster.

You raise a pit bull, then you get mad because it eats the furniture.

Fame.

It's a cold game.

In Mike's world, it wasn't a good thing.

He was controversial enough in the ring.

I just wanted to hurt those guys and save nasty things and humiliate them.

This is who I wanted to be.

What broke him down?

Was it just a party country?

But I was in

a... He's saying that.

He's being a little kid, saying that.

But in actually meeting it.

Being 19 little kids, saying that to all the grown men.

Come on, you want to try me.

I'm the best fighter that God ever created a produce.

I want to stand, I want to stand and try a chance with me.

But back then, I didn't come outside for real street fight.

I was a maniac.

I think there's a reason the world loves himself.

You know, sort of like a bear.

The winner has held the hummus, you did hummus.

Grabbing me and saying, you're going to be my woman.

And I'm going to love you like no one loved you, you know, after anything.

I was just young.

She was young.

We were created at the time.

Too crazy people loved, you know, too much on passion sometimes.

When they met Mike was 21 and Robin was 22.

I used to watch Phil Donahue when I grew up on Phil Donahue, you know.

And you watch those shows and you think of women that have

been hit and you go, oh my God, that would never happen to me.

What's wrong with this woman?

I remember the impact.

I remember the turn and the hook.

And I went from one corner of the wall, down south of that

corner of the wall to another corner, and then I was out.

I didn't think he would do that.

I was shocked.

I remember thinking, wow, he must really love me.

I'm feeling that.

Not thinking it, feeling it.

A few weeks after that episode, Mike and Robin were married.

The life became an open book.

Both

press and Tokyo, where Mike and Robin were treated like royalty.

Two days later, Tyson rushed to a New York hospital, where his mentor, Jim Jacobs,

lied dying.

He didn't make it in time.

Tyson never got to say goodbye.

I love Jacobs.

He was a beautiful man.

It was all teamwork.

I believed in my life.

It was just awesome, man.

Jacobs' death left his partner, Bill Caten, in charge of Mike's career.

But Mike didn't really trust or know Bill Caten.

At Jacobs' funeral, in Rodon King, sensing the

first real crack in the Catskill connection.

Jim was the protector in that world.

And a lot of people knew that Michael didn't have a relationship with Bill,

so he was pretty much up for grabs.

It was like open season.

Who's going to get him?

Jim!

You know, why didn't you let us know?

Like, why didn't you prepare us, you know?

Because I honestly believed we had no...

We weren't prepared for Jim's death.

And he hadn't prepared us.

For what was going to happen?

Greed reaches at the deepest core of people.

It reaches deep back down.

And they were fighting for me and stuff.

And all that crap.

And then that made it easy for Don King to sneak in.

And he used... Oh man, he got me good.

He was pretty good.

He was very...

Not only am I hurt.

This is a big strong guy.

It's a strong guy in the world going berserk.

I'm just a baby 20, 21 years old.

I think he was feeling probably unbelievable not to have pressure.

And I think being in love makes you feel vulnerable.

We were both feeling vulnerable, I think.

You know, because we were so dependent in the respects.

And I think we just couldn't handle the pressure.

One time it had gotten pretty bad and he swung a

phone at me that I knew was going to hit my face.

And really, I think I felt the pain before, you know, I didn't know.

They're just choking me.

Evomiting and kicking me.

Things like that.

But he felt that.

I mean, he felt really bad afterwards.

You know, he'd cry like a baby.

Like a baby.

I would hold him.

I'd hold his ice on my face and hold him.

And tell him I would console him.

You would think this is a grown man that has all

his emotional capabilities and together and attack.

And it's just not true.

It was some kind of love.

I mean, the kind you doesn't go away.

It's that kind.

I just wanted to taste that world.

I mean, I wanted that for a bit and a fruit day.

What else had?

I think it's your world.

Sometimes it's so ironic.

I want to accomplish great.

And if I want to, you know, that's what me and

Cuz planned to do when we first started, you know.

In order to be the greatest lie in the world.

Keep that inside.

I think I'm on.

He's an actor.

Entertain to crying out.

You know, I'm doing it in the ring.

I don't know that right now.

Out of the ring, New York became the focus of an investigation

of Tyson's finances by his wife and mother-in-law.

The newlyweds tried to buy a house and found out they had almost nothing in the bank.

Robin and her mother were cast as gold diggers.

And the press frenzy began.

Is Tyson's business manager, Bill Catan, trying to break the bond of matrimony in

order to strengthen his bond with the multi-million dollar fighter?

In many respects, Bill tried to throw up smoke screens for what the real issue was.

Robin Givens demanded an accounting of her new husband's worth.

The Sphinx fight was supposed to be Mike Tyson's crowning achievement.

The richest fight in history, nearly overshadowed by tabloid journalism.

Robin miscarried their first child just two weeks before the fight.

Mike was devastated.

Robin was accused of lying about the pregnancy.

But the show went on.

At least it did for 91 seconds.

Tyson focused less on the fight and more on the press.

It wasn't really appreciative of what you guys quote the reporters did to me.

Building up to this fight, you tried to embarrass me, try to embarrass my family,

you tried to disgrace us.

And as far as I know, this might be my last fight.

Goodbye to the men who had shaped and molded him.

Good times

the game piss you off and you don't want to play.

I'm a real weird guy.

Once I accomplished something, I lose interest in it.

And I used to need... that's my whole outlet in life.

I need something to do.

I need something to do.

Okay, how much money a guy needs something to do?

It just started getting dangerous.

When I say I'm happy, everybody's alive in my family.

Like, it got dangerous.

Basically, like the doctor said, if he wasn't going to take his medicine,

then you're the one that should be coming to see me.

So now they go to basically say I'm crazy and mentally disturbed.

I thought a bunch of psychiatrists.

It made me more s*** up than I was when I first went in there.

As the battle over Mike Tyson's mental health continues, the latest round goes to

the champ, according to the psychiatrist who examined Tyson this week.

Mike Tyson's problem or disturbance does not rise to the level

of a serious mental illness called manic depressive illness.

He loves women.

Yeah, that was a problem.

That was a problem for us too.

The loving women's heart.

I remember Michael picking him up one time and actually he had

on a white sweat suit and he had lipstick stains on his crotch.

I was a pig.

I've never been faithful to anyone ever met in my

life and it wasn't easy for Robin to live with me.

You know what I mean?

I'm a dirty dog.

Down deep.

I found a condom.

That was a terrible feeling.

I wanted to live a reckless life.

I think no one could be champion better than I could be.

I could beat any bastard in the planet.

He hit me.

But Tyson said green ripped his shirt after hassling

him about not getting fully paid for their garden bath.

Tyson's car skidded off a wet road and slammed

into a tree knocking the fighter unconscious.

He was taken to a local hospital and then transferred to one in New York City all

the while his wife tried to keep the media away.

I mean he ran the car into the tree.

I mean it was an accident.

But do I think he wanted to kill himself?

No.

But he didn't run the car into the tree.

Tyson left the hospital Wednesday apparently after seeing a psychiatrist.

Then he got on an airplane and flew off to Moscow

where his wife will be taping some TV shows.

Then Rush would say I thought somebody was gonna die.

Me or him.

Well I forget what floor we were on but he was

hanging over the balcony with his fingertips.

Saying he wants to make a comeback.

I said you can't come back.

You're number one.

You know.

I don't know how I got him in the room.

But you think he passed out.

I think he'd been drinking and he passed out.

And then we flew back.

And then the next day I did Barbara Walters.

Michael is a manic depressive.

He is.

I mean that's just a fact.

It's been worse than anything I could possibly imagine.

It's been pure hell.

I've become afraid.

He gets out of the way.

I was overwhelmed.

I was just trying to keep my cool.

And then I always thought it was just... Why would they do that to someone like that?

Why would they do it to any human being?

I definitely regretted it.

I mean if I could take it back I definitely would.

Like I said I think I thought I was doing a brave thing.

It was just very poor judgment on my part.

Police were called to Tyson's Bernad's Bill Mansion by

Robin Gibbons who said that Tyson had gone on a rampage.

We were in the washroom area that was hiding and calmed down into the Robin Camier.

And I didn't go.

I didn't go.

I didn't... That was the first time I didn't.

There's two young kids that wouldn't suppose to be married in the first place

against anyone in the world in your business

and make you feel like you're in a freak show.

And you play into it sometimes.

You know, it's just crazy.

You know, it's just crazy.

Robin Gibbons fled to California from her

husband, the heavyweight champion Mike Tyson.

And today, Marvin Mitchellson filed for a Gibbons divorce from Tyson.

Two days after Robin left Mike, he was baptized

in Don King's Church by Don King's Minister.

He told me all those white, no good things.

They out to kill us all.

They're gonna put us in the Oh, he told me some good.

Oh, I love that ****.

Oh, yeah, we gotta get the **** out of riots.

And I thought I believed in that **** they hate

us, you know, and I played into that stuff.

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When I was going through my divorce, I was just in the state of hysterical.

It was just awful.

It was just awful.

And I got manipulated into that situation and I don't know.

It was just very much unhappy from then on.

And when I'm pretty much unhappy, I'm just very self-destructive.

Mike Newey was headed for a fall, but the rest of the world had no idea.

Tyson vs.

Buster Douglas looked like a joke on paper.

The line was 42 to 1.

With matching coats, Mike and Don King arrived

with all the smugness everyone expected.

He'd get millions for knocking out another chunk.

Nobody's invisible.

Nobody's the greatest fighter in the world.

The guy who breaks your will in the way.

If I was to kill me, kick my butt.

I don't know, I didn't train for that fight.

I didn't really take that fight serious.

I was, I was **** those Japanese girls like it was eating grapes.

You thought I was Caesar.

You thought I was Caligula when I was out there with Japan.

You know?

They say, um, do you think the blessing in the sky is, you know what I mean?

I just believe it was just a temporary setback.

I mean, I'm good.

I'm still the best fighter in the world.

Mike Tyson wouldn't be champion again for six years.

No fighter would stop him.

His lust for women would.

He just came at me.

The next day I know him on the ground.

She died of a heart attack at home.

Oh, my name is Desiree.

My idea on me is athletic.

Hi, I'm Mike Tyson.

Be sure to watch the Miss Black America pageant on this channel.

And we will have fun.

These pretty black girls.

God.

Beautiful women fetching their race.

What can I say?

Mm-hmm.

An Indiana grand jury has indicted former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson.

He is charged with raping a woman who was a contestant

in this summer's Miss Black America pageant.

Mm-hmm.

Mike's defense fell to Don King's tax attorney, Vince Fuller.

Fuller had never tried a case like this before.

But King was confident until the end.

We're very thankful for the verdict of guilty, but I don't think we should lose

sight of the fact that this is really in some ways a tragic moment because two

young people's lives have been dramatically affected.

Heather E.

Washington knows what happened in the room.

I know what happened, and I know I'm innocent.

Why would you give me three years?

The sentence was 63 and you gave me three.

You know in your heart I didn't rape anybody.

You know what I mean?

I'm in a bunch of... I've been convicted for rape for somebody.

I've been charged for rape with somebody, but I got away with it, so to speak,

because I'm a celebrity.

I beat some guys up.

I brutalized some people in the jail.

I've been in all the type of... getting no really.

That's telling you.

I'm a... I can't vote.

I'm a... I'm a... I'm a felon.

I'm paying millions and millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars out

of my ass with taxes and I have no rights and you're

such a... I don't got a chance in this society.

Hell,

people come out of prison.

They come out in worse condition than it was when they first entered.

Jail don't rehabilitate anybody.

The only thing you're doing is just multiply hate and hate and hate.

Hate.

You're falling in love with hate in prison.

In

prison, he again fell in love with Don King.

Dollars just days before his release.

And no one cares either.

They don't know that that... that spending jail had an

effect on me, where I didn't want to come out of jail.

I feel very comfortable there.

I'm afraid to come home.

When I left Indiana, I didn't want to leave.

I was trying to go back, you know, but it wouldn't take me back.

Years

of financial abuse by King and his company, Mike still legit

was there to take Mike to his new home with Don in Ohio.

Religion remains Don.

I was, oh, we love you, Mike.

They had no ideas.

Some of the bad habits that I've picked up and they love me.

Oh, God.

They told me a lot of dreams.

I didn't know what I could do when I got out.

I even know where I trust these guys and I believe I'm damn my best interest.

But...

In the last three years, I had the chance to reflect on my life and develop my mind.

And I will continue my journey to making myself a better person.

I came out with more vengeance than anything.

I used to be more evil than vengeance.

There's not a lot of speculation about my plan and here they are.

I will fight again.

I signed contracts with these people for long sums of money.

They didn't want to hear nothing.

They want to hear you need some time to get your mind together in your life.

Together we need this money.

You have to pay back this money.

There's no question that when Mike was in prison, he was effectively bankrupt.

Mike's future was well-planned out by Don King prior to him getting out of prison.

He gave trust to him in many, many, many areas.

And Don managed to ensure that Mike had no lawyers, no financial advisors,

and no accountants.

I was walking him through some of the legal documents, just one of which managed

to take $43.5 million out of Mike's pocket and put it into Don's pocket.

Cuff once told me, and I forgot that.

He said, hey, they're animals, the sky, the same, the beans out here.

You're not sophisticated enough to decipher the two.

In April of 95, Tyson moved his base of operations to Las Vegas.

His fights that moved from the mirage to the MGM Grand.

Don King has designed a program to get the title back for Mike.

He just needed to keep his client happy.

Like helping Mike buy white tigers, his pets.

There were often times where I felt that, you know, outside people who kind of

manipulated what should have been a personal relationship for their own interests.

And a lot of the times what was best for Mike or best for his family got lost.

The one, the only, the legendary Mike Tyson.

The MGM Grand deal was neat.

It was a 10-fight guarantee which could pay

Tyson upwards of 150 million if all went right.

It started out okay.

Then Bruno and Selden off,

but Evander Holyfield didn't follow the script.

I

was very frustrated.

I lost him the first time.

I didn't even know I'd eat meat.

The second fight I realized he was hit button.

I realized that's how I thought the first time the

dizziness started feeling the same blackout type of feeling.

I was angry and I reached out to Pitta Grange.

White society thinks I'm an animal while beast out of control.

Ready to rape their daughters or hurt them or do something drastic to them.

I'm just the biggest prick in the day.

I'm whatever they want to be.

I could be a kind regal cat and I could be in the raving stalk, mad maniac.

I've been a lot of things.

I've been many of things and many of people.

You know what I mean?

In the wake of Holyfield, too, Tyson would sue Don King for $100 million.

A legend King stole from him for years.

I'm just trying to get out this dead, man.

The Don King got me involved with it, but I'm just trying to get out this dead, man.

He shouldn't know he couldn't fight against me.

Ali made him.

I've obtained him and I'm a breaker.

Did you ever steal from Mike Tyson?

Never.

Never steal from anyone.

It's painful because I love the guy.

You know what I mean?

We both were urchins of the ghetto.

When we came to the crossroads, I took left he took right.

If Tyson was to get out of the debt, he would have to get his box and license back.

A inspector of the ear bite would haunt him.

How many times does one individual have to be asked, are you sorry for what you did?

This, you know, when you know what I mean, man, Mike just you realize.

You know Mike used to ruin my life.

Internally ruined my life.

And um do you think I want to do it again?

Boxer Mike Tyson pleaded no contest Tuesday to misdemeanor assault.

He was accused of kicking and punching two

motorists after a traffic accident last August.

Mike never been a community.

Mike's a very sweet, very sensitive, very giving person.

He has all been told lies by people profiting at Mike's expense.

Boxer Mike Tyson could be back in the ring before the year is out.

On Monday in a 4 to 1 split decision, the Nevada

Athletic Commission gave Tyson his license back.

An emotional Mike Tyson winning another round in his beleaguered boxing career.

I was ****ed up, man.

You had to admit me.

I was ****ed, man.

You had to have no idea.

You guys have no idea.

You fight Mr. Holyfield's ear off and all that stuff, you know what I mean?

You don't care about that?

No ****.

Holyfield.

His anger and his debt grew.

Now the IRS won at $13 million.

Don King's sweet talk had left him totally unprotected.

Man, you don't understand the **** they made my wife.

They got left monkeys in the air.

My wife's thinking I'm a punk ass ****ed.

They made me look like a ****ed **** and they ain't milligated me.

So I really got left because I wasn't even a man in my household.

That's really the real reason I left.

They made me want to kill them.

They're lying them above.

Same Valentine's Day action.

Mike Tyson now entered uncharted territory.

While he hired Shelley Finkel as an advisor, he was

spinning out of control between depression, anger, and rage.

How about the 19 months off?

What about it?

What about it?

Does it pose any problem to you?

We'll see.

I doubt it seriously.

You take into the ring a lot of rage.

You know, who cares?

We're in a fight anyway.

What does it matter?

Well, for example, rage against the Amanda Holyfield worked against you.

Well **** is a fight.

So whatever happens happens.

Mike, why do you have to talk like that?

Well, I'm talking to you the way I want to talk to you.

Do you have a problem?

Turn off your station.

You know what?

I think we'll end the discussion right now.

Then we could.

You got it.

Have a nice fight, Mike.

**** off.

Mike Tyson heads toward the same ring he made his disgraceful exit in June of 97.

I don't know if I'm prepared to fight if I'm into this year or anything.

I'm afraid to die.

I'm not afraid to waste my life.

Because when I die, I'm going to paradise.

And I'm not worried.

So I'm going to hurry to die.

But no one's going to disrespect me.

And no one's going to write nonsense about me without me retaliating back.

Retaliation.

Assaulting two guys at a traffic accident would

put him back behind bars in the spring of 99.

Things go really good for a while and then they go the opposite way.

Kind of like a real car.

But there's just a lot of outside forces that you don't see unless you're in it.

That happen every day.

Former boxing champion Mike Tyson is a free man this morning.

He was released after spending

people think they see the you know the cars, the glamour and stuff.

And they think oh I want to be like him.

Things are getting ugly again.

It doesn't seem like we're never going to have a moment.

Oh, it's right!

Listen, I'm Jack Dempsey.

There's no one like my from their club.

There's no one that can match me.

My style is impetuous.

My defense is impregnable.

And I'm just ferocious.

I want your heart.

I want to eat his children.

Praise be to Allah.

You guys good to say for that?

You

slayer like something.

I want that for one second.

I'm serious with me.

I'm laughing at me.

Come on, this is the old off thing, right?

But I'm on that to keep me from killing y 'all.

I won't talk nice to you and talk about fauna king with you and letting you suck

my because if I was eloquent with you, you would still look at me and just come back.

If I wish one of your guys had children, if I could kick them and they had a stomp

on their testicles, for you could feel my pain because after pain I had,

waking up everything.

I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fauna cake with them.

So you shouldn't talk anymore.

Unless you want to, you know.

There were days and nights that, you know, you're

not sure what's going to happen today or tomorrow.

I loved them through a lot of ups and a lot of

downs, but I couldn't take the hurt anymore.

We got along great other than the whole issue of, you know, other women.

So I made the decision to file for the divorce because

I just got to a point where I couldn't do it anymore.

You can't touch me.

You're not man enough.

I eat you up for a lot of you, bitch.

You, you hoe.

Come and say to my

friends in my world, bitch.

Look at you scared now, you hoe.

Scared like a little wife.

Scared of the real man.

Up until you love me, fuck it.

You know, nobody really feels funny no more in this world.

I guess they throw me off pretty much.

I'm thinking more about what I'm going to do after about it.

I'm going to work.

I'm going to take care of my kids because I have their trust funds and all that.

You know what I mean?

That's what I think I'm taking care of my grandkids now.

I'm a real angry and bitter man.

Mr. Michael, I'm real angry and bitter at some people.

Really.

Oh, Mike Tyson making national news.

Mike Tyson is telling his story on Fox tonight.

Just when you think Mike Tyson can go no lower, he manages to do just that.

Mike Tyson has certainly not lost his touch.

Tyson, you're attention to himself.

Come on, let's look back at the former world champion.

This is not a problem thing that's on his mind.

I don't want to get denied my rape and interview with the box network to be aired.

Certainly isn't the first time that Tyson has put his foot in his mouth.

Tyson again denies the rape and form in black America.

Did you do this?

Did you rape her?

Oh, wait, that slimy bitch.

Why do you think she said you raped her?

Because she's really a bad person.

I hate to hate her guts.

She put me in that state where I don't know.

I really wish I did.

Now and now I really do want to rape her and her f***ing mama.

More trouble for former heavyweight chap Mike Tyson.

It happened early this morning in downtown Brooklyn.

The volatile heavyweight is charged with misdemeanor assault.

I'm a nigga.

I'm a big strong nigga.

That knocks out people and rapes people and rips off people and f***ing.

You know what I mean?

In my life, I understand this society that I live and hates me.

I'm a f***er.

I'm a spending.

I'm a live until they kill me.