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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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SONG: Them crazy-- them crazy--

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The man who's thinking and
worrying about getting hit

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is not gonna have a good
sense of anticipation.

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He will in fact get hit.

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Gotta be clever, gotta be
smart, and not get hit.

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And when you're able to
do this, you're a fighter.

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I'm still the fastest, the
most scientific, the greatest

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fighter of all time!

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ANNOUNCER: Muhammad Ali
has won by a knockout.

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GEORGE FOREMAN: 45 is
not a death sentence.

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We can do anything we wanna do.

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ANNOUNCER: It
happened, it happened!

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Lennox Lewis,
I'm coming for you.

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Lennox the conqueror?

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No, I'm Alexander.

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He's no Alexander.

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I'm the best ever.

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I'm just ferocious.

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I want your heart.

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I wanna eat his children.

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Tell Mike Tyson either
put up or shut up.

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This is the heart of
the sweet science.

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It's not no street fighting.

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He knows what he can eat.

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Are we ever going to see,
given all the obstacles, Tyson

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and Lewis in the ring together?

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Mike Tyson has shown he just
doesn't want to fight yet.

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I wouldn't be afraid to
say that Lewis is the best

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fighter on the scene now.

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Period.

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I just come to conquer.

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NARRATOR: The
heavyweight champion

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of the world, the most
coveted title in all sports,

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held by George Foreman, the
strongest, Joe Lewis, the most

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iconic, Rocky Marciano,
the most unbeatable, Mike

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Tyson, the baddest man on
the planet, Muhammad Ali,

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the greatest.

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Who is this man, this
heavyweight champion

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of the world?

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SONG: We gonna chase those
crazy baldheads out of town.

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Chase those crazy
baldheads out of our town.

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I and I build a cabin.

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I and I plant the corn.

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Didn't my people before
me slave for this country.

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When music plays,
I feel no pain.

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Muhammad Ali said the sweet
science is hit and not get hit.

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Lennox is a very measured
and calculating man.

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He's like an onion that
you keep peeling back,

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and you think, oh, I've got it.

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And then, no.

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You realize, no, it
goes even further.

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His personality is
really like a lion.

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He's this big guy.

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He's ferocious-looking at
times when he wants to be,

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but he's also very gentle.

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As the world
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you are seen as the most
dangerous man on the planet.

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That's what I always
admired about Lennox.

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He never showed his
anger in public.

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[CHEERING]

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There was something
about him that made

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him unique to other sportsmen.

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[SCATTING]

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I just fancy Tyson
for some reason.

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A smart man will beat
a strong man any day.

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And Lennox Lewis
is a smart fighter.

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Lennox Lewis
after three rounds.

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Tyson, round four.

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We're gonna have
Lewis in five rounds.

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And Lewis is gonna get it.

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You think Lewis is gonna--

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He's gonna get it.

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Everybody that I boxed
had a math problem.

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And the math problem was
down for me to solve.

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Folks really seem
to pay more attention

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to where he's from than what
he's actually accomplished.

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NARRATOR: Being the undisputed
unified heavyweight champ

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meant that Lennox had
the IBF belt, IBO belt,

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and the most coveted,
the WBC belt,

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claimed before by greats like
Muhammad Ali and Joe Lewis.

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How did he make it to
the doorstep of history,

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to one of the biggest
heavyweight fights of all time?

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You have to take a look at
his story from the beginning.

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Lennox was born in
the impoverished East

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End of London.

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He was raised by
his mother, Violet,

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who had come to England from
Jamaica to work as a nurse

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in search of a better life.

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See, I didn't grow up with
my brothers and sisters.

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My mother have 12 of us, so I
grow up with another family.

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I don't blame her, because
she couldn't manage us.

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12 kids, no husband, you know?

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NARRATOR: Lennox's father
had started a new family

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and was completely
absent from his life.

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I met my dad one day.

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There was a car outside,
nice-looking car.

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And a guy in the car,
and he said, come here.

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And I was like looking
at him, like who are you?

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He said, I'm your father.

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I said, oh.

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He said that he wanted
to be in my life,

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But his wife was
fighting against me,

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so I was like that
kid in the middle.

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I just walked back in
the house, and my mom

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said, well, who's that?

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And I said, that's my dad.

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Then she went out into the
road, and she was arguing bad,

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like she was cussing him.

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And I was like,
you know, confused.

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And when she came back
in, she was upset.

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So we really never
talked about it.

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And then that was the only time
I kind of remember, you know,

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my dad.

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NARRATOR: When Lennox
was seven, his mother

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found a better
paying job in Canada

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and had to leave him
behind in London.

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She was basically
searching for a new horizon,

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a different way of life.

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You know, she said she
had a friend in Canada.

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She went to visit.

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And she was over
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and she left me with this
lady named Miss Baker.

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For some reason, Miss
Baker was real mean to me.

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While I was in bed at
night, she would come over.

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I would wake up, look up
my eyes, and I see her,

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and her eyes and would
be looking at me.

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And it was like,
that would scare me.

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And I remember one time I
was going into the bath,

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and then she was coming in there
with a belt to try and beat me.

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And I remember jumping out
the bath and running past her,

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and running outside the house,
and I was outside the house,

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and I was nude
outside the house.

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And she was going, "oh, come in.

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Come on, come on, come inside.

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I'm gonna put the belt down."

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"No, I ain't coming back in.

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I want people to come
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you embarrassed about that."

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And she was.

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She was very
embarrassed about it.

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Police came and said,
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And then I remember Miss Baker
being upset, saying, "boy, I

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don't know why your mother don't
call for you and send for you

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and get you out of my house."

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And you know, they
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and put me in this home.

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You know, I basically
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I was out there by myself.

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NARRATOR: He ended up passing
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schools and getting
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until he finally ended up in
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Lennox most definitely
would have been part of a gang

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and been mixed up in all sorts
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And it was actually
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that he had left
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to Canada to stay with our mum.

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When my mother sent for
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we were going through the
airport, and all I could hear

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was my mum's voice.

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I didn't hear it for years,
and I heard her voice.

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She was like, "there's
my son, there's my son!"

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And it was loud, and it was
like music to my ears, you know.

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At first, he was
like a bit of a rebel.

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PRODUCER: Was he?

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Yeah, he used
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and the teacher used
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and then I'd have to leave
work and come home and get him.

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And sometimes I'd meet
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home with his lunch pail.

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When he first
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it was basically
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Because he was the
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they tried to pick on
him a little bit, right?

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Because he wasn't
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You know?

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NARRATOR: By bringing
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Violet had completely changed
the course of his life.

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He easily could have become
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on the streets of London.

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Racial tensions grew
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and the black immigrant
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resulting in violent clashes
like the Brixton riots.

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But in Canada, when
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with law enforcement,
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completely unexpected.

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Why don't you go down to the
police club and try out boxing?

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Hook McComb, he was a staff
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Regional Police.

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My trainer said,
go, I want you

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to move around with this kid.

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Bobby Prue was smaller
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and I was bigger than
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He was dancing
circles around me.

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I was swinging away,
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and I couldn't hit him.

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And he hit me in my nose.

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I'm like, ah, my eyes
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The only boxing I knew was
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used to watch him on TV.

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So I pretended I was
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And it was like a game to me.

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It was like a game of tag.

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That's when I realized
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I loved it.

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Hook McComb taught me
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As the years went on and
Arnie came into the picture.

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Lennox came down with
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to our boxing gym in Kitchener.

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He stood out immediately as a
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and showed an interest.

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And the biggest thing I noticed,
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noticed, he listened.

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He would look at you and hang
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So much credit of how Lennox
developed should go to Arnie.

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He was a rock.

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He was his coach, but he was
also a father figure to him.

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They had a relationship that
extended way past boxing.

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Arnie was always
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And kind of turned
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We went camping together.

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We went fishing together.

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Lennox and I met when we
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We both played inner city
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Once we played, that's how
we got to know each other.

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As we both grew up, 12,
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we became friends.

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I knew him from football.

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Some of my friends knew
him from basketball.

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Other friends knew
him from boxing.

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The friendship developed from
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at Cameron Heights
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and teammates on the
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You got that man.

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Come on, mate.

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Let's go.

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Nah, I can't even
believe you're doing that.

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We gotta go.

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No way.

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They're waiting on us.

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No, no.

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That's no excuse.

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That's his favorite trick.

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Every time he's
losing, he walks away.

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"We've got some more
important to do."

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To win the championship,
I mean, having Lennox

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made me look like a genius.

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It was basically pitch
the ball athletics,

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and have Courtney
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I remember we played in
the finals, the city finals.

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We lost to Eastwood
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We're all sitting on the bus,
coming home from the stadium.

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Everyone's crying, and
I'm sitting beside him,

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and I had my head down.

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I was crying.

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I look up, and he's just
looking around on the bus.

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And I'm like, hey, how
come you're not sad?

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And he said, "because I've
got bigger things to come."

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He worked his way
up through the ranks.

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Started getting a little
better and going to tournaments

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in Sully's in Toronto.

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And next thing you know it, he's
a national champion, and then

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the Olympics.

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Lennox would meet another
soon to be world champion.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the
heavyweight championship

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of the 1981 National
Junior Olympic

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Boxing Championships
from Catskill, New York,

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15-year-old Mike Tyson.

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Bombs away, Jimmy.

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Let's watch just carefully.

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Because Tyson in the
blue is a bomber.

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He's trained by no
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Oh, and there it's all over.

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First time I ever met Lennox
Lewis was in the Catskills.

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He was a real nice guy,
really talked proper.

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He was really
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The first day he and
Mike sparred, Mike almost

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took his head off.

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The next day they watched
some footage of Joe Frazier

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and Muhammad Ali, the
Thriller in Manila.

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Arnie told him, this is
how you have to box Mike.

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So he went out, and
he did that, and he

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beat up on Mike that day.

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Cus D'Amato stopped the fight
and told them both that day

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you both are ordained to
become world champions.

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You both will
dominate the sport.

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Cus got pretty friendly with
my mother before she died.

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She didn't think I was gonna do
so good in this boxing thing.

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She thought it
was all like hype.

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I wanted to be successful.

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That would be something my
mother would have wanted.

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Cus, he adopted me, so he's
my father figure, yeah.

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That's all I knew
as a father figure.

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Lewis had their eyes set

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on winning the '84 Olympics.

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Tyson's hopes were diminished
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while Lewis made
the Canadian team

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but eventually ended up
losing in the quarterfinals.

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Well, it was a real
bummer, you know?

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We both hung out after he lost
his match to Tyrell Biggs,

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and then decided to turn pro.

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NARRATOR: Over the
next few years,

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Tyson's professional
career took off.

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He became the youngest
heavyweight champ in history.

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All the while, Lennox was
fighting the amateur circuit

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with the desire
to hone his craft

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and get back to the Olympics.

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He was training in
Kitchener with a very good

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friend of mine, Harvey Dean.

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His natural ability
to punch was there.

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Now we had to work on
the power of punching.

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I started training with Lennox
at the training center Arnie.

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Arnie would come, and
Adrian would come.

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And you know, he was
a big talented kid,

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a world junior champion.

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I'm nervous as usual.

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You know, I'm fighting the guy.

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I'm a middleweight, and he's
like a heavyweight or something

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and shit.

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Lennox and Egerton, they
were sparring together.

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They were training
together like brothers.

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We got in the ring, we
started-- we rumbled, man.

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I came at him with all I--

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I was bringing the fire.

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Egerton was good
for Lennox in that

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because of his work ethics and
his tenacity, it pushed Lennox.

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You've got a guy now, you're
fighting in the amateurs now.

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You're fighting
at a higher level.

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NARRATOR: In 1988, Lennox would
travel to Seoul, South Korea

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to compete once again and
go for the Olympic gold

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medal for Canada.

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He had gone to the
opening ceremony in Seoul

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and left the Canadian delegation
and walked across the field

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to the American
delegation, walked up

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to some American
athletes and said,

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"which one's Riddick Bowe?

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Show me Riddick Bowe."

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And they had pointed him to
Bowe, and he walked up to Bowe

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and said, "are you Riddick Bowe?

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I'm going to knock you out."

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The first round when he
went out there, I was pissed,

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because he wasn't doing nothing.

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I was like, what the hell?

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Me and Adrian was jumping up at
the side of the ring, saying,

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what the hell are you doing?

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Bowe was beating
him to the punch.

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He had a little
bit more urgency.

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This has the
makings to be the most

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interesting fight
of the tournament

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or the bomb of the tournament.

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I think Lennox got hurt
with that uppercut right

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hand there a moment ago.

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It seemed to stun
him momentarily.

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Adrian was yelling.

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I was yelling.

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Right, because we knew.

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We knew Lennox had the
ability to beat anybody

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if he puts his mind to fight.

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Came in the corner.

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I said, Lennox, wake up, man.

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He went there, first punch--

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knockout.

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COMMENTATOR: Canada's first
gold medal in 56 years.

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I don't think I have
ever been that proud.

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The feeling is
just indescribable.

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My dream was to have
an Olympic champion.

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Most of the guys within
the past several decades

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who have won the Olympic
heavyweight gold medal

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have gone on to become
the heavyweight champion

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of the world.

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And so Lennox had the pedigree.

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The only question was,
would he fulfill it?

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Winning the Olympic gold
medal is really a gold ticket

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into the professionals.

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So it puts you at
a high standard.

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And the standard is, OK,
all the top promoters

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are looking at you.

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So at this time,
there was Don King.

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He was really focusing on
Mike Tyson at the time.

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There was the Duvas.

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There was Micky Duff in England.

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A lot of different
promoters wanted to sign me.

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We actually visited
a couple of them.

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And I was like, wow,
everybody sounds so good.

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Who do I pick?

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And Arnie said, well,
follow your heart.

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He said, well, you know,
we're looking at all the offers.

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I said, well, it's funny
you should say that.

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We've got a guy in England.

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Why don't you come
over to England

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and see what we
can do over there?

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He flew into Heathrow Airport,
and I met him at the airport

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that morning.

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And when he put his hand out,
it was just like a shovel

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coming out to meet me.

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And I was like, god,
he's bloody big.

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Then I thought, you are a
perfect specimen of a fighter.

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You know, I decided to go back
to England because I virtually

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could write my own contract.

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NARRATOR: Lennox triumphantly
returned home to his birthplace

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to start his professional
career with the most

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brazen promoter
in Britain, a man

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who was hiding a deep secret.

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From day one, we
started with this dream

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that we were Britain's first
world heavyweight champion,

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or Lennox wants to be
the undisputed world

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heavyweight champion.

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And it's my job to
do my best to get

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that fight made for Lennox Lewis
and to guide him in that path.

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Lennox's team was quite unique.

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It started off first,
it was John Davenport.

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John Davenport then
brought in Harold

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knight, who was a fighter
that John had trained.

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When I came up to
the training camp,

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Lennox actually was sleeping
in one of the cottages.

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There was two bedrooms
in one cottage,

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and I was in the other bedroom.

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So I walked in
the wrong bedroom,

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and soon as I walked in, I
see his big old giant stand up

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and everything.

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And that was my first
introduction to Lennox Lewis.

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His mum Violet was the captain
of the whole training team.

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She held the whole
team together.

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I start going with
them to the camp,

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cause I have to do his
cooking and look after him.

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Because he has to eat property.

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Well, Mom, she was
the boss of the camp,

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to be honest with you.

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Mom was definitely the
boss of the camp, not

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only with her cooking, but
she was, how can I say,

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fair but firm.

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She didn't take no
mess from anyone.

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NARRATOR: Lennox
quickly won his first 13

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pro fights and his
first championship,

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the European Title.

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Lennox and I had disagreements
on where he should come from.

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I was adamant he should be
British, because that was

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the market we was aiming at.

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Lennox sort of went to Canada,
and he had that accent,

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and that might be
a little bit why he

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wasn't taken really seriously.

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Lennox obviously had Canadian
roots, Jamaican roots,

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and British roots.

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So he wanted to be seen
as a man of the world.

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I mean, I've done
some stupid things.

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I had Lennox dressed in a
top hat and tails with a cane

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and photographs done with him.

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I took him to English
football clubs.

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He went along with it,
but some of it grudgingly.

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I used to get a lot of
shtick from a lot of my friends

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and a lot of Americans
when I came back home

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after one of Lennox's
fights, because they

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didn't accept Lennox.

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There was always
early on this perception

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that the British
accent made him more

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civilized than the
other characters

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with whom he would
deal in the division,

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and he must have a more genteel
background than guys who

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had come off of rough streets.

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And of course that was a myth.

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NARRATOR: Lennox no doubt grew
up during hard times in London,

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but he was fortunate that the
police in Kitchener, Ontario

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treated him like any
other wayward kid

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with potential and not a
threat because of where he was

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born or the color of his skin.

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At the beginning of the '90s,
he kept his sights on the prize,

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building a team that would help
him rise up through the ranks

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of heavyweight contenders.

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At that time I went to
school in London, Ontario.

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I wanted to be a fitness
trainer for pro athletes.

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End of 1990, he came to me and
said, "look, I need your help.

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I need your help.

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I'm gonna fight the number
three fighter in the world.

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I know I can beat
him if you help me,

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but I need to be stronger."

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So we agreed to
train for one fight.

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I told him I'd help
him for one fight.

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SONG: I and I build a cabin.

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I and I plant the corn.

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Chase those crazy
baldheads out of our town.

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NARRATOR: Lennox surrounded
himself with childhood friends,

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including Egerton Marcus.

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Lennox, he became--

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that's my brother.

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That's my brother.

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Because when he's in a fight,
it's like I'm in a fight.

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NARRATOR: These familiar
faces, like his old coach

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Adrian Teodorescu and Courtney
Shand always had Lennox's back,

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but they also kept him grounded.

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He always said to me, "you
always have to be honest.

496
00:24:01.210 --> 00:24:04.050
You always have to
tell me how things are.

497
00:24:04.050 --> 00:24:08.200
Never tell me it's raining
when it's sunny, because I'm

498
00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:10.040
going to believe you."

499
00:24:10.040 --> 00:24:13.150
And one day what he did
to show me, that day he

500
00:24:13.150 --> 00:24:17.080
told me that we were driving,
he closes his eyes and he says--

501
00:24:17.080 --> 00:24:19.210
Listen, tell me
which way to turn.

502
00:24:19.210 --> 00:24:21.100
He's driving, and I'm
like, "Lennox, Lennox!

503
00:24:21.100 --> 00:24:22.050
What are you doing?

504
00:24:22.050 --> 00:24:22.210
What are you doing?"

505
00:24:22.210 --> 00:24:24.080
And He's like, "just
tell me what to do,

506
00:24:24.080 --> 00:24:26.050
tell me what to do."

507
00:24:26.050 --> 00:24:28.030
And he had his eyes shuts tight.

508
00:24:28.030 --> 00:24:30.110
I'm looking at him
like, are you crazy?

509
00:24:30.110 --> 00:24:34.120
And he goes, "that's the
level of trust I need to have.

510
00:24:34.120 --> 00:24:38.110
That's what I'm giving to
you, and please hold on to it

511
00:24:38.110 --> 00:24:39.090
dearly."

512
00:24:39.090 --> 00:24:41.220
Ladies and gentlemen, good
evening and welcome to the Omni

513
00:24:41.220 --> 00:24:45.100
Arena here in one of America's
greatest sports cities,

514
00:24:45.100 --> 00:24:47.150
Atlanta, Georgia.

515
00:24:47.150 --> 00:24:50.170
Lennox Lewis, he is
Canadian and English,

516
00:24:50.170 --> 00:24:52.000
fighting out of England.

517
00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:54.170
Biggs, of course,
four years ago,

518
00:24:54.170 --> 00:24:58.100
was the star heavyweight
in the Duvas' main event

519
00:24:58.100 --> 00:25:01.170
stable when he fought
against Mike Tyson in 1987

520
00:25:01.170 --> 00:25:03.030
in Atlantic City.

521
00:25:03.030 --> 00:25:06.050
The question I have is
whether being an amateur

522
00:25:06.050 --> 00:25:09.040
could hurt him in the way
it might have hurt Biggs.

523
00:25:09.040 --> 00:25:13.150
NARRATOR: In November of
1991, Lennox got the chance

524
00:25:13.150 --> 00:25:18.140
to write what went wrong in
the '84 Olympics, a rematch

525
00:25:18.140 --> 00:25:21.130
with the man that beat
him, Tyrell Biggs.

526
00:25:24.150 --> 00:25:27.090
Lewis comes out firing
and lands a right hand.

527
00:25:27.090 --> 00:25:31.220
Lennox Lewis looks like much
the stronger guy physically.

528
00:25:31.220 --> 00:25:35.110
Looks like he can handle
Tyrell on the inside.

529
00:25:35.110 --> 00:25:37.190
Very little head
movement for Lewis.

530
00:25:37.190 --> 00:25:39.200
Could be a problem
later on, particularly

531
00:25:39.200 --> 00:25:41.140
for a guy who's 6'5.

532
00:25:41.140 --> 00:25:45.080
And down goes Biggs from
the solid right cross.

533
00:25:45.080 --> 00:25:49.020
That's an impressive
victory for Lennox Lewis.

534
00:25:49.020 --> 00:25:52.190
And I'll go in the ring and find
out where he's going from here.

535
00:25:52.190 --> 00:25:55.040
Lennox Lewis is on a
mission, and Tyrell Biggs

536
00:25:55.040 --> 00:25:56.160
was a stepping stone.

537
00:25:56.160 --> 00:25:59.100
And all I need is a
couple more fights,

538
00:25:59.100 --> 00:26:01.130
and then I'll be in there
against the champion.

539
00:26:01.130 --> 00:26:04.020
All right, Larry, so Lennox
Lewis takes another step

540
00:26:04.020 --> 00:26:06.050
toward big time
heavyweight contention,

541
00:26:06.050 --> 00:26:08.090
and we're gonna talk
to one of the big time

542
00:26:08.090 --> 00:26:10.160
heavyweight contenders
of all time right now.

543
00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:14.050
George, if you can hear me, what
did you think of Lennox Lewis?

544
00:26:14.050 --> 00:26:15.180
I was more than impressed.

545
00:26:15.180 --> 00:26:18.060
He's a great boxer and a
good right hand puncher.

546
00:26:18.060 --> 00:26:20.230
I'll tell you this, I don't
want any parts of him.

547
00:26:20.230 --> 00:26:24.000
NARRATOR: This was a fighter
that the world was not used to.

548
00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:27.120
Articulate, to
himself, contemplative,

549
00:26:27.120 --> 00:26:29.140
not getting into
trouble with the law,

550
00:26:29.140 --> 00:26:32.000
a chess player, a thinker.

551
00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:33.040
And you do some meditation.

552
00:26:33.040 --> 00:26:34.120
Can you tell us about that?

553
00:26:34.120 --> 00:26:36.140
Yeah, I think
you've got to focus

554
00:26:36.140 --> 00:26:38.170
on what you have to accomplish.

555
00:26:38.170 --> 00:26:40.190
And you know, I
create my own facade,

556
00:26:40.190 --> 00:26:46.020
so it's very important for me to
have an even ground around me.

557
00:26:46.020 --> 00:26:47.190
NARRATOR: This towering
dominant contender

558
00:26:47.190 --> 00:26:50.010
for the world
heavyweight championship

559
00:26:50.010 --> 00:26:52.080
was mysteriously different.

560
00:26:52.080 --> 00:26:54.210
To take his career
to the next level,

561
00:26:54.210 --> 00:26:57.090
he decided to replace
John Davenport

562
00:26:57.090 --> 00:26:59.050
with a more seasoned trainer.

563
00:26:59.050 --> 00:27:01.080
It was like a
complete 180 in terms

564
00:27:01.080 --> 00:27:02.180
of who he chose as
a coach, because he

565
00:27:02.180 --> 00:27:06.090
went to every Pepe Correa.

566
00:27:06.090 --> 00:27:07.160
Pepe was flashy.

567
00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:08.230
He liked movement.

568
00:27:08.230 --> 00:27:12.070
He wanted Lennox not to just
stand in the middle of the ring

569
00:27:12.070 --> 00:27:14.120
and use his pure size.

570
00:27:14.120 --> 00:27:15.170
This guy, when
you talk to him,

571
00:27:15.170 --> 00:27:17.130
he gets right into your face,
and he listens everything.

572
00:27:17.130 --> 00:27:19.170
He hangs on every word that you
say, and he makes it easier.

573
00:27:19.170 --> 00:27:21.130
He makes my job very, very easy.

574
00:27:21.130 --> 00:27:26.120
With Pepe coming on was the
evolution of Lennox as a boxer.

575
00:27:26.120 --> 00:27:28.120
Pure boxer, not
just someone that

576
00:27:28.120 --> 00:27:31.170
could throw punches and
get you because he was big,

577
00:27:31.170 --> 00:27:34.160
but move, be fluid.

578
00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:37.150
We had I think three or
four fights with Pepe,

579
00:27:37.150 --> 00:27:40.040
and they kept getting better.

580
00:27:40.040 --> 00:27:43.070
The big one was when we fought
our Donovan Razor Ruddock.

581
00:27:43.070 --> 00:27:46.070
I think the only fight I was
really worried about for Lennox

582
00:27:46.070 --> 00:27:49.090
was the Razor Ruddock fight,
because I knew if we'd lost,

583
00:27:49.090 --> 00:27:52.130
that was the end of the
whole road and the ride.

584
00:27:52.130 --> 00:27:55.040
But it was Lennox who calmed
my nerves for that fight.

585
00:27:55.040 --> 00:27:58.120
In my memory, the first of his
fights that we covered on HBO

586
00:27:58.120 --> 00:28:02.050
was actually Halloween
night 1992 in Earls Court

587
00:28:02.050 --> 00:28:04.100
in London versus Razor Ruddock.

588
00:28:04.100 --> 00:28:07.080
The battle between Razor
Ruddock and Lennox Lewis

589
00:28:07.080 --> 00:28:09.120
for the right to fight the
winner of Holyfield-Bowe

590
00:28:09.120 --> 00:28:11.010
for the Heavyweight
Championship,

591
00:28:11.010 --> 00:28:12.200
an exciting night in London.

592
00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:16.200
I was impressed that
he was so relaxed.

593
00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:19.090
Lennox Lewis can probably be
one of the greatest fighters

594
00:28:19.090 --> 00:28:21.020
to ever come out
of this country.

595
00:28:21.020 --> 00:28:23.070
And I remember walking away
from the meeting thinking,

596
00:28:23.070 --> 00:28:28.090
wow, what a very cool,
self-possessed character he is.

597
00:28:28.090 --> 00:28:32.000
I wonder if he knows
something that I don't know.

598
00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:35.110
Not since the days of Bob
Fitzsimmons and the last decade

599
00:28:35.110 --> 00:28:39.010
of the 19th century has
an English-born fighter

600
00:28:39.010 --> 00:28:40.140
held the heavyweight crown.

601
00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:47.220
Lewis initiates
the action so far.

602
00:28:47.220 --> 00:28:50.140
He says his plan is
to stick the jab,

603
00:28:50.140 --> 00:28:54.120
stay relaxed, move away from the
left hook, and outbox Ruddock.

604
00:28:57.050 --> 00:28:58.060
Right hand by Lewis.

605
00:28:58.060 --> 00:29:00.050
Ruddock goes down!

606
00:29:00.050 --> 00:29:03.040
A smashing right cross
with perfect accuracy

607
00:29:03.040 --> 00:29:04.160
behind the jab.

608
00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:06.150
You cannot do it better.

609
00:29:06.150 --> 00:29:10.020
And the wobbling Razor Ruddock--

610
00:29:10.020 --> 00:29:12.060
NARRATOR: Many were assuming
that Razor's experience

611
00:29:12.060 --> 00:29:14.150
and ability to take
a punch would be too

612
00:29:14.150 --> 00:29:17.040
much for Lennox, who
struck many as just

613
00:29:17.040 --> 00:29:18.040
a pretty boy from England.

614
00:29:21.150 --> 00:29:24.020
Lewis herding Ruddock
with the left hook.

615
00:29:24.020 --> 00:29:27.140
Ruddock in serious trouble as
Lewis pounds him to the canvas.

616
00:29:27.140 --> 00:29:32.010
Second knockdown of the fight,
and already Lennox Lewis

617
00:29:32.010 --> 00:29:34.120
has equalled Mike
Tyson's knockout output

618
00:29:34.120 --> 00:29:39.110
against Razor Ruddock in both
of the two Tyson-Ruddock fights.

619
00:29:39.110 --> 00:29:42.230
Lennox Lewis is in
total command now.

620
00:29:42.230 --> 00:29:43.230
Can he finish?

621
00:29:46.220 --> 00:29:47.220
Right hand to the body.

622
00:29:47.220 --> 00:29:49.220
Ruddock in trouble.

623
00:29:49.220 --> 00:29:50.210
Second knockdown of round 2.

624
00:29:54.090 --> 00:29:58.080
We have a great new heavyweight
on the boxing scene.

625
00:29:58.080 --> 00:30:02.190
Lennox Lewis may turn out
to be not only the greatest

626
00:30:02.190 --> 00:30:06.060
heavyweight in British
history but the greatest

627
00:30:06.060 --> 00:30:08.180
fighter in European history.

628
00:30:08.180 --> 00:30:10.180
I agree, I agree!

629
00:30:10.180 --> 00:30:15.060
NARRATOR: By 1992, Ring Magazine
had Lennox Lewis all the way up

630
00:30:15.060 --> 00:30:19.050
from 9 in 1991 to number
two, behind Riddick Bowe,

631
00:30:19.050 --> 00:30:21.090
the guy he had already beat.

632
00:30:21.090 --> 00:30:22.130
Tyson was gone.

633
00:30:22.130 --> 00:30:26.040
And in his place, Evander
Holyfield and Lennox Lewis's

634
00:30:26.040 --> 00:30:29.140
old Olympic rival,
Riddick big daddy Bowe,

635
00:30:29.140 --> 00:30:35.030
began a four year battle for the
top spot in heavyweight boxing.

636
00:30:35.030 --> 00:30:36.190
Yo, bring it on, man.

637
00:30:36.190 --> 00:30:38.180
Yeah, I'm gonna bring it.

638
00:30:38.180 --> 00:30:40.160
He's known for
sucker punching people,

639
00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:42.070
because I've seen
him do it before.

640
00:30:42.070 --> 00:30:44.230
So I made sure I had my
hands close to my face,

641
00:30:44.230 --> 00:30:47.170
ready to block anything
he was coming with.

642
00:30:47.170 --> 00:30:50.000
And I said the
same thing to him.

643
00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:52.100
"I'm gonna knock you out."

644
00:30:52.100 --> 00:30:53.080
Knock me out.

645
00:30:53.080 --> 00:30:54.180
Knock me out.

646
00:30:54.180 --> 00:30:57.220
NARRATOR: During Bowe's second
title run with all three belts,

647
00:30:57.220 --> 00:31:01.200
he gave up the most coveted
WBC title, the same title

648
00:31:01.200 --> 00:31:03.130
Muhammad Ali fought for.

649
00:31:03.130 --> 00:31:06.000
He mockingly dropped
it in a trash

650
00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:08.080
while pressed to defend
it against Lennox.

651
00:31:08.080 --> 00:31:11.150
Some would say maybe he
didn't want to face Lennox.

652
00:31:11.150 --> 00:31:14.000
Some would say
maybe he was afraid

653
00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:15.210
that Lennox would
kick his ass, just

654
00:31:15.210 --> 00:31:17.110
like he did in the Olympics.

655
00:31:17.110 --> 00:31:20.030
When Riddick Bowe dumped
the belt in the garbage,

656
00:31:20.030 --> 00:31:22.050
Lennox definitely
was pissed off.

657
00:31:22.050 --> 00:31:23.210
Disrespect.

658
00:31:23.210 --> 00:31:26.020
That's another
reason why I wanted

659
00:31:26.020 --> 00:31:27.160
to beat his ass in the ring.

660
00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:30.080
NARRATOR: Because of his
recent victory over Ruddock,

661
00:31:30.080 --> 00:31:32.230
Lennox was awarded
the WBC title,

662
00:31:32.230 --> 00:31:37.100
becoming the first British
champion in over 100 years.

663
00:31:37.100 --> 00:31:39.200
Lennox had the
belt, but he didn't

664
00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:41.140
really win it in the ring.

665
00:31:41.140 --> 00:31:45.170
So in his next fight Lennox
had something to prove.

666
00:31:45.170 --> 00:31:47.220
In the very first fight,
Lennox was the champion

667
00:31:47.220 --> 00:31:49.090
because the belt
was handed to him,

668
00:31:49.090 --> 00:31:52.120
and the opponent was Tony
Tucker, Don King's opponent.

669
00:31:52.120 --> 00:31:54.100
He had this thing
about Don King.

670
00:31:54.100 --> 00:31:57.090
NARRATOR: Don King was
boxing's longest running pimp,

671
00:31:57.090 --> 00:31:59.060
having gone from a
neighborhood numbers

672
00:31:59.060 --> 00:32:03.070
running bookie to somehow
convincing Muhammad Ali to box

673
00:32:03.070 --> 00:32:08.090
in a charity exhibition to
then promoting Ali in the 1974

674
00:32:08.090 --> 00:32:11.110
Rumble in the Jungle,
Ali's upset victory

675
00:32:11.110 --> 00:32:13.030
over George Foreman.

676
00:32:13.030 --> 00:32:15.050
Throughout his life,
Don King proved

677
00:32:15.050 --> 00:32:18.030
that he was a masterful
manipulator and the game's

678
00:32:18.030 --> 00:32:19.150
consummate promoter.

679
00:32:19.150 --> 00:32:21.190
In the late '80s
into the '90s, King

680
00:32:21.190 --> 00:32:24.000
had his hooks into Mike Tyson.

681
00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:29.210
Don King is one of the most
funniest men I've ever known.

682
00:32:29.210 --> 00:32:31.220
He kept saying, "Lennox,
you're the greatest.

683
00:32:31.220 --> 00:32:33.030
You should be with me.

684
00:32:33.030 --> 00:32:36.110
You should be with me, come
over to the other side!"

685
00:32:36.110 --> 00:32:38.050
Here he comes now!

686
00:32:38.050 --> 00:32:41.120
Greatest heavyweight
champion of all time!

687
00:32:41.120 --> 00:32:44.040
The baddest man on
planet Earth, the

688
00:32:44.040 --> 00:32:47.150
meet and greet the heavyweight
champion of the world,

689
00:32:47.150 --> 00:32:49.120
Lennox Lewis!

690
00:32:49.120 --> 00:32:50.230
Lennox Lewis!

691
00:32:50.230 --> 00:32:55.080
And you think, Don, let's
get down to the business.

692
00:32:55.080 --> 00:32:57.170
I'm not worth of
tying his shoelace.

693
00:32:57.170 --> 00:33:01.010
He's standing beside me,
the messiah of boxing.

694
00:33:01.010 --> 00:33:03.160
Yes, Lennox Lewis!

695
00:33:03.160 --> 00:33:07.040
Once the politics, what he
called polytricks, once them

696
00:33:07.040 --> 00:33:10.230
polytricks are more
or less smoothed out,

697
00:33:10.230 --> 00:33:13.170
Don King thought Tony
Tucker would beat Lennox.

698
00:33:13.170 --> 00:33:15.110
NARRATOR: King had a
reason to be confident.

699
00:33:15.110 --> 00:33:19.160
Tucker's record was 48 in 1, his
only last being to Mike Tyson.

700
00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:23.160
But after a 12 round slugfest,
Lennox won by decision.

701
00:33:23.160 --> 00:33:26.130
With his title legitimized,
next up he would face

702
00:33:26.130 --> 00:33:28.140
fellow englishman Frank Bruno.

703
00:33:32.140 --> 00:33:35.100
Great Britain, where prize
fighting finds its roots,

704
00:33:35.100 --> 00:33:39.110
the past 100 years have given
them little reason to cheer.

705
00:33:39.110 --> 00:33:41.150
There's a great tradition
of boxing in this country.

706
00:33:41.150 --> 00:33:45.000
Unfortunately we don't have too
many good fighters these days.

707
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:48.100
And we certainly haven't had
too many good heavyweights.

708
00:33:48.100 --> 00:33:51.070
The last undisputed
British heavyweight champion

709
00:33:51.070 --> 00:33:54.080
was Bob Fitzsimmons in 1897.

710
00:33:54.080 --> 00:33:56.220
Not until the arrival
of Lennox Lewis in 1992

711
00:33:56.220 --> 00:33:59.040
would the British be
able to claim another.

712
00:33:59.040 --> 00:34:01.210
But tonight's event takes
on greater significance,

713
00:34:01.210 --> 00:34:04.010
as it marks the first
time in history that two

714
00:34:04.010 --> 00:34:05.120
englishmen have
battled one another

715
00:34:05.120 --> 00:34:07.150
for a world heavyweight title.

716
00:34:07.150 --> 00:34:09.060
This guys been slagging
me down ever since he's

717
00:34:09.060 --> 00:34:10.090
come back from Canada.

718
00:34:10.090 --> 00:34:12.200
I'm going to knock him out,
knock him back to Canada.

719
00:34:12.200 --> 00:34:14.230
I'm gonna knock him out so
hard that he's got to pay

720
00:34:14.230 --> 00:34:16.070
to come back into the hall.

721
00:34:16.070 --> 00:34:17.160
He said he's gonna
hit you so hard it's

722
00:34:17.160 --> 00:34:20.060
gonna send you back to Canada.

723
00:34:20.060 --> 00:34:22.050
Not a very nice
thing to say, but--

724
00:34:22.050 --> 00:34:25.100
Well, he's trying to scare
me, but I can't be faded.

725
00:34:25.100 --> 00:34:27.210
You will be knocked out.

726
00:34:27.210 --> 00:34:29.200
Fight like you will
leave your feet.

727
00:34:29.200 --> 00:34:31.090
We'll put you to sleep.

728
00:34:31.090 --> 00:34:33.200
I mean, bring a pillow
to ringside for you.

729
00:34:33.200 --> 00:34:36.080
Big boy, you going.

730
00:34:36.080 --> 00:34:39.050
And lest you be
confused by that graphic,

731
00:34:39.050 --> 00:34:43.130
keep in mind that Lewis
was awarded the WBC

732
00:34:43.130 --> 00:34:48.050
heavyweight championship by that
governing body after Riddick

733
00:34:48.050 --> 00:34:51.040
Bowe relinquished it
rather than to fight

734
00:34:51.040 --> 00:34:52.170
him in a mandatory challenge.

735
00:34:52.170 --> 00:34:55.050
That's why Bruno has
the chance to become

736
00:34:55.050 --> 00:35:00.060
the first British heavyweight
to win a title in the ring.

737
00:35:00.060 --> 00:35:03.190
No heavyweight has looked better
in the last couple of years

738
00:35:03.190 --> 00:35:06.230
than Lewis with his
stunning destruction

739
00:35:06.230 --> 00:35:13.050
of Razor Ruddock in 216 seconds
in Earls Court last October.

740
00:35:13.050 --> 00:35:17.090
Bruno pounding his fists
together to jack himself up.

741
00:35:17.090 --> 00:35:20.190
Mickey Van calls them
together, and round 1--

742
00:35:20.190 --> 00:35:22.140
Good right hand by Bruno!

743
00:35:22.140 --> 00:35:25.140
Bruno has Lewis
in serious trouble.

744
00:35:25.140 --> 00:35:28.020
Let's see if Lennox
knows how to hold on.

745
00:35:28.020 --> 00:35:32.010
Bruno pounding away to the body.

746
00:35:32.010 --> 00:35:34.170
That right hand is one of the
biggest punches Lennox Lewis

747
00:35:34.170 --> 00:35:38.040
has ever taken in his career.

748
00:35:38.040 --> 00:35:39.230
Lewis in trouble in the corner.

749
00:35:39.230 --> 00:35:42.020
And lands a
sensational left hook.

750
00:35:42.020 --> 00:35:44.040
What a comeback by Lewis.

751
00:35:44.040 --> 00:35:46.000
Now let's see if he can finish.

752
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:47.110
Bruno in serious trouble.

753
00:35:47.110 --> 00:35:49.060
He's got him now,
if he can finish.

754
00:35:49.060 --> 00:35:51.140
Right hand over the top.

755
00:35:51.140 --> 00:35:54.040
It was a left hook
that turned this around

756
00:35:54.040 --> 00:35:58.170
and a frozen Frank Bruno is
there kicking punishment.

757
00:35:58.170 --> 00:36:02.000
And making Mickey
Van is gonna stop it.

758
00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:04.070
It was a one punch comeback.

759
00:36:04.070 --> 00:36:08.030
Lennox Lewis, desperately
behind on the score cards,

760
00:36:08.030 --> 00:36:10.200
produced a
sensational left hook.

761
00:36:13.090 --> 00:36:16.160
NARRATOR: Lennox started
1994 off with a bang.

762
00:36:16.160 --> 00:36:18.190
He defended his title
with an eighth round

763
00:36:18.190 --> 00:36:21.090
knockout of Phil Jackson.

764
00:36:21.090 --> 00:36:23.050
Pepe and I would
kind of butt heads

765
00:36:23.050 --> 00:36:26.040
in terms of what
was best for Lennox

766
00:36:26.040 --> 00:36:29.110
in terms of what he wanted.

767
00:36:29.110 --> 00:36:32.040
Where Davenport would
say to me, "this is what

768
00:36:32.040 --> 00:36:34.170
I need Lennox to do, do it."

769
00:36:34.170 --> 00:36:36.190
Pepe would always be
overseeing and overseeing,

770
00:36:36.190 --> 00:36:41.080
and I think that started to
rub Lennox the wrong way.

771
00:36:41.080 --> 00:36:43.040
We were in training
camp for the Oliver

772
00:36:43.040 --> 00:36:45.210
McCall fight in the Catskills.

773
00:36:45.210 --> 00:36:48.080
And I watched Pepe
Correa with Lennox.

774
00:36:48.080 --> 00:36:49.110
And Lennox was sparring.

775
00:36:49.110 --> 00:36:51.090
And he caught one of
the sparring partners

776
00:36:51.090 --> 00:36:52.080
and wobbled him.

777
00:36:52.080 --> 00:36:54.210
And it was only the first
round or second round.

778
00:36:54.210 --> 00:36:56.160
And Pepe went,
"that's great, champ.

779
00:36:56.160 --> 00:36:57.080
That's great, champ.

780
00:36:57.080 --> 00:36:58.110
We don't need to see no more."

781
00:36:58.110 --> 00:37:02.200
And I thought, what
the hell's he doing?

782
00:37:02.200 --> 00:37:04.160
One round of sparring?

783
00:37:04.160 --> 00:37:06.170
And I sat with Lennox.

784
00:37:06.170 --> 00:37:09.140
And I said, "Lennox, you're
not responding to Pepe.

785
00:37:09.140 --> 00:37:11.090
Please let me sack Pepe."

786
00:37:11.090 --> 00:37:13.070
I said, I'll help Harold.

787
00:37:13.070 --> 00:37:14.180
I'll help Courtney.

788
00:37:14.180 --> 00:37:16.210
We can get through this,
because you trust them.

789
00:37:16.210 --> 00:37:19.140
I said, and they're
there for you.

790
00:37:19.140 --> 00:37:22.020
Pepe is a cheerleader.

791
00:37:22.020 --> 00:37:25.050
And Lennox went, "Frank,
I can deal with it.

792
00:37:25.050 --> 00:37:26.170
I'll win this fight,
and then we'll sit down,

793
00:37:26.170 --> 00:37:28.010
and we'll sort out Pepe."

794
00:37:28.010 --> 00:37:31.020
The Atomic Bull, as
Oliver McCall is known,

795
00:37:31.020 --> 00:37:33.200
will exit from his dressing room
and make his way to the ring

796
00:37:33.200 --> 00:37:34.150
right now.

797
00:37:34.150 --> 00:37:36.210
As you can see, it's the first
championship fight for the man

798
00:37:36.210 --> 00:37:38.150
promoted by Don King.

799
00:37:38.150 --> 00:37:41.180
It's not unusual for
a fighter of his caliber

800
00:37:41.180 --> 00:37:43.090
to get a championship shot.

801
00:37:43.090 --> 00:37:47.180
What is unusual is that somebody
like that should be required

802
00:37:47.180 --> 00:37:51.040
to fight for the Heavyweight
Championship by somehow

803
00:37:51.040 --> 00:37:55.200
mysteriously being ranked
as the top contender.

804
00:37:55.200 --> 00:37:59.070
Record for Lennox
Lewis, 25 wins, no losses.

805
00:37:59.070 --> 00:38:02.170
21 wins by knockout,
including two

806
00:38:02.170 --> 00:38:05.060
of the three title defenses.

807
00:38:05.060 --> 00:38:07.230
Jim, it looks to me that
Oliver McCall is so emotional,

808
00:38:07.230 --> 00:38:09.030
he's crying.

809
00:38:09.030 --> 00:38:11.000
I had the exact same feeling.

810
00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:13.010
He's trying to screw
up his courage,

811
00:38:13.010 --> 00:38:15.070
but I think he's
wasting energy here.

812
00:38:15.070 --> 00:38:17.000
That's exactly what I said.

813
00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:19.200
So after some unusual moments--

814
00:38:19.200 --> 00:38:22.010
they seem to crop up in every
heavyweight championship

815
00:38:22.010 --> 00:38:22.180
fight--

816
00:38:22.180 --> 00:38:23.080
here we go.

817
00:38:28.040 --> 00:38:30.180
The bull has been known to
have very, very good stamina.

818
00:38:30.180 --> 00:38:32.110
If the first round
is a prototype,

819
00:38:32.110 --> 00:38:37.060
so far it's a good
one for Oliver McCall.

820
00:38:37.060 --> 00:38:40.120
Lennox caught McCall with a
good punch in the first round.

821
00:38:40.120 --> 00:38:43.020
And when he came back on
his stool, he sat down,

822
00:38:43.020 --> 00:38:46.080
and Pepe Correa went to him,
"forget everything I've taught.

823
00:38:46.080 --> 00:38:49.120
Just go out and knock him out."

824
00:38:49.120 --> 00:38:50.130
You're looking good, OK?

825
00:38:50.130 --> 00:38:51.230
You're fighting a very
intelligent fighter.

826
00:38:51.230 --> 00:38:53.060
You're taking this
next punch away

827
00:38:53.060 --> 00:38:54.030
from him in the right hand.
- Right.

828
00:38:54.030 --> 00:38:56.120
He shot it twice, and every
time you roll and counter.

829
00:38:56.120 --> 00:38:58.000
You caught him with
it once but you're

830
00:38:58.000 --> 00:38:59.100
gonna make him quit
throwing it if you keep

831
00:38:59.100 --> 00:39:01.080
throwing everything at him, OK?

832
00:39:01.080 --> 00:39:04.050
Lewis threw more left
hands and fewer right

833
00:39:04.050 --> 00:39:05.150
hands in the first
round than we've

834
00:39:05.150 --> 00:39:12.070
seen him before, Gill, I thought
it was by his own fight plan.

835
00:39:12.070 --> 00:39:16.230
But perhaps that's also
the fight plan of Stewart.

836
00:39:16.230 --> 00:39:17.130
And you know--

837
00:39:20.160 --> 00:39:21.070
down goes Lewis.

838
00:39:21.070 --> 00:39:22.090
Down goes Lewis.

839
00:39:22.090 --> 00:39:24.190
He caught a short
left hand inside.

840
00:39:24.190 --> 00:39:30.180
Six, seven, eight, nine--

841
00:39:30.180 --> 00:39:31.150
What is this?

842
00:39:31.150 --> 00:39:35.090
The WBC's referee has
stopped this fight

843
00:39:35.090 --> 00:39:40.050
after a count to nine with
Lewis standing in front of him.

844
00:39:40.050 --> 00:39:42.000
And we're gonna
have a riot here.

845
00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:46.100
Jose Guadalupe Garcia stopped
the fight in the second round.

846
00:39:46.100 --> 00:39:50.170
But let's take a look at the
punch that put Lewis down.

847
00:39:50.170 --> 00:39:52.220
That's hardly a
devastating punch.

848
00:39:52.220 --> 00:39:54.180
This is really unusual.

849
00:39:54.180 --> 00:39:57.020
But when you have a
heavyweight championship fight,

850
00:39:57.020 --> 00:39:58.220
the heavyweight
champion should have

851
00:39:58.220 --> 00:40:03.190
a chance to defend his title
almost to the last breath.

852
00:40:03.190 --> 00:40:05.210
It's a strange sport,
Gill, and you see

853
00:40:05.210 --> 00:40:08.100
strange things all the time.

854
00:40:08.100 --> 00:40:11.110
You don't wanna leap to too
many conclusions too fast,

855
00:40:11.110 --> 00:40:14.000
but you saw the
joy with which Don

856
00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:16.160
King embraces his
return to a part

857
00:40:16.160 --> 00:40:18.020
of the heavyweight championship.

858
00:40:18.020 --> 00:40:20.100
It's been a few
years, and he's back.

859
00:40:20.100 --> 00:40:22.160
Returned from almost oblivion.

860
00:40:22.160 --> 00:40:25.070
Back on top again with
a heavyweight champion.

861
00:40:25.070 --> 00:40:26.210
Never count him out.

862
00:40:26.210 --> 00:40:29.020
Are we going to see
you again, Lennox?

863
00:40:29.020 --> 00:40:29.180
Yes.

864
00:40:29.180 --> 00:40:32.050
I may be down, but I'm not out.

865
00:40:32.050 --> 00:40:33.230
Thank you very much, Lennox.

866
00:40:33.230 --> 00:40:37.000
We were all sad coming
back into the hotel room,

867
00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:40.010
you know, with our faces down.

868
00:40:40.010 --> 00:40:44.140
He said to us, "why
are we all down?

869
00:40:44.140 --> 00:40:46.080
We shouldn't be down.

870
00:40:46.080 --> 00:40:49.170
You know, I'm gonna come back,
and I'm gonna beat this guy."

871
00:40:49.170 --> 00:40:52.110
That morning, about
5:00 in the morning,

872
00:40:52.110 --> 00:40:54.160
both he and Frank
Maloney, they were

873
00:40:54.160 --> 00:40:57.130
already plotting
how we were gonna

874
00:40:57.130 --> 00:40:59.030
go back and get the title.

875
00:40:59.030 --> 00:41:00.200
NARRATOR: Lennox
maintained the same core

876
00:41:00.200 --> 00:41:03.000
team throughout his career.

877
00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:06.230
People like Courtney and
Egerton, who we grew up with,

878
00:41:06.230 --> 00:41:09.020
or like Herald
Knight, who was right

879
00:41:09.020 --> 00:41:12.170
there at the start of his
career, people that kept him

880
00:41:12.170 --> 00:41:14.060
grounded.

881
00:41:14.060 --> 00:41:17.210
But at critical points, Lennox
always found a better captain

882
00:41:17.210 --> 00:41:19.230
to steer the ship,
especially when it

883
00:41:19.230 --> 00:41:23.010
went through turbulent waters.

884
00:41:23.010 --> 00:41:26.210
After the upset victory
of Oliver McCall, who

885
00:41:26.210 --> 00:41:30.110
better to hire than the
architect of his only loss,

886
00:41:30.110 --> 00:41:33.040
Emanuel Steward?

887
00:41:33.040 --> 00:41:35.050
Emanuel Steward
was good friends

888
00:41:35.050 --> 00:41:38.020
with one of my first
mentors, John Davenport.

889
00:41:38.020 --> 00:41:44.130
So when he came with us,
our team with Lennox Lewis,

890
00:41:44.130 --> 00:41:47.090
I was more happy than
Lennox, because, man,

891
00:41:47.090 --> 00:41:49.030
Steward was like a sage.

892
00:41:49.030 --> 00:41:50.030
He was a guru.

893
00:41:50.030 --> 00:41:54.190
Frank Maloney and myself,
after Lennox got knocked out

894
00:41:54.190 --> 00:41:59.100
by Oliver McCall, we literally
pulled Emanuel Steward right

895
00:41:59.100 --> 00:42:01.210
then and there in the
ring, you're coming

896
00:42:01.210 --> 00:42:03.130
with us from here on out.

897
00:42:03.130 --> 00:42:06.210
NARRATOR: Before engineering
Lennox's only defeat,

898
00:42:06.210 --> 00:42:09.100
Emanuel Steward had
developed a reputation

899
00:42:09.100 --> 00:42:11.160
for turning good
boxes into champions

900
00:42:11.160 --> 00:42:13.140
of the highest caliber.

901
00:42:13.140 --> 00:42:16.120
When I first became
involved with Lennox,

902
00:42:16.120 --> 00:42:19.140
Lennox actually was too
tentative and too cautious.

903
00:42:19.140 --> 00:42:21.220
But I've always predicted
that Lennox Lewis would

904
00:42:21.220 --> 00:42:24.170
be a great heavyweight, was
possibly the best heavyweight

905
00:42:24.170 --> 00:42:26.200
out there, even when
I was training Evander

906
00:42:26.200 --> 00:42:28.210
Holyfield and Oliver McCall.

907
00:42:28.210 --> 00:42:31.220
Particularly the fights
where people are questioning

908
00:42:31.220 --> 00:42:35.040
his toughness, I would say.

909
00:42:35.040 --> 00:42:37.110
Those seem to be the fights
that motivate him the most.

910
00:42:37.110 --> 00:42:39.090
One of the things that made
Emanuel Steward the greatest

911
00:42:39.090 --> 00:42:41.160
boxing trainer of all
time, in my personal view,

912
00:42:41.160 --> 00:42:46.030
was that he perfectly understood
that every single fighter comes

913
00:42:46.030 --> 00:42:49.070
from a different incubus,
a different background.

914
00:42:49.070 --> 00:42:52.210
And he wanted to know who
they were, and know what made

915
00:42:52.210 --> 00:42:55.140
them tick, and respond to that.

916
00:42:55.140 --> 00:42:57.200
The first time I actually
met Emanuel Steward,

917
00:42:57.200 --> 00:42:59.140
he said he watched me
boxing, and he thinks

918
00:42:59.140 --> 00:43:03.050
I have a lot of natural
talent, and he thinks

919
00:43:03.050 --> 00:43:04.060
I'll be a champion one day.

920
00:43:04.060 --> 00:43:06.220
But he told me that way
when I was an amateur.

921
00:43:06.220 --> 00:43:08.080
And then we picked
him up at the airport,

922
00:43:08.080 --> 00:43:11.070
went out for dinner,
and Lennox, while we

923
00:43:11.070 --> 00:43:13.050
were having dinner,
started saying "Manny,

924
00:43:13.050 --> 00:43:14.160
tell me how you beat me."

925
00:43:14.160 --> 00:43:16.230
And he'd get up and
he'd demonstrate.

926
00:43:16.230 --> 00:43:18.230
"I saw you doing this.

927
00:43:18.230 --> 00:43:20.140
This is what we looked for.

928
00:43:20.140 --> 00:43:22.070
We knew this was one
of your tendencies,

929
00:43:22.070 --> 00:43:25.060
and we wanted to lure
you into this position.

930
00:43:25.060 --> 00:43:27.020
We're gonna get in the gym,
and I'm gonna change that,

931
00:43:27.020 --> 00:43:29.060
so you never get caught
with that punch again."

932
00:43:29.060 --> 00:43:30.160
He said to Lennox, "I
want you in the gym

933
00:43:30.160 --> 00:43:32.210
tomorrow morning, 9:00."

934
00:43:32.210 --> 00:43:35.140
The one thing that was
different about Manny,

935
00:43:35.140 --> 00:43:38.110
he got right in the
ring, and he showed you.

936
00:43:38.110 --> 00:43:40.120
I went to meet with
Lennox, and after the meeting

937
00:43:40.120 --> 00:43:42.010
I had a good feeling.

938
00:43:42.010 --> 00:43:43.190
And we worked out in the gym.

939
00:43:43.190 --> 00:43:46.110
There was very good chemistry
between Lennox and I.

940
00:43:46.110 --> 00:43:50.220
And I decided that
I was gonna do it.

941
00:43:50.220 --> 00:43:55.000
When Emanuel
took over, I think

942
00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:58.220
more of the technical
side came out in Lennox.

943
00:43:58.220 --> 00:44:02.070
It was more about
boxing, more about the jab,

944
00:44:02.070 --> 00:44:05.070
more about the uppercut,
the right hook.

945
00:44:05.070 --> 00:44:09.050
He wasn't just a
trainer, a coach, a mentor.

946
00:44:09.050 --> 00:44:10.220
He was a people's person.

947
00:44:10.220 --> 00:44:13.160
He used to take myself,
obviously Lennox Lewis,

948
00:44:13.160 --> 00:44:17.200
and Courtney Shand driving
around town in his candy

949
00:44:17.200 --> 00:44:22.170
apple Rolls Royce with the white
top, with the white top down.

950
00:44:22.170 --> 00:44:27.030
And that personal relationship,
he used to talk with Lennox.

951
00:44:27.030 --> 00:44:28.170
He used to talk with all of us.

952
00:44:28.170 --> 00:44:31.110
We always went to camp
for like almost 12 weeks.

953
00:44:31.110 --> 00:44:34.140
The first week was just,
I want you guys to sleep.

954
00:44:34.140 --> 00:44:36.150
I want you guys
to get some rest.

955
00:44:36.150 --> 00:44:37.110
We're gonna get up.

956
00:44:37.110 --> 00:44:39.110
We're not gonna start
training right away.

957
00:44:39.110 --> 00:44:41.140
Just come in, rest.

958
00:44:41.140 --> 00:44:44.090
You remember Pepe Correa,
who was Lewis's trainer,

959
00:44:44.090 --> 00:44:46.140
fired after Lewis's
loss to Oliver McCall.

960
00:44:46.140 --> 00:44:50.120
Tonight, he will work in
Lionel Butler's corner.

961
00:44:50.120 --> 00:44:54.220
Emanuel Steward trained Evander
Holyfield to his upset victory

962
00:44:54.220 --> 00:44:58.220
over Riddick Bowe,
and then trained

963
00:44:58.220 --> 00:45:03.100
McCall, as we've mentioned,
to his victory over Lewis.

964
00:45:03.100 --> 00:45:06.190
Lewis suddenly doing a lot
of work with the left hand.

965
00:45:06.190 --> 00:45:09.210
And that is relatively new.

966
00:45:09.210 --> 00:45:12.100
Go out there and jump on this.

967
00:45:12.100 --> 00:45:14.190
You gotta jump on him,
hit him in the head.

968
00:45:14.190 --> 00:45:16.010
Keep your right hand up.

969
00:45:16.010 --> 00:45:20.070
Your biggest mistake is
your right hand is too low.

970
00:45:20.070 --> 00:45:24.020
And that right hand might
be enough to finish it.

971
00:45:24.020 --> 00:45:25.020
And it is.

972
00:45:25.020 --> 00:45:28.230
And the thunder is still there
in Lennox Lewis's right hand.

973
00:45:28.230 --> 00:45:31.000
Lennox Lewis has got
this punching power.

974
00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:32.110
All he needs is a
little more confident.

975
00:45:32.110 --> 00:45:34.020
This guy can rule the
heavyweight division

976
00:45:34.020 --> 00:45:37.000
for a long time with
that extra reach he has.

977
00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:37.150
Resistance.

978
00:45:37.150 --> 00:45:39.130
There's a lot of it.

979
00:45:39.130 --> 00:45:43.010
He's caught here
and [INAUDIBLE]..

980
00:45:43.010 --> 00:45:45.010
It stopped.

981
00:45:45.010 --> 00:45:47.010
Even before he hit the
floor, Roy [INAUDIBLE]

982
00:45:47.010 --> 00:45:48.070
decided that that was enough.

983
00:45:48.070 --> 00:45:51.100
His were blocked by
Lennox Lewis's arms.

984
00:45:51.100 --> 00:45:53.200
And there's a
monumental uppercut.

985
00:45:53.200 --> 00:45:55.180
This is the best
Lewis we've seen

986
00:45:55.180 --> 00:45:59.160
in a while, much more measured,
less wild, better footwork.

987
00:45:59.160 --> 00:46:00.210
Much better footwork.

988
00:46:00.210 --> 00:46:03.000
Lane is getting very
close to a stoppage here.

989
00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:04.160
You get that sense.

990
00:46:04.160 --> 00:46:07.080
Now goes Morrison again.

991
00:46:07.080 --> 00:46:09.190
A terrific performance
by Lennox Lewis.

992
00:46:09.190 --> 00:46:12.060
Defensively he kept
that right hand up,

993
00:46:12.060 --> 00:46:16.120
so that he completely
neutralized Tommy Morrison's

994
00:46:16.120 --> 00:46:18.040
outstanding left hook.

995
00:46:18.040 --> 00:46:21.170
You describe for us
how you were different,

996
00:46:21.170 --> 00:46:23.110
or how you felt
different in this fight

997
00:46:23.110 --> 00:46:25.010
than you have in
some other fights.

998
00:46:25.010 --> 00:46:26.080
Differently Emanuel Steward.

999
00:46:26.080 --> 00:46:28.080
I have to give credit to
Emanuel Steward and the team

1000
00:46:28.080 --> 00:46:30.180
behind me, Courtney Shand,
Harold the Shadow Knight.

1001
00:46:30.180 --> 00:46:32.110
They've helped me develop this.

1002
00:46:32.110 --> 00:46:34.230
NARRATOR: Lennox beat Tommy
Morrison in brutal fashion.

1003
00:46:38.110 --> 00:46:40.150
Meanwhile, Tyson
was out of prison

1004
00:46:40.150 --> 00:46:44.000
and making his own comeback,
winning the WBC belt

1005
00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:46.080
for the second time
after he defeated

1006
00:46:46.080 --> 00:46:50.170
Frank Bruno, who had won it
by beating Oliver McCall.

1007
00:46:50.170 --> 00:46:53.160
Every fight brought
us a new objective.

1008
00:46:53.160 --> 00:46:57.010
I wanted to know that if
a man's blocking my jab

1009
00:46:57.010 --> 00:46:58.220
and he's learned to
control my job, well,

1010
00:46:58.220 --> 00:47:00.020
I've got a right hand.

1011
00:47:00.020 --> 00:47:01.220
If he's learned to
control that right hand,

1012
00:47:01.220 --> 00:47:03.210
I've got an uppercut hook.

1013
00:47:03.210 --> 00:47:12.180
For the winner on a split
decision, Lennox Lewis!

1014
00:47:12.180 --> 00:47:14.180
The WBC belt,
what happens now?

1015
00:47:14.180 --> 00:47:16.020
If you don't fight
Lennox Lewis, they're

1016
00:47:16.020 --> 00:47:18.000
either gonna take it away
or something's gonna happen.

1017
00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:19.020
I take all challengers.

1018
00:47:19.020 --> 00:47:19.180
Line them up.

1019
00:47:19.180 --> 00:47:21.050
NARRATOR: After
defeating Ray Mercer,

1020
00:47:21.050 --> 00:47:25.090
the WBC named Lennox as Tyson's
next mandatory challenge.

1021
00:47:25.090 --> 00:47:27.100
But Tyson's handlers
wouldn't agree to a fight

1022
00:47:27.100 --> 00:47:31.020
with Lennox, which led to a
rematch with Oliver McCall.

1023
00:47:41.200 --> 00:47:43.080
Good combination by Lewis.

1024
00:47:43.080 --> 00:47:45.110
Left hook and a right
hand over the top.

1025
00:47:45.110 --> 00:47:46.090
Just take your time, son.

1026
00:47:46.090 --> 00:47:48.210
Start ripping into the
body a little bit now, OK?

1027
00:47:48.210 --> 00:47:50.060
You're not pushing back any.

1028
00:47:50.060 --> 00:47:51.070
You gonna start pushing back.

1029
00:47:51.070 --> 00:47:53.120
McCall is doing a very
strange thing here, folks.

1030
00:47:53.120 --> 00:47:54.180
He's walking around.

1031
00:47:54.180 --> 00:47:56.030
He's wandering
around the ring.

1032
00:47:56.030 --> 00:47:58.200
He hasn't gone to his corner,
and he's trying to figure out

1033
00:47:58.200 --> 00:48:00.020
what's gone wrong.

1034
00:48:00.020 --> 00:48:03.100
Lennox Lewis in an awfully
difficult and awkward position.

1035
00:48:03.100 --> 00:48:05.180
Lewis doing what he has to do.

1036
00:48:09.010 --> 00:48:13.060
You wonder how much longer Mills
Lane will allow this to go.

1037
00:48:13.060 --> 00:48:17.030
And that's-- that's gonna be it.

1038
00:48:17.030 --> 00:48:19.180
NARRATOR: After avenging his
only loss by defeating Oliver

1039
00:48:19.180 --> 00:48:24.020
McCall, Lennox dominated his
next three opponents, all

1040
00:48:24.020 --> 00:48:26.110
of them top 10 contenders,
who many thought

1041
00:48:26.110 --> 00:48:28.070
would give him trouble.

1042
00:48:28.070 --> 00:48:30.230
While Lennox was blazing
through the division,

1043
00:48:30.230 --> 00:48:33.170
Mike Tyson was struggling
to defeat his own demons.

1044
00:48:38.220 --> 00:48:40.170
What happened here?

1045
00:48:40.170 --> 00:48:41.160
He got bit, I think.

1046
00:48:41.160 --> 00:48:43.210
My goodness, he's
got a bloody right ear!

1047
00:48:43.210 --> 00:48:47.120
Holyfield bit by a
dirty Mike Tyson.

1048
00:48:47.120 --> 00:48:48.070
See, look at him.

1049
00:48:48.070 --> 00:48:49.010
You can see it.

1050
00:48:49.010 --> 00:48:50.160
You can see it!

1051
00:48:50.160 --> 00:48:53.030
There it is!

1052
00:48:53.030 --> 00:48:54.150
I can't believe what
I'm seeing, fellas.

1053
00:48:54.150 --> 00:48:56.180
He's signaling that it's over.

1054
00:48:56.180 --> 00:48:59.010
I think they've just
about had enough.

1055
00:48:59.010 --> 00:49:02.200
Tyson showing desperation and
biting Holyfield two times.

1056
00:49:05.160 --> 00:49:08.120
Look out now!

1057
00:49:08.120 --> 00:49:10.210
More fighting in the ring
After the end of the fight.

1058
00:49:10.210 --> 00:49:13.100
NARRATOR: With two victories
now over Tyson and Bowe

1059
00:49:13.100 --> 00:49:15.200
out of the picture,
Evander holyfield

1060
00:49:15.200 --> 00:49:17.110
was considered the real deal.

1061
00:49:17.110 --> 00:49:21.080
Lennox ranked number two behind
him for three years in a row.

1062
00:49:21.080 --> 00:49:25.050
'96, '97, and '98.

1063
00:49:25.050 --> 00:49:27.100
That had him burning up inside.

1064
00:49:27.100 --> 00:49:30.070
There was only one
way to settle it.

1065
00:49:30.070 --> 00:49:32.070
Riddick Bowe didn't
want to fight Lennox,

1066
00:49:32.070 --> 00:49:33.220
so Riddick Bowe came to me.

1067
00:49:33.220 --> 00:49:35.170
Tyson didn't fight Lennox.

1068
00:49:35.170 --> 00:49:37.050
He fought me.

1069
00:49:37.050 --> 00:49:40.100
Each and every time that
they had an opportunity

1070
00:49:40.100 --> 00:49:44.020
to choose to fight Lennox,
they chose to fight me,

1071
00:49:44.020 --> 00:49:46.150
because they thought I
was a lesser opponent.

1072
00:49:46.150 --> 00:49:47.190
And I always surprised them.

1073
00:49:47.190 --> 00:49:54.160
So out of respect, I had
to face him and give him

1074
00:49:54.160 --> 00:49:56.170
the opportunity
that he had given

1075
00:49:56.170 --> 00:49:59.080
me of being the three time
heavyweight champ of the world.

1076
00:49:59.080 --> 00:50:01.040
With a victory over
Evander Holyfield,

1077
00:50:01.040 --> 00:50:04.200
Lennox Lewis will become maybe
one of the most powerful men

1078
00:50:04.200 --> 00:50:05.140
to ever be in boxing.

1079
00:50:20.200 --> 00:50:24.100
This will take you and bring
you into full visualization.

1080
00:50:24.100 --> 00:50:26.050
This is your hour.

1081
00:50:26.050 --> 00:50:28.010
Before you talk
about Tyson, Tyson

1082
00:50:28.010 --> 00:50:30.000
will be bigger than the event.

1083
00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:32.030
No matter if you
win, you don't win.

1084
00:50:32.030 --> 00:50:32.200
You know what I mean?

1085
00:50:32.200 --> 00:50:34.230
Holyfield has
diminished that light.

1086
00:50:34.230 --> 00:50:36.120
You've got it going in here.

1087
00:50:36.120 --> 00:50:39.000
I don't know what it is, but
this is the type of fight

1088
00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:40.100
that's got us all excited.

1089
00:50:40.100 --> 00:50:42.040
It broke me out
into a cold sweat.

1090
00:50:42.040 --> 00:50:44.160
NARRATOR: The time had come for
Lennox and Evander Holyfield

1091
00:50:44.160 --> 00:50:46.030
to touch gloves.

1092
00:50:46.030 --> 00:50:49.000
Entire career, two-time
heavyweight champion

1093
00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:51.100
of the world, Olympic
gold medal winner,

1094
00:50:51.100 --> 00:50:52.210
it won't mean
anything if he does

1095
00:50:52.210 --> 00:50:54.010
not beat Evander Holyfield.

1096
00:50:54.010 --> 00:50:56.140
He will just be another kid
with dreadlocks from England.

1097
00:50:56.140 --> 00:51:00.180
I got Sean Connery doing the
voiceover on the commercial.

1098
00:51:00.180 --> 00:51:01.090
Get out of here.

1099
00:51:01.090 --> 00:51:02.180
Yeah?

1100
00:51:02.180 --> 00:51:04.120
007, baby!

1101
00:51:04.120 --> 00:51:07.050
And what's it been like the
last few days in New York?

1102
00:51:07.050 --> 00:51:09.000
Countless press
conferences, everybody

1103
00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:09.180
wanting to talk to you?

1104
00:51:09.180 --> 00:51:10.160
You must get fed up with it.

1105
00:51:10.160 --> 00:51:12.000
You must want to
get on with it now.

1106
00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:13.040
Yeah, definitely.

1107
00:51:13.040 --> 00:51:17.060
I've done countless interviews
asking the same questions

1108
00:51:17.060 --> 00:51:18.130
over and over.

1109
00:51:18.130 --> 00:51:22.180
Now I think these questions need
to be answered with a fight.

1110
00:51:22.180 --> 00:51:23.200
Believe me,
Holyfield gonna put

1111
00:51:23.200 --> 00:51:25.130
something on his hands, man.

1112
00:51:25.130 --> 00:51:26.190
Oh, yeah, he gonna
pound on his ass.

1113
00:51:26.190 --> 00:51:27.130
Come on, man.

1114
00:51:27.130 --> 00:51:28.210
He gonna get pounded on, man.

1115
00:51:28.210 --> 00:51:31.220
We couldn't paint a ticket
in if we were an artist.

1116
00:51:31.220 --> 00:51:34.230
It's a sold out fight three
months before the fight.

1117
00:51:34.230 --> 00:51:37.220
It's the fastest sell-out
in heavyweight history,

1118
00:51:37.220 --> 00:51:39.170
in the history of the garden.

1119
00:51:39.170 --> 00:51:42.100
And so we have just the
biggest fight, four times

1120
00:51:42.100 --> 00:51:45.150
as big as any event
money-wise in the garden.

1121
00:51:45.150 --> 00:51:48.080
So these are some first
in history making events

1122
00:51:48.080 --> 00:51:50.110
that you have with the
Real Deal Holyfield

1123
00:51:50.110 --> 00:51:53.160
against Lennox Lewis,
Holyfield, of kind of the IBF

1124
00:51:53.160 --> 00:51:57.080
and the WBA, Lennox Lewis,
the king of the WBC,

1125
00:51:57.080 --> 00:52:00.070
and Don King, the
king of the ring.

1126
00:52:00.070 --> 00:52:01.200
Don't even worry.

1127
00:52:01.200 --> 00:52:03.030
Don't even worry.

1128
00:52:07.060 --> 00:52:08.060
Lenny, you got your jacket?

1129
00:52:08.060 --> 00:52:08.200
Yeah.

1130
00:52:11.150 --> 00:52:15.000
Before you was
born, it was written.

1131
00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:16.000
This is the moment of truth.

1132
00:52:20.020 --> 00:52:22.030
Lennox Lewis enters first.

1133
00:52:22.030 --> 00:52:25.020
He has labored long
and bucked the tide

1134
00:52:25.020 --> 00:52:28.020
of a lot of disrespect on
this side of the Atlantic

1135
00:52:28.020 --> 00:52:30.200
to get to this threshold.

1136
00:52:30.200 --> 00:52:36.150
As a professional, 34 wins, the
one second round knockout loss

1137
00:52:36.150 --> 00:52:38.130
one punch at the
hands of McCall later

1138
00:52:38.130 --> 00:52:43.140
avenged, 27 knockouts for
the two-time belt-holder

1139
00:52:43.140 --> 00:52:46.160
from England.

1140
00:52:46.160 --> 00:52:55.120
(SINGING) We sing Holy Father,
power and strength to the Lord.

1141
00:52:55.120 --> 00:52:57.120
And here we go.

1142
00:52:57.120 --> 00:53:00.190
It's the moment you've
all been waiting for.

1143
00:53:04.030 --> 00:53:06.120
Only three men
left in the ring.

1144
00:53:06.120 --> 00:53:07.110
And we're underway.

1145
00:53:11.070 --> 00:53:13.210
Holyfield seeming to
slip as Lewis landed

1146
00:53:13.210 --> 00:53:15.090
the first punch of the bout.

1147
00:53:15.090 --> 00:53:18.090
That goes by the wayside
because Holyfield only

1148
00:53:18.090 --> 00:53:22.070
threw 17 punches in round 1.

1149
00:53:22.070 --> 00:53:25.010
Quiet here at floor
level, where the Holyfield

1150
00:53:25.010 --> 00:53:28.080
fans are wondering why
their man doesn't get off.

1151
00:53:28.080 --> 00:53:30.210
Raucous noise in the
upper deck, where

1152
00:53:30.210 --> 00:53:35.040
the englishmen are enjoying
Lewis's early dominance.

1153
00:53:35.040 --> 00:53:37.150
--won't win for
Evander Holyfield.

1154
00:53:37.150 --> 00:53:43.120
And he cringes against the ropes
as Lewis lands a right hand.

1155
00:53:43.120 --> 00:53:45.230
They're singing upstairs.

1156
00:53:45.230 --> 00:53:48.100
They're cheering downstairs.

1157
00:53:48.100 --> 00:53:49.140
The applause is building.

1158
00:53:52.120 --> 00:53:53.180
[INTERPOSING VOICES]

1159
00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:57.090
[BELL RINGS]

1160
00:53:59.070 --> 00:54:03.070
Not since Bob
Fitzsimmons in 1897

1161
00:54:03.070 --> 00:54:05.120
has a citizen of
Great Britain held an

1162
00:54:05.120 --> 00:54:08.040
undisputed heavyweight title.

1163
00:54:08.040 --> 00:54:12.030
We may be minutes away from
that watershed right now.

1164
00:54:12.030 --> 00:54:15.160
Final punch stat numbers
are overwhelmingly

1165
00:54:15.160 --> 00:54:20.190
one sided, Lewis
landing 218 more blows,

1166
00:54:20.190 --> 00:54:23.220
more than doubling Holyfield's
landed punch number,

1167
00:54:23.220 --> 00:54:26.020
and nearly doubling his output.

1168
00:54:26.020 --> 00:54:28.220
We go to the
scorecards at this time.

1169
00:54:28.220 --> 00:54:32.000
Judge at ringside
Eugenia Williams scores

1170
00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:37.230
about 115 to 113 in favor
of Evander Holyfield.

1171
00:54:37.230 --> 00:54:39.230
[CHEERING]

1172
00:54:39.230 --> 00:54:43.090
Judge at ringside Stanley
Christodoulou scores

1173
00:54:43.090 --> 00:54:50.230
about 116 to 113 in
favor of Lennox Lewis.

1174
00:54:50.230 --> 00:54:53.190
Judge at ringside
Larry O'Connell scores

1175
00:54:53.190 --> 00:54:59.020
the bout 115 to 115.

1176
00:54:59.020 --> 00:55:02.210
Even a draw, the
decision is even a draw.

1177
00:55:02.210 --> 00:55:05.150
Both champions
retain their belts.

1178
00:55:11.070 --> 00:55:12.220
That's a travesty.

1179
00:55:12.220 --> 00:55:15.180
That is, ladies and
gentlemen, a travesty,

1180
00:55:15.180 --> 00:55:18.190
an outrage, a highway robbery.

1181
00:55:18.190 --> 00:55:21.110
Lennox Lewis has
just been robbed

1182
00:55:21.110 --> 00:55:24.140
of the undisputed heavyweight
championship of the world.

1183
00:55:24.140 --> 00:55:26.200
He won it, and he didn't get it.

1184
00:55:26.200 --> 00:55:30.200
You know, that is a shame.

1185
00:55:30.200 --> 00:55:34.210
Emanuel Steward, first
give us your impression

1186
00:55:34.210 --> 00:55:38.040
of the scoring of the fight.

1187
00:55:38.040 --> 00:55:41.120
You know, first of all,
it was a terrible decision.

1188
00:55:41.120 --> 00:55:42.090
Anybody can see the fight.

1189
00:55:42.090 --> 00:55:43.140
Now, I normally
don't even complain,

1190
00:55:43.140 --> 00:55:46.030
even the Thomas Hearns Sugar
Ray Leonard number 2 fight.

1191
00:55:46.030 --> 00:55:48.220
But this fight is really
what's hurting boxing.

1192
00:55:48.220 --> 00:55:52.110
Every time we try to move boxing
forward and make a great fight

1193
00:55:52.110 --> 00:55:54.220
of some type like
this, this kind of crap

1194
00:55:54.220 --> 00:55:56.220
just comes on, where
Evander only won

1195
00:55:56.220 --> 00:55:59.100
three rounds, four at the most.

1196
00:55:59.100 --> 00:56:02.060
But nevertheless,
it's called a draw.

1197
00:56:02.060 --> 00:56:05.080
This is what's killing boxing.

1198
00:56:05.080 --> 00:56:06.140
[INTERPOSING VOICES]

1199
00:56:09.020 --> 00:56:11.000
Watch it, watch it, watch it.

1200
00:56:11.000 --> 00:56:11.180
[INAUDIBLE]

1201
00:56:16.170 --> 00:56:17.190
I was fucking afraid of that.

1202
00:56:20.200 --> 00:56:22.080
A draw?

1203
00:56:22.080 --> 00:56:24.070
You shut his ass down.

1204
00:56:24.070 --> 00:56:25.100
Let's talk like
we're champions.

1205
00:56:25.100 --> 00:56:26.040
We won the fight.

1206
00:56:26.040 --> 00:56:27.190
That's how we're talking
at the press conference.

1207
00:56:27.190 --> 00:56:28.170
Yeah.

1208
00:56:28.170 --> 00:56:29.150
positive vibes.

1209
00:56:29.150 --> 00:56:30.160
Positive.

1210
00:56:30.160 --> 00:56:32.150
We're the people's
champion, at all times.

1211
00:56:32.150 --> 00:56:33.110
We're here.

1212
00:56:33.110 --> 00:56:36.090
We're here to face
all of our accusers.

1213
00:56:36.090 --> 00:56:37.120
Don't be shy.

1214
00:56:37.120 --> 00:56:39.080
If you think that
he lost the fight,

1215
00:56:39.080 --> 00:56:40.230
tell him that you think that.

1216
00:56:40.230 --> 00:56:42.100
The judges didn't think it.

1217
00:56:42.100 --> 00:56:44.210
And I tell you, he's
ready to do it again.

1218
00:56:44.210 --> 00:56:47.090
When you get a man hurt,
you're supposed to finish it.

1219
00:56:47.090 --> 00:56:49.050
You don't play chess with it.

1220
00:56:49.050 --> 00:56:50.070
Where was that third round?

1221
00:56:50.070 --> 00:56:51.050
That's what I want to know.

1222
00:56:51.050 --> 00:56:54.040
What happened in
that third round?

1223
00:56:54.040 --> 00:56:55.210
Well, Lennox, you know what?

1224
00:56:55.210 --> 00:56:57.130
Have you ever thought
about when we fight again,

1225
00:56:57.130 --> 00:56:58.210
I got another chance to do it?

1226
00:57:02.140 --> 00:57:04.050
Yes, yes, it ain't over yet!

1227
00:57:04.050 --> 00:57:05.130
Yeah, it's not over.

1228
00:57:05.130 --> 00:57:06.160
It ain't over yet!

1229
00:57:06.160 --> 00:57:07.140
Thank you very much.

1230
00:57:07.140 --> 00:57:09.170
You're very kind,
and I love you.

1231
00:57:09.170 --> 00:57:11.100
Now we gonna do it again!

1232
00:57:11.100 --> 00:57:13.100
Don is a very smart man.

1233
00:57:13.100 --> 00:57:14.180
Regardless of what
people say about him,

1234
00:57:14.180 --> 00:57:16.070
Don is a very smart man.

1235
00:57:16.070 --> 00:57:22.190
So when Lennox never signed
with Don and beat every fighter,

1236
00:57:22.190 --> 00:57:26.090
that more or less incensed
Don a little bit more

1237
00:57:26.090 --> 00:57:30.200
to have that little
thing against Lennox.

1238
00:57:30.200 --> 00:57:33.080
It seems so unfair that guys
like Don King and Bob Arum

1239
00:57:33.080 --> 00:57:36.180
and these guys are getting
crazy rich off of the blood

1240
00:57:36.180 --> 00:57:38.080
and sweat of these
boxers, and then

1241
00:57:38.080 --> 00:57:39.140
they end up with very little.

1242
00:57:39.140 --> 00:57:40.040
Absolutely.

1243
00:57:40.040 --> 00:57:44.070
I mean, if you look at
the Holyfield fight,

1244
00:57:44.070 --> 00:57:46.110
Holyfield made $15
million in one fight.

1245
00:57:46.110 --> 00:57:49.080
I made 10, and Don King made 10.

1246
00:57:49.080 --> 00:57:50.220
But he never
stepped in the ring.

1247
00:57:50.220 --> 00:57:52.070
You know what you
guys should have done?

1248
00:57:52.070 --> 00:57:54.120
Honestly, after the fight,
beat the [BLEEP] out of him.

1249
00:57:54.120 --> 00:57:56.110
[LAUGHTER]

1250
00:57:56.110 --> 00:57:58.230
Right after it.

1251
00:57:58.230 --> 00:58:01.170
Now after being in
the ring with Holyfield,

1252
00:58:01.170 --> 00:58:05.040
we didn't have to really go
back to study tapes and do this,

1253
00:58:05.040 --> 00:58:09.010
because Lennox had 12
rounds in his mind.

1254
00:58:09.010 --> 00:58:11.040
And once you've fought
with Lennox once,

1255
00:58:11.040 --> 00:58:12.100
once he's in the
ring with you once,

1256
00:58:12.100 --> 00:58:14.160
there is no way you're gonna
get him the second time.

1257
00:58:14.160 --> 00:58:17.220
We knew, OK, we can't
leave it to the judges.

1258
00:58:17.220 --> 00:58:20.170
We weren't just gonna
be fighting Holyfield.

1259
00:58:20.170 --> 00:58:22.040
We'll be fighting the judges.

1260
00:58:22.040 --> 00:58:24.210
We'll be fighting
the establishment.

1261
00:58:24.210 --> 00:58:27.050
He hopes for a rematch
with you if he can.

1262
00:58:27.050 --> 00:58:29.010
Who?

1263
00:58:29.010 --> 00:58:30.110
Holyfield.

1264
00:58:30.110 --> 00:58:35.060
Boxing for the undisputed
heavyweight championship

1265
00:58:35.060 --> 00:58:37.060
of the world.

1266
00:58:37.060 --> 00:58:39.170
[BELL RINGS]

1267
00:58:41.050 --> 00:58:42.160
We shall have drama tonight.

1268
00:58:46.150 --> 00:58:50.140
Already we can see
Holyfield trying to get closer

1269
00:58:50.140 --> 00:58:53.020
to Lewis right from the get-go.

1270
00:58:58.010 --> 00:58:59.040
Get his attention.

1271
00:58:59.040 --> 00:59:00.110
Keep shooting the right hand.

1272
00:59:00.110 --> 00:59:02.080
You're shooting him
right, but shoot him low.

1273
00:59:02.080 --> 00:59:03.030
Don't shoot him high.

1274
00:59:03.030 --> 00:59:06.220
Keep your arms close.

1275
00:59:06.220 --> 00:59:08.100
Lewis to the body.

1276
00:59:08.100 --> 00:59:10.210
His own right hand lands flush.

1277
00:59:10.210 --> 00:59:14.210
They trade shots at close
range, and summon the best round

1278
00:59:14.210 --> 00:59:17.130
these two fighters have fought
against each other in two

1279
00:59:17.130 --> 00:59:18.090
fights.

1280
00:59:18.090 --> 00:59:19.210
Their heads come
together again,

1281
00:59:19.210 --> 00:59:23.010
and Lewis produces some good
in-fighting as he drives

1282
00:59:23.010 --> 00:59:23.210
Evander back to the wall.

1283
00:59:23.210 --> 00:59:25.130
Well, Evander Holyfield
won't knock down anybody.

1284
00:59:25.130 --> 00:59:27.200
Uppercut lands for Lewis.

1285
00:59:27.200 --> 00:59:29.200
Multiple punches for Lewis.

1286
00:59:29.200 --> 00:59:31.200
Holyfield knocked
over, fires the right

1287
00:59:31.200 --> 00:59:34.210
and drives Lewis into the ropes.

1288
00:59:34.210 --> 00:59:38.200
Lennox goes back to the
body and the uppercut.

1289
00:59:38.200 --> 00:59:43.200
Lewis throws more and lands
more in almost every round.

1290
00:59:43.200 --> 00:59:47.200
We're gonna find out in five
more seconds of fighting.

1291
00:59:47.200 --> 00:59:50.080
They fought a much
better fight this time.

1292
00:59:50.080 --> 00:59:51.210
[BELL RINGS]

1293
00:59:51.210 --> 00:59:53.210
And the fans appreciate it.

1294
00:59:53.210 --> 00:59:58.000
We go to the scorecards
with a unanimous decision.

1295
00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:01.040
Here are the score totals.

1296
01:00:01.040 --> 01:00:07.120
Judge at ringside Jerry
Roth scores it 115 to 113.

1297
01:00:07.120 --> 01:00:12.160
Judge Chuck Giampa
scores it 116 to 112.

1298
01:00:12.160 --> 01:00:19.170
Judge at ringside Bill Graham
sees it 117 to 111, all three

1299
01:00:19.170 --> 01:00:24.190
in favor of the winner and the
undisputed heavyweight champion

1300
01:00:24.190 --> 01:00:31.040
of the world, Lennox Lewis.

1301
01:00:31.040 --> 01:00:33.150
[CHEERING]

1302
01:00:45.100 --> 01:00:49.180
The first unified
heavyweight champion

1303
01:00:49.180 --> 01:00:53.180
from Britain in a century,
what do you think this will do

1304
01:00:53.180 --> 01:00:57.110
for your legacy as a fighter
and the respect you have tried

1305
01:00:57.110 --> 01:01:00.040
to win over the last decade?

1306
01:01:00.040 --> 01:01:03.210
I think I went through
some trials and tribulations,

1307
01:01:03.210 --> 01:01:06.160
and enough people were
trying to stop me.

1308
01:01:06.160 --> 01:01:09.030
The Americans didn't want me
to take it over the Atlantic

1309
01:01:09.030 --> 01:01:12.200
to Britain, but I actually
persevered and succeeded.

1310
01:01:12.200 --> 01:01:16.010
NARRATOR: Finally, with his
clear victory over Holyfield,

1311
01:01:16.010 --> 01:01:19.150
Lennox ended the '90s number
one from Ring Magazine

1312
01:01:19.150 --> 01:01:21.060
for the very first time.

1313
01:01:21.060 --> 01:01:26.130
Here he was, Lennox Lewis,
the undisputed greatest.

1314
01:01:26.130 --> 01:01:29.150
The year 2000 was
prime time for Lennox.

1315
01:01:29.150 --> 01:01:32.210
He fought Michael
Grant, a 6'7 heavyweight

1316
01:01:32.210 --> 01:01:36.060
from Chicago who was even
bigger and seven years younger.

1317
01:01:41.170 --> 01:01:44.110
But he kicked his ass
in only two rounds.

1318
01:01:44.110 --> 01:01:46.080
Lennox went back
to England and got

1319
01:01:46.080 --> 01:01:49.060
Botha again in only two rounds.

1320
01:01:49.060 --> 01:01:53.060
Finally in November, he took
on a real fire hydrant, the guy

1321
01:01:53.060 --> 01:01:54.210
that everyone said
was hard to hit

1322
01:01:54.210 --> 01:01:57.150
like Tyson, Samoan David Tua.

1323
01:01:57.150 --> 01:02:00.160
But Lennox showed an ability
to adapt to any style

1324
01:02:00.160 --> 01:02:02.090
and won a decision in 12.

1325
01:02:02.090 --> 01:02:06.020
This is a lights out,
artistic performance

1326
01:02:06.020 --> 01:02:09.130
by a heavyweight champion
who, for the moment,

1327
01:02:09.130 --> 01:02:12.130
looks impregnable.

1328
01:02:12.130 --> 01:02:15.170
The people of Britain have
voted Muhammad Ali the sports

1329
01:02:15.170 --> 01:02:18.070
personality of the century.

1330
01:02:18.070 --> 01:02:20.090
NARRATOR: Finally,
with the respect

1331
01:02:20.090 --> 01:02:22.170
of being the
undisputed champion,

1332
01:02:22.170 --> 01:02:25.130
Lennox was honored by his
country alongside his greatest

1333
01:02:25.130 --> 01:02:26.090
childhood hero.

1334
01:02:28.230 --> 01:02:31.130
Muhammad Ali, our
sports personality

1335
01:02:31.130 --> 01:02:33.180
of the century, Lennox
Lewis, our sports

1336
01:02:33.180 --> 01:02:35.130
personality of the year.

1337
01:02:44.040 --> 01:02:47.040
NARRATOR: While Lennox was
at the peak of his career,

1338
01:02:47.040 --> 01:02:50.090
Frank struggled to keep a deep
secret hidden from the world.

1339
01:02:53.200 --> 01:02:55.100
I've always known
I was very different.

1340
01:02:55.100 --> 01:02:59.070
From the age of three and four,
I am born in the wrong body.

1341
01:02:59.070 --> 01:03:00.130
I could never let
anyone know this,

1342
01:03:00.130 --> 01:03:01.220
so I would have to fight it.

1343
01:03:01.220 --> 01:03:04.060
So all my life I went
through fighting it.

1344
01:03:04.060 --> 01:03:08.190
Lennox Lewis's career
and my success in boxing

1345
01:03:08.190 --> 01:03:11.060
gave me something
else to focus on.

1346
01:03:11.060 --> 01:03:13.110
But eventually there was
a change in the business

1347
01:03:13.110 --> 01:03:16.160
management side, and I
thought that this time they

1348
01:03:16.160 --> 01:03:19.020
were losing track of what
Lennox's career was about.

1349
01:03:19.020 --> 01:03:20.170
Being heavyweight
champion of the world,

1350
01:03:20.170 --> 01:03:23.020
they were now looking
more at commercial sides.

1351
01:03:23.020 --> 01:03:24.210
We were gonna fight
in South Africa.

1352
01:03:24.210 --> 01:03:28.040
Next thing I know, Lennox has
decided to train in Las Vegas,

1353
01:03:28.040 --> 01:03:30.060
because he's in a film
called Ocean's 11.

1354
01:03:30.060 --> 01:03:33.190
I was shooting
a movie with Julia

1355
01:03:33.190 --> 01:03:36.200
Roberts and George Clooney.

1356
01:03:36.200 --> 01:03:37.120
It was good.

1357
01:03:37.120 --> 01:03:38.020
It was great.

1358
01:03:38.020 --> 01:03:40.210
I was shooting a fight scene.

1359
01:03:40.210 --> 01:03:44.170
I shot my particular
little scene for Ocean's 11

1360
01:03:44.170 --> 01:03:48.220
with Larry Merchant
on one of the days

1361
01:03:48.220 --> 01:03:53.160
that Lennox was there to
shoot with Wladimir Klitschko.

1362
01:03:53.160 --> 01:03:57.120
And we were all
aware that in South

1363
01:03:57.120 --> 01:04:01.180
Africa was a fight
taking place at I

1364
01:04:01.180 --> 01:04:04.180
believe 6,000 feet altitude.

1365
01:04:04.180 --> 01:04:08.130
Hasim Rahman arrived three
weeks before the fight.

1366
01:04:08.130 --> 01:04:09.140
I pleaded with Lennox.

1367
01:04:09.140 --> 01:04:13.150
Lennox turned up I think
seven days before the fight.

1368
01:04:13.150 --> 01:04:18.010
Let's go ahead and jump on our
plans, try and get organized.

1369
01:04:18.010 --> 01:04:20.060
We definitely have to get
organized on this, for real.

1370
01:04:20.060 --> 01:04:22.120
We're just off to East
London for a quick stop

1371
01:04:22.120 --> 01:04:24.150
for two to three hours,
and then down to Capetown.

1372
01:04:43.220 --> 01:04:44.140
OK.

1373
01:04:44.140 --> 01:04:48.090
The heart of the whole matter,
it seems to me at this point,

1374
01:04:48.090 --> 01:04:49.170
based on what
everybody's writing

1375
01:04:49.170 --> 01:04:54.170
and how everybody sees this,
is, are you taking him lightly?

1376
01:04:54.170 --> 01:04:58.050
To me, the definition of that
comes from one question, OK?

1377
01:04:58.050 --> 01:05:02.050
If you were fighting Mike Tyson
in Johannesburg on this day--

1378
01:05:02.050 --> 01:05:02.200
OK.

1379
01:05:05.090 --> 01:05:08.050
You know, I knew that the
altitude might be a problem,

1380
01:05:08.050 --> 01:05:11.040
so I came over in time,
so I would feel like I

1381
01:05:11.040 --> 01:05:14.140
would overcome that obstacle.

1382
01:05:14.140 --> 01:05:16.160
I'm sure you're
confident of Lennox

1383
01:05:16.160 --> 01:05:18.080
winning on Sunday morning.

1384
01:05:18.080 --> 01:05:19.180
What happens next?

1385
01:05:19.180 --> 01:05:21.050
What's the scenario with Tyson?

1386
01:05:21.050 --> 01:05:23.040
Tyson is not an issue
until after the Rahman fight,

1387
01:05:23.040 --> 01:05:25.050
so we will not discuss
Tyson, but the priority

1388
01:05:25.050 --> 01:05:27.020
is to win the title.

1389
01:05:27.020 --> 01:05:29.140
Lennox, I've got to
ask you this question.

1390
01:05:29.140 --> 01:05:31.220
With the whole fight
public calling out for what

1391
01:05:31.220 --> 01:05:33.090
could possibly be
one of the biggest

1392
01:05:33.090 --> 01:05:36.180
fights in history, Tyson versus
Lewis, how do you stay focused?

1393
01:05:36.180 --> 01:05:41.160
How do you stay focused
on Hasim Rahman?

1394
01:05:41.160 --> 01:05:43.060
Well, what people
don't know, Lennox Lewis

1395
01:05:43.060 --> 01:05:45.010
is a true competitor, you know?

1396
01:05:45.010 --> 01:05:48.040
It doesn't matter if you say
let's run down the street.

1397
01:05:48.040 --> 01:05:49.080
I have to be first.

1398
01:05:56.000 --> 01:05:56.140
Ow!

1399
01:05:56.140 --> 01:05:58.230
Perfect.

1400
01:05:58.230 --> 01:06:02.140
In this situation, Hasim
Rahman is in front of me,

1401
01:06:02.140 --> 01:06:05.000
and he's an opponent, and
he's trying to get my titles,

1402
01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:06.010
and I'm not gonna allow that.

1403
01:06:09.180 --> 01:06:11.020
[MUSIC PLAYING]

1404
01:06:14.100 --> 01:06:16.220
[CHEERING]

1405
01:06:23.100 --> 01:06:26.050
Lennox Lewis like a big cat.

1406
01:06:26.050 --> 01:06:30.030
Rahman, jab, jab, jab, jab.

1407
01:06:30.030 --> 01:06:34.010
Chases Lewis across the ring.

1408
01:06:34.010 --> 01:06:36.120
With a thunderbolt
from the right hand!

1409
01:06:45.100 --> 01:06:47.210
We got a brand new
heavyweight champion,

1410
01:06:47.210 --> 01:06:50.090
and he's from the United States.

1411
01:06:50.090 --> 01:06:55.180
When we lost to Hasim
Rahman in South Africa,

1412
01:06:55.180 --> 01:06:59.050
that was more shock
than anything.

1413
01:06:59.050 --> 01:07:00.200
I just got on a
plane and came home.

1414
01:07:00.200 --> 01:07:03.000
And I knew on that flight
that my days with Lennox

1415
01:07:03.000 --> 01:07:04.110
was numbered.

1416
01:07:04.110 --> 01:07:06.060
And it was numbered.

1417
01:07:06.060 --> 01:07:07.160
And it unfortunately there.

1418
01:07:17.090 --> 01:07:21.230
Lennox Lewis's career
and my success in boxing

1419
01:07:21.230 --> 01:07:24.060
gave me something
else to focus on.

1420
01:07:24.060 --> 01:07:25.190
But eventually I
couldn't keep the lid on

1421
01:07:25.190 --> 01:07:29.020
any longer, because I
was destroying myself.

1422
01:07:29.020 --> 01:07:32.050
And I came across a
counselor on the telephone.

1423
01:07:32.050 --> 01:07:33.150
I kept saying to the
counselor, I need you

1424
01:07:33.150 --> 01:07:35.090
to tell me I'm not transgender.

1425
01:07:35.090 --> 01:07:37.220
He said, until you come
to terms with yourself,

1426
01:07:37.220 --> 01:07:39.200
there's nothing anyone
can do to help you.

1427
01:07:39.200 --> 01:07:45.120
And I-- it took me ages to
come to terms with myself.

1428
01:07:45.120 --> 01:07:46.130
I attempted suicide.

1429
01:07:46.130 --> 01:07:48.040
About three days,
four days later, I

1430
01:07:48.040 --> 01:07:50.120
told my oldest daughter,
and she turned to me

1431
01:07:50.120 --> 01:07:51.210
and said, "do you know what?

1432
01:07:51.210 --> 01:07:53.080
I'd rather have
my dad in a dress

1433
01:07:53.080 --> 01:07:55.120
than see my dad in a wooden box.

1434
01:07:55.120 --> 01:08:00.010
So whatever help you need
to find that inner peace,

1435
01:08:00.010 --> 01:08:01.020
I'm there for you."

1436
01:08:01.020 --> 01:08:06.130
That really said to
me, do you know what?

1437
01:08:06.130 --> 01:08:08.180
I've got to let Kellie
come out full time

1438
01:08:08.180 --> 01:08:14.210
and be herself,
and put Frank away.

1439
01:08:14.210 --> 01:08:17.170
And Lennox Lewis was
obviously asked the question,

1440
01:08:17.170 --> 01:08:19.230
and he put out a
fantastic statement.

1441
01:08:19.230 --> 01:08:23.210
"If this makes Frank or makes
her happy, then so be it,

1442
01:08:23.210 --> 01:08:25.090
and I'm happy for her."

1443
01:08:25.090 --> 01:08:27.130
Which I think helped
the boxing world

1444
01:08:27.130 --> 01:08:31.180
be a little bit more acceptful
than I expected it to be.

1445
01:08:31.180 --> 01:08:34.150
We've had a lot of good
times and a lot of fun,

1446
01:08:34.150 --> 01:08:36.020
so it was a little shock.

1447
01:08:36.020 --> 01:08:40.140
But once again, who
are we to judge anyone?

1448
01:08:40.140 --> 01:08:47.090
And Lennox once again, he
took the first step to say,

1449
01:08:47.090 --> 01:08:52.110
"do what you gotta do, Kellie,
and I accept you for Kellie."

1450
01:08:52.110 --> 01:08:56.190
And that helped me to
accept Kellie for Kellie.

1451
01:08:56.190 --> 01:09:01.170
He showed what a
compassionate and understanding

1452
01:09:01.170 --> 01:09:03.200
human being he was.

1453
01:09:03.200 --> 01:09:06.190
NARRATOR: As Frank struggled
with his gender identity,

1454
01:09:06.190 --> 01:09:08.160
Lennox coped with
his loss to Rahman

1455
01:09:08.160 --> 01:09:11.090
by meeting another
one of his heroes,

1456
01:09:11.090 --> 01:09:15.200
Nelson Mandela, who offered sage
advice on overcoming adversity.

1457
01:09:19.110 --> 01:09:24.040
It is the nature of sport
that you will have triumphs

1458
01:09:24.040 --> 01:09:26.110
and you will have adversities.

1459
01:09:26.110 --> 01:09:31.210
Legends like Joe Lewis, as you
know, people like Muhammad Ali

1460
01:09:31.210 --> 01:09:34.190
have also had a similar fate.

1461
01:09:34.190 --> 01:09:38.210
But he came back twice
and won the title.

1462
01:09:38.210 --> 01:09:44.150
And I say to Lennox, he must
not wonder at all if he trains

1463
01:09:44.150 --> 01:09:48.170
properly and he uses the
advantage that he has,

1464
01:09:48.170 --> 01:09:50.000
that left jab of his.

1465
01:09:54.200 --> 01:09:57.050
I didn't know that he's
been watching me all this time

1466
01:09:57.050 --> 01:09:58.200
and studying me.

1467
01:09:58.200 --> 01:10:00.090
And this is Nelson Mandela.

1468
01:10:00.090 --> 01:10:02.060
So that was a
great thing for me,

1469
01:10:02.060 --> 01:10:04.110
just to even know that, wow,
this guy's been watching me,

1470
01:10:04.110 --> 01:10:06.210
studying me, knows how I
box, and he can tell me

1471
01:10:06.210 --> 01:10:09.090
that I'm gonna go in there and
win the next time I go in there

1472
01:10:09.090 --> 01:10:11.140
and fight.

1473
01:10:11.140 --> 01:10:16.100
We spoke earlier about the
first time I met Lennox Lewis.

1474
01:10:16.100 --> 01:10:18.210
And in that very
first meeting, I

1475
01:10:18.210 --> 01:10:22.000
remember being
struck by how cool

1476
01:10:22.000 --> 01:10:26.120
he was, how unaffected he
was by the significance

1477
01:10:26.120 --> 01:10:27.200
of that occasion.

1478
01:10:27.200 --> 01:10:30.030
The Lennox Lewis that I met
that day before the Ruddock

1479
01:10:30.030 --> 01:10:31.120
was the same guy who
did the interview

1480
01:10:31.120 --> 01:10:36.060
with Larry Merchant following
the loss to Hasim Rahman.

1481
01:10:36.060 --> 01:10:39.230
Lennox, when all
is said and done,

1482
01:10:39.230 --> 01:10:42.060
did you take him too lightly?

1483
01:10:42.060 --> 01:10:43.150
No, not really.

1484
01:10:43.150 --> 01:10:45.020
This is what happens
in heavyweight boxing.

1485
01:10:45.020 --> 01:10:46.190
You get caught with a
good shot, you don't beat

1486
01:10:46.190 --> 01:10:48.110
the count, they stop the fight.

1487
01:10:48.110 --> 01:10:49.010
Simple as that.

1488
01:10:49.010 --> 01:10:50.160
But there's always a next time.

1489
01:10:50.160 --> 01:10:51.190
You know what I mean?

1490
01:10:51.190 --> 01:10:56.090
I can understand how easy it
was for him to not necessarily

1491
01:10:56.090 --> 01:10:58.040
dismiss what happened
in Johannesburg

1492
01:10:58.040 --> 01:11:00.070
but to understand it,
to look at himself

1493
01:11:00.070 --> 01:11:03.140
through a certain filter
and say, OK, I did that.

1494
01:11:03.140 --> 01:11:06.070
I created the
circumstances for that.

1495
01:11:06.070 --> 01:11:09.210
I must learn a lesson from it.

1496
01:11:09.210 --> 01:11:14.210
And fortunately, I'm big
enough and important enough

1497
01:11:14.210 --> 01:11:17.050
that I'll get the
chance at the rematch.

1498
01:11:19.170 --> 01:11:22.080
I've got the mountains
to my back in Africa, son.

1499
01:11:31.050 --> 01:11:31.200
What do you say?

1500
01:11:31.200 --> 01:11:34.100
Is it time for the rematch?

1501
01:11:34.100 --> 01:11:36.140
In less than four
months, I'll be ready.

1502
01:11:36.140 --> 01:11:37.140
I'll be ready.

1503
01:11:47.170 --> 01:11:50.170
For most fighters,
and particularly for big

1504
01:11:50.170 --> 01:11:55.150
heavyweights, once a guy
has eliminated you with one

1505
01:11:55.150 --> 01:11:59.080
colossal shot, it's
very difficult to regain

1506
01:11:59.080 --> 01:12:01.170
the confidence, the
wherewithal, the self-possession

1507
01:12:01.170 --> 01:12:04.190
to believe that you're gonna go
in and knock him out instead.

1508
01:12:08.060 --> 01:12:10.060
NARRATOR: What do we do
with these rare instances

1509
01:12:10.060 --> 01:12:13.150
when the chance for
redemption is upon us?

1510
01:12:13.150 --> 01:12:16.130
The Rahman rematch was
one of those moments,

1511
01:12:16.130 --> 01:12:19.230
but it was about more
than just redemption.

1512
01:12:19.230 --> 01:12:22.040
The outcome would determine
whether Lennox would have

1513
01:12:22.040 --> 01:12:26.060
a chance to cement his legacy
in one of the biggest fights

1514
01:12:26.060 --> 01:12:29.040
in the history of the sport.

1515
01:12:29.040 --> 01:12:32.100
[SHOUTING]

1516
01:12:32.100 --> 01:12:35.100
Or leave behind a
trail of questions

1517
01:12:35.100 --> 01:12:37.050
about what could have been.

1518
01:12:37.050 --> 01:12:39.120
There have been times where
he's just been sort of painting

1519
01:12:39.120 --> 01:12:44.070
his opponent and moving
away at the same time,

1520
01:12:44.070 --> 01:12:47.120
but he's throwing some
hard left hands tonight.

1521
01:12:47.120 --> 01:12:49.150
Here some jabs.

1522
01:12:49.150 --> 01:12:52.150
That is one stiff jab.

1523
01:12:52.150 --> 01:12:58.110
Perhaps Rahman got under
Lewis's skin with the taunting,

1524
01:12:58.110 --> 01:13:01.130
but Lewis got under
his skin with a punch.

1525
01:13:01.130 --> 01:13:05.070
He seems for
the moment to have

1526
01:13:05.070 --> 01:13:07.090
nullified Rahman's righthand.

1527
01:13:07.090 --> 01:13:09.190
Ooh!

1528
01:13:09.190 --> 01:13:10.190
It's over.

1529
01:13:10.190 --> 01:13:12.170
Lennox Lewis!

1530
01:13:12.170 --> 01:13:17.010
That may turn out to be
Lennox Lewis's most respected

1531
01:13:17.010 --> 01:13:19.110
performance ever in the ring.

1532
01:13:19.110 --> 01:13:21.120
Isn't that something?

1533
01:13:21.120 --> 01:13:26.020
When he came back and won his
title back from Hasim Rahman,

1534
01:13:26.020 --> 01:13:27.200
that was a really good comeback.

1535
01:13:27.200 --> 01:13:30.160
He knocked him
out in four rounds.

1536
01:13:30.160 --> 01:13:32.070
To me, that was priceless.

1537
01:13:32.070 --> 01:13:34.220
The first thought that
goes through my mind,

1538
01:13:34.220 --> 01:13:36.010
getting ahead of the game.

1539
01:13:36.010 --> 01:13:37.030
Listen to the
crowd as they watch

1540
01:13:37.030 --> 01:13:40.050
that, is that when
Mike Tyson sees that,

1541
01:13:40.050 --> 01:13:43.090
he might not want to
fight Lennox Lewis.

1542
01:13:43.090 --> 01:13:44.160
NARRATOR: Having
lost and regained

1543
01:13:44.160 --> 01:13:47.030
his titles in the
same calendar year,

1544
01:13:47.030 --> 01:13:49.030
Lennox was number one again.

1545
01:13:49.030 --> 01:13:55.060
But there was still this
nagging 5'11 225 pound itch.

1546
01:13:55.060 --> 01:13:58.130
There was still Mike Tyson.

1547
01:13:58.130 --> 01:14:01.040
Something crossed Cus
D'Amato said when we were

1548
01:14:01.040 --> 01:14:04.010
sparring, "Mike, don't do that.

1549
01:14:04.010 --> 01:14:06.130
You're gonna fight
this guy someday."

1550
01:14:06.130 --> 01:14:08.220
Exact words Cus D'Amato said.

1551
01:14:08.220 --> 01:14:11.200
So I was thinking, is
this ever gonna happen?

1552
01:14:11.200 --> 01:14:13.060
And you know, it happened.

1553
01:14:15.220 --> 01:14:16.160
Pans back up.

1554
01:14:16.160 --> 01:14:17.060
There you go.

1555
01:14:17.060 --> 01:14:17.220
Right back.

1556
01:14:17.220 --> 01:14:18.120
There you go.

1557
01:14:18.120 --> 01:14:19.220
Good fighting.

1558
01:14:19.220 --> 01:14:21.150
I'm trying to get that
combination punch in there.

1559
01:14:21.150 --> 01:14:22.080
You did a lot of--

1560
01:14:26.020 --> 01:14:30.070
I came across as the
villain, the bad man,

1561
01:14:30.070 --> 01:14:32.040
which I didn't mind.

1562
01:14:32.040 --> 01:14:33.170
I don't take it personally.

1563
01:14:33.170 --> 01:14:35.070
I like getting
under people's skin.

1564
01:14:35.070 --> 01:14:36.180
Defense is impregnable.

1565
01:14:36.180 --> 01:14:37.180
And I'm just ferocious.

1566
01:14:37.180 --> 01:14:38.140
I want your heart.

1567
01:14:38.140 --> 01:14:40.170
I wanna eat his children.

1568
01:14:40.170 --> 01:14:42.110
He said to some
fighter, was it you,

1569
01:14:42.110 --> 01:14:44.120
that he wanted to
eat their children?

1570
01:14:44.120 --> 01:14:47.050
Yeah, I was really
disappointed when he said that,

1571
01:14:47.050 --> 01:14:52.220
but hopefully when we fight,
he's a vegetarian at that time.

1572
01:14:55.120 --> 01:14:59.040
This is like in one sense
an ultimate match-up

1573
01:14:59.040 --> 01:15:00.160
between good versus evil.

1574
01:15:00.160 --> 01:15:01.210
I look at myself as the good.

1575
01:15:01.210 --> 01:15:02.200
I look at him at evil.

1576
01:15:02.200 --> 01:15:04.190
From the moment
we got together

1577
01:15:04.190 --> 01:15:08.000
for the press conference,
there was so much tension.

1578
01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:11.000
And I remember when
we got to New York

1579
01:15:11.000 --> 01:15:12.220
the night before
the press conference

1580
01:15:12.220 --> 01:15:14.180
and he said, "if Mike
makes one move at me,

1581
01:15:14.180 --> 01:15:17.070
forget all the money.

1582
01:15:17.070 --> 01:15:18.210
I'm not backing down from him.

1583
01:15:18.210 --> 01:15:21.220
I'm not backing up from him."

1584
01:15:21.220 --> 01:15:24.020
All of a sudden,
I seen him take

1585
01:15:24.020 --> 01:15:25.160
his hat off and throw
it on the ground

1586
01:15:25.160 --> 01:15:27.010
and start marching towards me.

1587
01:15:30.020 --> 01:15:31.150
Boom, I was on it.

1588
01:15:31.150 --> 01:15:33.160
The first three
punches were mine,

1589
01:15:33.160 --> 01:15:35.030
and the first bite was his.

1590
01:15:38.030 --> 01:15:39.110
You're scared now, you ho.

1591
01:15:39.110 --> 01:15:41.110
You're scared like a
little white [BLEEP]..

1592
01:15:41.110 --> 01:15:43.000
Right then I knew,
and Lennox knew,

1593
01:15:43.000 --> 01:15:44.170
we was gonna beat Mike Tyson.

1594
01:15:44.170 --> 01:15:49.070
So that was small little
things that play a big part

1595
01:15:49.070 --> 01:15:50.190
of that psychological.

1596
01:15:50.190 --> 01:15:52.100
Because if you
remember, Mike was

1597
01:15:52.100 --> 01:15:57.100
always psychologically beating
guys before the fight happened.

1598
01:15:57.100 --> 01:15:58.100
You see what I'm saying?

1599
01:15:58.100 --> 01:16:00.020
So it flipped a
little right there.

1600
01:16:00.020 --> 01:16:04.050
I remember general sports
reporters would literally

1601
01:16:04.050 --> 01:16:07.120
giggle when I would tell
them that Lennox Lewis had

1602
01:16:07.120 --> 01:16:10.100
enormous advantages over Mike
Tyson, and it was hard for me

1603
01:16:10.100 --> 01:16:13.090
to see how Tyson could ever
possibly overcome them.

1604
01:16:13.090 --> 01:16:16.230
And because their general
attitude was, you know,

1605
01:16:16.230 --> 01:16:20.040
Lennox Lewis is an English
guy who drinks tea,

1606
01:16:20.040 --> 01:16:23.130
and Mike Tyson is Mike
Tyson, so obviously

1607
01:16:23.130 --> 01:16:24.210
you're out of your mind, Jim.

1608
01:16:24.210 --> 01:16:26.180
You don't know what
you're talking about.

1609
01:16:26.180 --> 01:16:28.230
This is clearly going
to be a one sided

1610
01:16:28.230 --> 01:16:30.130
wipe-out in Tyson's favor.

1611
01:16:30.130 --> 01:16:33.020
That was what they thought
was still happening

1612
01:16:33.020 --> 01:16:35.030
in every Mike Tyson fight.

1613
01:16:35.030 --> 01:16:35.180
This is war.

1614
01:16:35.180 --> 01:16:36.200
We ain't come to play.

1615
01:16:36.200 --> 01:16:39.180
We ain't come to
dance with Elvis.

1616
01:16:39.180 --> 01:16:41.170
We come here to
knock Mike Tyson out.

1617
01:16:46.030 --> 01:16:48.140
[MUSIC PLAYING]

1618
01:17:01.210 --> 01:17:04.130
NARRATOR: Finally, 19
years after sparring

1619
01:17:04.130 --> 01:17:08.010
in the Catskills, the time
had come for these two titans

1620
01:17:08.010 --> 01:17:11.100
to face each other in
one of boxing history's

1621
01:17:11.100 --> 01:17:13.030
most anticipated match-ups.

1622
01:17:15.230 --> 01:17:18.110
Too big, too strong, baby.

1623
01:17:18.110 --> 01:17:19.200
Trying to tell you.

1624
01:17:19.200 --> 01:17:22.010
Too big, too strong.

1625
01:17:22.010 --> 01:17:23.190
NARRATOR: A member of
the opponent's team

1626
01:17:23.190 --> 01:17:26.010
is allowed in the dressing
room before the fight

1627
01:17:26.010 --> 01:17:29.190
to make sure that the gloves
are put on within the rules.

1628
01:17:29.190 --> 01:17:33.140
No extra padding, no rough edges
at the seams of the leather.

1629
01:17:33.140 --> 01:17:36.220
When they are satisfied,
they sign the gloves.

1630
01:17:36.220 --> 01:17:40.000
This is usually a
straightforward process,

1631
01:17:40.000 --> 01:17:44.070
but this night was different.

1632
01:17:44.070 --> 01:17:45.050
Come on, Lennox.

1633
01:17:45.050 --> 01:17:47.090
Let him sign, then
get out of your hair.

1634
01:17:56.140 --> 01:17:57.040
One for all!

1635
01:17:57.040 --> 01:17:58.080
All for one!

1636
01:17:58.080 --> 01:18:00.010
Let's go, let's go!

1637
01:18:00.010 --> 01:18:02.150
As the challenger
for the crown,

1638
01:18:02.150 --> 01:18:04.150
Mike Tyson will walk out first.

1639
01:18:07.200 --> 01:18:11.050
SONG: This is the fucking
shit I've been talking about.

1640
01:18:11.050 --> 01:18:13.090
And here comes Iron Mike.

1641
01:18:13.090 --> 01:18:16.030
SONG: You think
it's a fucking game?

1642
01:18:16.030 --> 01:18:16.180
Come on!

1643
01:18:26.120 --> 01:18:28.000
The fighters will
now touch gloves

1644
01:18:28.000 --> 01:18:29.120
in the center of the ring.

1645
01:18:41.200 --> 01:18:43.080
Come on, man.

1646
01:18:43.080 --> 01:18:44.080
Come on, man.

1647
01:18:50.060 --> 01:18:52.170
[WHISTLING]

1648
01:19:02.030 --> 01:19:04.140
[CHATTERING]

1649
01:19:22.060 --> 01:19:24.090
And here comes Lennox Lewis.

1650
01:19:24.090 --> 01:19:27.010
[REGGAE MUSIC PLAYING]

1651
01:19:27.010 --> 01:19:30.000
The accompanying
music, a tribute

1652
01:19:30.000 --> 01:19:33.010
to Lewis's Jamaican heritage.

1653
01:19:33.010 --> 01:19:35.150
He is really a man of
three countries, Jamaica,

1654
01:19:35.150 --> 01:19:37.060
Canada, and Great Britain.

1655
01:19:37.060 --> 01:19:38.230
But not the US, so
they're not gonna give

1656
01:19:38.230 --> 01:19:40.080
him too many applause here.

1657
01:19:40.080 --> 01:19:42.110
If they didn't like it
yesterday, you're no good.

1658
01:19:49.090 --> 01:19:53.120
So Emanuel Steward
goes in first.

1659
01:19:53.120 --> 01:19:55.220
And Lennox Lewis steps
between the ropes.

1660
01:20:01.070 --> 01:20:03.160
These two great
heavyweights must now step

1661
01:20:03.160 --> 01:20:05.200
forward when the bell rings.

1662
01:20:05.200 --> 01:20:09.160
Only one will be destiny's hero.

1663
01:20:09.160 --> 01:20:14.010
Only one will pass from
heavyweight greatness

1664
01:20:14.010 --> 01:20:15.090
to heavyweight legend.

1665
01:20:19.150 --> 01:20:22.020
Let's get ready to rumble!

1666
01:20:32.140 --> 01:20:35.050
Well, the jab was
a pretty stiff jab.

1667
01:20:35.050 --> 01:20:36.100
David Tua made the same mistake.

1668
01:20:36.100 --> 01:20:37.190
Mike's supposed to
work on the underjabs.

1669
01:20:37.190 --> 01:20:40.040
The jabs don't
even have to land.

1670
01:20:40.040 --> 01:20:41.030
He's gotta hit him--

1671
01:20:41.030 --> 01:20:44.010
--hit by Lewis.

1672
01:20:44.010 --> 01:20:46.120
That was big.

1673
01:20:46.120 --> 01:20:48.080
Boy, Tyson's got a good chin.

1674
01:20:48.080 --> 01:20:52.030
Mike Tyson is being dictated
to by craft, technique,

1675
01:20:52.030 --> 01:20:53.150
professional skill.

1676
01:20:53.150 --> 01:20:56.110
That's what Lewis has
in addition to his size.

1677
01:20:59.090 --> 01:21:01.200
He certainly demonstrated some
of the very best of it tonight.

1678
01:21:01.200 --> 01:21:05.060
Hugh right hands.

1679
01:21:05.060 --> 01:21:07.190
Tyson gets in an uppercut.

1680
01:21:07.190 --> 01:21:10.230
Shades of Tokyo and the one
time he got to Buster Douglas

1681
01:21:10.230 --> 01:21:12.100
in the end of the eight round.

1682
01:21:12.100 --> 01:21:17.220
And that's gonna be perhaps
the end of the fight.

1683
01:21:17.220 --> 01:21:20.220
It'll take some courage for
Mike to get up from the shot.

1684
01:21:20.220 --> 01:21:23.100
Eight, nine!

1685
01:21:23.100 --> 01:21:24.100
He's out.

1686
01:21:24.100 --> 01:21:26.210
Lennox Lewis knocks
out Mike Tyson

1687
01:21:26.210 --> 01:21:29.130
and banishes him from
the upper stratosphere

1688
01:21:29.130 --> 01:21:31.090
of the heavyweight division.

1689
01:21:31.090 --> 01:21:34.150
Lennox Lewis, world junior
champion, Olympic gold

1690
01:21:34.150 --> 01:21:37.050
medalist, three-time
heavyweight champion,

1691
01:21:37.050 --> 01:21:39.070
knock-out conqueror
of Mike Tyson,

1692
01:21:39.070 --> 01:21:40.080
what else could he prove?

1693
01:21:44.220 --> 01:21:47.080
And over the years,
I studied Lennox Lewis.

1694
01:21:47.080 --> 01:21:50.150
He was if not the most important
certainly one of the most

1695
01:21:50.150 --> 01:21:53.220
important fighters I had
covered to that point

1696
01:21:53.220 --> 01:21:55.050
in my boxing career.

1697
01:21:55.050 --> 01:22:00.110
And I came to the conclusion
that having escaped

1698
01:22:00.110 --> 01:22:05.100
the nightmare of his childhood,
having escaped circumstances

1699
01:22:05.100 --> 01:22:07.080
under which he was taken
away from his mother,

1700
01:22:07.080 --> 01:22:11.090
he had run afoul of
difficult circumstances

1701
01:22:11.090 --> 01:22:15.120
on the streets in Canada and
could have destroyed his life

1702
01:22:15.120 --> 01:22:19.110
with a mistake at any moment
up there, and eventually ran

1703
01:22:19.110 --> 01:22:24.230
into a man Arnie Boehm, who
unlike the people who took Mike

1704
01:22:24.230 --> 01:22:30.010
Tyson in and from the beginning
saw him as a commodity

1705
01:22:30.010 --> 01:22:33.150
to exploit, this
man in Canada who

1706
01:22:33.150 --> 01:22:37.220
found Lennox Lewis saw
him as a valuable person

1707
01:22:37.220 --> 01:22:40.180
to be supported and redeemed.

1708
01:22:40.180 --> 01:22:44.230
And because of the difference
in those two mindsets

1709
01:22:44.230 --> 01:22:47.010
and the difference in
those two processes,

1710
01:22:47.010 --> 01:22:49.130
you get the difference
in those two lives.

1711
01:22:49.130 --> 01:22:54.230
You get the Lennox Lewis, who
was capable of brushing aside

1712
01:22:54.230 --> 01:22:59.020
almost any setback and
continuing to calmly focus

1713
01:22:59.020 --> 01:23:02.170
on his belief in himself, and
his belief in where ultimately

1714
01:23:02.170 --> 01:23:07.050
he could get to, and the
deeply insecure Mike Tyson,

1715
01:23:07.050 --> 01:23:09.110
who always knew
that he was there

1716
01:23:09.110 --> 01:23:11.060
to serve someone else's agenda.

1717
01:23:11.060 --> 01:23:14.080
Hey, I love you, Mike.

1718
01:23:14.080 --> 01:23:15.100
You love me, Mike?

1719
01:23:15.100 --> 01:23:16.080
Love you.

1720
01:23:16.080 --> 01:23:17.010
All right.

1721
01:23:17.010 --> 01:23:20.210
If you piece together those
two threads over a long period

1722
01:23:20.210 --> 01:23:22.100
of time, you can see the
difference in the two

1723
01:23:22.100 --> 01:23:26.000
human beings, and you get
to the point of the post

1724
01:23:26.000 --> 01:23:27.170
fight interview in Memphis.

1725
01:23:27.170 --> 01:23:30.060
You said you had to win
this fight to clean up boxing.

1726
01:23:30.060 --> 01:23:31.200
Do you feel you've
accomplished that?

1727
01:23:31.200 --> 01:23:34.020
I went out there and showed
them I'm a pugilist specialist.

1728
01:23:34.020 --> 01:23:35.160
I can adapt to any style.

1729
01:23:35.160 --> 01:23:37.190
And you know, he showed me
one style that a lot of people

1730
01:23:37.190 --> 01:23:39.090
didn't think I was gonna
be able to deal with,

1731
01:23:39.090 --> 01:23:41.010
but I was able to deal with it.

1732
01:23:41.010 --> 01:23:42.230
A lot of people thought he was
gonna get away from my jab,

1733
01:23:42.230 --> 01:23:44.200
but nobody gets
away from my job.

1734
01:23:44.200 --> 01:23:47.090
Mike, are you sorry this fight
didn't take place years ago?

1735
01:23:47.090 --> 01:23:48.090
It wasn't meant to be.

1736
01:23:48.090 --> 01:23:51.200
I've known Lennox since
he was 16, 15 years old.

1737
01:23:51.200 --> 01:23:52.180
I have mad respect.

1738
01:23:52.180 --> 01:23:55.050
Everything I said
was in proposition

1739
01:23:55.050 --> 01:23:56.100
for promoting the fight.

1740
01:23:56.100 --> 01:23:58.050
He knows I love
him and his mother.

1741
01:23:58.050 --> 01:24:00.070
And I know that he thinks
I don't have respect

1742
01:24:00.070 --> 01:24:03.010
and love him, he's crazy.

1743
01:24:03.010 --> 01:24:07.020
NARRATOR: Although Lennox
only had one fight in 2002,

1744
01:24:07.020 --> 01:24:10.080
beating Tyson was enough
to keep him at number one.

1745
01:24:10.080 --> 01:24:11.100
You've proven everything.

1746
01:24:11.100 --> 01:24:12.230
You've beaten everybody.

1747
01:24:12.230 --> 01:24:14.170
You've avenged the
losses you've had,

1748
01:24:14.170 --> 01:24:16.170
and you've conquered
the man who you

1749
01:24:16.170 --> 01:24:17.210
said would make your legacy.

1750
01:24:17.210 --> 01:24:18.150
What now?

1751
01:24:18.150 --> 01:24:21.100
Well, you know, I'm gonna
take it one day at a time,

1752
01:24:21.100 --> 01:24:22.130
see what happens after this.

1753
01:24:28.180 --> 01:24:31.140
Lennox Lewis, y'all!

1754
01:24:31.140 --> 01:24:33.090
This is the woman that I love.

1755
01:24:33.090 --> 01:24:34.140
He's all right.

1756
01:24:34.140 --> 01:24:38.210
And she has given birth to
this universal champion that

1757
01:24:38.210 --> 01:24:41.050
will reign all over the world.

1758
01:24:41.050 --> 01:24:41.200
I love the brother.

1759
01:24:44.210 --> 01:24:47.200
NARRATOR: Time goes
by and people change.

1760
01:24:47.200 --> 01:24:50.100
Lennox started to find
that other things in life

1761
01:24:50.100 --> 01:24:51.100
appealed to him.

1762
01:24:51.100 --> 01:24:53.210
And he phones me and
told me that he find--

1763
01:24:53.210 --> 01:24:56.170
he met a girl, and that
her name was Violet.

1764
01:24:56.170 --> 01:25:00.110
I ran into him at a
restaurant in New York City.

1765
01:25:00.110 --> 01:25:05.070
I said, wow, for a boxer
he's very handsome.

1766
01:25:05.070 --> 01:25:09.050
When I met Lennox and I
asked him, where do you live?

1767
01:25:09.050 --> 01:25:11.190
He says, I live on the planet.

1768
01:25:11.190 --> 01:25:12.220
And then he explained.

1769
01:25:12.220 --> 01:25:17.010
He says, "well, I was born in
England, I grew up in Canada,

1770
01:25:17.010 --> 01:25:19.000
and my parents are Jamaican.

1771
01:25:19.000 --> 01:25:21.150
But I identify with the world."

1772
01:25:21.150 --> 01:25:24.090
So I found him to be
quite introspective,

1773
01:25:24.090 --> 01:25:27.090
and it led to further
conversations.

1774
01:25:27.090 --> 01:25:31.060
On the way out, I walked
out of the restaurant.

1775
01:25:31.060 --> 01:25:34.100
Halfway to the train
station, I turned around

1776
01:25:34.100 --> 01:25:38.220
and went back to the restaurant
and interrupted his dinner.

1777
01:25:38.220 --> 01:25:40.180
And I just remember
telling him, "I

1778
01:25:40.180 --> 01:25:42.080
really appreciate
how you represent us,

1779
01:25:42.080 --> 01:25:44.110
because you do
represent us well."

1780
01:25:44.110 --> 01:25:46.020
And I walked out and left.

1781
01:25:46.020 --> 01:25:50.160
Two years later, to be exact,
we met again in Jamaica.

1782
01:25:50.160 --> 01:25:53.120
When that desire
is no longer there

1783
01:25:53.120 --> 01:25:57.130
to get up when
it's cold outside,

1784
01:25:57.130 --> 01:26:01.010
when it's snowing outside, and
it's nice and warm in your bed

1785
01:26:01.010 --> 01:26:04.220
with silk sheets and you have
your fiancee, your future wife

1786
01:26:04.220 --> 01:26:09.180
with you, and you don't have
that desire to get up anymore,

1787
01:26:09.180 --> 01:26:12.110
that's when it's
actually time to retire.

1788
01:26:12.110 --> 01:26:17.030
But he wanted to show
that he was the best.

1789
01:26:17.030 --> 01:26:19.050
NARRATOR: For the last
fight of his career,

1790
01:26:19.050 --> 01:26:22.010
Lennox took on Ukrainian
Vitali Klitschko,

1791
01:26:22.010 --> 01:26:24.210
and successfully defended
his undisputed title

1792
01:26:24.210 --> 01:26:27.110
to the very end.

1793
01:26:27.110 --> 01:26:30.010
Now, as he entered
retirement, Lennox

1794
01:26:30.010 --> 01:26:32.070
finally had a partner
to help balance

1795
01:26:32.070 --> 01:26:35.220
his life outside of the ring.

1796
01:26:35.220 --> 01:26:40.040
I think that he
achieved his goals.

1797
01:26:40.040 --> 01:26:42.090
He achieved his
legacy to be a world

1798
01:26:42.090 --> 01:26:49.090
champion and the
undisputed world champion.

1799
01:26:49.090 --> 01:26:52.180
Well, he's one of three
to retire with the title.

1800
01:26:52.180 --> 01:26:53.160
Not got beat.

1801
01:26:53.160 --> 01:26:57.060
Retired with the title, and
he went out on his own terms.

1802
01:26:57.060 --> 01:26:59.100
I think he would have beat
every heavyweight champion.

1803
01:26:59.100 --> 01:27:03.060
I saw most all of them fighting
and training in the camps.

1804
01:27:03.060 --> 01:27:06.030
Ali and Joe Frazier,
Sonny Liston,

1805
01:27:06.030 --> 01:27:07.170
I've been with all of them.

1806
01:27:07.170 --> 01:27:08.080
Larry Holmes.

1807
01:27:08.080 --> 01:27:10.110
Lennox Lewis would
have beat all of them.

1808
01:27:10.110 --> 01:27:13.120
He would definitely
have himself established

1809
01:27:13.120 --> 01:27:16.000
as maybe the greatest
heavyweight boxer now.

1810
01:27:16.000 --> 01:27:19.150
When he told me
that Violet, that they

1811
01:27:19.150 --> 01:27:23.000
were gonna have their first kid,
something bigger was coming.

1812
01:27:23.000 --> 01:27:27.070
Made me think of that moment
when we were kids on the bus,

1813
01:27:27.070 --> 01:27:30.060
and he said, "there's
bigger things to come, man."

1814
01:27:30.060 --> 01:27:32.200
So when he was retiring, that's
what was going through my head.

1815
01:27:32.200 --> 01:27:37.220
He retired in February,
and our son was born in June.

1816
01:27:37.220 --> 01:27:43.080
I was born in New York,
and I lived in Jamaica

1817
01:27:43.080 --> 01:27:45.080
practically my whole life.

1818
01:27:45.080 --> 01:27:48.130
His game plan
was always focus on

1819
01:27:48.130 --> 01:27:51.000
boxing, and when
that is finished,

1820
01:27:51.000 --> 01:27:52.190
then I focus on my
family, my children,

1821
01:27:52.190 --> 01:27:55.110
and give them the things
that I didn't have,

1822
01:27:55.110 --> 01:27:58.040
which was mainly the stability
of having a mom and a dad.

1823
01:27:58.040 --> 01:28:00.160
He really wanted
to break the cycle

1824
01:28:00.160 --> 01:28:03.160
of what he had been through.

1825
01:28:06.130 --> 01:28:08.100
In life, nothing is
really given to you.

1826
01:28:08.100 --> 01:28:11.170
You have to earn it.

1827
01:28:11.170 --> 01:28:14.000
From my last daughter,
we got the news

1828
01:28:14.000 --> 01:28:16.090
that she's got trisomy-19.

1829
01:28:16.090 --> 01:28:21.010
I didn't realize how
extreme it was until we got

1830
01:28:21.010 --> 01:28:22.230
all the information about it.

1831
01:28:22.230 --> 01:28:26.220
Most kids with her
condition don't survive,

1832
01:28:26.220 --> 01:28:27.200
but she's strong.

1833
01:28:27.200 --> 01:28:29.130
She's really strong.

1834
01:28:29.130 --> 01:28:30.210
She's a fighter.

1835
01:28:30.210 --> 01:28:32.210
It's still difficult,
because it's

1836
01:28:32.210 --> 01:28:40.150
like we know kids that have this
condition don't last that long.

1837
01:28:40.150 --> 01:28:42.130
It's one day at a time.

1838
01:28:42.130 --> 01:28:43.160
OK, OK.

1839
01:28:47.180 --> 01:28:52.050
"Float like a butterfly,
sting like a bee."

1840
01:28:52.050 --> 01:28:53.180
Who knows what that is?

1841
01:28:53.180 --> 01:28:55.080
NARRATOR: Building
upon the humanity

1842
01:28:55.080 --> 01:28:58.150
of those who had taught him
how to box, Lennox focused

1843
01:28:58.150 --> 01:29:00.210
on charities that would
help lift young people out

1844
01:29:00.210 --> 01:29:04.040
of their trouble by teaching
them to overcome adversities

1845
01:29:04.040 --> 01:29:05.160
through the sport of boxing.

1846
01:29:05.160 --> 01:29:06.190
You're sticking your chin out.

1847
01:29:06.190 --> 01:29:08.080
You've got to hide that.

1848
01:29:08.080 --> 01:29:09.130
You've got to hide your chin.

1849
01:29:09.130 --> 01:29:12.150
You wanna protect it as
well with your hands.

1850
01:29:12.150 --> 01:29:13.230
At least one of them.

1851
01:29:13.230 --> 01:29:15.190
He is the epitome
of what a world

1852
01:29:15.190 --> 01:29:17.020
champion is supposed to be.

1853
01:29:20.160 --> 01:29:22.190
NARRATOR: Of his
41 winning bouts,

1854
01:29:22.190 --> 01:29:26.130
Lennox's reign with the
WBC belt lasted 16 fights.

1855
01:29:31.230 --> 01:29:35.000
Out of the ring,
Lennox kept his mother,

1856
01:29:35.000 --> 01:29:38.060
brother, and childhood friends
like Courtney and Egerton

1857
01:29:38.060 --> 01:29:40.000
around him.

1858
01:29:40.000 --> 01:29:44.080
A close-knit family team
that kept him grounded.

1859
01:29:44.080 --> 01:29:47.120
But he also gathered a team
of experts from Frank Maloney

1860
01:29:47.120 --> 01:29:50.180
and Harold Knight to one of
the greatest coaches in boxing

1861
01:29:50.180 --> 01:29:53.130
history, Emanuel
Steward, who helped

1862
01:29:53.130 --> 01:29:57.140
him climb to the mountaintop.

1863
01:29:57.140 --> 01:30:00.100
He retired as one of only
three heavyweight champions

1864
01:30:00.100 --> 01:30:02.070
in the history of
the sport to have

1865
01:30:02.070 --> 01:30:05.050
beaten every man he
faced alongside Rocky

1866
01:30:05.050 --> 01:30:08.040
Marciano and Muhammad Ali.

1867
01:30:08.040 --> 01:30:12.090
Who are these men we call
heavyweight champions?

1868
01:30:12.090 --> 01:30:14.030
Why do we look up to them?

1869
01:30:14.030 --> 01:30:16.180
Because they embody all
that's heroic and just?

1870
01:30:19.190 --> 01:30:22.060
Or is it that we
can not look away?

1871
01:30:35.040 --> 01:30:38.030
Who are the real champions?

1872
01:30:38.030 --> 01:30:40.140
[MUSIC PLAYING]

1873
01:30:43.160 --> 01:30:47.160
SONG: Emancipate yourselves
from mental slavery.

1874
01:30:47.160 --> 01:30:52.070
None but ourselves
can free our mind.

1875
01:30:52.070 --> 01:30:54.230
Oh, I've no fear
for atomic energy.

1876
01:30:54.230 --> 01:30:57.210
Muhammad Ali, he picked
us before he passed

1877
01:30:57.210 --> 01:31:03.020
to say he wants these two guys,
the guys that fought together,

1878
01:31:03.020 --> 01:31:09.120
were foes, put them together,
and make them love each other,

1879
01:31:09.120 --> 01:31:11.200
and put me to my resting place.

1880
01:31:11.200 --> 01:31:13.090
When me and Lennox
were pallbearers

1881
01:31:13.090 --> 01:31:18.000
for Muhammad Ali's funeral, that
was just a great honor for me.

1882
01:31:18.000 --> 01:31:21.150
Does anybody know
who Muhammad Ali is?

1883
01:31:21.150 --> 01:31:23.140
Yeah.

1884
01:31:23.140 --> 01:31:26.000
[CHEERING]

1885
01:31:30.010 --> 01:31:32.010
We sparred when we were kids.

1886
01:31:32.010 --> 01:31:33.210
We became very good friends.

1887
01:31:33.210 --> 01:31:35.210
And when we were young,
Lennox was real tall.

1888
01:31:35.210 --> 01:31:38.000
He was 6'5 when he
was probably 16.

1889
01:31:38.000 --> 01:31:39.100
And remember when
you were dancing,

1890
01:31:39.100 --> 01:31:41.170
like how you would dance like?

1891
01:31:41.170 --> 01:31:44.020
[LAUGHTER]

1892
01:31:46.000 --> 01:31:46.230
He still dances like that.

1893
01:31:46.230 --> 01:31:49.100
I do, too, now.

1894
01:31:49.100 --> 01:31:53.170
But listen, but
really why it was

1895
01:31:53.170 --> 01:31:57.210
close and meant a lot to me,
because Cus was alive then.

1896
01:31:57.210 --> 01:32:00.050
Arnie was alive then, right?

1897
01:32:00.050 --> 01:32:01.160
No one knew us.

1898
01:32:01.160 --> 01:32:03.140
You know, we were just
two guys coming up.

1899
01:32:03.140 --> 01:32:04.120
And then the '80--

1900
01:32:04.120 --> 01:32:05.210
what with the '84 Olympics.

1901
01:32:05.210 --> 01:32:08.020
We lost in '84 in Los Angeles.

1902
01:32:08.020 --> 01:32:09.040
Do you remember when we lost?

1903
01:32:09.040 --> 01:32:10.170
We were just walking
around like two schmucks?

1904
01:32:10.170 --> 01:32:11.070
Shit!

1905
01:32:11.070 --> 01:32:12.150
We went different
ways, but yet

1906
01:32:12.150 --> 01:32:15.010
we ended up in the same place.

1907
01:32:15.010 --> 01:32:18.090
So the friendship, I
believe, was always there.

1908
01:32:18.090 --> 01:32:21.140
And as a result, just
culminated to "we're

1909
01:32:21.140 --> 01:32:23.020
back where we started."

1910
01:32:23.020 --> 01:32:24.180
Look what we did
and we overcame, man?

1911
01:32:24.180 --> 01:32:26.190
That's just the biggest--

1912
01:32:26.190 --> 01:32:28.080
that's the biggest
accomplishment

1913
01:32:28.080 --> 01:32:32.170
that we didn't become
victims to our environments.

1914
01:32:32.170 --> 01:32:35.010
[APPLAUSE]

1915
01:32:35.010 --> 01:32:40.100
Because we were statistics
that became specialists.

1916
01:32:40.100 --> 01:32:42.220
And that's why
we're here, really.

1917
01:32:42.220 --> 01:32:47.210
Brother, please, just
come up here, please.

1918
01:32:47.210 --> 01:32:50.070
[CHEERING]

1919
01:32:55.040 --> 01:32:58.080
SONG: Let me tell you the
story about Lennox Lewis.

1920
01:32:58.080 --> 01:33:00.180
Undefeated, every
chance he never blew it.

1921
01:33:00.180 --> 01:33:02.200
Never lost, because he's
the best to ever do it.

1922
01:33:02.200 --> 01:33:05.180
Everyone who stepped in
the ring honestly knew it.

1923
01:33:05.180 --> 01:33:08.190
Undefeated gold medalist
against the best of them.

1924
01:33:08.190 --> 01:33:10.200
He knew his path was
never stressing him.

1925
01:33:10.200 --> 01:33:12.210
If you was smart, you
wouldn't mess with him.

1926
01:33:12.210 --> 01:33:16.160
Also a leader, a teacher,
you could progress with him.

1927
01:33:16.160 --> 01:33:18.140
Mike Tyson couldn't do it.

1928
01:33:18.140 --> 01:33:20.110
Holyfield couldn't prove it.

1929
01:33:20.110 --> 01:33:24.030
People know I was the last true
champion at the boxing ring,

1930
01:33:24.030 --> 01:33:25.070
and I'm stepping in.

1931
01:33:25.070 --> 01:33:28.010
Look, put down the guns,
pick up the gloves.

1932
01:33:28.010 --> 01:33:30.080
Going through so much
pain, we need some gloves.

1933
01:33:30.080 --> 01:33:32.110
Gotta show the youth
there is a better way,

1934
01:33:32.110 --> 01:33:35.090
so we can take the
time to educate.

1935
01:33:35.090 --> 01:33:37.200
And put down the guns,
pick up the gloves.

1936
01:33:37.200 --> 01:33:40.120
Going through so much
pain, we need some love.

1937
01:33:40.120 --> 01:33:42.080
Gotta show the youth
there is a better way,

1938
01:33:42.080 --> 01:33:44.160
so we can take the
time to educate.

1939
01:33:44.160 --> 01:33:47.140
Now it's for the youth,
stay in the right direction.

1940
01:33:47.140 --> 01:33:50.120
Be positive, make love
rather than aggression.

1941
01:33:50.120 --> 01:33:52.090
Nelson Mandela
taught us a lesson.

1942
01:33:52.090 --> 01:33:54.230
Went to the safari, let
Lewis under pressure.

1943
01:33:54.230 --> 01:33:57.170
Before he died, Ali crowned him
and called him the greatest.

1944
01:33:57.170 --> 01:33:59.220
When it comes to helping out,
he don't mind doing favors.

1945
01:33:59.220 --> 01:34:02.050
Just like that, with your
mind you can fight back.

1946
01:34:02.050 --> 01:34:04.080
Have to stay on the right track,
get the picture like IMAX.

1947
01:34:04.080 --> 01:34:07.060
The sky's the limit when
you never try to reach it.

1948
01:34:07.060 --> 01:34:09.120
Whatever you put your mind
to, you can achieve it.

1949
01:34:12.130 --> 01:34:14.010
We need to drop
where you're from,

1950
01:34:14.010 --> 01:34:17.110
and just accept that you
are the undisputed king.

1951
01:34:17.110 --> 01:34:18.100
That's just what it is.

1952
01:34:18.100 --> 01:34:21.180
So until somebody
comes and changes

1953
01:34:21.180 --> 01:34:24.130
that and breaks that record,
you are still number one.

1954
01:34:27.060 --> 01:34:29.210
[INAUDIBLE] still alive.

1955
01:34:29.210 --> 01:34:30.230
That's awesome.

1956
01:34:30.230 --> 01:34:31.140
That's great.

1957
01:34:31.140 --> 01:34:33.000
That's great.

1958
01:34:33.000 --> 01:34:37.170
So not wanting to lose
really helps me win.

1959
01:34:40.170 --> 01:34:43.030
[LAUGHTER]

1960
01:34:46.080 --> 01:34:50.020
Who is the hardest
puncher you ever faced?

1961
01:34:50.020 --> 01:34:52.100
Fuck.

1962
01:34:52.100 --> 01:34:54.030
Probably Lennox Lewis.

1963
01:34:54.030 --> 01:34:55.000
For real?

1964
01:34:55.000 --> 01:34:55.140
Yeah.

1965
01:34:55.140 --> 01:34:56.230
That motherfucker's
hands was this big.

1966
01:34:56.230 --> 01:34:58.150
One night that motherfucker
grabbed my weed

1967
01:34:58.150 --> 01:35:00.070
and rolled a blunt
with one hand.

1968
01:35:00.070 --> 01:35:02.170
That motherfucker's hand
was this big, one of them.

1969
01:35:02.170 --> 01:35:04.050
Yeah, he's a monster.

1970
01:35:04.050 --> 01:35:06.150
What was it that set
him apart from the others?

1971
01:35:06.150 --> 01:35:08.110
Let Lennox weather the storm?

1972
01:35:08.110 --> 01:35:13.120
Riots that killed 63 people
and injured thousands?

1973
01:35:13.120 --> 01:35:14.080
Yeah, yeah.

1974
01:35:14.080 --> 01:35:17.040
Don King was boxing's
longest running pimp.

1975
01:35:24.010 --> 01:35:25.040
I think you got there.

1976
01:35:25.040 --> 01:35:25.190
Gotta take it.

1977
01:35:25.190 --> 01:35:26.090
Here?

1978
01:35:26.090 --> 01:35:27.200
Yeah.

1979
01:35:27.200 --> 01:35:29.150
[LAUGHTER]

1980
01:35:31.190 --> 01:35:35.110
Some would say, maybe he
didn't want to face Lennox.

1981
01:35:35.110 --> 01:35:37.200
Some would say,
maybe he was afraid

1982
01:35:37.200 --> 01:35:39.170
that Lennox would
kick his ass, just

1983
01:35:39.170 --> 01:35:42.010
like he did in the Olympics.

1984
01:35:42.010 --> 01:35:43.200
[LAUGHTER]

1985
01:35:43.200 --> 01:35:44.170
That was awesome.

1986
01:35:44.170 --> 01:35:46.000
I liked that one.

1987
01:35:46.000 --> 01:35:48.170
I kind of shocked myself
when that shit came out.

1988
01:35:48.170 --> 01:35:49.110
I saw you getting it.

1989
01:35:49.110 --> 01:35:50.090
I saw you getting it.

1990
01:35:50.090 --> 01:35:51.050
You didn't get that?

1991
01:35:51.050 --> 01:35:53.090
What the fuck, Hugh?

1992
01:35:53.090 --> 01:35:55.220
[LAUGHTER]

1993
01:36:21.180 --> 01:36:23.210
Lennox fucking Lewis,
champion forever.

1994
01:36:23.210 --> 01:36:26.000
Believe it.