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[tense droning]

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[Christy] Most of the time, I feel safe,

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but I still have my weak moments.

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I ask my counselor all the time.
I'm like, "It's almost nine years."

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"When am I gonna get over it?"

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She says,

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"You're not."

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[tense music playing]

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Throughout my life, the only place
I felt safe was in the boxing ring.

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[newsman] She's had the most knockouts
in the history of women's boxing.

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[Christy] Number one, there are rules.
Every punch is planned.

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[crowd cheers]

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[newsman] She is the world's best.
The most famous female boxer.

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[Christy] Number two, I had so much anger.

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The only place that I could let it out
was in the boxing ring.

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[crowd cheering]

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[Christy] And number three,
boxing was my survival.

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[newsman] A champion female boxer
living a secret double life.

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It was preparing me for how
I was gonna escape my own destiny.

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[Christy] Hit me as hard as you want,
as many times as you want,

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and I might get beaten,

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and I might get knocked down,

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but, motherfucker, you cannot kill me.

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[tense music intensifies]

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[music fades]

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["Your Sweet Love" by Lee Hazlewood plays]

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♪ Stranger's arms ♪

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♪ Reach out to me ♪

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♪ 'Cause they know ♪

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♪ I'm so lonely ♪

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♪ Then my mind ♪

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♪ Goes back to you ♪

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♪ And your sweet love ♪

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♪ Sees me through ♪

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[song fades]

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[insects chirping]

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[deep breaths]

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[Joyce] Christy just started boxing
on a dare from her classmates in college

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to enter a Toughman Contest.

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[Johnny] She'd never done
any fighting or anything.

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Well, she'd been in some fights,
but… [laughs]

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it wasn't in a ring.

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-[laughing] I was going like this.
-[producer laughs]

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[crowd cheers]

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[Johnny] Christy threw one punch,

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and she was looking around in the ring,
trying to find her.

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She was laying at her feet.
She done knocked her out.

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-[blow lands]
-[crowd cheers]

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[Christy] She was big.

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Five-nine, 150 pounds,

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and I knocked her out with one punch.

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I've never even been
in a boxing gym before.

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[cheering and applause]

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To land that knockout punch is like
the biggest high you could ever have.

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Whoo!

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[Christy] I fought three times.
I won 300 dollars.

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But I got hooked.

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[laughs]

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Money, money, money!

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[Christy] And after one of the fights,

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a promoter told me
that he had this trainer

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from Bristol, Tennessee
that could train me.

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[Joyce] Christy Salters. Champion.

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[Christy] His name was Jim Martin.
He had 26 professional boxing matches.

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He sparred with Marvin Johnson,
the great light heavyweight champion.

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So it got me excited, like,
"Wow, I can do this. I've got it."

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The first day I went into the boxing gym
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my mother was with me,

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and I had my little baby Pomeranian,

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but as I walked in,
you could feel the air go out of the gym.

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Like, "Oh my God,
what's about to happen?"

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And when I first met Jim,

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I asked, you know,
"Where's the dressing room

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for me to change?"

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He wouldn't even tell me.

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No one would even tell me
where the bathroom was.

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[buzzer sounds]

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[door closes]

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[indistinct background chattering]

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[Jim] You get inside that gym,

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inside that ring, inside that arena,

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you're on my territory.

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[gentle piano playing]

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I didn't want nothing to do
with women boxing,

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and I didn't wanna be
laughed out of the sport.

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A promoter pressured me
into training Christy,

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but instead,
I told one of my little fighters,

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"Look, I'm gonna put her in with you

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and bust her up a little bit
and get her outta here."

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He wanted him to break my ribs
so I wouldn't wanna be in the gym,

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but it didn't happen
because my mother was there.

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I got her mother
and a little baby Pomeranian dog,

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which hated me.

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[dog barking]

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So I had to cancel it.

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My fighters kept saying,
"Give her a chance. Give her a chance."

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"Work with her a bit
and see what happens."

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I said, "Okay, I'll give her a chance.
Let's see what she's got."

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Keep your punches up.

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[Jim] When I first trained Christy,

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I'm going like, "Man, this… this woman,
she don't know anything."

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She's like walking on crutches
she's so damn clumsy.

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But then we seen she had a real good chin.

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[blows landing]

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You have a chin or you don't.

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[blow lands]

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Christy's got a granite chin.

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Hit her with a sledgehammer, and she's
still standing there, looking at you.

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I said, "I'm gonna make you a fighter."

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[groans]

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Come on.

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[Jim] So we start looking
for the ideal sparring partner.

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And she found him. [laughs]

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Jim was like, "Hey, I got somebody
wants to spar with you."

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I'm like, "Shit. Where they at?"

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I walk in, and I'm seeing the new guy.

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You know, I hear, "Pow. Pow, pow."

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It sounds like a bomb.

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"Damn, who… who's this?"

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I look closer, and it was a girl.
"What the hell?"

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-[grunts]
-[Jim] "That's who they want you to spar."

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"What? Hell no! I'm not getting in a ring
with that girl. You crazy?"

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But I guess we clicked.

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She gave me several black eyes
and fat lips and all that good stuff.

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[both grunting]

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I tell a lot of the guys I spar with,
"I know a girl who hits harder than you."

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She does. She hits harder
than half the lightweights out there.

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[grunts]

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[Christy] As time went on, I proved to him
that, "I'm here. I'm gonna stay here."

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"I don't care what you dish out,
no matter how hard you make me work."

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"Because of who I am,
I'm gonna try to do it better

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than everybody else in the gym."

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[Jim] Come on!

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[Jim] Man, she works harder
than my men fighters.

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She does everything I say.

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If I'd told her to jump off the roof,
I believe she'd do it.

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Then he started saying
what he's famous for saying, that…

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I said, "Christy, I'm gonna make you
the best woman fighter in the world."

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I thought he was full of crap.

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I didn't think it was gonna go anywhere.

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Even if you make me
the best woman fighter, so…

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No one's doing it.
No one's getting paid to do it.

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[announcer] In the lightweight division,
from West Virginia,

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let's welcome Christy Martin.

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[Jim] When Christy came onto the scene,
I called fight promoters.

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"I'm trying to get Christy
on this fight card."

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They said, "Tell you what. I'll put her
on there, but I'm not paying her."

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Everybody thought it was a joke.

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The next fight,
a promoter gave us a bunch of tickets.

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I said, "What's this?"

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He said, "Whatever tickets you sell
is gonna be your purse."

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We sold two tickets.

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Christy fought for 60 dollars.

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[crowd cheers]

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[Christy] I was so broke,
but Jim kept saying,

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"This boxing thing is gonna work."

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And the trainer-boxer relationship,

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you have to believe in them,
trust in them.

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Your life is in… in that trainer's hands.

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I looked up to him.

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He was in my corner.

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[Jim] I always ranked myself

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between the number one to the number five
best coach in the world,

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but I needed a good product to work with,

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and I feel like I had a good product
with Christy.

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She was a Mike Tyson-type fighter.

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Boy, this girl can punch.

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[crowd cheering]

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[man] Yeah!

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Yeah!

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[man cheers]

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She's gone! She's gone!

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[Christy] We had everybody
standing on their feet.

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Everybody couldn't believe
a woman was doing this.

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[crowd cheers]

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Fight promoters, they would even tell us,
"My God, she stole my crowd."

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"She was the best fight of the night.
Everybody loved her."

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[woman] Christy!

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But it wasn't about being a woman fighter.
I just wanted to be a fighter.

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[crowd cheering]

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[Christy] After one of the fights,
you're so excited. Everybody's so happy.

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And I kissed him.

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[crowd cheering]

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[sighs] I can't… I don't even…
I don't even know what happened.

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[announcer] …by way of West Virginia,

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introducing
Christy "The Coal Miner's Daughter…"

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[Chrsity] I am truly
a coal miner's daughter,

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coal miner's granddaughter.

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So I grew up in coal mining country.

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-[gentle atmospheric music plays]
-[train horn honks]

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[Christy] It's good people.

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There's just not a lot there.

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[birds twittering]

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Not even a town.
It's just a little stretch of road.

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[door opening]

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But when my grandmother passed,
I wanted to buy the house,

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so I would have a place to stay
when I came to visit my family.

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And…

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I feel guilty
because I have let it run down.

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But, hopefully,
we'll get that all turned around

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and get it back to where it should be.

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Hmm.

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I think it's important for you
to always be able to go home.

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-[piano gently plays]
-[Joyce] When Christy was growing up,

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everybody calls her Sis.

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Sis was just energetic.
She didn't ever just sit and watch TV.

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My dad was an athlete,
so I played Little League baseball.

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Actually, I played for the boys' team.

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[Johnny]
And she didn't play just anyplace.

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She was a catcher.

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[Christy] And I played basketball.

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I was pretty good, actually.

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She was All-State two years,
so she was great.

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I met Sherry through basketball.

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She was, like,
the star athlete of Mullins High School.

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You wanna be friends and be close
to the person that's the star.

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She just asked me,

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"Could we work out together and…
and shoot ball together?"

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But then feelings
started to happen that were,

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you know,
they're not the normal kind of feelings.

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[Sherry] It was the blooming of a…

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[laughs]

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I didn't know what it was.
There wasn't references.

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There's no Internet.
There's no talking to anybody.

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And, you know,
you know you had to hide it.

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[Christy] In my opinion,
most everyone knew or suspected,

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but my parents turned a blind eye.

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[Joyce] In high school,

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Sis always had girlfriends.

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I mean, you know, friends.

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[Sherry] There's no way they couldn't know
with me coming in at those times.

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I think they were just in denial.

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That's not what you want for your child.

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I just wasn't raised like that.

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I had to hold in who I truly am,

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and I was angry.

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But I'm not so sure if I didn't have
all this stuff inside of me

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that I could have become
the fighter that I was.

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[Christy grunts]

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-[Christy grunting]
-[Jim] I just ended up caring for her.

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I always wanted to protect her.

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That was in everything.
I don't know why… how that came about.

245
00:13:21,258 --> 00:13:24,261
Went from a hate situation
to a love situation,

246
00:13:25,221 --> 00:13:28,599
'cause I hated she was in the gym,
you know, when she first come in.

247
00:13:30,518 --> 00:13:35,231
[Joyce] We were very surprised
when they became romantically involved

248
00:13:35,314 --> 00:13:38,275
because he was so much older than she was.

249
00:13:38,359 --> 00:13:40,945
There was a big age difference,

250
00:13:41,028 --> 00:13:42,947
because he's older than I am.

251
00:13:43,030 --> 00:13:44,073
[Jim] Smile.

252
00:13:45,574 --> 00:13:46,992
[Joyce] Jim was good to her.

253
00:13:47,076 --> 00:13:49,036
He looked out for her.

254
00:13:50,830 --> 00:13:54,291
I loved him just like he was a son.

255
00:13:55,668 --> 00:13:59,964
[Jim] I was never with any other woman
like I was with Christy.

256
00:14:00,047 --> 00:14:02,967
Nothing ever embarrassed her
to talk to me about.

257
00:14:04,426 --> 00:14:07,638
[Christy] I felt like I could tell him
all about me,

258
00:14:08,138 --> 00:14:12,017
even all the bad things
about past relationships with women.

259
00:14:13,811 --> 00:14:14,895
That bothered me.

260
00:14:15,938 --> 00:14:19,733
And if I'd known that off the bat,
she wouldn't even have stayed in the gym.

261
00:14:21,277 --> 00:14:24,154
But Christy's past is her past.

262
00:14:24,864 --> 00:14:27,366
Her past has nothing to do
with our future.

263
00:14:29,201 --> 00:14:31,370
I think we went to Kmart or Walmart

264
00:14:31,453 --> 00:14:35,124
and bought two rings, you know,

265
00:14:35,207 --> 00:14:37,209
and, uh, went and got married.

266
00:14:40,004 --> 00:14:42,798
[Christy] Really, when I married Jim,
I married boxing.

267
00:14:44,008 --> 00:14:48,053
He gave me an opportunity, and I was ready
to take advantage of the opportunity

268
00:14:48,137 --> 00:14:50,431
and… and ride it to the fullest.

269
00:14:50,514 --> 00:14:51,765
[wind blowing]

270
00:14:52,892 --> 00:14:58,230
Now, it's up to me as a promoter to create
what I call the magic of excitement,

271
00:14:58,314 --> 00:15:02,067
and this is what separates me
from "mediocracy" to excellence.

272
00:15:02,151 --> 00:15:05,696
Love him or hate him, Don King was
the world's greatest boxing promoter.

273
00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:12,453
Brought some of the greatest fights
to boxing.

274
00:15:12,536 --> 00:15:14,830
[newsman] A new era in boxing.

275
00:15:14,914 --> 00:15:16,916
[Christy] And promoted all these legends.

276
00:15:18,959 --> 00:15:21,045
I never sat back and thought,

277
00:15:21,128 --> 00:15:23,422
"I'm gonna be boxing
for Don King someday."

278
00:15:23,505 --> 00:15:25,174
I mean, why would he sign a woman?

279
00:15:26,425 --> 00:15:28,385
But everything's about timing.

280
00:15:30,846 --> 00:15:33,891
Finally, we arrange a meeting
to go down to Don King's office.

281
00:15:33,974 --> 00:15:35,100
Don King Productions.

282
00:15:35,184 --> 00:15:38,062
[Christy] First time a woman boxer
was gonna meet him,

283
00:15:38,979 --> 00:15:42,524
so I take a VHS tape. I pop it in.

284
00:15:50,032 --> 00:15:51,784
Well, his VCR is not working.

285
00:15:54,328 --> 00:15:57,081
So I just get up
and start shadow boxing for him.

286
00:16:01,126 --> 00:16:03,754
And he starts that famous Don King laugh.

287
00:16:03,837 --> 00:16:05,714
[laughing]

288
00:16:05,798 --> 00:16:08,676
And he says, "I love you.
Sign her up. Let's get it done."

289
00:16:08,759 --> 00:16:12,221
And we said, "Can we take that contract
and let our lawyer read it?"

290
00:16:12,930 --> 00:16:15,724
He said,
"That contract don't leave this table."

291
00:16:15,808 --> 00:16:18,268
Then he said,
"What'd you fight for your last fight?"

292
00:16:18,352 --> 00:16:20,688
"Well, we only made
a few hundred dollars."

293
00:16:20,771 --> 00:16:23,857
He said, "Do you wanna fight
for 5,000 dollars a fight

294
00:16:23,941 --> 00:16:25,776
or for a couple hundred dollars?"

295
00:16:25,859 --> 00:16:27,653
We said, "Give us that contract."

296
00:16:27,736 --> 00:16:29,780
-[producer] How'd you feel?
-[clears throat]

297
00:16:29,863 --> 00:16:30,698
Rich.

298
00:16:30,781 --> 00:16:32,658
[laughs]

299
00:16:33,367 --> 00:16:37,830
Well, let me introduce to you
the first lady of boxing, Christy Martin.

300
00:16:38,330 --> 00:16:42,626
A dynamic, beautiful
boxing/fighting sensation.

301
00:16:42,710 --> 00:16:45,587
[Christy] He promoted me
just like he promotes his male fighters.

302
00:16:45,671 --> 00:16:47,881
"I'm gonna put you out there, Christy,
sink or swim."

303
00:16:48,966 --> 00:16:52,928
I fought all over. I mean,
I was fighting in Vegas every two weeks.

304
00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:55,723
I got no breaks.

305
00:16:56,515 --> 00:16:58,350
I got no special treatment.

306
00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:03,522
I felt like I had to bring a lot of action
because I can't give anyone an excuse

307
00:17:03,605 --> 00:17:06,233
to say something negative about my fight.

308
00:17:06,316 --> 00:17:07,151
[bell dings]

309
00:17:07,234 --> 00:17:10,779
[commentator] Christy Martin in the pink,
going right after Sonja Dunlavey.

310
00:17:10,863 --> 00:17:13,782
She can hit, and she's an athlete,
so watch her moves.

311
00:17:13,866 --> 00:17:14,742
Look at this!

312
00:17:14,825 --> 00:17:15,659
Whoo!

313
00:17:15,743 --> 00:17:17,411
Oh! Right hand!

314
00:17:17,494 --> 00:17:18,454
She may be out.

315
00:17:18,537 --> 00:17:19,913
It's all over.

316
00:17:19,997 --> 00:17:21,498
King's all about the dollar,

317
00:17:21,582 --> 00:17:25,169
and he knew that I was making waves
and I was getting the fans excited.

318
00:17:26,295 --> 00:17:27,880
[bell dings]

319
00:17:27,963 --> 00:17:30,382
[Jimmy] When Christy fought
"Slammin'" Sue Chase,

320
00:17:30,883 --> 00:17:33,052
I hear this, "Boom, boom, boom."

321
00:17:33,135 --> 00:17:35,345
I look back, and I was like, "Oh my God!"

322
00:17:35,429 --> 00:17:38,432
It's Mike Tyson right there, man.
Just cheering Christy on.

323
00:17:38,515 --> 00:17:40,684
[commentator] What an exchange this is!

324
00:17:40,768 --> 00:17:42,644
[Mike Tyson] I believe I was in jail,

325
00:17:43,228 --> 00:17:45,689
and they were talking about
Coal Miner's Daughter,

326
00:17:45,773 --> 00:17:48,400
she's knocking out people,
and she's really exciting.

327
00:17:49,026 --> 00:17:51,487
And I'm like, "Get the fuck outta here,"
you know?

328
00:17:52,321 --> 00:17:54,865
But then I started going
to some of her fights.

329
00:17:54,948 --> 00:17:56,575
[crowd cheering]

330
00:17:56,658 --> 00:17:58,619
She throws a lot of hard punches,

331
00:17:58,702 --> 00:17:59,953
crowd-pleasing.

332
00:18:00,662 --> 00:18:02,664
She gave everybody their money's worth.

333
00:18:02,748 --> 00:18:04,458
[commentator] She's not being thrown off.

334
00:18:04,541 --> 00:18:07,252
So I said,
"Put Christy Martin on my undercard."

335
00:18:09,254 --> 00:18:12,883
[Christy] I could never dream
that I would be on Mike Tyson's card.

336
00:18:13,550 --> 00:18:18,180
I mean, how can this be? I'm from a town
of 500 people in southern West Virginia,

337
00:18:19,181 --> 00:18:23,060
and here I am in the middle
of this huge fight on a pay-per-view show.

338
00:18:23,143 --> 00:18:27,272
[announcer] Mike Tyson returning live
on pay-per-view from the MGM Grand.

339
00:18:27,356 --> 00:18:31,610
That might have been the first time
where I was like, "Oh shit," you know,

340
00:18:31,693 --> 00:18:34,738
"I've made it if I can pull it off today."

341
00:18:42,121 --> 00:18:43,831
[crowd chattering indistinctly]

342
00:18:45,165 --> 00:18:47,751
[tense electronic music playing]

343
00:18:49,419 --> 00:18:52,631
[commentator] Martin taking on
Ireland's Deirdre Gogarty.

344
00:18:52,714 --> 00:18:55,926
The first women's bout
shown on pay-per-view.

345
00:18:56,009 --> 00:18:58,637
From a fighter's perspective,
this is really big.

346
00:18:59,513 --> 00:19:01,265
Half of the planet's watching her.

347
00:19:01,348 --> 00:19:04,309
-[crowd chanting] Bruno!
-Fifth round, Tyson knocks him out!

348
00:19:04,393 --> 00:19:06,353
[crowd] Bruno! Bruno!

349
00:19:06,937 --> 00:19:08,814
Phew. Wow.

350
00:19:09,439 --> 00:19:11,650
-Okay.
-I don't know if it's gonna be my day.

351
00:19:11,733 --> 00:19:14,278
It's all right.
Just all tension and nerves.

352
00:19:14,862 --> 00:19:16,864
[Jim] Christy prayed before the fight.

353
00:19:17,531 --> 00:19:18,824
I'm a nervous wreck too,

354
00:19:19,783 --> 00:19:21,160
but I don't let her see it.

355
00:19:21,827 --> 00:19:24,121
My job was to build her up.

356
00:19:25,831 --> 00:19:26,707
You okay?

357
00:19:26,790 --> 00:19:28,709
[Jim] Don King was scared to death.

358
00:19:28,792 --> 00:19:31,503
He said,
"Oh my God, if this thing falls through,

359
00:19:31,587 --> 00:19:33,380
people are gonna hang me."

360
00:19:33,463 --> 00:19:34,756
-Gonna be good.
-Good to see you.

361
00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:36,550
[Jim] He said,
"Christy, don't let me down."

362
00:19:36,633 --> 00:19:39,803
"Please don't let me down.
Make this a good fight."

363
00:19:40,387 --> 00:19:41,305
Come on, Christy.

364
00:19:41,388 --> 00:19:45,058
[Christy] As I walked out into the fight,
I can hear that people booed me.

365
00:19:45,142 --> 00:19:47,811
[crowd booing]

366
00:19:47,895 --> 00:19:51,064
Like, "Oh my God, I'm getting booed
in front of 100,000 people."

367
00:19:51,148 --> 00:19:53,150
[man] I didn't wanna see a girls' fight,

368
00:19:53,233 --> 00:19:56,236
and I wasn't too impressed
by the fact that we had one.

369
00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:57,863
[Jim] It made me so damn mad.

370
00:20:00,199 --> 00:20:04,244
[Deirdre] There was a lot of drunk people
shouting obscenities.

371
00:20:04,786 --> 00:20:07,873
"Now we gotta watch
a women's novelty sideshow."

372
00:20:07,956 --> 00:20:08,790
[crowd booing]

373
00:20:08,874 --> 00:20:11,877
[Deirdre] "Oh lord,
this is not going well already."

374
00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:16,173
[announcer] This is a female special
attraction in the lightweight division.

375
00:20:16,256 --> 00:20:17,633
[Christy] I was so excited,

376
00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:19,551
but yet I was so scared.

377
00:20:23,597 --> 00:20:26,516
But then it was like, boom,
the switch flipped.

378
00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,019
Go to your corner
and wait for the bell. Good luck.

379
00:20:29,102 --> 00:20:32,147
[Christy] If you want the fans
to remember your name,

380
00:20:32,231 --> 00:20:34,149
you have to go out and make a statement.

381
00:20:34,233 --> 00:20:35,275
[bell dings]

382
00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:37,319
[suspenseful music playing]

383
00:20:37,945 --> 00:20:39,446
[Christy grunting]

384
00:20:39,529 --> 00:20:42,491
[commentator] She can punch!
Look at that, what an athlete!

385
00:20:43,075 --> 00:20:44,451
Oh, down goes Gogarty.

386
00:20:44,534 --> 00:20:45,994
[crowd cheering]

387
00:20:48,664 --> 00:20:51,333
And she fights back,
unloading on Christy Martin.

388
00:20:51,416 --> 00:20:52,793
Martin swinging wildly.

389
00:20:53,460 --> 00:20:55,212
-Oh man!
-[crowd cheering]

390
00:20:55,921 --> 00:20:58,924
[funky music playing]

391
00:21:00,175 --> 00:21:01,635
Back comes Gogarty again.

392
00:21:02,386 --> 00:21:04,429
Whoo! It was just a war, back and forth.

393
00:21:05,973 --> 00:21:07,516
The crowd was going crazy.

394
00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:10,560
Everybody, everybody,
they were cheering both of us.

395
00:21:10,644 --> 00:21:12,396
Yeah! Yeah!

396
00:21:12,479 --> 00:21:15,232
[commentator] I'm no doctor,
but that's a broken nose.

397
00:21:15,315 --> 00:21:17,859
They couldn't get my nose
to stop bleeding.

398
00:21:17,943 --> 00:21:18,860
[doctor] Good job.

399
00:21:18,944 --> 00:21:21,321
[Christy] The doctor
would come into my corner,

400
00:21:21,405 --> 00:21:23,991
and I said, "Look, I'm fine.
Do not stop the fight."

401
00:21:24,074 --> 00:21:27,369
[commentator] She is bleeding profusely.
I've never seen this.

402
00:21:27,995 --> 00:21:30,580
[Jim] All the movie stars
come out of their seats.

403
00:21:31,873 --> 00:21:34,084
"Damn, there's a hell of a fight
going on here."

404
00:21:34,167 --> 00:21:38,130
-[commentator] This is entertainment.
-[Jimmy] Boy, it showed the whole world

405
00:21:38,213 --> 00:21:40,924
two women that could fight like that,

406
00:21:41,717 --> 00:21:44,970
that had heart like that,
that could bleed like that,

407
00:21:45,929 --> 00:21:49,057
and still come out
from round to round to round.

408
00:21:49,141 --> 00:21:51,143
[commentator] Another furious exchange.

409
00:21:51,226 --> 00:21:54,855
And it was a great feeling.
Boy, the crowd went nuts over it.

410
00:21:55,814 --> 00:21:58,442
[commentator] Both fighters
showing tremendous heart.

411
00:21:58,942 --> 00:21:59,901
[bell dings]

412
00:21:59,985 --> 00:22:03,655
I guarantee neither of those young ladies
was paid enough

413
00:22:03,739 --> 00:22:05,907
for the efforts
they put forth here tonight.

414
00:22:07,576 --> 00:22:09,995
[Christy] I was uncertain
about the decision,

415
00:22:10,078 --> 00:22:12,706
but I knew
we had put on one hell of a fight.

416
00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:16,960
[announcer]
All three in favor of the winner,

417
00:22:17,669 --> 00:22:22,883
"The Coal Miner's Daughter"
Christy Martin.

418
00:22:22,966 --> 00:22:23,967
Yes!

419
00:22:24,051 --> 00:22:25,761
[crowd cheering]

420
00:22:30,182 --> 00:22:32,184
[Jim] I'm standing over in the corner.

421
00:22:32,267 --> 00:22:36,271
I'm just proud when I know
that she does what I taught her.

422
00:22:38,315 --> 00:22:41,985
[Christy] I had given it every ounce
of energy that I had for that fight.

423
00:22:43,779 --> 00:22:47,407
I remember, I actually laid down
in the shower and I thought I was dying.

424
00:22:49,993 --> 00:22:54,081
When I got back to my room that night,
my voicemail in my hotel room was full,

425
00:22:54,164 --> 00:22:58,085
and the requests were from, um,
The Today Show, Leno Show,

426
00:22:58,168 --> 00:22:59,544
Conan O'Brien,

427
00:22:59,628 --> 00:23:02,714
and I was hurt because I…
I called my PR guy,

428
00:23:02,798 --> 00:23:05,967
and I'm like, "Why would somebody play
such a bad joke on me?"

429
00:23:06,051 --> 00:23:08,178
"I fought… I really fought hard."

430
00:23:08,261 --> 00:23:11,306
He says, "You don't understand, honey.
That's for real."

431
00:23:11,390 --> 00:23:12,682
I'm like, "What?"

432
00:23:12,766 --> 00:23:16,561
Christy Martin battled Deirdre Gogarty
for six brutal rounds

433
00:23:16,645 --> 00:23:19,898
in front of millions
on television in 170 countries.

434
00:23:19,981 --> 00:23:22,692
All the talk was about Martin-Gogarty.

435
00:23:22,776 --> 00:23:26,446
There wasn't a person I was with who
didn't come away tremendously impressed.

436
00:23:26,530 --> 00:23:28,532
Many boxing fans
said the Martin-Gogarty fight,

437
00:23:28,615 --> 00:23:30,242
with no disrespect to the others,

438
00:23:30,325 --> 00:23:33,495
was the most exciting
and competitive bout that night.

439
00:23:33,578 --> 00:23:37,666
To get fight of the night on a Tyson show,
you don't even dream that.

440
00:23:37,749 --> 00:23:41,044
I believe she broke her nose,
blood streaming the entire fight.

441
00:23:41,128 --> 00:23:44,423
[Christy] The blood everywhere
made everybody stand up and take notice.

442
00:23:45,132 --> 00:23:48,885
Probably the most lucrative bloody nose
in the history of boxing.

443
00:23:48,969 --> 00:23:52,222
Christy Martin's fight that night
put women's boxing on the map.

444
00:23:52,305 --> 00:23:53,849
No doubt she put it on the map.

445
00:23:55,142 --> 00:23:57,644
Eighty million viewers
actually watched our fight.

446
00:23:58,770 --> 00:24:02,315
[Christy] I feel like I was ready
to take advantage of the opportunity.

447
00:24:02,399 --> 00:24:06,027
So many people were telling me,
"You can't do it. You'll never make it."

448
00:24:06,695 --> 00:24:08,321
All right, just watch.

449
00:24:08,405 --> 00:24:12,200
-[announcer] Christy Martin!
-[crowd cheering]

450
00:24:12,284 --> 00:24:15,412
The best female boxer out there.
Please welcome Christy Martin.

451
00:24:15,495 --> 00:24:17,122
[audience cheering]

452
00:24:18,498 --> 00:24:20,542
-[cameras clicking]
-[Jim] She's a star.

453
00:24:20,625 --> 00:24:23,670
All the movie stars knew her.
All the sports people knew her.

454
00:24:24,379 --> 00:24:25,797
People overseas knew her.

455
00:24:25,881 --> 00:24:28,633
[newsman] We're discouraged
from getting involved romantically

456
00:24:28,717 --> 00:24:30,093
with the people we cover.

457
00:24:30,177 --> 00:24:32,053
I thought, "Oh, there's Sis."

458
00:24:32,137 --> 00:24:33,638
"Sis is famous."

459
00:24:34,222 --> 00:24:35,098
[laughs]

460
00:24:35,182 --> 00:24:37,767
If I'm gonna hit someone,
I'm gonna try to hit them on the chin or…

461
00:24:37,851 --> 00:24:40,103
-[audience laughter]
-[Christy laughs]

462
00:24:40,187 --> 00:24:43,106
I went on to all those shows.
Just one after another.

463
00:24:43,190 --> 00:24:45,942
Christy Martin took the boxing world
by storm last month.

464
00:24:46,026 --> 00:24:49,779
Her performance in the ring landed her
on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

465
00:24:49,863 --> 00:24:52,657
When they told me, "You're gonna be
on the cover of Sports Illustrated."

466
00:24:52,741 --> 00:24:54,159
"You gotta be kidding me!"

467
00:24:54,242 --> 00:24:57,329
[newswoman] She is the first female boxer
to earn that distinction.

468
00:24:57,412 --> 00:24:59,206
[Christy] I went to the store
and bought one

469
00:24:59,289 --> 00:25:01,875
so the guy would have to look
at the magazine, look up at me,

470
00:25:01,958 --> 00:25:03,084
and he doesn't notice!

471
00:25:03,168 --> 00:25:04,544
[cameras clicking]

472
00:25:04,628 --> 00:25:07,214
[broadcaster] Once considered
the lowest rung on the boxing ladder,

473
00:25:07,297 --> 00:25:09,883
women are now a curiosity
and great demand.

474
00:25:09,966 --> 00:25:11,009
[Christy] All of a sudden,

475
00:25:11,092 --> 00:25:13,845
promoters were putting
a women's fight on every single card.

476
00:25:13,929 --> 00:25:17,516
[commentator] She's taking some shots
from Christy Martin right now. Wow!

477
00:25:18,099 --> 00:25:20,060
Everybody fought their A game against me,

478
00:25:20,143 --> 00:25:22,562
their A-plus game
because it was their Super Bowl.

479
00:25:22,646 --> 00:25:24,564
[commentator] Look at them, toe-to-toe!

480
00:25:24,648 --> 00:25:27,817
And I always felt like everybody's
waiting for me to make a mistake.

481
00:25:27,901 --> 00:25:30,612
[commentator] Look at this war!
Wow, how about that?

482
00:25:30,695 --> 00:25:33,156
That wasn't gonna happen.
I would just go harder.

483
00:25:33,949 --> 00:25:35,575
[commentator] Look at this spinning…

484
00:25:35,659 --> 00:25:39,246
She goes in the ring for one play.
That's to put you on the mat.

485
00:25:39,329 --> 00:25:40,205
[Christy grunts]

486
00:25:41,373 --> 00:25:42,415
[crowd cheering]

487
00:25:42,499 --> 00:25:44,751
She hurts when she hits! [laughs]

488
00:25:44,834 --> 00:25:45,835
[Christy grunts]

489
00:25:45,919 --> 00:25:48,922
[Christy] Every punch I threw,
I wanted to knock someone out.

490
00:25:49,506 --> 00:25:52,092
I mean, the adrenaline rush
puts you so high.

491
00:25:53,969 --> 00:25:54,803
[ding]

492
00:25:56,930 --> 00:25:59,891
[broadcaster] Don King signed Christy
to a four-year contract,

493
00:25:59,975 --> 00:26:01,768
promising to make her a millionaire.

494
00:26:01,851 --> 00:26:04,521
[Jim] We got cars.
We got basketball courts.

495
00:26:04,604 --> 00:26:06,856
We got a swimming pool. We got jewelry.

496
00:26:06,940 --> 00:26:09,276
We got clothes
that would fill half this room.

497
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:10,902
We got everything.

498
00:26:11,945 --> 00:26:12,988
We were really rich.

499
00:26:13,572 --> 00:26:15,782
Best in the world, baby.
Best in the world.

500
00:26:15,865 --> 00:26:19,369
Look at how far she made it,
how high she made it.

501
00:26:19,452 --> 00:26:22,330
-[crowd cheering]
-It's a dream come true for all of us.

502
00:26:22,414 --> 00:26:24,165
[inaudible]

503
00:26:24,249 --> 00:26:26,084
[Christy] I was on top of the world.

504
00:26:26,876 --> 00:26:30,088
The crowd was going nuts,
chanting, "Christy, Christy, Christy!"

505
00:26:30,171 --> 00:26:31,506
[crowd cheering]

506
00:26:37,178 --> 00:26:38,847
[tense droning plays]

507
00:26:40,807 --> 00:26:43,852
[Lisa] 90% of every punch
that we threw in the gym

508
00:26:43,935 --> 00:26:46,771
had Christy Martin's face on it.

509
00:26:46,855 --> 00:26:47,939
[crowd cheering]

510
00:26:48,023 --> 00:26:48,857
[man] Yeah!

511
00:26:49,357 --> 00:26:53,486
[announcer] From Crawford, Texas,
it's Lisa Holewyne!

512
00:26:53,570 --> 00:26:54,738
[crowd cheering]

513
00:26:54,821 --> 00:26:55,739
[bell dings]

514
00:26:56,531 --> 00:27:00,744
[Lisa] She was the champion that
other fighters couldn't wait to see fall.

515
00:27:01,703 --> 00:27:03,872
I get a lot of criticism
from other women fighters

516
00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:06,291
because they think
I should put them on my shoulders

517
00:27:06,374 --> 00:27:07,709
and carry them to the forefront.

518
00:27:07,792 --> 00:27:11,504
Hey, this is business, you know.
I worry about promoting Christy Martin.

519
00:27:12,297 --> 00:27:14,549
[Lisa] Christy was outspoken,

520
00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:16,426
easy to dislike.

521
00:27:16,509 --> 00:27:20,639
[Christy] Women today are making
more money than ever for one reason.

522
00:27:20,722 --> 00:27:24,601
That's because of the show Christy Martin
puts on every time that I go out there.

523
00:27:24,684 --> 00:27:28,647
So, I really think they should all be
sending me 10% of their purse. [laughs]

524
00:27:28,730 --> 00:27:31,316
[Lisa] There was a huge difference

525
00:27:31,399 --> 00:27:34,486
between Christy Martin
and all the other females.

526
00:27:35,403 --> 00:27:37,656
Certainly, every female fighter had a job

527
00:27:37,739 --> 00:27:40,450
and had to figure out a way
to take off for fights.

528
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,037
And she could have said,

529
00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:46,498
"There are other women out there
that are good."

530
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,834
Occasionally,
she could have mixed that in.

531
00:27:50,627 --> 00:27:53,505
[Jim] I always said
when Christy gets out of boxing,

532
00:27:53,588 --> 00:27:55,965
there isn't gonna be more women boxing.

533
00:27:56,049 --> 00:27:56,966
You know why?

534
00:27:57,676 --> 00:27:59,386
'Cause she was effeminate.

535
00:27:59,469 --> 00:28:00,512
[cameras clicking]

536
00:28:00,595 --> 00:28:04,557
Christy's image was
as important as her boxing skills.

537
00:28:05,809 --> 00:28:08,812
Christy was known as the girl next door,

538
00:28:09,688 --> 00:28:13,400
and she wasn't going in there
looking like a boy, acting like a boy.

539
00:28:13,483 --> 00:28:18,154
She's like a typical housewife. She cooks,
does her hair, does her fingernails.

540
00:28:18,238 --> 00:28:20,657
Am I allowed to make you blush
a little bit?

541
00:28:20,740 --> 00:28:22,659
-[Christy] Sure.
-You have a very lovely smile.

542
00:28:22,742 --> 00:28:25,078
You have very attractive features.

543
00:28:25,161 --> 00:28:26,079
Okay.

544
00:28:26,162 --> 00:28:28,873
[Jim] I mean, who puts butts in the seats?

545
00:28:28,957 --> 00:28:30,083
Men.

546
00:28:30,166 --> 00:28:32,293
If Christy didn't sell any tickets,

547
00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:34,462
I don't care how good she was,

548
00:28:34,546 --> 00:28:36,756
Don King would not have had her
on those cards.

549
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,467
I'd like to say one thing.
Andrea, you have a nice dress.

550
00:28:39,551 --> 00:28:43,054
This is the first time I've seen you
dressed respectable, looking like a woman.

551
00:28:43,138 --> 00:28:44,222
[crowd] Oh!

552
00:28:45,974 --> 00:28:48,518
[Christy] The whole pre-fight
hype bullshit,

553
00:28:49,477 --> 00:28:51,396
I-- I enjoyed it.

554
00:28:51,479 --> 00:28:54,315
[indistinct yelling]

555
00:28:54,399 --> 00:28:57,444
You know, small town West Virginia,
Coal Miner's Daughter, baby.

556
00:28:57,527 --> 00:29:01,239
She ain't for ****. That's why
she gotta steal on somebody.

557
00:29:01,322 --> 00:29:03,116
I told Christy Martin, "Good luck."

558
00:29:03,992 --> 00:29:07,203
I got told,
"Good luck getting knocked the fuck out."

559
00:29:07,287 --> 00:29:08,997
Well, I said so many bad things.

560
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,666
I'm gonna put something on you
you never had before.

561
00:29:12,542 --> 00:29:15,670
Maybe only from your girlfriend.
I don't know. Maybe she put it on you.

562
00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:17,172
-[crowd] Oh!
-What's that?

563
00:29:17,255 --> 00:29:18,548
You know what.

564
00:29:18,631 --> 00:29:22,385
I mean, I said a lot of really rude
comments about, uh,

565
00:29:23,762 --> 00:29:24,721
homosexuals.

566
00:29:24,804 --> 00:29:27,390
[Jim] There are women fighters
who come in like, you know,

567
00:29:27,474 --> 00:29:30,518
wear a flannel shirt, driving a Jeep,

568
00:29:30,602 --> 00:29:33,980
chopped-off hairdo, and sorta manly type.

569
00:29:34,063 --> 00:29:37,650
[Christy] But also,
Jim did encourage that behavior,

570
00:29:37,734 --> 00:29:40,028
and I would tell him,
"Jim, you don't understand."

571
00:29:40,111 --> 00:29:41,780
"I'm gonna keep saying this stuff,

572
00:29:41,863 --> 00:29:43,865
and somebody from my past
is gonna peep up."

573
00:29:43,948 --> 00:29:47,744
[commentator 1] Because Christy Martin has
a problem with her opponent's sexuality,

574
00:29:47,827 --> 00:29:50,330
she'll throw her kisses before the fight.

575
00:29:50,997 --> 00:29:53,625
[commentator 2] Mmm.
That oughta rile her up.

576
00:29:53,708 --> 00:29:58,129
But it didn't happen,
and I continued to say negative things.

577
00:29:58,213 --> 00:30:02,842
First, she will have to prove to me
and doctors that she is a woman,

578
00:30:02,926 --> 00:30:06,763
and, um, we can… we can hook that fight up
as soon as she proves that.

579
00:30:06,846 --> 00:30:08,848
-[reporter] That she's a woman?
-That she's a woman.

580
00:30:09,557 --> 00:30:14,479
[Lisa] We were all struggling
with the same identity in a male sport.

581
00:30:14,562 --> 00:30:16,981
There weren't many female athletes

582
00:30:17,774 --> 00:30:20,443
brave enough to be
who they were at that time,

583
00:30:20,527 --> 00:30:22,195
myself included.

584
00:30:24,072 --> 00:30:27,367
You think you're a man and punch
like a man. You don't even hit like a boy.

585
00:30:27,450 --> 00:30:28,576
You're a punk.

586
00:30:28,660 --> 00:30:31,955
Christy, I like the way you talk.
You walk that walk and talk that talk.

587
00:30:32,038 --> 00:30:35,500
But if you're gonna open your mouth
and say it, you better back it up.

588
00:30:40,713 --> 00:30:43,591
[Lisa] I was getting ready to fight her,
and I was pumped.

589
00:30:44,092 --> 00:30:47,595
"I'm way too strong for this girl.
I'm way too big for this girl."

590
00:30:47,679 --> 00:30:51,349
"Have her come at me.
Have her come at me."

591
00:30:51,432 --> 00:30:52,433
"She's going down."

592
00:30:53,893 --> 00:30:56,271
[Christy] She was much bigger,
much stronger than me.

593
00:30:56,354 --> 00:30:58,439
Lisa was a world champion too,

594
00:30:58,523 --> 00:31:00,817
so I had to actually use my brain.

595
00:31:02,151 --> 00:31:04,988
So I watched
how all these big legends fought.

596
00:31:06,281 --> 00:31:09,075
Sugar Ray Robinson,
Ali, Frazier, Carmen Basilio.

597
00:31:10,577 --> 00:31:12,537
All those guys are great chess players.

598
00:31:13,413 --> 00:31:16,165
They're able to set you up for,
not your next move,

599
00:31:16,791 --> 00:31:17,917
their next move.

600
00:31:19,419 --> 00:31:21,880
[Lisa] I'm like,
"She's gonna come right to me.

601
00:31:21,963 --> 00:31:23,673
She's gonna come right to me.

602
00:31:24,424 --> 00:31:26,092
Well, Christy didn't do that.

603
00:31:26,926 --> 00:31:29,846
[Christy] I decided when to step in
and throw combinations,

604
00:31:29,929 --> 00:31:32,473
when to load up
and throw one big right hand.

605
00:31:34,642 --> 00:31:37,437
[Lisa] I was frustrated, surprised.

606
00:31:37,979 --> 00:31:41,399
You couldn't have told me
that this girl had good feet

607
00:31:41,482 --> 00:31:43,568
and good moves and good defense,

608
00:31:44,569 --> 00:31:47,947
because most women
didn't make her have to show that.

609
00:31:48,865 --> 00:31:50,617
Oh, Christy could box.

610
00:31:51,534 --> 00:31:53,828
She would keep everything short and sweet.

611
00:31:53,912 --> 00:31:54,787
Slip. Come back.

612
00:31:55,371 --> 00:31:56,539
[punching sound] Back.

613
00:31:56,623 --> 00:31:58,124
[punching sound] Back.

614
00:31:59,417 --> 00:32:01,920
When Lisa and Christy
both came in the ring,

615
00:32:02,003 --> 00:32:05,590
George Foreman said,
"This little girl won't win this fight."

616
00:32:07,008 --> 00:32:08,968
At about the third round, he said,

617
00:32:09,052 --> 00:32:11,763
"This little girl
is gonna win this fight." [laughs]

618
00:32:11,846 --> 00:32:14,682
[Jim] She couldn't stand toe-to-toe
with Christy.

619
00:32:14,766 --> 00:32:16,267
Lisa got her ass beat.

620
00:32:16,351 --> 00:32:19,395
[announcer] The winner,
"The Coal Miner's Daughter"

621
00:32:19,479 --> 00:32:23,274
Christy Martin.

622
00:32:23,358 --> 00:32:24,359
[crowd cheering]

623
00:32:24,442 --> 00:32:27,612
Biggest stage of my career. It sucks.

624
00:32:28,905 --> 00:32:30,031
[Jimmy] After that fight,

625
00:32:30,114 --> 00:32:33,201
Christy was well on the way
of being almost untouchable.

626
00:32:37,747 --> 00:32:40,583
[Christy] Yeah, in front of the camera,
it was great.

627
00:32:40,667 --> 00:32:43,795
I mean, I would not trade my career
for anyone's.

628
00:32:45,546 --> 00:32:47,548
But my personal and private life,

629
00:32:47,632 --> 00:32:49,175
it was so much the opposite.

630
00:32:49,884 --> 00:32:52,845
[Don King] This is her husband
and trainer, Mr. Martin.

631
00:32:52,929 --> 00:32:53,888
He's a tough guy.

632
00:32:53,972 --> 00:32:57,725
[Christy] From early on, Don King
used being married as a selling point,

633
00:32:58,393 --> 00:33:00,061
so Jim also became a star.

634
00:33:00,144 --> 00:33:01,312
Talk about packing a punch.

635
00:33:01,396 --> 00:33:04,273
You're about to meet
a husband and wife team you won't forget.

636
00:33:04,357 --> 00:33:08,528
She is the professional boxer.
He is the trainer. They're a knockout.

637
00:33:08,611 --> 00:33:09,696
One little kiss.

638
00:33:09,779 --> 00:33:11,823
[Jim] People in the media
would always say,

639
00:33:11,906 --> 00:33:13,574
"You guys made history together."

640
00:33:13,658 --> 00:33:14,492
Mwah.

641
00:33:14,575 --> 00:33:17,912
You say Christy, you say Jim.
You say Jim, you say Christy.

642
00:33:17,996 --> 00:33:20,999
Jim, get in here and turn around
and get in that shot. First time--

643
00:33:21,082 --> 00:33:23,167
His identity became me.

644
00:33:23,918 --> 00:33:27,005
He would call somebody.
He never said, "This is Jim Martin."

645
00:33:27,088 --> 00:33:28,589
"This is Jim and Christy Martin."

646
00:33:29,215 --> 00:33:33,720
Oh, obviously, we have our ups and downs,
as any fighter-trainer would,

647
00:33:33,803 --> 00:33:35,805
but, um, sometimes it's a little tougher

648
00:33:35,888 --> 00:33:39,058
because if we have problems at the gym,
it'll go home with us.

649
00:33:39,142 --> 00:33:41,936
Or if we have problems at home,
it'll come to the gym with us,

650
00:33:42,020 --> 00:33:43,229
but we're doing better.

651
00:33:43,312 --> 00:33:46,566
[Christy] It was just all so intertwined
that I couldn't get away.

652
00:33:46,649 --> 00:33:49,193
We've been together seven years.
In seven years,

653
00:33:49,944 --> 00:33:52,405
maybe we've spent
one night away from each other.

654
00:33:52,488 --> 00:33:56,242
Christy and I, we have no children.
We don't get tired of each other.

655
00:33:57,076 --> 00:34:00,580
We just do everything together,
and that's just what we like, you know.

656
00:34:01,289 --> 00:34:03,124
[Jim] She didn't go out
with women friends.

657
00:34:03,207 --> 00:34:04,625
I didn't go out with men friends.

658
00:34:04,709 --> 00:34:06,961
I didn't want to go out
with any men friends.

659
00:34:07,462 --> 00:34:09,130
She was my life. She was my whole life.

660
00:34:10,131 --> 00:34:14,302
[Christy] I mean, he was a great coach
for an amateur just starting out.

661
00:34:14,844 --> 00:34:15,845
One, two.

662
00:34:15,928 --> 00:34:20,224
[Christy] But now, when I would
watch guys that train real champions…

663
00:34:20,308 --> 00:34:21,267
Again.

664
00:34:21,350 --> 00:34:25,271
I realized that I wanted to have
a better trainer.

665
00:34:25,354 --> 00:34:27,148
[somber music playing]

666
00:34:27,231 --> 00:34:28,524
After so many years,

667
00:34:29,025 --> 00:34:31,486
Jim had taught me all he could teach me.

668
00:34:33,863 --> 00:34:36,365
And even if he wants
to still be the co-trainer,

669
00:34:36,449 --> 00:34:39,702
I would ask him
to at least bring in somebody else,

670
00:34:39,786 --> 00:34:41,621
so I could go to that next level,

671
00:34:42,663 --> 00:34:45,500
but he didn't want me to have
anybody else in my corner.

672
00:34:45,583 --> 00:34:46,459
[grunts]

673
00:34:49,504 --> 00:34:53,174
We worked so hard
to make this great big bill.

674
00:34:55,218 --> 00:34:57,720
You would think she'd had
a little bit more respect for me.

675
00:34:57,804 --> 00:35:02,517
My husband's my trainer and my manager,
full-time, like, 24-hour-a-day boss.

676
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:03,976
Could you knock him out?

677
00:35:04,060 --> 00:35:06,479
Um, no, but some days I might like to.

678
00:35:06,562 --> 00:35:08,231
-[Jay Leno] Yeah.
-Yeah. [laughs]

679
00:35:08,314 --> 00:35:09,816
I bet when this couple fights…

680
00:35:09,899 --> 00:35:11,234
Bam, buh-bam, bam.

681
00:35:11,317 --> 00:35:13,486
[audience laughter]

682
00:35:13,569 --> 00:35:16,489
Christy needed some sparring,
so we put the gloves on.

683
00:35:17,198 --> 00:35:19,075
You know, we sparred.

684
00:35:20,993 --> 00:35:22,495
[Christy] He's 25 years older,

685
00:35:23,037 --> 00:35:26,541
so I was hesitant to go 100% all-out.

686
00:35:29,293 --> 00:35:32,922
But then, he just, he…

687
00:35:33,005 --> 00:35:33,923
He knocked me out.

688
00:35:34,006 --> 00:35:35,716
[high-pitched ringing]

689
00:35:37,802 --> 00:35:39,262
I've never been knocked out.

690
00:35:40,221 --> 00:35:41,764
I've never been dropped, even.

691
00:35:44,183 --> 00:35:46,894
You know when you're hitting someone
in the right spot,

692
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,897
hitting someone hard enough
to knock them out.

693
00:35:49,981 --> 00:35:51,774
He knew exactly what he was doing.

694
00:35:51,858 --> 00:35:54,527
I wasn't trying to kill her.
You know what I mean?

695
00:35:54,610 --> 00:35:57,864
But I was letting her know
she didn't belong in there with me.

696
00:35:59,198 --> 00:36:01,617
[Christy] No matter how good
I thought I was

697
00:36:01,701 --> 00:36:05,204
or how tough I thought I was,
he wanted to show me he was the boss.

698
00:36:06,038 --> 00:36:08,416
It takes a little cockiness out of them.

699
00:36:10,293 --> 00:36:11,127
You know?

700
00:36:12,336 --> 00:36:13,462
[Christy] Is it abuse?

701
00:36:14,005 --> 00:36:15,256
Yeah, he's smart.

702
00:36:16,424 --> 00:36:17,466
He disguised it.

703
00:36:19,552 --> 00:36:21,179
Have you ever been knocked out?

704
00:36:21,262 --> 00:36:23,472
-No. [knocks on desk]
-[Jay Leno] Oh no. Wow.

705
00:36:24,182 --> 00:36:26,434
[Christy] And all I wanted to do
was leave him.

706
00:36:27,351 --> 00:36:30,271
All I wanted to do
was live my life freely.

707
00:36:33,816 --> 00:36:34,692
So, yeah.

708
00:36:35,776 --> 00:36:36,736
I should have.

709
00:36:41,532 --> 00:36:43,784
[Laila] Christy Martin reached out
and wanted to fight.

710
00:36:43,868 --> 00:36:47,246
I remember thinking
it was a joke. Like, "Really?" [laughs]

711
00:36:47,330 --> 00:36:48,539
Like, "Really?"

712
00:36:48,623 --> 00:36:50,291
[continues laughing]

713
00:36:51,209 --> 00:36:53,211
Oh my God! Because, come on.

714
00:36:53,294 --> 00:36:56,005
I mean, I'm 168 pounds. I'm five-eleven.

715
00:36:56,088 --> 00:36:57,089
I'm big, I'm strong.

716
00:36:57,173 --> 00:36:58,925
What is little Christy gonna do with me?

717
00:37:01,761 --> 00:37:03,304
[crowd cheering]

718
00:37:03,387 --> 00:37:08,893
[announcer] Laila Ali!

719
00:37:09,852 --> 00:37:11,812
[Laila] Most people assume
I started boxing

720
00:37:11,896 --> 00:37:13,773
'cause I said, "I wanna be like my dad."

721
00:37:13,856 --> 00:37:15,483
That isn't what happened at all.

722
00:37:16,442 --> 00:37:20,780
When I saw Christy and Deirdre fighting,
I remember thinking… [gasps]

723
00:37:20,863 --> 00:37:22,031
"I wanna do that."

724
00:37:22,114 --> 00:37:24,200
So I decided, "I'm gonna start training."

725
00:37:28,287 --> 00:37:30,206
I got a call to spar with Christy

726
00:37:30,289 --> 00:37:32,625
when she was getting ready
to fight Laila Ali.

727
00:37:34,835 --> 00:37:37,421
And I was over it enough.

728
00:37:37,505 --> 00:37:39,131
[laughs]

729
00:37:39,215 --> 00:37:41,342
Almost. You never really get over a loss.

730
00:37:44,512 --> 00:37:47,431
I remember feeling like, "This is odd."

731
00:37:47,515 --> 00:37:49,267
Ali's a big girl.

732
00:37:49,767 --> 00:37:52,853
Ali was bigger than me by 15-20 pounds.

733
00:37:53,646 --> 00:37:57,942
I was bigger than Christy by ten pounds,
and Ali was the younger one.

734
00:37:58,734 --> 00:38:00,194
That was an insane matchup.

735
00:38:01,612 --> 00:38:03,739
[Christy] We were the two biggest names
at the time.

736
00:38:04,532 --> 00:38:05,449
And Jim was all about,

737
00:38:05,533 --> 00:38:08,077
"It'll be the biggest fight
in women's boxing history."

738
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:09,578
[cameras clicking]

739
00:38:09,662 --> 00:38:11,831
I had never seen Laila Ali in person.

740
00:38:11,914 --> 00:38:15,584
So when I actually saw her, I was like,
"Oh shit, this is a big woman."

741
00:38:15,668 --> 00:38:16,502
[cameras clicking]

742
00:38:16,585 --> 00:38:20,256
[Jimmy] Christy had to weigh in
with army pants on, boots,

743
00:38:20,339 --> 00:38:22,508
and quarters in her pockets. [laughs]

744
00:38:22,591 --> 00:38:24,844
You stood up to me, little mama.
You stood up--

745
00:38:26,012 --> 00:38:27,471
Laila! Break it up! Break it up!

746
00:38:27,555 --> 00:38:30,808
[Laila] She wasn't intimidating me.
I was talking down to her,

747
00:38:30,891 --> 00:38:32,768
and she felt my power,

748
00:38:32,852 --> 00:38:34,937
and I did notice a bit of a change in her

749
00:38:35,021 --> 00:38:38,190
because now she realized,
"Okay, this is real."

750
00:38:39,859 --> 00:38:43,988
Jim was talking to me, and I said,
"I don't know about this fight,"

751
00:38:44,071 --> 00:38:46,198
and I'm watching my words

752
00:38:46,282 --> 00:38:49,910
because I'm talking to somebody's
husband and trainer

753
00:38:50,661 --> 00:38:52,621
about their fighter and wife.

754
00:38:53,497 --> 00:38:56,625
[Jim] Everybody always says to me,
"It's your wife in there."

755
00:38:57,710 --> 00:38:59,378
I say, you know what,

756
00:38:59,462 --> 00:39:03,007
if I sat there and said, "Oh wow,
my wife just took a hard shot,"

757
00:39:03,090 --> 00:39:07,011
"Oh wow, my wife's
got eyes a little bit swelled-up,"

758
00:39:07,094 --> 00:39:08,929
by focusing on that,

759
00:39:09,013 --> 00:39:10,639
I'm not doing my job.

760
00:39:12,516 --> 00:39:15,353
[Lisa] And so, he said,
"Well, I think she can do it."

761
00:39:15,436 --> 00:39:17,521
It was, like, "Conversation over."

762
00:39:18,314 --> 00:39:21,317
[commentator] We're about to witness
the most important fight

763
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,235
in the history of women's boxing.

764
00:39:23,319 --> 00:39:25,780
We've waited for months,
and now it's here.

765
00:39:25,863 --> 00:39:27,865
[Christy] We sold
over 100,000 pay-per-view buys.

766
00:39:27,948 --> 00:39:31,410
We sold the arena out in Biloxi.
They had to add chairs.

767
00:39:31,494 --> 00:39:34,872
To this day, it's still the biggest fight
in women's boxing history.

768
00:39:34,955 --> 00:39:39,460
[commentator] The anticipation,
the sizzle in this arena is tremendous.

769
00:39:39,543 --> 00:39:42,546
The title of women's pound-for-pound best.

770
00:39:44,215 --> 00:39:46,675
Christy Martin will be outweighed.

771
00:39:46,759 --> 00:39:49,261
She promises not to be outgunned.

772
00:39:49,345 --> 00:39:50,221
[bell dings]

773
00:39:50,304 --> 00:39:54,350
First bell rang, Laila hit me
with a right hand high on my head…

774
00:39:55,309 --> 00:39:57,311
[commentator] Ali, that overhand right!

775
00:39:57,395 --> 00:40:00,773
…and it just knocked my equilibrium off.

776
00:40:00,856 --> 00:40:03,943
I felt like I was fighting
and standing on an angle.

777
00:40:04,026 --> 00:40:06,821
[commentator] Look at the look
on Christy Martin's face.

778
00:40:06,904 --> 00:40:09,532
She's doing everything in her power
to hang in there.

779
00:40:10,574 --> 00:40:14,662
[Jim] Christy came back to the corner,
and she said, "Am I fighting crooked?"

780
00:40:14,745 --> 00:40:16,789
And I said,
"No, you're fighting up straight."

781
00:40:16,872 --> 00:40:19,333
She said,
"I feel like I'm fighting on a slant."

782
00:40:19,417 --> 00:40:22,294
[Jimmy] I can see the glaze
and distance in her eyes.

783
00:40:22,837 --> 00:40:24,922
She was fighting on pure gut and instinct.

784
00:40:25,005 --> 00:40:28,092
[commentator] …as Laila Ali
continues to drop bombs.

785
00:40:28,175 --> 00:40:30,302
And Martin is in trouble!

786
00:40:30,386 --> 00:40:33,222
[Christy] I kept trying to hang in there,
go a little bit longer,

787
00:40:33,305 --> 00:40:34,807
thinking my head would clear.

788
00:40:34,890 --> 00:40:37,268
[commentator]
Martin just not able to punch back!

789
00:40:37,351 --> 00:40:39,812
[Christy] But no matter
what I hit her with, she was on me,

790
00:40:39,895 --> 00:40:42,273
and I couldn't get her off of me.
I couldn't breathe.

791
00:40:42,356 --> 00:40:45,818
[commentator]
She just collapses in the corner.

792
00:40:45,901 --> 00:40:48,988
That's a dangerous fight when you're
in there with someone bigger, stronger,

793
00:40:49,071 --> 00:40:50,364
and you're not seeing straight.

794
00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:52,450
[commentator] How much punishment
can she absorb?

795
00:40:52,533 --> 00:40:54,493
[Laila] It's the corner's responsibility

796
00:40:54,577 --> 00:40:57,997
to throw in the towel if they have to.
It's important for that person to step up.

797
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,749
-Put the heat on her, okay?
-Right.

798
00:41:00,833 --> 00:41:03,335
-[Christy] I told him I'm dizzy.
-[Jim] Run around, okay?

799
00:41:03,419 --> 00:41:05,171
[Christy] I'm sure I have a concussion,

800
00:41:05,254 --> 00:41:08,757
but he was just like,
"Nah, you'll be fine. You'll be fine."

801
00:41:08,841 --> 00:41:10,718
-[whistle blows]
-[commentator] Rapid fire.

802
00:41:10,801 --> 00:41:13,137
Again and again and again!

803
00:41:13,637 --> 00:41:15,389
[Christy] Jim could have saved me.

804
00:41:15,473 --> 00:41:17,850
He could have stepped up
and stopped the fight.

805
00:41:17,933 --> 00:41:19,185
That's what a coach does.

806
00:41:19,268 --> 00:41:22,396
That's what a good coach does
for their fighter, but he didn't.

807
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,232
[commentator]
Laila Ali has driven her to her knees.

808
00:41:25,316 --> 00:41:26,692
[Christy] So I took a knee.

809
00:41:28,903 --> 00:41:31,864
Probably if I have to say
what's the worst ten seconds of your life,

810
00:41:31,947 --> 00:41:34,366
that's probably
the worst ten seconds of my life.

811
00:41:35,034 --> 00:41:37,203
That I stayed on… on the knee.

812
00:41:38,746 --> 00:41:41,665
[commentator] She has never been
off her feet until now.

813
00:41:42,166 --> 00:41:44,710
[Christy] He could have stepped up
and stopped it.

814
00:41:44,793 --> 00:41:48,464
I could always say,
"Jim stopped it. I didn't quit."

815
00:41:48,547 --> 00:41:52,092
But I quit,
and that's hard for me to live with.

816
00:41:52,176 --> 00:41:53,719
[commentator] It is over,

817
00:41:53,802 --> 00:42:00,559
and Laila Ali is the reigning champion
of women's boxing.

818
00:42:01,227 --> 00:42:03,771
[Jim] When she hit Christy,
that was a lucky punch.

819
00:42:04,271 --> 00:42:06,440
I wanted a rematch on that fight.

820
00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:11,111
[Christy] I remember
laying in my dressing room that night.

821
00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:13,948
Jim wasn't even there to…
to make sure I was okay.

822
00:42:14,031 --> 00:42:16,158
He was out talking to everybody else.

823
00:42:17,576 --> 00:42:21,247
[Jimmy] Christy had at least
30-something fights she never lost.

824
00:42:22,039 --> 00:42:23,707
After so many years being on top,

825
00:42:25,084 --> 00:42:26,418
just seeing your…

826
00:42:26,502 --> 00:42:27,545
[exhales]

827
00:42:27,628 --> 00:42:31,131
… you know, your best friend, basically,
pretty much getting whooped.

828
00:42:32,925 --> 00:42:34,260
Yeah, it was pretty rough.

829
00:42:36,929 --> 00:42:39,431
[commentator] …absorbing
the worst beating of her career.

830
00:42:40,015 --> 00:42:41,183
At age 35,

831
00:42:41,267 --> 00:42:43,727
you wonder where she goes from here.

832
00:42:46,313 --> 00:42:48,315
[recording crackling]

833
00:42:50,484 --> 00:42:52,695
[sniffing]

834
00:42:58,909 --> 00:43:02,371
-[Jim] You get some coke?
-[Christy] No, but I'm about to get some.

835
00:43:02,454 --> 00:43:04,498
-[Jim] Huh?
-[Christy] I'm about to get some.

836
00:43:05,499 --> 00:43:06,709
[sniffing]

837
00:43:08,586 --> 00:43:09,920
[Christy] Oh my lord.

838
00:43:11,964 --> 00:43:12,798
[sniffing]

839
00:43:12,881 --> 00:43:15,509
[Jim] One of my fighters
brought some cocaine over one night

840
00:43:15,593 --> 00:43:18,095
and says, "You've been asking me
to give up cocaine."

841
00:43:18,178 --> 00:43:20,347
"I'm giving it up. Here's my cocaine."

842
00:43:20,848 --> 00:43:23,809
I take it in the house.
"Christy, look what Derek gave me."

843
00:43:25,102 --> 00:43:27,146
[Christy] I left it laying there
for a couple days.

844
00:43:27,229 --> 00:43:30,149
And then finally, I was like,
"You know, I'm so miserable."

845
00:43:30,941 --> 00:43:33,152
"Just let… let me try it. Let me do it."

846
00:43:33,235 --> 00:43:37,698
It went from Friday, Saturday
to Friday, Saturday, and Sunday…

847
00:43:37,781 --> 00:43:39,533
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

848
00:43:39,617 --> 00:43:41,619
…to six and seven days a week.

849
00:43:42,494 --> 00:43:44,038
We had coke at the gym.

850
00:43:44,538 --> 00:43:45,497
She'd work out.

851
00:43:45,581 --> 00:43:46,790
Work on that right hand.

852
00:43:46,874 --> 00:43:47,833
Take coke.

853
00:43:47,916 --> 00:43:49,168
Work out.

854
00:43:49,251 --> 00:43:50,085
Take coke.

855
00:43:50,836 --> 00:43:53,672
If I would be hitting the heavy bag,
like, "Jim, I'm so tired."

856
00:43:53,756 --> 00:43:54,798
"I don't have any more."

857
00:43:54,882 --> 00:43:57,718
He would say, "Keep hitting the bag."
He would cut up a line, bring it.

858
00:43:57,801 --> 00:43:59,261
I had still my gloves on.

859
00:44:00,638 --> 00:44:02,473
You know, I was high all the time,

860
00:44:03,432 --> 00:44:04,933
but I couldn't stop.

861
00:44:05,017 --> 00:44:06,226
I didn't wanna stop.

862
00:44:06,852 --> 00:44:10,189
I would cut up lines
into my own little baggie and hide it,

863
00:44:10,814 --> 00:44:14,485
and then I would go back to get it,
and it would be gone,

864
00:44:14,568 --> 00:44:16,820
but, you know,
that's because he had cameras.

865
00:44:16,904 --> 00:44:20,074
He was videotaping everything
I was doing in the house

866
00:44:20,157 --> 00:44:21,575
without me knowing.

867
00:44:21,659 --> 00:44:22,493
[sniffing]

868
00:44:22,576 --> 00:44:26,205
Oh shit. Now, James, you get to scaring me
when you do that stuff.

869
00:44:26,288 --> 00:44:28,749
-[Jim] What?
-You scare me when you do that stuff.

870
00:44:28,832 --> 00:44:30,000
[sniffing]

871
00:44:30,084 --> 00:44:30,959
[Jim] Whoo!

872
00:44:34,463 --> 00:44:36,548
[Christy] I would call him
the Puppet Master.

873
00:44:37,049 --> 00:44:38,967
He's controlling everything.

874
00:44:40,552 --> 00:44:43,180
I would have to perform
whatever it might be

875
00:44:43,263 --> 00:44:45,307
in order to get the next line of coke.

876
00:44:45,391 --> 00:44:48,102
[Jim] Oh, I got you on candid camera
when you come in.

877
00:44:48,185 --> 00:44:50,896
[Christy] What do you mean?
I wasn't coming in there.

878
00:44:50,979 --> 00:44:55,651
Anyone that's addicted, they're gonna do
just about anything to get that next line.

879
00:44:56,193 --> 00:45:00,322
[Jim] Christy Martin is ready to come in
with a big dick on.

880
00:45:01,782 --> 00:45:06,328
He got sexual satisfaction from me
wearing a strap-on all the time,

881
00:45:07,121 --> 00:45:09,915
and that was strange to me.

882
00:45:09,998 --> 00:45:12,042
Why do you wanna see this?

883
00:45:12,126 --> 00:45:13,711
[Jim] Oh, look for me.

884
00:45:15,003 --> 00:45:16,755
Okay. Hang on. Right there.

885
00:45:16,839 --> 00:45:18,966
I would tell him,
"You know that I'm a lesbian

886
00:45:19,049 --> 00:45:22,803
so let's get divorced.
I'm begging you to please divorce me."

887
00:45:22,886 --> 00:45:25,431
I went as far as to write up a contract.

888
00:45:25,514 --> 00:45:28,642
"I'll take care of all these expenses.
Just please leave,"

889
00:45:28,726 --> 00:45:33,439
and, um, he hit me and, you know,
knocked my tooth through my lip.

890
00:45:33,522 --> 00:45:34,648
Blood went everywhere.

891
00:45:35,441 --> 00:45:38,193
[producer] Did she talk to you
about wanting a divorce?

892
00:45:38,277 --> 00:45:39,403
No. Never.

893
00:45:40,237 --> 00:45:43,115
[producer] She mentioned to me
that she drew up a contract at one point

894
00:45:43,198 --> 00:45:45,200
that said,
"Let's just go our separate ways."

895
00:45:45,284 --> 00:45:48,746
-Yeah, we did talk about that one time.
-[producer[ Can you tell me about that?

896
00:45:49,246 --> 00:45:50,122
Uh…

897
00:45:51,915 --> 00:45:54,626
I don't think it was…
I think it was short-lived.

898
00:45:55,210 --> 00:45:59,214
But she would say things like that,
then she'd come back and apologize.

899
00:46:00,549 --> 00:46:02,509
[Christy] My parents came to see me,

900
00:46:02,593 --> 00:46:06,263
and I took my mom outside
and told her then,

901
00:46:06,346 --> 00:46:08,474
"Jim is videotaping and audiotaping

902
00:46:08,557 --> 00:46:11,810
everything that's said
and happens inside the house."

903
00:46:13,312 --> 00:46:15,981
[Joyce] I could see her
standing right now telling me,

904
00:46:17,483 --> 00:46:22,529
and I thought she was just
more or less saying that Jim was crazy.

905
00:46:22,613 --> 00:46:23,447
[sighs]

906
00:46:24,531 --> 00:46:26,492
[Christy] Jim was a master manipulator,

907
00:46:28,243 --> 00:46:33,123
and he had conned my mother into thinking
that she had to stay close to him

908
00:46:33,207 --> 00:46:35,793
in order to know what I was doing.

909
00:46:36,710 --> 00:46:38,378
So I don't think she believed me,

910
00:46:38,462 --> 00:46:42,883
but maybe, you know,
I thought she would tell my dad.

911
00:46:44,301 --> 00:46:47,012
[Johnny] She told me
there was some of that going on,

912
00:46:47,679 --> 00:46:50,641
but there was…
there was nothing I could do.

913
00:46:51,850 --> 00:46:53,685
I can't live your life for you.

914
00:46:53,769 --> 00:46:55,270
You have to live it yourself.

915
00:46:56,063 --> 00:46:57,898
You have to make your own decisions.

916
00:47:00,776 --> 00:47:03,529
[announcer]
The women have put on a show tonight.

917
00:47:03,612 --> 00:47:04,530
[crowd  cheering]

918
00:47:05,113 --> 00:47:08,116
[Christy] I don't even know
what my record is from that point on.

919
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:09,827
It's more losses than wins,

920
00:47:10,661 --> 00:47:12,538
but he wouldn't allow me to quit.

921
00:47:13,705 --> 00:47:17,000
And I'm like, "Why am I here?"

922
00:47:17,543 --> 00:47:19,086
[crowd cheering]

923
00:47:19,169 --> 00:47:21,713
'Cause I was Jim Martin's personal ATM,

924
00:47:23,882 --> 00:47:27,261
and I didn't know
how to get out of the situation I was in.

925
00:47:33,892 --> 00:47:37,646
I was high one night
and just looked at my Facebook page,

926
00:47:39,106 --> 00:47:40,899
and I had a message from Sherry.

927
00:47:42,317 --> 00:47:46,655
So after 20-some years or whatever,
Facebook comes up.

928
00:47:46,738 --> 00:47:49,950
There comes Christy's picture up
on "you might be friends."

929
00:47:50,868 --> 00:47:52,703
So I sent her a friend request

930
00:47:52,786 --> 00:47:54,705
with a little note that said,

931
00:47:55,289 --> 00:47:57,207
"Is friends what we should be called?"

932
00:47:59,042 --> 00:48:00,836
So it just started, back and forth.

933
00:48:00,919 --> 00:48:03,589
"Hey, how are you?
What's up with your mom and dad?"

934
00:48:03,672 --> 00:48:06,800
I mean, she knows my family,
I know all of her family.

935
00:48:06,884 --> 00:48:09,720
So it was easy. It was comfortable.

936
00:48:11,179 --> 00:48:16,268
From the beginning, she was telling me
very deeply serious things.

937
00:48:17,477 --> 00:48:20,188
So I knew she was unhappy in her marriage.

938
00:48:20,981 --> 00:48:23,942
At first, it was just on Facebook,
then I'm like, "This is crazy

939
00:48:24,026 --> 00:48:26,862
because he's reading everything
that is said on Facebook,"

940
00:48:26,945 --> 00:48:27,988
so she would text me.

941
00:48:28,071 --> 00:48:31,533
I'm like, "He's reading everything,
all my texts, too, so just call me."

942
00:48:32,409 --> 00:48:34,161
[Jim] I didn't ask her about it
for a while.

943
00:48:34,244 --> 00:48:36,121
I didn't wanna ask her about it.

944
00:48:36,622 --> 00:48:38,373
I'm going, "What the hell?"

945
00:48:39,249 --> 00:48:40,542
"What's this all about?"

946
00:48:41,043 --> 00:48:42,753
I was so unhappy,

947
00:48:42,836 --> 00:48:45,547
and so finally I just told him,
"I'm gonna go see Sherry."

948
00:48:45,631 --> 00:48:48,842
"So what are you gonna meet…
You gonna meet Sherry over there?"

949
00:48:49,343 --> 00:48:52,220
That's like me
meeting one of my ex-girlfriends.

950
00:48:52,304 --> 00:48:56,183
She told me,
"Just talked about old times," you know.

951
00:48:56,266 --> 00:48:57,893
Of course I didn't believe that.

952
00:48:57,976 --> 00:48:59,311
First he said, "Can I go?"

953
00:48:59,811 --> 00:49:02,189
And I said, "Uh, absolutely not."

954
00:49:02,272 --> 00:49:04,650
And, um, then he said,

955
00:49:05,734 --> 00:49:07,736
"You know, if you leave, I'll kill you."

956
00:49:08,528 --> 00:49:12,074
And I turned around and stopped,
and I looked him straight in the eye,

957
00:49:12,157 --> 00:49:14,034
and I said, "Do what you have to do,"

958
00:49:15,118 --> 00:49:15,994
and I left.

959
00:49:18,997 --> 00:49:21,875
[reflective music playing]

960
00:49:24,252 --> 00:49:27,339
When she shows up,
we see each other, and it…

961
00:49:28,048 --> 00:49:29,841
You know, it was…

962
00:49:29,925 --> 00:49:31,343
I could barely breathe.

963
00:49:32,928 --> 00:49:34,179
And she grabs me.

964
00:49:34,763 --> 00:49:36,098
And when she kisses me,

965
00:49:37,015 --> 00:49:40,227
we took that time
to shoot right back to high school.

966
00:49:41,353 --> 00:49:42,896
I think we both were floating.

967
00:49:46,483 --> 00:49:48,610
[Joyce] Jim started calling.

968
00:49:48,694 --> 00:49:51,822
"Sis has done this,
and she's not coming home."

969
00:49:51,905 --> 00:49:54,241
"Will you call her? Will you call her?"

970
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,411
Jim was calling everybody,
trying to find me.

971
00:49:57,494 --> 00:49:59,454
Yeah, he called looking for her.

972
00:49:59,538 --> 00:50:02,332
He just couldn't get her
back on the leash.

973
00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:07,129
I did call Sis,
and I told her she needed to get home.

974
00:50:07,879 --> 00:50:11,258
[Sherry] And then her mom
couldn't get her back on the leash either.

975
00:50:13,593 --> 00:50:16,930
[Jim] So I'm waiting at home.
I don't know where she's at.

976
00:50:17,597 --> 00:50:19,725
Finally, she went and picked up the phone,

977
00:50:20,517 --> 00:50:22,728
She told me I was gonna crash and burn.

978
00:50:26,356 --> 00:50:30,736
Then he starts calling everybody,
from my relatives to friends, you know,

979
00:50:30,819 --> 00:50:33,572
"Christy's a lesbian.
She's left me for a woman."

980
00:50:34,448 --> 00:50:37,951
[Sherry] And he had started
texting pictures to everybody.

981
00:50:38,035 --> 00:50:38,910
Everyone.

982
00:50:39,619 --> 00:50:42,205
[Joyce] Jim said,
"I'm gonna send you a picture."

983
00:50:42,289 --> 00:50:44,124
It was a terrible picture.

984
00:50:44,207 --> 00:50:48,336
I'd come to find out he had sent
that same picture to a lot of people.

985
00:50:50,714 --> 00:50:54,801
He was taking a wrecking ball
to everything in her life.

986
00:50:54,885 --> 00:50:56,511
This was my revenge.

987
00:50:57,846 --> 00:50:59,681
Well, what more can you do to me?

988
00:51:01,558 --> 00:51:03,935
Monday, I went to Daytona to see Sherry,

989
00:51:04,644 --> 00:51:05,520
and he called me,

990
00:51:05,604 --> 00:51:08,732
and he said, "I'm so close,
I could reach out and touch you."

991
00:51:10,484 --> 00:51:13,653
And I looked around, and I'm…
you know, trying to find him.

992
00:51:13,737 --> 00:51:15,447
I… I can't see him anywhere.

993
00:51:16,198 --> 00:51:17,783
"I seen you and Sherry."

994
00:51:18,533 --> 00:51:20,327
"You didn't see Sherry and I."

995
00:51:20,410 --> 00:51:22,788
I said, "Yes, I did."
"So what did Sherry have on?"

996
00:51:22,871 --> 00:51:26,083
I said, "She had a purple backpack
on her left shoulder."

997
00:51:26,166 --> 00:51:27,626
[uneasy music playing]

998
00:51:27,709 --> 00:51:29,127
She just got quiet.

999
00:51:31,379 --> 00:51:33,715
She didn't say… She knew I did then.

1000
00:51:33,799 --> 00:51:36,051
And I said, "Let's go home."

1001
00:51:39,679 --> 00:51:42,265
[Joyce] Fifteen to four, he called me.
He told me,

1002
00:51:43,058 --> 00:51:43,892
"She's home."

1003
00:51:46,603 --> 00:51:49,439
I go in to go to the bedroom.

1004
00:51:50,524 --> 00:51:52,359
She's coming down the hallway.

1005
00:51:52,442 --> 00:51:56,613
I'm like, "Look, my head is killing me.
I'm gonna lay down for about 30 minutes."

1006
00:51:56,696 --> 00:51:58,990
And the entire time I'm laying down,

1007
00:51:59,074 --> 00:52:01,451
I hear him out there sharpening a knife.

1008
00:52:01,535 --> 00:52:05,497
Christy went to take her nap.
She called me when she got up.

1009
00:52:05,580 --> 00:52:06,498
And, um…

1010
00:52:07,541 --> 00:52:08,834
Jim came in the room.

1011
00:52:08,917 --> 00:52:12,337
She says to me,
"He's got something behind his back."

1012
00:52:12,420 --> 00:52:15,132
He kept putting his hand behind his back,
behind his back,

1013
00:52:15,215 --> 00:52:17,384
like, three or four times.

1014
00:52:17,467 --> 00:52:20,679
I heard him saying to her,
"I've got to talk to you about something."

1015
00:52:20,762 --> 00:52:22,597
And then she says out loud,

1016
00:52:22,681 --> 00:52:26,601
"Jim, I'll talk to you
when I'm done talking to Sherry."

1017
00:52:28,728 --> 00:52:31,773
I could feel
how that was gonna impact him.

1018
00:52:32,399 --> 00:52:36,069
And, sure enough,
she goes, "I gotta go," and…

1019
00:52:36,153 --> 00:52:37,737
[dial tone]

1020
00:52:38,321 --> 00:52:41,032
And it was, like,
instantaneously, he hit me,

1021
00:52:41,116 --> 00:52:43,785
bam, bam, bam, three times,
right under my arm.

1022
00:52:44,411 --> 00:52:46,830
And the fourth one,
he stabbed me in my breast.

1023
00:52:46,913 --> 00:52:48,331
Blood squirted everywhere.

1024
00:52:48,415 --> 00:52:50,083
[deep breath]

1025
00:52:50,167 --> 00:52:52,794
We get in a fight. We fell to the floor.

1026
00:52:52,878 --> 00:52:56,089
[Christy] Someway, we got
from the side of the bed onto the floor.

1027
00:52:56,173 --> 00:52:58,758
I try to kick him away from me.
And when I kicked him…

1028
00:52:58,842 --> 00:53:00,343
[Jim] My leg got cut.

1029
00:53:01,094 --> 00:53:03,847
[stammers] I really don't know
how that happened, okay?

1030
00:53:03,930 --> 00:53:06,474
[Christy] He's taking my head
and banging it into the dresser.

1031
00:53:06,558 --> 00:53:10,896
Now, I get ahold of the knife handle.
My hand slips and cuts me right here.

1032
00:53:12,439 --> 00:53:15,025
He stopped everything
and just left me laying there

1033
00:53:15,108 --> 00:53:17,277
and went to take care of that cut.

1034
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:18,403
[water running]

1035
00:53:18,486 --> 00:53:23,158
I can hear my lung gurgling,
so I know that it's filling up with blood.

1036
00:53:23,241 --> 00:53:26,494
He keeps walking in and out the room,
coming to see if I had died yet.

1037
00:53:26,578 --> 00:53:28,872
I was begging him,
"Please don't let me die."

1038
00:53:28,955 --> 00:53:32,626
I mean, "I'm sorry, Jim. I made a mistake.
Truth is, I love you."

1039
00:53:32,709 --> 00:53:35,420
But then, by the time I realized
he can't let me live,

1040
00:53:35,503 --> 00:53:38,131
I was already like,
"Fuck you. I've never loved you."

1041
00:53:38,215 --> 00:53:39,674
"You've been a piece of shit."

1042
00:53:39,758 --> 00:53:42,469
"I've been your personal ATM.
You've done nothing but use me."

1043
00:53:42,552 --> 00:53:45,430
And then he stands at my feet

1044
00:53:46,139 --> 00:53:48,016
with my own pink 9-millimeter.

1045
00:53:48,099 --> 00:53:49,226
[suspenseful music]

1046
00:53:49,309 --> 00:53:51,228
I told him
he didn't have the balls to shoot me.

1047
00:53:53,563 --> 00:53:54,814
And he shot me.

1048
00:53:54,898 --> 00:53:55,815
[gunshot]

1049
00:53:58,026 --> 00:54:00,570
Then all of a sudden, my body is dying.

1050
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:05,533
And my mind's like,
"No, I don't wanna die."

1051
00:54:06,785 --> 00:54:08,995
"I have to get out. I have to save me."

1052
00:54:09,871 --> 00:54:11,790
"Someway, I have to save me."

1053
00:54:12,707 --> 00:54:15,710
Prayed so hard.
"God, please, let me get out of here."

1054
00:54:17,420 --> 00:54:20,840
And instantaneously,
I heard the shower water turn on.

1055
00:54:20,924 --> 00:54:22,175
[water running]

1056
00:54:23,969 --> 00:54:25,804
I knew that was the answer to my prayer

1057
00:54:25,887 --> 00:54:28,807
and also the only time
I was ever gonna be able to get out.

1058
00:54:30,934 --> 00:54:33,895
It was like, you know, the switch flipped.

1059
00:54:34,813 --> 00:54:36,940
I ran to the middle of the road.

1060
00:54:37,899 --> 00:54:39,693
The first guy went by me,

1061
00:54:40,443 --> 00:54:43,697
but then the second guy,
Rick Cole, my angel, he stopped.

1062
00:54:44,572 --> 00:54:46,366
I said, "Please don't let me die, sir."

1063
00:54:46,449 --> 00:54:49,995
And, um, "I'm sorry,
but I'm bleeding all over your back seat."

1064
00:54:59,838 --> 00:55:01,673
[Christy] He got me to the hospital.

1065
00:55:02,340 --> 00:55:05,885
They have a gurney thing out there
and put me on.

1066
00:55:06,428 --> 00:55:07,387
It all started.

1067
00:55:08,096 --> 00:55:11,975
Late breaking tonight, a world-class boxer
wanted to get out of her marriage,

1068
00:55:12,058 --> 00:55:13,601
then barely made it out of her house.

1069
00:55:13,685 --> 00:55:17,147
[newswoman] Christy Martin shot
and stabbed and left for dead.

1070
00:55:17,230 --> 00:55:20,984
One of my friends texted me, I'm driving,
and I almost went off the road.

1071
00:55:21,067 --> 00:55:23,695
I was like, "What the--" You know?

1072
00:55:23,778 --> 00:55:26,281
[newswoman] Jim Martin shot
and stabbed her in their Apopka home

1073
00:55:26,364 --> 00:55:29,409
after she told him
she was leaving him for another woman.

1074
00:55:29,492 --> 00:55:32,120
The story seemed to grow and grow,

1075
00:55:32,203 --> 00:55:35,373
and you were just like,
"Oh my God, did I know anything?"

1076
00:55:35,457 --> 00:55:39,711
[newsman] Deputies say they're still
trying to find 66-year-old James Martin.

1077
00:55:39,794 --> 00:55:42,172
[newswoman] They believe
he is armed and dangerous.

1078
00:55:42,255 --> 00:55:44,049
When I ran from the police,
where I went wrong,

1079
00:55:44,132 --> 00:55:45,759
when I got scared and left,

1080
00:55:46,384 --> 00:55:48,845
I should never have left.
I should've stayed right there.

1081
00:55:49,679 --> 00:55:53,099
I slept in a tool shed with lawn mowers.

1082
00:55:53,975 --> 00:55:56,436
[Johnny] One night,
we went to this fella's place

1083
00:55:56,519 --> 00:56:00,315
that was a good friend of Jim
that lived right down the street from him.

1084
00:56:00,398 --> 00:56:05,028
We smelled Jim's cologne,
and we knew he was somewhere close.

1085
00:56:05,612 --> 00:56:08,365
[reporter] Deputies found the wanted man
holding a bloody knife,

1086
00:56:08,448 --> 00:56:10,867
hiding out near this shed
behind a vacant home.

1087
00:56:11,451 --> 00:56:14,412
If I could've got ahold of him,
I'd have killed him right then.

1088
00:56:17,540 --> 00:56:19,542
And I wouldn't have made it easy either.

1089
00:56:20,919 --> 00:56:25,215
[producer] Did you know that Christy's dad
and brother were sort of looking for you

1090
00:56:25,298 --> 00:56:26,383
while you were missing?

1091
00:56:26,466 --> 00:56:28,176
-Did you know that?
-Nuh-uh. Mm-mm.

1092
00:56:28,259 --> 00:56:30,095
[somber music playing]

1093
00:56:30,178 --> 00:56:32,389
[producer] Why would they do that,
do you think?

1094
00:56:34,432 --> 00:56:35,392
I don't know.

1095
00:56:35,934 --> 00:56:38,603
Well, maybe shoot me
since it's their daughter.

1096
00:56:42,732 --> 00:56:46,027
[Christy] Sherry actually had
called my mom from the hospital

1097
00:56:46,694 --> 00:56:48,196
to try to tell her how I was.

1098
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:52,617
She told Sherry that she better
not be there when she got there.

1099
00:56:55,620 --> 00:56:58,456
You know, here, all these years later,
she shows up,

1100
00:56:58,540 --> 00:57:03,420
and I get shot and stabbed,
and, you know, in my mom's mind,

1101
00:57:03,503 --> 00:57:04,838
it was Sherry's fault.

1102
00:57:06,047 --> 00:57:10,009
There was no acknowledgment
that it was Jim's fault.

1103
00:57:10,093 --> 00:57:13,513
That it was her fault and my fault
for a month or two.

1104
00:57:16,975 --> 00:57:18,685
[Christy] I talked to my mother,

1105
00:57:18,768 --> 00:57:21,563
and I told her
that he had tried to kill me.

1106
00:57:23,231 --> 00:57:26,234
And I told my mother
she might as well have pulled the trigger.

1107
00:57:28,278 --> 00:57:29,279
Because…

1108
00:57:31,197 --> 00:57:33,241
I felt like she always took his side.

1109
00:57:34,033 --> 00:57:37,495
She would hardly talk to me then,
and it was…

1110
00:57:38,246 --> 00:57:40,748
it was a long time before she did.

1111
00:57:43,334 --> 00:57:44,419
[shaky inhale]

1112
00:57:47,881 --> 00:57:49,215
[birds chirping]

1113
00:57:52,385 --> 00:57:56,806
[Lisa] I called to talk to Christy,
and I'm like,

1114
00:57:57,557 --> 00:57:58,850
"Are you okay?"

1115
00:58:01,936 --> 00:58:03,313
"Who's Sherry?" [laughs]

1116
00:58:03,396 --> 00:58:06,149
One thing's for sure,
I didn't creep out of the closet.

1117
00:58:06,649 --> 00:58:09,110
I pretty much kicked the door down
and said, "I'm here."

1118
00:58:10,195 --> 00:58:12,739
The incident
caused everything just to go out.

1119
00:58:13,531 --> 00:58:16,659
[Laila] I remember hearing the news
with her husband trying to kill her

1120
00:58:16,743 --> 00:58:18,369
that she was a lesbian.

1121
00:58:18,995 --> 00:58:22,582
I remember thinking, "Wow, you never know
what someone's going through."

1122
00:58:23,166 --> 00:58:25,126
Sometimes we're afraid to be ourselves.

1123
00:58:25,210 --> 00:58:27,378
We don't think people
accept us or like us.

1124
00:58:28,379 --> 00:58:31,382
You know what I mean?
We all have that mask of sanity.

1125
00:58:31,466 --> 00:58:34,427
We have to be something
that the whole community loves.

1126
00:58:35,136 --> 00:58:37,347
[Christy] Jim had told me
for all those years

1127
00:58:37,430 --> 00:58:39,474
how the boxing world
would turn against me,

1128
00:58:39,557 --> 00:58:40,808
fans would turn against me.

1129
00:58:41,434 --> 00:58:43,478
It was… It was so much the opposite.

1130
00:58:44,354 --> 00:58:47,482
That's what happens all the time.
Our fears never happen.

1131
00:58:47,565 --> 00:58:50,860
But the fear of it happening
causes us to do damage to ourselves.

1132
00:58:51,861 --> 00:58:54,948
You know, no one in the boxing community
cares that she's gay.

1133
00:58:55,448 --> 00:58:59,202
[commentator] Christy Martin here,
walking into dangerous territory.

1134
00:58:59,285 --> 00:59:01,079
[crowd cheering]

1135
00:59:01,162 --> 00:59:04,541
If you can fight like that,
you know, big deal.

1136
00:59:04,624 --> 00:59:07,502
It's like, "Yeah. Okay, so she's gay."

1137
00:59:07,585 --> 00:59:10,088
"What the heck?
Her husband tried to kill her?"

1138
00:59:10,838 --> 00:59:14,425
Not only being stabbed,
but then being sliced,

1139
00:59:14,509 --> 00:59:16,261
then being pistol-whipped,

1140
00:59:16,344 --> 00:59:18,846
then having your head
bashed into a dresser,

1141
00:59:19,430 --> 00:59:21,015
and then being shot.

1142
00:59:21,099 --> 00:59:24,394
Christy Martin sat silently
while the prosecutor described

1143
00:59:24,477 --> 00:59:26,521
how she claims to have been
viciously attacked

1144
00:59:26,604 --> 00:59:28,898
by her 67-year-old husband, Jim.

1145
00:59:30,024 --> 00:59:32,277
The trial, which is now
set for May in this case,

1146
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:35,196
and Jim Martin's
already filed a plea of not guilty.

1147
00:59:36,072 --> 00:59:40,326
We look forward to Christy's day in court
and to a just result.

1148
00:59:40,910 --> 00:59:43,454
I'm a fighter, and I love boxing.

1149
00:59:44,247 --> 00:59:46,207
I am determined to go on with my career

1150
00:59:46,291 --> 00:59:48,751
and not let what happened to me
slow me down.

1151
00:59:53,506 --> 00:59:55,383
[Christy] I wanted
to get back in the ring,

1152
00:59:56,843 --> 01:00:00,805
but more than anything, I wanted
to show Jim I could win without him.

1153
01:00:03,474 --> 01:00:05,101
[Lisa] Everything that happened,

1154
01:00:05,184 --> 01:00:09,939
in every way that Jim Martin
ever said he was gonna destroy her,

1155
01:00:10,523 --> 01:00:12,734
if she did not come back and fight,

1156
01:00:13,610 --> 01:00:15,194
would have been true.

1157
01:00:15,987 --> 01:00:19,282
[Jim] I was never jealous of Christy,
never whatsoever,

1158
01:00:19,365 --> 01:00:21,117
'cause I know what I'd done.

1159
01:00:21,909 --> 01:00:23,953
They're looking at my Rembrandt

1160
01:00:25,455 --> 01:00:26,456
that I made,

1161
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:28,541
and they're praising it,

1162
01:00:28,625 --> 01:00:31,919
and they don't know
they're praising me, and I don't care,

1163
01:00:32,003 --> 01:00:36,007
but I know she's there
'cause I put her there.

1164
01:00:37,258 --> 01:00:38,468
Okay.

1165
01:00:38,551 --> 01:00:39,385
One, two.

1166
01:00:40,928 --> 01:00:42,847
[Christy grunting]

1167
01:00:42,930 --> 01:00:44,807
[Christy] My first call
was to Miguel Diaz.

1168
01:00:44,891 --> 01:00:46,059
[Christy grunting]

1169
01:00:46,142 --> 01:00:48,102
Miguel Diaz is my cutman.

1170
01:00:49,020 --> 01:00:51,147
He always laughs and says,
"Make sure everybody knows

1171
01:00:51,230 --> 01:00:53,983
I wasn't in your corner
the night of the Gogarty fight."

1172
01:00:54,567 --> 01:00:56,486
But Miguel is mi papi. I love him.

1173
01:00:56,569 --> 01:00:58,571
And I just asked him, um,

1174
01:00:59,405 --> 01:01:00,615
would he train me?

1175
01:01:00,698 --> 01:01:04,744
I said, "Are you sure? You think
you're gonna be okay for fighting?"

1176
01:01:05,787 --> 01:01:08,498
She say,
"I just wanna know if you will train me."

1177
01:01:09,332 --> 01:01:11,542
And that's when I say, "Yeah, absolutely,"

1178
01:01:12,043 --> 01:01:15,672
thinking that maybe this is
gonna be five months from now,

1179
01:01:15,755 --> 01:01:17,215
six months from now.

1180
01:01:17,298 --> 01:01:20,468
But, like, within 24 hours,
I was in the boxing gym,

1181
01:01:20,968 --> 01:01:22,220
bullet still in my back.

1182
01:01:23,638 --> 01:01:24,972
[Jimmy] I was down for it.

1183
01:01:25,598 --> 01:01:26,849
"Let's get that 50th win."

1184
01:01:28,518 --> 01:01:30,770
-Again, I know her heart.
-There we go.

1185
01:01:30,853 --> 01:01:32,188
[Jimmy] She fights to win.

1186
01:01:33,898 --> 01:01:36,359
[Miguel] It's very hard
for fighters to understand

1187
01:01:36,442 --> 01:01:38,653
when is the finish of their career,

1188
01:01:38,736 --> 01:01:41,364
because inside their brains,

1189
01:01:41,447 --> 01:01:43,950
they're still fighting to the last point.

1190
01:01:45,076 --> 01:01:47,161
It's the only thing they know what to do.

1191
01:01:47,745 --> 01:01:50,623
Once we get in that ring
and those people start applauding us,

1192
01:01:50,707 --> 01:01:52,667
we're addicted. We're hooked.

1193
01:01:52,750 --> 01:01:53,835
[crowd cheering]

1194
01:01:53,918 --> 01:01:55,712
No drug is gonna replace that feeling.

1195
01:01:55,795 --> 01:01:59,257
I can't even explain that feeling to you,
and you don't wanna let it go.

1196
01:02:04,387 --> 01:02:07,849
It was so hard to give support,

1197
01:02:07,932 --> 01:02:12,228
and, to me,
not just demand the right thing be done,

1198
01:02:12,311 --> 01:02:13,938
and that's not fight.

1199
01:02:14,647 --> 01:02:19,569
She didn't like Christy Martin.
She wanted me to be just Christy Salters.

1200
01:02:19,652 --> 01:02:20,987
Well, I-I'm not.

1201
01:02:22,321 --> 01:02:25,199
You tell me I can't do something,
then sit back and watch.

1202
01:02:25,783 --> 01:02:28,411
If you tell me I can't do it,
I'm gonna do it or die.

1203
01:02:29,662 --> 01:02:31,789
[crowd cheering]

1204
01:02:31,873 --> 01:02:34,542
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
continuing now at the Staples Center

1205
01:02:34,625 --> 01:02:36,377
with a very special attraction,

1206
01:02:36,461 --> 01:02:38,504
scheduled for six two-minute rounds,

1207
01:02:38,588 --> 01:02:40,590
featuring the women of boxing.

1208
01:02:40,673 --> 01:02:42,967
[tense music playing]

1209
01:02:43,050 --> 01:02:44,886
[Johnny] She just wasn't gonna stop.

1210
01:02:45,887 --> 01:02:47,930
And there wasn't gonna be no stopping her.

1211
01:02:48,014 --> 01:02:50,641
[announcer] Introducing first,
fighting out of the blue corner,

1212
01:02:50,725 --> 01:02:52,393
from Auburn, Washington,

1213
01:02:52,477 --> 01:02:57,356
here is Dakota "Solid" Stone!

1214
01:02:57,440 --> 01:02:59,358
-[bell dings]
-Out of the red corner,

1215
01:02:59,442 --> 01:03:01,944
tonight, she looks for win number 50,

1216
01:03:02,028 --> 01:03:04,530
from Bluefield, West Virginia,

1217
01:03:04,614 --> 01:03:08,117
Christy Martin!

1218
01:03:08,201 --> 01:03:10,161
-[bell dings]
-[crowd cheering]

1219
01:03:10,244 --> 01:03:13,372
[hopeful music playing]

1220
01:03:13,456 --> 01:03:15,541
-[bell dings]
-[spectator] Christy!

1221
01:03:15,625 --> 01:03:18,002
First round,
we're exchanging good exchanges.

1222
01:03:18,085 --> 01:03:20,129
[Christy grunting]

1223
01:03:22,882 --> 01:03:25,802
[commentator] There's that right hand!
Right on the mark! Right on--

1224
01:03:25,885 --> 01:03:27,970
Christy Martin, in my book, got that win.

1225
01:03:28,554 --> 01:03:29,847
She was doing good.

1226
01:03:29,931 --> 01:03:31,015
[Christy grunts]

1227
01:03:31,599 --> 01:03:34,185
[commentator]
Oh, big shot by Christy Martin.

1228
01:03:34,268 --> 01:03:37,730
I was telling Christy,
"Use the jab a bit. Don't go crazy."

1229
01:03:37,814 --> 01:03:39,857
[commentator] Always a crowd-pleaser,
Christy Martin.

1230
01:03:39,941 --> 01:03:43,986
But, for Christy, it's almost impossible
to give those kind of instructions.

1231
01:03:46,572 --> 01:03:47,448
[bell dings]

1232
01:03:48,324 --> 01:03:51,369
[commentator] And again,
the reach advantage. It is a four--

1233
01:03:51,452 --> 01:03:53,663
Good right hand
by Christy Martin, on the button!

1234
01:03:54,497 --> 01:03:56,415
It looks like
she might have hurt her hand.

1235
01:03:56,499 --> 01:03:59,377
She needs to get under that jab,
then push her off that--

1236
01:04:01,629 --> 01:04:03,172
Oh! Good right hand!

1237
01:04:03,256 --> 01:04:05,216
Big one! Big one!

1238
01:04:05,299 --> 01:04:08,302
I knock her down. First time she's ever
been knocked down in her career.

1239
01:04:08,386 --> 01:04:12,181
[commentator] What a right hook
by Christy Martin, set up beautifully.

1240
01:04:12,265 --> 01:04:13,641
But I broke my hand.

1241
01:04:13,724 --> 01:04:17,103
That's the worst thing you can do,
throw the right hand over right hand,

1242
01:04:17,186 --> 01:04:18,312
on top of the head.

1243
01:04:18,396 --> 01:04:19,397
Time.

1244
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:22,066
[commentator] That was a 10-8 round
for Christy Martin.

1245
01:04:22,149 --> 01:04:25,319
[Miguel] The referee come and say,
"How is she?"

1246
01:04:25,403 --> 01:04:28,739
"It's okay. She's all right.
She's-- No problem."

1247
01:04:28,823 --> 01:04:31,325
"The last two rounds,
we're gonna be jabbing. Don't worry."

1248
01:04:31,409 --> 01:04:34,954
-[commentator 1] That right hand…
-[commentator 2] She did hurt her hand.

1249
01:04:35,037 --> 01:04:38,416
The only time I could say
I actually felt pain in the boxing ring

1250
01:04:38,499 --> 01:04:39,917
was when I broke my hand,

1251
01:04:40,001 --> 01:04:43,337
but, um, it wasn't painful enough
for me to stop.

1252
01:04:43,421 --> 01:04:46,632
So I still was able to throw
that broken hand.

1253
01:04:46,716 --> 01:04:50,094
[commentator 1] She's scoring points.
She's working with one hand.

1254
01:04:51,888 --> 01:04:55,308
I was winning the fight easily,
had knocked down Dakota Stone,

1255
01:04:55,391 --> 01:04:58,060
ahead by at least three points
on all cards.

1256
01:04:58,769 --> 01:05:00,146
Fifty seconds to go.

1257
01:05:00,229 --> 01:05:02,982
-[commentator 1] She hurt her hand again!
-[commentator 2] Yes, she did.

1258
01:05:03,065 --> 01:05:04,984
[commentator 1] She landed the right hand.

1259
01:05:05,067 --> 01:05:06,527
She hit it and went like that.

1260
01:05:06,611 --> 01:05:10,990
The doctor says, "You're not throwing it.
You winced when you did throw it once."

1261
01:05:11,073 --> 01:05:12,074
I'm pleading with him.

1262
01:05:12,158 --> 01:05:14,660
"I'm not even getting hit.
I'm winning the rounds."

1263
01:05:14,744 --> 01:05:17,163
Fifty seconds from my fiftieth win.

1264
01:05:17,246 --> 01:05:20,750
-I don't care. I have to finish.
-[commentators] She wants to continue.

1265
01:05:20,833 --> 01:05:23,961
-Please, let me finish.
-[commentator 1] She wants to continue.

1266
01:05:25,755 --> 01:05:27,965
I'm calling it off. It's over. I'm sorry.

1267
01:05:28,049 --> 01:05:30,468
[commentator 1]
David Mendoza saying it's over!

1268
01:05:30,551 --> 01:05:32,845
And, um, he waved it off.

1269
01:05:33,679 --> 01:05:34,513
[sighs]

1270
01:05:34,597 --> 01:05:37,600
Fucking doctor come in
and tell everybody to stop the fight.

1271
01:05:37,683 --> 01:05:39,894
[commentator 1]
She's kicked her mouthpiece.

1272
01:05:39,977 --> 01:05:41,354
She's not able to continue.

1273
01:05:42,521 --> 01:05:45,149
[commentator 2] If she wouldn't have
thrown that right--

1274
01:05:45,232 --> 01:05:47,652
She was winning the fight,
dropped her opponent,

1275
01:05:47,735 --> 01:05:48,903
and she was ahead.

1276
01:05:49,904 --> 01:05:50,988
And I was like,

1277
01:05:52,740 --> 01:05:54,575
"How? How?"

1278
01:05:54,659 --> 01:05:58,412
Ladies and gentlemen, after consulting
with the ringside physician,

1279
01:05:58,496 --> 01:06:01,123
referee David Mendoza
has to stop this contest

1280
01:06:01,207 --> 01:06:04,418
due to a broken right hand
sustained by Christy Martin.

1281
01:06:04,502 --> 01:06:07,463
Therefore, the winner by TKO victory,

1282
01:06:07,546 --> 01:06:10,633
Dakota "Solid" Stone.

1283
01:06:11,133 --> 01:06:13,386
The doctor said,
"Christy, remember you spoke

1284
01:06:13,469 --> 01:06:15,763
at our physicians' ringside conference
a few years ago,

1285
01:06:16,389 --> 01:06:20,101
and you said ringside physicians
have to protect fighters from themselves."

1286
01:06:21,477 --> 01:06:24,105
And I said,
"Fuck you. I wasn't talking about me."

1287
01:06:30,736 --> 01:06:33,114
[Sherry] Her hand was literally gravel.

1288
01:06:33,197 --> 01:06:37,451
I mean, the doctor said that's
the worst broken hand she'd ever seen.

1289
01:06:37,535 --> 01:06:40,496
[monitor beeping]

1290
01:06:40,579 --> 01:06:44,208
[Christy] The doctors told my family
surgery would take about two hours

1291
01:06:44,291 --> 01:06:45,292
and I would be out.

1292
01:06:46,752 --> 01:06:48,546
Um, surgery took seven hours.

1293
01:06:50,923 --> 01:06:52,675
When I finally woke up,

1294
01:06:52,758 --> 01:06:55,803
like, I knew that something was wrong.

1295
01:06:55,886 --> 01:06:57,263
I… I couldn't walk.

1296
01:06:57,763 --> 01:06:59,974
I-I couldn't talk. Um…

1297
01:07:00,057 --> 01:07:02,184
My vision was really messed up.

1298
01:07:02,685 --> 01:07:06,272
And I look at her and immediately go,
"She's had a stroke."

1299
01:07:06,814 --> 01:07:09,025
Six months after being shot and stabbed.

1300
01:07:15,740 --> 01:07:19,869
[Christy] With Sherry,
we had decided before the stroke

1301
01:07:19,952 --> 01:07:22,580
that she was gonna go her separate way.

1302
01:07:22,663 --> 01:07:24,290
We were… We were gonna break up.

1303
01:07:25,541 --> 01:07:27,710
We just were different people.

1304
01:07:27,793 --> 01:07:29,920
Uh, it just wasn't gonna work.

1305
01:07:31,464 --> 01:07:33,799
And you know what? She could have left.

1306
01:07:36,010 --> 01:07:37,887
That was… That was the agreement.

1307
01:07:37,970 --> 01:07:39,638
But she didn't. She stayed there.

1308
01:07:40,723 --> 01:07:43,309
She took care of me
and helped me get through the stroke,

1309
01:07:44,101 --> 01:07:47,021
and she gave me a lot of support
in the courtroom.

1310
01:07:50,066 --> 01:07:51,275
[birds chirping]

1311
01:07:56,530 --> 01:07:57,406
[man] You ready?

1312
01:07:57,490 --> 01:07:59,366
[newswoman] Christy Martin
entered the courtroom

1313
01:07:59,450 --> 01:08:02,453
prepared for what's been described
as the fight of her life.

1314
01:08:03,329 --> 01:08:06,665
It's he said, she said, and you know what?

1315
01:08:06,749 --> 01:08:08,834
It's not who's right and wrong.

1316
01:08:08,918 --> 01:08:11,087
It's who can tell the best story.

1317
01:08:11,587 --> 01:08:14,799
[newswoman] Martin claims
his boxer wife was the aggressor.

1318
01:08:14,882 --> 01:08:18,052
Yes, I talked to his attorney,
and that will be their defense.

1319
01:08:18,135 --> 01:08:21,597
I was just trying to defend myself.
I wasn't even trying to hurt her.

1320
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:24,600
[newswoman] Jim Martin's attorney
painted a picture of confusion.

1321
01:08:24,683 --> 01:08:28,354
That cocaine made her paranoid.
The gun belonged to Christy.

1322
01:08:28,437 --> 01:08:29,980
At that point in time,

1323
01:08:30,064 --> 01:08:32,149
Christy Martin felt threatened,

1324
01:08:32,233 --> 01:08:33,984
her life felt threatened,

1325
01:08:34,068 --> 01:08:36,320
and her career felt threatened.

1326
01:08:36,821 --> 01:08:41,450
He would look out the corner of his eye
to see who was back there.

1327
01:08:42,159 --> 01:08:45,079
I just wanted to run up there
and beat him.

1328
01:08:46,956 --> 01:08:51,001
Christy and I said the whole time
leading up to the trial, "Let's get him."

1329
01:08:51,085 --> 01:08:53,295
[reporter] Christy Martin laid it all out
for the jury,

1330
01:08:53,379 --> 01:08:56,048
the good, the bad, and the ugly.

1331
01:08:56,132 --> 01:09:00,344
The jury saw the bloody T-shirt
Christy used to try to stop the bleeding.

1332
01:09:00,427 --> 01:09:03,180
The clothes she wore,
complete with knife holes.

1333
01:09:03,264 --> 01:09:05,975
Christy said
Jim walked into the room a second time

1334
01:09:06,058 --> 01:09:08,227
with her pink 9-millimeter gun.

1335
01:09:09,061 --> 01:09:10,938
The whole time, I looked straight at Jim.

1336
01:09:11,021 --> 01:09:15,442
When he would try to look away from me,
I would tell him to look at me.

1337
01:09:16,068 --> 01:09:17,945
I wasn't about to let him see me cry.

1338
01:09:18,654 --> 01:09:20,698
It's time for me to stand on my own.

1339
01:09:20,781 --> 01:09:23,033
It's time for me
to show him that I'm strong.

1340
01:09:23,617 --> 01:09:26,495
You shot me with my own gun,

1341
01:09:27,746 --> 01:09:29,248
basically point-blank.

1342
01:09:31,625 --> 01:09:33,544
And guess what, mother****?

1343
01:09:34,295 --> 01:09:35,171
I walked out.

1344
01:09:36,046 --> 01:09:37,673
I walked out.

1345
01:09:38,257 --> 01:09:42,803
I've come to some realization that I got
my 50th win when I got up off the floor,

1346
01:09:43,721 --> 01:09:45,389
November 23, 2010.

1347
01:09:46,140 --> 01:09:50,019
That was not just my 50th win,
but that was the biggest win of my life.

1348
01:09:50,853 --> 01:09:51,854
[birds chirping]

1349
01:09:53,522 --> 01:09:57,359
[judge] If Madam Clerk
would please publish our verdict.

1350
01:09:57,443 --> 01:09:58,652
[clerk] Yes, Your Honor.

1351
01:10:00,237 --> 01:10:01,405
Count one.

1352
01:10:01,488 --> 01:10:05,701
We, the jury, find the defendant
guilty of attempted second-degree murder.

1353
01:10:05,784 --> 01:10:08,996
[newsman] The jury convicted
on attempted second degree in one count

1354
01:10:09,079 --> 01:10:11,081
and attempted manslaughter on the other.

1355
01:10:11,165 --> 01:10:13,250
[Jim] When they announced my sentence,
I didn't flinch.

1356
01:10:13,334 --> 01:10:15,252
It says in the paper I didn't flinch.

1357
01:10:15,336 --> 01:10:18,214
I wasn't gonna show any, um…

1358
01:10:19,298 --> 01:10:20,174
weakness.

1359
01:10:21,258 --> 01:10:22,092
You know?

1360
01:10:24,386 --> 01:10:26,639
She's the worst thing
that ever happened in my life

1361
01:10:26,722 --> 01:10:29,391
if you would look at where I'm at.

1362
01:10:30,142 --> 01:10:31,977
But I lived a pretty good life.

1363
01:10:33,437 --> 01:10:34,813
And I was happy.

1364
01:10:34,897 --> 01:10:35,814
[chuckles]

1365
01:10:36,899 --> 01:10:37,983
You know.

1366
01:10:38,067 --> 01:10:38,901
[sniffs]

1367
01:10:39,401 --> 01:10:41,320
[cries]

1368
01:10:44,114 --> 01:10:45,950
Well, it was my choice.

1369
01:10:48,786 --> 01:10:50,287
I done what I said I would do.

1370
01:10:51,372 --> 01:10:55,751
I said, "Christy, I'm gonna make you
the best woman athlete in the world."

1371
01:10:57,294 --> 01:11:00,506
It's probably the only thing
I ever said in my life to come true.

1372
01:11:01,006 --> 01:11:04,176
[newsman] Jim Martin faces
a minimum of 25 years in prison.

1373
01:11:04,260 --> 01:11:05,719
His attorney will appeal.

1374
01:11:05,803 --> 01:11:09,682
You know, in 25 years,
if he lives to be 92, he'll get out.

1375
01:11:10,307 --> 01:11:11,767
And honestly,

1376
01:11:13,394 --> 01:11:16,480
he's such a son of a bitch,
I think he will live to be 92.

1377
01:11:17,147 --> 01:11:19,108
If he lives long enough, he'll get out.

1378
01:11:19,984 --> 01:11:23,153
And if I live long enough,
he won't never walk nowhere.

1379
01:11:26,991 --> 01:11:27,908
[exhales sharply]

1380
01:11:37,167 --> 01:11:40,546
[Christy] I have a recurring dream
that happens here in my granny's house.

1381
01:11:41,380 --> 01:11:42,756
And Jim's chasing me,

1382
01:11:43,590 --> 01:11:45,426
and chasing me all around the house,

1383
01:11:46,302 --> 01:11:48,679
and trying every way I can
to get away from him,

1384
01:11:50,139 --> 01:11:51,807
so he… he can't stab me.

1385
01:11:51,890 --> 01:11:53,017
[uneasy music playing]

1386
01:11:53,851 --> 01:11:57,146
I-I guess I wake up
before anything happens every time,

1387
01:11:57,229 --> 01:12:00,858
but it's this same dream… I've been having
the same dream for nine years.

1388
01:12:02,401 --> 01:12:03,277
Here.

1389
01:12:04,528 --> 01:12:05,487
Again, I…

1390
01:12:05,571 --> 01:12:06,864
Why this house,

1391
01:12:07,740 --> 01:12:11,452
why I keep having the dream,
you know, I don't have an answer for.

1392
01:12:13,954 --> 01:12:16,832
I talk to my counselor
about that all the time,

1393
01:12:16,915 --> 01:12:18,751
like, "When am I gonna get over it?"

1394
01:12:20,252 --> 01:12:21,503
And, um…

1395
01:12:23,422 --> 01:12:25,257
she says, "Probably never, Christy."

1396
01:12:25,341 --> 01:12:28,927
"This is… You have to figure out
how to deal with it."

1397
01:12:30,346 --> 01:12:33,599
And so, that's what I do.
And, I mean, I-I'm getting better.

1398
01:12:33,682 --> 01:12:37,144
I mean, we're coming up
on, uh, nine years.

1399
01:12:38,312 --> 01:12:39,438
Um…

1400
01:12:39,521 --> 01:12:41,857
I-I-- I'm gonna be okay. I am okay.

1401
01:12:41,940 --> 01:12:44,109
I'm not gonna be okay. I am okay.

1402
01:12:44,193 --> 01:12:45,486
[Christy] Thank you for coming.

1403
01:12:45,569 --> 01:12:47,780
Thank you for being part
of Christy Martin Promotions.

1404
01:12:47,863 --> 01:12:49,031
I truly appreciate it.

1405
01:12:49,114 --> 01:12:52,743
It means a lot to have guys like you
come in here to fight on my show.

1406
01:12:52,826 --> 01:12:57,331
[Christy] Finally, I got to the point
in my life where I'm gonna be me.

1407
01:12:57,414 --> 01:12:58,624
It's kinda like this.

1408
01:12:58,707 --> 01:13:01,752
You can either get on or you can get off.
It doesn't matter.

1409
01:13:01,835 --> 01:13:03,921
I really don't care anymore.

1410
01:13:04,004 --> 01:13:05,214
[bell dings]

1411
01:13:05,297 --> 01:13:08,592
[gentle music playing]

1412
01:13:11,804 --> 01:13:14,765
And then out of nowhere,
here comes Lisa Holewyne.

1413
01:13:17,851 --> 01:13:22,106
I don't really know what happened,
what change, what directionally… [laughs]

1414
01:13:22,189 --> 01:13:24,316
The world tilted on its axis?

1415
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:25,609
I'm not really sure.

1416
01:13:26,652 --> 01:13:30,406
I don't… I don't know. I think everything
came together at the right moment,

1417
01:13:30,489 --> 01:13:33,075
and we realized we were a good match.

1418
01:13:34,576 --> 01:13:36,787
[Christy] I-I love her without question,

1419
01:13:36,870 --> 01:13:40,082
and, um, I'm the happiest
I've ever been in my life.

1420
01:13:40,666 --> 01:13:42,459
I'm happy in my own skin.

1421
01:13:45,087 --> 01:13:49,007
[Lisa] It feels great to have a wife
that is Christy.

1422
01:13:50,134 --> 01:13:51,677
She's everything that…

1423
01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:55,764
makes things right by me.

1424
01:13:57,641 --> 01:14:03,397
So what I want is for her
to feel full of love and life

1425
01:14:03,480 --> 01:14:06,150
and the possibilities of everything else

1426
01:14:06,233 --> 01:14:08,777
and not that she's just a fighter.

1427
01:14:09,736 --> 01:14:15,492
And I think that she was a fighter
and a meal ticket for other people.

1428
01:14:20,539 --> 01:14:24,334
I hope it's everlasting, and that, um…

1429
01:14:27,212 --> 01:14:30,048
I just hope I can make her
as happy as she makes me.

1430
01:14:37,306 --> 01:14:41,435
It was very important
that Lisa stay here with me this week

1431
01:14:42,269 --> 01:14:44,062
to hear my true story

1432
01:14:44,813 --> 01:14:46,857
and to see how hard it is.

1433
01:14:47,441 --> 01:14:48,442
[Lisa] Hmm?

1434
01:14:48,525 --> 01:14:50,027
[Christy] And because of that,

1435
01:14:50,110 --> 01:14:54,072
she will have a better understanding
of who I am.

1436
01:14:54,865 --> 01:14:55,741
[kiss]

1437
01:14:58,202 --> 01:14:59,620
[birds chirping]

1438
01:15:01,205 --> 01:15:04,583
[gentle music continues]