00:00I thought I dreamed about being a champion.
00:07I'm the best ever.
00:08I got into boxing because I wanted to be the very best.
00:11He is not going to get up.
00:14My goal was to be the baddest guy that I can be.
00:18It's the most dangerous sport there is.
00:21A fighter don't care who his opponent is.
00:23He my weight, bring him.
00:25People are literally fighting for their lives.
00:28Boxing is one of those sports where the toughest muggers in the world
00:32are letting some guys that couldn't make it take advantage of them.
00:35Boxing is laissez-faire capitalism run amok.
00:38Donald King told him every time that you knock somebody out in the first round
00:43I give you 100,000 in cash.
00:45And he's down again.
00:48The sport itself, there's a purity to it.
00:51But the business might be the most unsanitized of all businesses.
00:55It's a sport where you can be used.
00:58How do you handle that?
01:02There's always this possibility of tremendous loss.
01:05One punch and it's all over with.
01:08Holyfield might have Tyson.
01:10It's the American dream and it's the American nightmare.
01:12They all want this boxer to make them money.
01:16Once the boxer does it, they're cast aside like rubbish.
01:19The role models I've seen was the people in the street.
01:23You're looking at your environment and no one's helping you.
01:26Boxing is an escape from violence and poverty,
01:29but you're escaping through violence itself.
01:32Why isn't every sport have some type of union and boxing don't?
01:37Anybody on this planet, you could beat them in a fair fight.
01:41Tell me how that'll feed your ego.
01:43All I want to do is not die.
01:45It's over.
01:46It's the ones that know how to lose, make yourself better, and come back.
01:51That's boxing.
01:53That's boxing.
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