00:03I want to ask you something important and I want you to tell me the truth.
00:07What?
00:09Why'd you come here?
00:12I just don't want it no more.
00:15It's over because you want it to be over. I'm glad.
00:18I do.
00:20It's just, you've never quit anything since I've known you.
00:28I don't know what you want me to say. I mean, what happened?
00:32How did everything that was so good get so bad?
00:35Not so bad. Tell me what?
00:38I ripped everything by not thinking for myself.
00:41I mean, why couldn't Mickey tell me where it was really at right from the start?
00:44He didn't have to carry me and lie to me and make me think I was better than I really
00:47was when I wasn't.
00:48He never lied.
00:49Those fights weren't right. They weren't, Adrian.
00:51I never fought anybody who was all in the prime.
00:54There was always some angle to hold on to the title longer than I should have had it.
00:57I mean, do you understand what I'm saying here?
00:59I understand, but you've got to understand that he loved you and that was his job, protecting you.
01:03Well, that protecting don't hurt nothing.
01:05It only makes things worse.
01:06You wake up after a few years thinking you're a winner, but you're not.
01:10You're really elusive.
01:11And so we wouldn't have had the title as long. So what?
01:14At least it would have been real, Adrian.
01:16It was real.
01:17Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are.
01:19I don't believe in myself no more. Don't you understand?
01:21What if I don't believe? That's it. He's finished. It's over. That's it.
01:25That's not it.
01:26That is it.
01:26Why don't you tell me the truth?
01:28What are you putting me through, Adrian?
01:30You want to know the truth?
01:31The truth is I don't want to lose what I got.
01:33In the beginning, I didn't care about what happened to me.
01:34I go in the ring. I get busted up. I didn't care.
01:37But now there's you. That's a kid.
01:38I don't want to lose what I got.
01:40What do we have that can't be replaced? What?
01:42A house. We got cars. We got money.
01:45We got everything but the truth.
01:47What's the truth, damn it?
01:49I'm afraid, alright?
01:51You want to hear me say it?
01:52You want to break me down?
01:53I'm afraid.
01:54For the first time in my life, I'm afraid.
01:56I'm afraid too.
01:57There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
01:58There is. For me, there is.
02:00Why, you're human, aren't you?
02:01I don't know what I am.
02:02All I know is I'm a liar.
02:03And because of that Mickey, I ain't here no more.
02:05You haven't been pushing into anything.
02:07He was a grown man and he did what he had to do.
02:09And you have no right to feel guilty for what happened.
02:12You don't.
02:13You were a champion.
02:14And you did what you expected to do.
02:15And you did what I and everybody else thought you should do.
02:18And you want to tell me that those fights weren't real?
02:20That you were carried?
02:21Well, I don't believe it.
02:22It doesn't matter what I believe.
02:23Because you're the one that's got to carry that fear around inside you.
02:27Afraid that everybody's going to take things away.
02:29Afraid you're going to be remembered as a coward.
02:31That you're not a man anymore.
02:33Well, none of it's true.
02:35And it doesn't matter if I tell you.
02:36It doesn't matter because you're the one that's got to settle it.
02:39Get rid of it.
02:40Because when all the smoke has cleared.
02:42And everyone's through chanting your name.
02:44It's just going to be us.
02:45And you can't live like this.
02:47We can't live like this.
02:49Because it's going to bother you for the rest of your life.
02:51Look what it's doing to you now.
02:58Paolo thinks you can do it.
03:00So do I.
03:02But you, you've got to want to do it for the right reasons.
03:04Not for the guilt over Mickey.
03:06Not for the people.
03:07Not for the title.
03:09Not for money or me.
03:10Not for you.
03:12Just you.
03:13Just you alone.
03:17And if I lose?
03:19And you lose.
03:20At least you lose with no excuses.
03:23No fear.
03:25And I know you can live with that.
03:34How'd you get so tough?
03:36I...
03:38I live with a fighter.
03:45I really love you.
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