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Mike Tyson looks back at the extraordinary highs and devastating lows of his life in Tyson. The four-part documentary traces his journey from a difficult Brooklyn childhood to heavyweight superstardom and the controversies that transformed his life outside the ring.

Told in Tyson’s own words, the series combines previously unseen material with access to family members, friends and former adversaries. His boxing triumphs share the story with addiction, incarceration, public struggles and the infamous Evander Holyfield fight as Tyson examines the consequences of his turbulent legacy.

Tyson streams October 13, 2026 on Netflix.

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00:00I lived like a rat in the street all my life.
00:02And the next thing you know, I'm the biggest shit in the world.
00:10All my life, I've been thinking in terms of developing a fighter who is perfect.
00:17Can you imagine being the ice who drop out 20 years old?
00:20You're the champ of the world.
00:23Truly a tried and tested gladiator.
00:25The best fighter I ever seen.
00:27He thought he was immortal.
00:28He thought he was a god.
00:33He brainwashed me.
00:34He cleaned a dirty mine and he made it better.
00:38He couldn't prepare me for myself.
00:44Mike was beautiful in the same way a train wreck is beautiful.
00:50Mike Tyson fights Holyfield.
00:53I was a nut back then, huh?
00:55You think I give a damn about you and any of y'all on there?
00:57I don't care if I'm living or dying.
00:59I'm a dysfunctional mother.
01:01I don't trust anybody in general.
01:03I don't like people to know me at all.
01:07The things that he's gone through, most people would have just been dead.
01:11This is the dark side of me.
01:13That's just who I became, addicted to chaos.
01:18Why?
01:20Because it was.
01:21Why?
01:21I don't know.
01:22You're making this difficult for me now.
01:26Liberation.
01:28It's screwed me.
01:31Why did I put myself through this bullshit?
01:35But that is the American story, right?
01:40People love to see you get knocked down and come back.
01:43The more he got sober, the more ashamed, the more embarrassment he had about some of the
01:48things he did.
01:49I think he's just so broken from his past, but inside there's a broken guy just trying
01:55to be a good father.
01:56It's hard to navigate your true self.
02:00When you really don't know who the fuck you are.
02:02Uh-oh.
02:03Uh-oh.
02:04Uh-oh.
02:06Oh.
02:07Uh-oh.
02:13Oh.
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