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they're not allowed

to use it at all.

People on parole,

ex-felons, can't be barbers.

Blanket ban for licensing.

Once you get into that system,

we're actually setting you up

even more to fail down the line.

They just keep making

it tougher and tougher,

and then shaking their heads in

disappointment when they fail,

and making it tougher still.

Activist

Angela Davis describes prisons

as this place where

we don't make problems

disappear, we make

people disappear.

We want to think of ourselves

as never making mistakes,

and so when confronted with

individuals who make mistakes,

we're forced to

look in the mirror.

Muhammad Ali in his prime

was served by his character.

Mike Tyson didn't

have that character.

He had tremendous ferocity,

tremendous ability, god given

strength, but the

people around him

weren't encouraging him

to develop character.

They were enabling him, in a

lot of ways, to destroy himself.

His only real mentors

were his managers

and his trainers.

They weren't really

trying to teach him

a lot of social skills other

than how to deal with media.

People treat you

differently when you're famous.

Fame really distorts your

own perception of yourself.

Just think.

Anybody in this

planet with 6 billion

people... 6 billion right?

Anybody in this

planet, you could

beat them in a fair fight.

You tell me how

that'd feed your ego.

He starts buying all

these incredible sports cars.

He buys Bentleys, he

buys Rolls Royces,

and he starts buying

these mansions,

and of course, it's

conspicuous consumption.

He's showing the world,

look how far he's come.

My life only

existed through accomplishments.

You win this, you get this car.

You when this, you get this.

You win this, you get that.

And you have that much money,

everything's possible.

The media

was creating this image,

but Mike was helping

them with the image

that he was just a

savage, a wild man.

I'll f*** you in

your ass, you punk white boy.

I'll eat your a**hole

alive, you b*tch.

I became a megalomaniac.

I thought I was a god.

If you were old enough, you

may have seen some of my fights

and some of the things

I said to people

or said about myself as some

kind of demigod or something.

I'm a tyrannosaurus, man.

I'm a tyrannical titan.

I'm the best ever.

There's never been

anybody as ruthless.

That's just the

way I was trained

to fight to have that

kind of belief system.

We all heard those stories of

people that have had nothing

and then had it all and

didn't know how to handle it.

It's one thing to be able to

have that drive and that desire

to become a champion,

but to stay hungry

when you have that success,

it becomes that much harder.

We think of him

as this monster with huge power.

And he did have power, but Mike

Tyson was a small heavyweight

who needed to fight

well to be effective.

A Mike Tyson that isn't

perfectly conditioned,

and a Mike Tyson that isn't

fighting the right style,

he's beatable.

Please welcome the challenger,

James Buster Douglas!

No one expected Mike

Tyson to lose to Buster Douglas.

The odds were astronomical.

Introducing

the undefeated, undisputed

heavyweight champion

of the world.

The one and only

iron Mike Tyson!

It was in Japan,

and most news organizations

didn't even send anybody

to cover the fight.

Larry.

What are we about to see?

Another 90 second annihilation

of an ill prepared opponent?

Well, in the important

game of expectations,

this fight is over before it

begins or soon thereafter.

You have to remember

that just nobody believes

anybody can compete

with Mike Tyson.

And there, of

course, is Evander Holyfield

who has a guarantee

of $12 million

to fight Mike Tyson in June.

Everyone was looking forward

to Mike Tyson fighting

Evander Holyfield.

I watched the

Douglas Tyson fight

with Donald Trump

and his executives.

They were expecting

that Tyson Holyfield

fight to be on one

of their properties

and would be a major

event for them.

Mike went

kicking and screaming to Tokyo.

He thought, I knocked out guys

that beat Buster Douglas, so

why do I have to train

for Buster Douglas.

So he got there and

he didn't train.

And he instead enjoyed all the

fruits of young Japanese women

there.

Buster had nothing to lose,

and he was training

his heart out.

Evander saw this

and he knew trouble

might be on the horizon.

Douglas is getting

Mike Tyson to reach in.

When you reach in,

that's what happens.

That's a good

right hand, and a good right

uppercut, and two more

good rights by Douglas.

I don't think I've ever

seen Tyson absorb that kind

of a four or five

punch combination

before in his

professional career.

And he has swelled

up Mike Tyson's eye

and is dominating

the fight right now.

It was a

perfect storm of events.

It was Mike Tyson not taking

Buster Douglas as seriously

as he should have,

and it was Buster

Douglas preparing

himself correctly.

Brawling willingly just

to try to get in the shot

that will finish things.

Oh, the uppercut!

What an uppercut by

Douglas, and down goes Tyson!

Down goes Tyson.

Two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine!

He's...

Well, it... It's over!

It's over!

Mike Tyson has been knocked out!

Unbelievable!

There are a lot of lessons

fighters learn the hard way.

Every fighter comes

to know the fact

that this is an

unforgiving sport.

And suddenly, Mike Tyson

has been reduced to being

another heavyweight champion

who got defeated.

There's no other sport where

you can rise and

fall so quickly.

When I

became the heavyweight champion

of the world for the first

time with Buster Douglas,

people hated the fact.

Holyfield... right

hand stuns Douglas!

Caught him going in!

He is not going to get up.

There goes the heavyweight

championship of the world!

Evander Holyfield

with a third round knock out!

They said,

you can't get no credibility.

Man, you still ain't the champ.

You ain't beat Tyson.

An Indiana

grand jury has indicted

former heavyweight

boxing champ Mike Tyson.

He is charged with

raping a woman who

was a contestant

in this summer's

Miss Black America pageant.

Within the past hour, the jury

has returned for indictments.

One for rape, two charges

of criminal deviant conduct,

and one charge of confinement.

If I was in here for something

that I did, it would be easier,

but just the fact that I'm in

here for something I didn't do

and I'm innocent,

every day I'm walking

a thin line through hell.

I thought prison was

for the rehabilitation

of men or women, so to speak.

That's what I always thought.

That's what they always say.

We send you here

and we rehabilitate

you so you won't do it again.

People come out of prison, they

come out in worse condition

than they was when

they first entered.

In the lackluster

heavyweight division, even

without his crown,

Tyson is still the man.

Promoters even courted

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