Tyson Page #5

ROBIN:

We're very excited.

Oh, look, they caught her.

She's gotta learn to slide past them.

You kidding me? She lives for this sh*t.

Oh, I gotta call Camille.

[PHONE DIALLING]

- Come on, come on, come on.

CAMILLE:
Hello?

- Hello?

- Michael, where have you been?

What do you mean where I've been?

I've been getting married.

Married?

Oh, Michael.

Yeah, you know,

we had to keep it a secret.

You know, we had to do it fast.

See, Robin's pregnant, Ma...

...and she says she's about

three months already.

CAMILLE:

Michael...

Come on, Ma.

You're supposed to be happy for me.

I am, Michael. I really am, it...

It's just that...

TYSON:

It's just that what?

Mike? Mike, it's Bill.

- L...

- Hey, Bill, guess what?

Yeah, I overheard.

Congratulations, it's great.

Uh, listen, I got some bad news.

Jimmy passed away. His leukaemia

finally caught up with him.

I'm sorry, Mike.

What? What's the matter?

Jimmy passed away.

Aw, Jesus.

CAYTON:

Listen, the funeral's in California...

... and, uh, we'll be flying out Friday.

CAYTON:
She storms into my office

and shouts, "I'm Mrs. Mike Tyson...

... and I am taking over

my husband's affairs. "

Not, "Gee, Bill,

I'm sorry that your friend and partner...

...of 20 years has passed away."

No, instead she storms in and screams,

"I demand to see Mike's contract."

F***.

CAYTON:
On the very day

that Jimmy died, the very day.

ROONEY:

About f***ing time. Bill, it's here.

Is this Mike Tyson's limo?

Sorry, folks.

Are you with Mr. King's party?

ROONEY:
Mr. King?

What, are the sharks circling already?

Beautiful. Only in America.

See the look on Cayton's face?

Tastefully framed,

I can hang that over my mantle.

Aw, Jesus, who invited him?

Mike. Mike, my deepest sympathies.

- Bill.

- Don.

Oh, Lorraine.

Though Jim and I

were rarely on the same side...

...of the bargaining table,

I respected him.

I always treasured his friendship.

I'm going to miss him very much.

MAN 1:
Hey, there he is. Hey, hey, hey.

LORRAINE:
Thank you, Don.

MAN 2:
There's a taxi over here.

DRIVER:
Hello, Mr. King.

KING:
It's degrading.

They should've had limos waiting.

I mean, these people

don't know how to handle a champion.

Well, when I managed Ali, he never

had to wait at an airport. Never.

Hey, brother.

Now, we got lots of room.

Why don't you come ride with us?

- Come on.

WOMAN:
Isn't that Mike Tyson? Wow.

Come on.

You don't suppose Big Don arranged

to have our limo delayed, do you?

The sharks are definitely circling.

KING:
You know, you were very

fortunate to have Jimmy for a manager.

He was just the kind of father figure

you needed.

You know, just starting out and all.

- Yeah, he was a good man.

- Oh, damn good.

- Now, that's a nice suit, brother.

- Yeah, that's really nice, Mike.

[KING CHUCKLES]

Tell me something, Mike.

Do you trust Satan?

- Satan?

KING:
Cayton.

Oh, did I say "Satan"?

Ha-ha-ha! I meant Cayton.

But the question still stands.

Do you trust him?

Well, yeah, I guess.

What's his cut?

If you don't me asking, that is.

Thirty percent.

- Thirteen. Well, that's fair.

- No, not 13, 30.

KING:

Thirty, I see. Hmm.

And Cayton is setting up this Spinks

fight for you next, right?

Hm.

What would you say, Mike...

...if I was to offer you, say, five fights...

Five easy fights.

- For 5 million dollars each...

...if you were to come fight for me

instead of Satan?

I mean Cayton.

Well, I'll tell you what.

I'll think about it.

You do that, Mike.

Take all the time you need.

[RABBI SPEAKING IN HEBREW]

So, what did King want?

What does he always want?

He offered me five matches

at 5 million each...

...if I didn't go through

with the Spinks fight.

- What did you tell him?

- "Why should I fight five matches...

...when I can make just as much

with one easy match?"

- Did that shut him up?

- Sh*t. Don King?

[RABBI SPEAKING IN HEBREW]

You okay, Mike?

You know who's buried down there

in that grave?

Jimmy, Cus, my mother.

Everybody I could ever trust

is down there in that hole.

I mean, things were so different

before the money.

Now I can't trust nobody.

You don't trust Bill?

I don't know. I hear things.

Robin?

See, I love Robin

with all my heart, man...

...but love and trust

is different things.

You know what I mean?

ANNOUNCER:
From the sexy realm

of television sitcoms...

... to a lifestyle of undreamed fantasy,

Robin Givens became the new queen...

... of heavyweight boxing champion

Mike Tyson.

Here we see the young royal couple

in their new 4. 6 million-dollar palace...

... purchased by Mike

here in Bernardsville, New Jersey.

I was told that Bill Cayton...

...offered a friend of ours $50,000

to sabotage our marriage.

People in the fight business are bigger

crooks than the hoods I grew up with.

King is feeding Robin lies

and unfortunately she's believing them.

Now, I support Ruth Roper when

she says her daughter fears for her life...

...because she asked the unpardonable

question, "Where is the money?"

If there's 50 million in Mike's account

and there's supposed to be 70...

...there's a problem.

- Just as I also support Robin Givens...

...who is clearly the best thing

that has ever happened to Mike Tyson.

Goddamn star-f***ing piece of sh*t.

CAYTON:
There are three years

left on Mike's contract.

If they try to break it,

I'll take it to the Supreme Court.

Bill Cayton is an egotistical maniac

who thinks he controls the universe.

No one can gain control of Tyson,

because I'm the boss.

Bill Cayton's my manager, Don King's

my promoter. That's as far as it goes.

TYSON:
If the pressure of being

the champ gets to be too much...

...I can end it all just like that.

All I gotta do is just get knocked out

and it'll all end.

KING:
Cayton 's contract with Tyson

is a slave contract.

Outright ownership.

They're willing a n*gger slave right here

in 1988 just like they done in 1849.

I'm not anti-white, I'm just pro-black.

CAYTON:
King is winning Tyson on the

theory that blacks should stick together.

Black manager, black trainer,

black promoter. Black, black, black.

I'm the best fighter in the world.

Nobody can beat me.

KING:
Mike Tyson is our knight

in shining armour.

Each blow he strikes,

he strikes it for all those...

...who are discriminated against,

the downtrodden, the underprivileged...

...the denied, the segregated.

People wanna be my friend

so they can steal my money.

Everybody get their hand out.

REPORTER:
How did a woman

who went to Sarah Lawrence...

...and reportedly to

Harvard Medical School...

...wind up falling in love with a guy

from the school of hard knocks?

God, I wanna know too.

There's something...

We have a lot in common.

Tradition. Traditional families.

And we just sort of love each other.

Traditional families?

Honesty? Love? What is this sh*t?

CARL:

You sound sceptical, Don.

KING:
Sceptical? Carl, I am sceptical

up the receptacle.

I know for a fact she never went

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