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to medical school, Harvard or any other.

Just as I also know for a fact...

...she was never one

of the Ford Agency's top models...

...as she so often likes to claim.

CARL:
So I heard she was five

and a half months pregnant.

- Five and a half months pregnant?

CARL:
Rumour has it...

...she was three months pregnant

when Ruth made them get married.

KING:
Oh, Carl, this is a woman

with larceny in her heart.

[KING CHUCKLES]

Why, this is absurd. It's atrocious.

It's a flagrant effrontery

to any vestiges of respect...

...left in our besmirched profession.

What I'm hearing here

is Michael Spinks vs. Mike Tyson...

...a promotion reasonably expected

to gross over 70 million dollars...

...and you are offering me, the promoter,

a mere 3 million?

No, no. Sorry.

Not only is this pittance you call

your final offer entirely unacceptable...

...it's outright immoral!

It is also my final offer, Don.

Take it or leave it.

Bill, everybody in this room knows

that it is customary for the promoter...

...to get 30 percent.

Not this three-point-something

bullshit that...

Who is the promoter?

The cable and foreign rights

have already been set up...

...the purses negotiated

and the site fees paid.

The promoter as we know it

is obsolete.

The truth is we don't even need you.

The truth is

you're a smart businessman.

And smart businessmen don't go around

throwing away 3 million dollars...

...without good reason.

Maybe I feel sorry for you.

And maybe you're afraid

your champ will see the light...

...and come work for me.

Three million. Take it or leave it.

TYSON:

Robin!

ROBIN:

Michael? Michael, up here.

Oh, Michael.

Michael, thank God you're here.

[TYSON AND ROBIN CRYING]

RUTH:

Be strong.

WRITER 1:

Tyson vs. Spinks.

The biggest purse in

the history of boxing, two weeks away.

The other night I saw Don King

shaking hands with Donald Trump.

I mean, can you imagine

King and Trump shaking on a deal?

It's gonna take a dozen accountants...

...to figure out who's the screwer

and who's the screwee.

WRITER 2:

Yeah, that's Jackie Gayle.

Hey, Kevin. Ain't it kind of unusual...

...for a champ

to blow off training camp?

No, not at all. Happens all the time.

WRITER 2:
Well, somebody ought to

tell Spinks. He's training his ass off.

[WRITERS LAUGHING]

- Any queens?

McCALL:
Go fish.

I know you got one,

you lying son of a...

McCALL:

Fish.

ROONEY:

God's gonna punish you for this.

HUNTER:

Okay, you got any twos?

EPPS:
Hey, hey. Lookie here. Kevin.

McCALL:
Here comes your boy.

WRITER 1:
Mike, got anything to say

about Spinks' comment yesterday?

WRITER 2:
Twenty-one million. You don't

wanna let Spinks have it, do you, Mike?

Well, well, well. Look what the cat

puked up. I hope you're here to work.

Because if you ain't,

don't be wasting our f***ing time.

Come on, man. Come on.

Come on.

Come on, Mike. Throw some punches.

Punch him out. Take him to school.

TYSON:

That's enough.

Get back in there. That ain't enough.

It's enough when I say it's enough.

Epps, get back in there. Come on.

Look, we'll make it up tomorrow.

You ain't stepping out of that ring...

...till you knock those pounds

of Cheetos off your ass.

Come on, let's go.

Mike, come on. What the f***?

RORY:
Yo, uh, Kev.

- Go on.

I don't think now's a good time

to be riding Mike like this.

Yeah? And why is that, counsellor?

Look, this ain't got sh*t

to do with me and you, all right?

[WHISPERS]

Robin had a miscarriage.

- A miscarriage? Ah.

- Yeah.

RORY:
You know Mike

better than anybody else.

He's a sensitive cat,

and I think it'd behove all concerned...

...if you take it easy on him

for a while.

I see. Gosh, thank you, Rory.

- That's my boy.

- Yeah.

- Mike, get the f*** back in the ring.

- What the f*** is wrong with you?

- Why don't you take a hike, you leech?

- Kiss my ass. Mike is up there tripping.

You of all people should be sensitive.

ROONEY:
Why don't you tell me about

sensitivity, Mr. 250-Thou-a-Year friend?

RORY:

Motherf***er, I earn my money.

And I am his friend

and I do feel sorry for him.

- And your little punk ass should too.

- I feel sorry, all right.

Sorry to be the only one

with the balls enough...

...to tell him that Robin

was about as pregnant as I am.

RORY:
F*** you, man.

- Yeah, f*** me.

F*** me for telling him

what everybody already knows.

That he's getting f***ed by his claptrap

and Mommy f***ing dearest.

Towel.

TYSON:

No, you won't be needing that, man.

You heard whitey.

When whitey say "Jump,"

nigga say, "How high?"

When whitey say "Fight,"

nigga say, "How long?"

When whitey say

"To the death, nigga"...

...nigga say, "Oh, yes, sir, master."

[BELL DINGS]

Come on, motherf***er. Come on.

Do your job, man. Hit me.

Oh, I'm touched. Come on,

motherf***er. You can't hit.

BARANSKl:
Mike!

TYSON:
Man, you ain't sh*t.

Hit me like you got some balls,

motherf***er. Come on, hit me.

Ooh. You almost knocked me out.

You got one more chance,

motherf***er. One more.

Oh, come on, Mike. This is f***ed up.

Rooney, what the f***'s happening?

[TYSON GRUNTING]

WRITER 1:
Oh, Jesus.

WRITER 2:
Hey, what the...?

[BELL DINGING]

[EPPS GROANS]

BARANSKl:

Can you hear me? Are you all right?

You.

Come on! Get in here, motherf***er.

B*tch-ass motherf***er, come on.

You've got 10 seconds

to knock me the f*** out.

Come on.

One, two...

Three, four...

Five, six...

Seven. Come on, motherf***er. Eight.

You better kill me, motherf***er...

...because I have every intention

on killing you.

Nine.

Ten.

[HUNTER GRUNTING AND GROANING]

RORY:

You out of your f***ing mind?

Yo, Mike.

What the f*** are you doing, man?

WRITER 1:

Jesus.

WRITER 2:
Somebody...

- Come on in here, p*ssy.

Thanks but no, thanks, homeboy.

Look at that.

Fifteen-hundred-dollar-a-week p*ssy.

McCALL:

Yeah, keep the change, Mr. Tyson.

[CROWD CHEERING]

PHOTOGRAPHER:

You look wonderful.

Ladies. Ravishing as ever.

Mr. Winston has the papers.

Ladies.

- Mr. Winston, go get it on, now.

- Of course.

[KING CHUCKLES]

WINSTON:

This is for you.

Thank you.

I've been fired.

[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

REPORTER 1:
Mike Tyson is challenging

the last man other than himself...

... with any viable claim

to heavyweight pre-eminence:

Michael Spinks.

REPORTER 2:
What makes this

such a fascinating showdown, Jim...

... is that Michael Spinks is a winner.

He's always found a way to win.

Fight fans know and respect that

and many of them are wondering...

... whether he can frustrate and beat

a much younger, stronger champion.

REPORTER 1:

Keyword perhaps being "frustrate"...

... because for every one you find...

... who believes that Tyson

will simply overpower Spinks...

... you might find another person

who believes Spinks...

... will be too much the technician

for Tyson.

Listen, Mike, I, uh...

[CROWD CHEERING ON TV]

REPORTER 1:
Thirteen and a half million

dollars guaranteed to Spinks...

- Hurry up.

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