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[Music] boxing had been used as a tool to make mike tyson a better person well it actually unleashed an amazing talent in fact it was a talent so different that the people guiding him into his pro career understood that the plan had to be different and it was a plan much different than we're used to seeing in modern day fighters uh mr d'amato uh in a brilliant fashion uh choreographed the way mike should fight how he should fight who we should fight even though he had 15 fights in that period he only fought 22 actual rounds so training became even more important for him tyson had to simulate
what is like to be an actual combat [Music] i fixed a lot of fights over the years he can say he fixed a lot of fights over the years without worrying about the consequences because and the statute of limitations of course has long since run the art of fixing a fight is often more subtle than kid this eight your night a wink and a paper sack full of cash what you'll do is you'll talk about a fighter that you'll have who needs to stay busy stay busy means win everybody knows that so the other guy knows that you need someone to lose to your fighter and
he'll say i've got somebody who's in the gym but not much lately he's not in great shape okay so now we're talking about somebody who's probably not going to go the distance the response to that is that's okay i only need three or four rounds of work and the other guy will say okay well my guy's only good for three rounds and you can fine tune without ever saying i want this fight to be fixed but the fight is as fixed as it can be and you will get exactly what you want i don't think it's widely known people don't want to believe this of course not
and they don't want to feel that they've been fooled and cheated but they have been the comeback of george foreman who first won the title in 1973 includes questionable fights before winning the heavyweight title again in 1994 foreman knocked out at least five men who entered the ring with bogus records one of them mike jameson was billed as having a 1715 record when he was 13 to 16 and hadn't fought in nearly three years [Music] like jameson now let's connect the dots four years prior mike jameson also
fought mike tyson if it was rigged with foreman that was definitely fixed with tyson losses with eight knockouts jameson is doing at this point but i think one has to remember that just because a fighter is hit it does not mean the fight isn't fixed fighters take hits to sell the fight others take obvious dials [Applause] i believe at this moment the referee looks over to get the signal to stop the fight back up in the corner and one thing he's a showman jameson wants to continue referee joe cortez says no jameson says he wants to go on but the referee joe cortez says it is over and
mike tyson is a winner again but let's get back to tyson later so rigging the record that's another way to fix a fight charles farrell once invented an entire career for a guy named john carlo who had never fought at [Music] all the fights ruled a technical draw if it happens after the end of the third they go to the scorecards defeated king of beers and fighting out of atlanta georgia she weighed in at 130 pounds her fine record stands at 15 wins only one defeat with eight wins coming by way of knockout introducing bethany
sweet brown pain the date was november 9th 1996 and a chance for women's boxing to shine the fight was a televised pay-per-view featuring bethany payne versus christy martin as payne entered the ring they announced and posted on the tale of the tape that payne donned an impressive 15-1 record where that bogus record came from for pain as anyone's guess but it didn't take long to see this female did not have any idea how to actually box in a miami herald article that wban posted in 1999 writer ken rodriguez who wrote an
article about the semier side of women's boxing had pain included in this disturbing report ken rodriguez wrote the following in that 1999 article a mysterious woman from atlanta appeared in the mgm grand boxing ring in las vegas two years ago a shadowy figure amid sparkling lights she was tall and thin and went by the moniker foxy brown and that should have given fans a clue on paper bethenny foxy brown payne looked like a champ 15 victories in 16 fights the ring announcer said but the woman inside the ropes awaiting
the biggest female fight in history was a former prostitute a stripper who had never fought before within minutes payne was hammered by christy martin reigning queen of women's boxing and disappeared into a haze of smoke and neon 1.6 million homes witnessed the first round technical knockout women's boxing is propped up by a host of bethany payne's opponents who can't fight a lick some are hookers many are exotic dancers most are looking to make quick money added rodriguez rodriguez said christy martin made 75 000 for beating pain according to fight
facts incorporated keeper of all professional boxing records payne had never before fought in a sanctioned bout payne had trained for a whole two and a half weeks before fighting martin this is one flash from the past fight that any and everyone would like to forget ever happened on a big televised [Music] [Music] card [Applause] who was going to know all we need to do is phone it into the record book as a tko win as long as it's reported as that that's what the record will say and i don't care what the 300 people have seen it's not going anywhere
foreman also knocked out one opponent who fought under multiple names journeyman frank luck suffered a third round knockout by foreman in 1988 while using the alias frank williams promoters listed williams as 33 13 3. lux who denies ever taking a dive says he learned about fake identities and how to escape injury in the ring from manager bruce the mouse straps sworn statements and interviews with more than 60 fighters promoters trainers managers matchmakers and commissioners suggest the herald identified only a
fraction of the fraud people say it doesn't go on but it does says one former world champion who requested anonymity i've been there when they fixed fights i'm talking about people paying people to take dives i've seen the rehearsals i have first-hand knowledge of that it still happens a lot another boxer the former heavyweight andre smiling said he made thousands of dollars faking 14 knockouts from 1990 to 1997.
others claimed many fraudulent matches were arranged by promoters or matchmakers intent on improving a fighter's record and ranking to earn big money title fights irish hurricane peter mcneely [Applause] and keep laughing keep laughing you'll feel funny huh if you go if any one of you doesn't respect me or what i'm doing or what i've been doing the last three months since we've been asked going against a guy like this you have a big dump in your pants take them soon because remember what happens when i wrap you in my cocoon and then vin vecchio becky only had no money so i for a while was bankrolling what they
were doing i was bringing aliens sometimes and vacuoni to new york for various and i was making fights for peter so i bring becky oni to al braverman's office he was don king's director of boxing and we work out a deal for mcnealy to be tyson's first apartment which is a completely win-win situation for everybody i'm just happy to be here everybody's made this statement nearly had a cute statement i get a phone call you know he said look somebody [Music] thought i should give you a call to let you know the fight won't go it's not going to go 90 seconds it was you know
it was a million dollar bet and the fight's not going to go 90 seconds somebody thought you might be interested in that nonsense [Applause] 89 seconds at which point ben vaccioni steps between the ropes to prompt the ending to the fight [Music] really had this thing figured out understood that it was crucial that there be no finding of impropriety because tyson was the machine on which boxing ran by far the biggest order in the world
and you know when when he fights in vegas they generate a billion dollars in added revenue you know i got knocked down the man's quick he hits hard the second knockdown as the film will show i was shaking and i slipped and i fell on the rope you see the hey hey you see the fade look at the film look at the film look at the film my knee buckled my knee buckled without even getting hit look at the film that was a nice little right hand but it didn't land with a huge amount of crunching force let's look at it
the right keep your hand and keep your eyes on the right hand of mike tyson now he's in a perfect position to come back whack and you see he's turning his head as he got hit but it was enough to stun him and he kind of tripped over mike's feet as as well interesting quote mike tyson was the machine on which boxing ran with that being said let's look at a few of tyson's fixed fights but don't blink because you could miss it a low right from young and here's the first of the three knockdowns here we see alex stewart dropping his hands to give tyson a clear
hit notice he turns his head to follow tyson's punch this is how to lessen the injury this next clip proves it was a fixed fight without seeing punches thrown listen to the commentators look at the scheduled rounds that he'll be able to take a punch that'll fight back when he's hurt that'll persist when he's frustrated that he'll be able to go 10 hard rounds hard rounds his expectation tonight is to beat mitchell green but mitchell green like him is off the streets of new york can be learned and talking to some of the people he fought look at look at here look at here
and green seems to me ready to be doing all the wrong things that's very good the fight is scheduled for 10 rounds and it goes 10 rounds tyson says he didn't want to knock him out but that's only because it's scripted to go the full 10. looking at the footage mitch green is doing a lot of holding and wasting time i'd say at this point they're really not trying to hit each other just putting on a show farrell's guy was a heavyweight named mitch green he'd put green up and supported him for 18 months then he
arranged a fight that was supposed to launch green's comeback the fellow in the other corner was bruce johnson bruce johnson is one of these guys and you see them often in boxing but understands that the way he can make money in boxing is to lose to name fighters and it means that he goes into each fight trying to figure out what the easiest route out without taking an obvious dive is and that's how he makes a living so it doesn't serve his interest to be too good a fighter it doesn't take much to see how it's all connected the guy responsible for fixing fights is
managing mitch green the guy fighting tyson and you think it's not rigged mitch and i got into a shouting match at the hotel right after the fight because i've spent what for me at least was a lot of money on him more than that i'd worked very hard to engineer his comeback now there would be no comeback and all because charles farrell hadn't thought it necessary to establish with all concerned before the fight that there was a script so basic that even the distracted apparently disgruntled green would have followed him [Music]
i want the right length i'll reopen my criminal charge on tyson and we open the cut to charge you're gonna fight the next fight testing on fight is gonna be with me and nobody but me now you talk about you gonna fight uh friend bruno fred was an easy fight you know if i wasn't ranked when he fought me i'm not gonna be right now why was i right when you hit me hit me in my head no now what time i gotta fight this guy this guy that guy i wanna fight mike tyson michelle tyson your [ __ ] i wanna be some mike passion
baby i wanna be some michelle sickly taxi you don't get like this phony clothes long baby item and we've been basking you training i wanna be some merchant sicily because mitch green is managed by the man responsible for fixing fights it's likely tyson and mitch green's fight outside dapper dan was nothing more than a marketing strategy tyson was arrested after breaking his hand in a street brawl with mitch green a boxer he'd beaten two years earlier in the ring the argument had begun inside a boutique he's a young dumb knucklehead that got an axe his
wife for permission to do whatever he do you understand what i was trying to say hit me and i didn't see his punch coming and he did not knock me down or nothing i saw him do like this [Music] i personally believe the black eye mitch green received was caused by someone other than tyson but they used it as a tool to generate interest in the second fight between the two are you going to file criminal charges against mike tyson no me you know it's just like this you know out of one form but why do they just say don't get mad get even you know so um do it the right way mitch green was
entertaining boastful funny and similar to muhammad ali this makes it entertaining but something happened that caused the fight not to come to fruition instead of me he broke his hand on me the bad hand and he brought a ketchup to his elbow and next time he entitled the fight i'm gonna he gonna let him in the car wreck i'm gonna get more whiplash and put a cash in that big old ugly neck ow i would say another thing i'll have one the biggest fight caught through the manila my face would be a little bit bigger be like king kong versus godzilla
to pick the opponents for mike tyson nothing nothing is more important than the opponents you pick for a fighter the strategy was to pick opponents he would not only beat he would beat devastatingly when someone sees a mike tyson fight we want them to leave the arena saying when can we go see him again and that's where bill and i are scrupulously careful in determining who he fights after his fifth fight we decided the time was at hand for the marketing of mike other interest was generated by publicist mike cohen whose television and newspaper contacts added more fuel to the fire
when we sat down in that meeting 100 a1 strategy was to go after the non-sports fan the bigger the press the more prominent the fighter becomes the greater purses he commands the more interest he generates these fights can and do look very realistic but let's point out some obvious [Music] all over fakes [Music] [Music] fame and fortune and everything that goes with it [Music] you can see his legs
tyson misses an uppercut and the opponent makes a motion as if tyson hits him in the stomach this looks rehearsed he was supposed to go down with a body shot watch this carefully because tyson in the blue is a bomber he's trained by cut no other than dusty amato this isn't a knockdown tyson pushes him down with his left hand and the opponent is laid out as if he's hit with a power blow even the way he's laying down looks fake [Music] [Applause] in this moment tyson acts as if he's enraged but you can clearly see he wasn't trying
to hit the other boxer watch as he pushes the other boxer's head down [Music] in the same direction tyson swings not connecting at all [Music] [Applause] [Music] of the world [Music] i've taken my you brought me fame and fortune and everything that goes with
and he punches extremely hard he's a great fighter he's a great fighter i was i was gone you know and just to put the capper on this bizarre evening of boxing following the fight they weren't talking about tonight's fight they were talking about mike tyson's next fight with evander holyfield yet again mike tyson shocks not only the boxing world but also the general public his latest outrage came as he bit off part of evander holyfield's ear in their world title fight in las vegas this morning this may be controversial and a little hard to believe but it is my personal opinion that mike tyson biting holy
fields here was pre-planned although it's hard to prove we could simply make connections to the scene and the thing said in the first fight [Music] [Applause] [Music] notice how holyfield goes into position if another man is about to put his mouth on your ear you would naturally feel his breath his tongue and if you're a heterosexual man this would be very uncomfortable i say that to say holyfield allowed tyson's mouth on his ear without moving immediately [Music] you know you know i would beat him in it you know he spit out of my feet and bit me in here yeah is that how can he bite your hair
with a mouthful spit it out he spit the mouthpiece out he spit the mouthpiece out and bit me on the air [Applause] he says he spits the mouthpiece out and then bites him in the ear but we see tyson biden with the mouthpiece and then spit it out he has the mouthpiece in each time he tries to bite him [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] again [Music] i find it strange there's no blood on tyson's mouth or around his face due to the bite [Applause]
watch as tyson spits a piece of his ear [Music] out [Music] there should have been blood but we don't see it there's the ear and then he spits the mouthpiece out afterward and coming into the fight his father told me he said oh evander let me tell you something something bad gonna happen that's what is that some in your facial area don't happen i said so he said he said he said but you got to keep your mind on god so i tell my corner guy now it's time to happen you heard what the man said you're gonna be responsible for that right i said no mike bit me
i said now i've been somebody too and this guy back then you're doing it for a trophy we doing it for 50 million yeah [Music] all through the 20th century and forward they've placed the number 33 in very prominent places with a strong connection to freemasonry the number is seen within a lot of staged events scripted stories and more from what i've noticed whenever you see the number 33 you will find some deception look at the 33s from earlier the fixed fight with sheldon he fought with a record of 33 wins and three losses after tyson bit holyfield what was the
time when they stopped the clock [Applause] you guessed it 33. [Applause] champion of the world in this particular ambulance and we can see him being taken to a local hospital where we're told that his doctor who is a plastic surgeon says that there will have to be some kind of treatment there is uh evander right there who has circled with the baseball cap on his head evander after the fight said that he was what happened to the piece of holy fields here after mike tyson bidded an mgm grand employee spotted the piece of holy fields here in the ring
holyfield's team placed it in an ice bucket mysteriously the piece of holyfield's ear disappeared during the ambulance ride mysteriously huh yeah right most of the tyson fights were fixed the ones that looked real to the ones we thought dived out of fear it's all to build the character they do these things they look at youtube and i see guys have mike tyson immortal mike tyson god and um i'm not worthy of that you are mom hey stop i know me you can think what you want but i know not for somebody the words neither praise me anything now
sports are to keep people under control people are encouraged to join to outdo each other in order to show they are not weak we can see how fitting people against each other in rivalries is common today in the form of religions politics and sports these three areas of humanity share the commonality of the divide and conquer method sports creates loyalties for one team or another and people get really into it demonstrating their loyalty competition is key for people to outdo each other domination and winning is present
instead of cooperation this plays out in sports and politics even religious ideas where one religion is supposed to be better and the true religion compared to the others all sports events are broadcast on television now enticing an even larger audience into collective hypnosis mind control and escapism and it's no wonder why tyson was buying a shirt that told us the truth about his career but a number of nagging questions won't go away why was the world heavyweight champion shopping in harlem for a leather jacket
ironically embroidered with the phrase don't believe the hype at four o'clock in the morning watching mike tyson in movies you would say he's not the best actor but within his profession he is and was a great actor p.s don't tell him i made this video [Music] [Music] one with those guys you know why you got the biting on my ear the whole thing is that you know you know it's not real you know i'm wrong the whole thing is that you know it's not real you know
