A sad and happy story about a boxing champ. How a bad neighborhood boy deceives fate waiting for him to become the next bully, drug dealer and hitter, number one in the list of local police office, how this boy, Mike Tyson, gets himself acquaintance with an old a pro boxing coach who find a reason to live in getting kids out of trouble through boxing. This is the happy part of the story, how the adolescent becomes a boxing machine, Champion of the World. The sad story is that he never got used to it, he was too young to the title and didn’t know how to deal with success: ones you are bound/used to failure, any other result is hard to digest. Tyson gets involved with the wrong people, after his beloved trainer passes away, gets married several time without ever being taught how to handle a relationship, coming up from a single mom having to sell her body to survive. He finds himself in jail, gets banned after biting Holyfield several times in the famous ear, tries to come back several times to the ring to pay his bills and ends up converting to Islam and featuring this doc, not necessarily by this order. Score: 6.5.
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