I've been wanting to watch Tyson for a long time now. I love watching his training highlights on YouTube, and he is one of the most quotable (and hilarious) athletes of all time!
This documentary was awesome. It starts when Tyson was bout 12 years old, before he got introduced to boxing. He was a thug, as you'd probably expect, and was in and out of juvenile hall on about a weekly basis. The movie talks about how he first was introduced to the sport and eventually met Cus D'Amato, who became a father figure to him in addition to being his trainer. They showed a lot of his early training footage from when he was as young as 14 leading up to the Junior Olympics.
His rise through the amateurs and into the professional ranks all the way to heavyweight champion (at the age of 20, the youngest ever) was nothing short of INSANE. My favorite part of the whole movie was when he talks about what's going through his mind as he enters the ring...he stares at his opponent, and he can't take his eyes off of him. He's waiting for the moment when his opponent breaks that eye contact, because at that moment he knows he broken him down mentally. His opponent has already lost the fight, he just doesn't know it yet. They're actually showing footage of this pre-fight routine and you can see when the guy looks away from Tyson and down at the canvas and then Tyson just says "I got you."
The last part of the movie was actually kinda sad...it started with his rape conviction and then took you through everything that has happened to him since then all the way through his last professional fight.
This movie was awesome and I highly recommend it to anyone, whether you're a boxing fan or not.
As I mentioned before, Tyson is one of the most, if not THE MOST, quotable athletes or celebrities of all time. Here's proof:
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