01x01 - How Did We Get Here?

[bunniefuu]

[brooding music playing]

- [trainer 1] There we go. Six. Good work.
- [Mike grunting]

- [trainer 1] Strong. Eight.
- [Mike grunting]

- [trainer 2] Oh, yeah.
- [trainer 1] Good work, man.

- [trainer 1] Strong. Strong.
- [grunts]

- Good work.
- Beautiful.

- Greatest to ever do it.
- [trainer 1] Let's do it.

- [grunts]
- [trainer 1] Yes, sir.

- [trainer 2] Consistent, Mike. Consistent.
- [trainer 1] And last one.

- Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
- [trainer 2] Good.

[trainer 1] Good work. Take a break.

[Mike grunting]

Yes. Just one jab. Jab. Boom. I like that.

Jab, bow, shot, hook. [grunts]

[grunts]

[Rafael] Front too.

[Mike] I didn't think Jake's enjoying
his position in life right now.

And good for him.
I was minding my business.

I was just enjoying life.

Smoking a lot of weed,
doing a lot of mushrooms.

Just enjoying life. Doing whatever I want.
Building corporations and stuff.

Then I saw this little sh*t. [chuckles]

Even though he's a little pipsqueak,
he ignited the fire in me.

I'm sure he's scared, you know?

If he's not scared,
he's gonna be in for a big surprise.

- [helicopter whirring]
- [dramatic music playing]

[Ice T] It's a real question
that deserves a real answer.

Why fight when you have
all the money and fame you'd ever want?

Why fight when you proved a long time ago
that you were the best in the world?

The problem child, Jake "El Gallo" Paul

versus the baddest man
on the planet, Mike Tyson.

[Ice T] Why are both of them here,
demanding our attention at all?

Let me guess, you've never
gotten punched in the mouth.

Or for that matter, experienced
how thrilling it is to return the favor.

[commentator 1] It's over. That's all.

- [indistinct chatter over TV]
- [commentator 2] Oh, lord!

[Ice T] The truth is, it's hard
to walk away from either sensation,

no matter who you are
or what your story is.

Take Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor.

They've been two of the best
women's fighters in the world for years.

When they finally collided,

it was one of the greatest fights
in memory.

[Corey, over TV]
The female fight of the year.

[Ice T] And the only fair outcome
was to do it again.

which is how they ended up here,

alongside two of the most
recognizable faces on the planet.

As big as my words are,
my actions actually speak louder.

[Ice T] There aren't a lot of people
more influential than Jake Paul.

- I just hit ten million. I'm so excited.
- [Ice T] More misunderstood.

Hollywood, you're mine!

[Ice T] But he's rich, he's famous,
and he couldn't care less what you think.

Which might be the main reason
why a few years ago

he came up with that crazy idea
to be a fighter.

Mike Tyson came to fighting
a more typical way.

It was the only choice he had.

And what ensued

was one of the wildest rides
in the history of modern sports.

[man] Who in this world has any chance
against this man?

[Ice T] In and out of the ring.

[reporter]
The former heavyweight boxing champion

Mike Tyson is in prison tonight.

[Ice T] It feels like
Mike's lived a hundred lives.

But even as his body still seems
to be paying the price,

he keeps coming back to the same place.

Even now, when a loss
could be a new kind of humiliation.

His story has revealed
what fighting can do to a person.

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

[commentator] Oh, my goodness,
he's got a bloody right ear.

Holyfield bit by a dirty Mike Tyson.

[Ice T] Now, here he is,
against a man less than half his age

with a date in the ring in Texas.

Who are we to question what drives them?

Who are we to say we're in disbelief
over what's about to happen?

It can't get any bigger than this.

What round are you gonna
knock out Jake Paul in?

As soon as he gets hit, the first punch.

[Ice T]
After all, we're right there with them.

And we can't look away.

[grunts]

[Ice T] This is the story
of how we got here,

where we're going,
and why they fight.

This is Countdown: Paul vs. Tyson.

[music concludes]

There's, like, 15 different levels
of crazy to all of this.

The eyeballs on this
are going to be extraordinary.

- [Curran] When I first heard about...
- Wow.

[Curran]...Mike Tyson
coming back to face Jake Paul,

I thought, "What the f*ck?
Is this for real?"

If Paul comes in there
and knocks Mike out,

I don't want the last thing I remember
of him is getting knocked out

- by a YouTuber.
- You can't.

- Yeah.
- Doesn't matter the age,

if Mike catches you, he can knock you out.

[Wallace] My first reaction was,
"Who's Jake Paul?"

[chuckles]
And why is Mike Tyson fighting him?

- [Ariel] Jake Paul's favored.
- He's a favorite. Yeah.

Well, he's 27 years old.

You could get into the ring with dudes

who are actually fighting professionally
in a modern-day era.

[Ariel] Mike Tyson's gonna get
knocked out by Jake Paul?

Like, that sounds sacrilegious
to us, right?

And then there's a younger fan who's like,

"Of course Jake Paul's gonna
knock out Mike Tyson."

I think it's more show than a fight.

Mikey, Mikey! Your hands can't hit
what your eyes can't see

[Barak] You have the biggest name
in social media

fighting the most famous name
on the planet

as far as boxing is concerned.

I feel really bad for Jake Paul.
I don't want him to get hurt.

I really want you to beat this guy.

- Sign the contract.
- [Jake] No problem.

Saturday, July 20th.

- See you there, buddy.
- It's gonna be big.

July 20th, Arlington, Texas. Here we go.

- [tense music playing]
- [bell ringing]

[Jake] How do you do it? You just...

[director] Maybe take it off,
and then just blow on it a couple times.

[speaking indistinctly]

[Jake blowing]

It's not working. 1987. [chuckles softly]

Entertainment system. [chuckles]

This will teach you gratitude, kids,
for the consoles we have today.

[Chris] For Jake Paul,
if he gets knocked out by Mike Tyson,

then he got knocked out by Mike Tyson.

That's almost cool to say.
Like, "I got knocked out by Mike Tyson."

How many of us grew up
playing Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!

and love to say "I got knocked out
in that game by Mike Tyson"?

That's a badge of honor.

But if he wins, he can say,
"I beat Mike Tyson

in an actual sanctioned boxing match."

I don't think there's any downside here.

[Jake] Whoo!
It was blue for a second there.

- [retro video game music playing on TV]
- Yes!

Let's go.

"Mike is waiting for your challenge."

Come on, son. Don't bite my ear off, son.

Let's keep this clean. Cowboys Stadium.

Yo, he just hit me once.

Bro, your reaction time
has to be f*cking insane.

f*ck!

First round?
Let's try that again, I guess.

Where does the desire
to fight Mike Tyson come from?

That is an extremely hard question
to unpack.

It's within me to be a fighter,
to be a disruptor,

to be someone who will do
the thing that nobody else will.

You can accomplish anything
that you set your mind to

with self-belief, hard work,
and a little bit of delusional optimism.

[Ice T] You might not be able to find
a better example

of Mike Tyson's famed power

than his uppercut
in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!

Yo!

[Ice T]
Even just the video game version

of getting in the ring with Iron Mike

is enough to shake
any opponent's confidence,

- delusion or not.
- [Jake] Bro.

My generation has never seen
Mike Tyson fight.

It's always the stories
or the YouTube highlights.

But seeing him alive in the ring

on the biggest stage possible
keeps his legacy going and going and going

and makes it bigger and bigger and bigger.

And his story is such
an inspirational one.

["Made You Look" playing]

♪ Bravehearts ♪

♪ Bravehearts ♪

♪ Now let's get it all in perspective ♪

♪ For all y'all enjoyment
A song y'all can step with ♪

♪ Y'all appointed me
To bring rap justice ♪

♪ But I ain't Five-O
Y'all know it's Nas, yo ♪

Come on, guys.
Close the door. Let's do this sh*t.

[driver]
It's your world, champ, you ready?

- [Mike] Yes, sir.
- [driver] Let's take it back to the hood.

I'm gonna take you all the way down,
how this sh*t started out,

how the beginning started, okay?

♪ King of the town? Yeah, I been that ♪

♪ You know I click-clack
Where you and your mens at? ♪

[Ice T]
Mike Tyson moved to Brownsville,

a Brooklyn neighborhood,
maybe best known for its high crime rate,

when he was ten years old.

Now, almost half a century later,

and a few months before
his improbable return to the ring

against Jake Paul, at the age of 58,

he's come back
for one of his occasional visits,

to connect with who he was
in the beginning,

to survey corners he owned
once upon a time.

[Mike] You know, Brownsville is
a very poverty-stricken area.

- When I lived here, it was hell.
- [police siren wailing]

I never had anything.
We were always the poorest family.

My mother always borrowed food
from people.

There's no heat in the building,
no water, can't take a sh*t,

can't piss, can't flush the toilet.

It's some nasty sh*t.

♪ They shootin'! Aw, made you look ♪

This was an abandoned building.
We used to play tag in this building.

The cop shot at me right here.

He almost got me,
but I ran into the building instead.

[music concludes]

[Mike] I was looking
at this guy over here.

Oh, so you think this guy
wouldn't want to be the best

in the world or anything?
He just wants to survive this day.

[grunts]

This is where I lived,
here on the second floor,

me and my parents.
The building looks beautiful now,

but it didn't look...
it didn't look this beautiful before.

- [indistinct chatter]
- Come.

This is my old apartment.

It looks so much better
than when I lived here.

They moved...
Oh, man, this house is beautiful.

I never lived in nothing like this before.

- [man 1] It's still the same way?
- No, this is so beautiful.

[man 1] Mike, what's it like
walking through that door?

- [soft music playing]
- It lets me know that I'm nobody.

You know?

Sometimes I think I'm somebody,

but when I come back here,
I realize I'm nobody.

This place was such... It was tore up.

- This sh*t was disgusting.
- [man 2] Yeah.

sh*t on the floor,
animal sh*t on the floor,

clothes all over everywhere.
We were animals. Mother's...

Oh, sh*t!

That's why people think I'm weird.
[laughs]

I am a little bit, just a little.
I'm okay though. I'm okay.

Some things I did
when I was young in Brownsville,

you just never forget
what you're capable of doing.

It's always, every time you come outside,
you're getting confronted with something.

You're always being confronted.
I just learned you have to fight back.

And that pretty much shaped
my personality in life.

This is where we had my first fight.

There's some guys that came
to steal my birds.

And I said, "Please,
give me my bird back, please."

He said, "f*ck you, you fat n*gga,"
and ripped their head off.

And that was the first time I had a fight.

[indistinct chatter]

[Mike] I'm just Mike.
I'm from Brownsville, Brooklyn.

I can never change that.

I learned totally from the sewer system
of Brooklyn, New York.

Nothing you can tell me that can shake me.

I've heard about it all
and I've seen it all.

- You're gonna k*ll Jake Paul!
- Congrats on your...

- on your fight coming up.
- Thank you.

- You ready for this?
- I'm ready.

- Always ready, right?
- Well, I'll be ready that night.

Again, it's a different life.

How do you explain to somebody
that doesn't know the life?

- Tell him, tell him that.
- Jake Paul winning.

That's all I gotta say, Jake Paul winning.

- [laughs]
- Jake Paul winning.

[Mike] I'm not myself most of the time.

I'm always someone else, guarded.

You know? I'm here, I'm myself.
I'm silly, I'm stupid. I'm...

I laugh at people.
People laugh at me. I laugh at myself.

Let's go, champ!

- [man] You remember that?
- No.

Let's go, champ!
We in front of the towers.

- We in front of the towers.
- [speaks indistinctly]

- We in front of the towers.
- [crowd cheering]

[Mike] These are my roots.
These people know me, they know who I am.

They don't judge me for being
a criminal, you know, robbing people.

I used to pickpocket right here,
pack bags and pickpocket people.

You robbed me when I was eight years old
on Amboy and Pitkin.

I robbed you?
Now, he's blaming me for robbing him.

- n*gg*s got robbed.
- He robbed me when I was a kid, bro.

- Pitkin... On Pitkin.
- [all laugh]

By the Woolworth's store.

- You remember Woolworth's?
- Yeah, Woolworth's.

- We took our pictures in there.
- Yeah.

- I'm sorry.
- No, don't worry about it, baby.

[Mike] My whole life was about crime.

That was just the way it was.
Everybody was that way.

There was nothing special
about being a criminal here.

I just wanted to be in the streets so bad.
The people in the streets, I admired.

[tense music playing]

[Ice T]
Running wild on the Brownsville streets,

he was arrested more than 30 times
before he turned 13.

Eventually, he was sent
to the Tryon School,

a detention center
for juvenile delinquents

in upstate New York,

where he found
a path out of trouble. Boxing.

It was there that Tyson would meet

the man who'd become
the most influential figure

in his young life,

legendary trainer Cus D'Amato.

[Cus] Keep the head down
when you come up with the eights.

- Keep your head down.
- [Mike] When I met Cus D'Amato,

I knew I was going to be champ
of the world when I was 14.

He knew how to stimulate my mind.

"You could be the champion
of the world at 18, 19,

but you don't even believe it."

And then I was like,
"Really, you think so?"

He said, "I put my life on it."

[passenger] It's amazing
that you two came together.

He said he summoned me.

Believe that sh*t?

[passenger] That's the universe?

That's what he told me, okay?
I don't know if it's the f*cking universe.

Forgive me, I'm sorry. It's...

- [passenger] What did he give to you?
- [Mike] Confidence.

Confidence breeds success.
Success breeds confidence.

Con... Confidence applied properly
with superseded genius.

[Ice T] D'Amato became
not only Tyson's trainer,

but his legal guardian,

adopting the kid from Brownsville
and welcoming him into his family.

Man, you know, it's so funny
to meet this guy, this old white guy.

- [man] Yeah.
- You know, we've become tight.

[Ice T] D'Amato told Tyson
he had the perfect makeup

to become the future
heavyweight champion of the world.

[Mike] I want to achieve so much.

I'd rather die a short life of glory
than a long life of obscurity.

[Cus] The boy can do everything
a champion is required to do.

And if he does everything
that he's capable of doing,

I tell you, he may go down as one
of the greatest fighters of all time.

- [crowd cheering]
- [commentator 1] There he is,

the young protege of Cus D'Amato,

heavyweight prodigy Mike Tyson.

[Ice T] Sure enough,
when his career started,

Tyson was an unstoppable force,

winning his first 19 pro fights,
all by knockout.

[commentator 2] A steam hammer.
Boy, that was quick.

[commentator 3]
Don't blink, 'cause you could miss it.

[Ice T] With 12 of those 19 KO's
coming in the first round.

[Curran] Mike Tyson with Cus D'Amato,

was one of the most dangerous
and skilled fighters

I think we've seen
in the heavyweight division.

You didn't know how long
these fights were gonna last.

He was gonna knock these guys out.

[commentator 4] Knocked down
with the first left hook he takes.

[commentator 5]
This isn't gonna go too long.

[commentator 6]
Oh, my. First punch he threw.

[Wallace] Mike's entire persona
in the ring was formed by Cus D'Amato,

who instilled this belief in his fighters
that you had to use your fear.

[intense music playing]

[Barak] The stare down alone is legendary.

He's looking at you like this.

[Ice T] He was still a teenager
as he put himself in position

to challenge for his first title belt.

[Mike] All of you, come get some
'cause Mike Tyson's out here.

He's waiting for you.
You all come get some.

There has never been a person
on a planet that has invoked so much fear

in the hearts of men than Mike Tyson.

[reporter] Who's to say
anybody can stop him?

[Mike] They define me
by being the greatest, being an icon,

being legendary.

I'm conscious of my preeminence
in this sport.

[announcer]
This is the main event of the night.

For the WBC Championship of the World.

- [bell ringing]
- [Ice T] It was November 22nd, 1986,

when 20-year-old Mike Tyson
became the youngest heavyweight champion

in the history of boxing.

[commentator] That was a right to the body
and an uppercut to the head

and Berbick is down.

[Ice T] Knocking out Trevor Berbick
in the second round in Las Vegas.

[commentator] It's over. That's all.
And we have a new era in boxing.

- [crowd cheering]
- [upbeat music playing]

[Ice T] But Mike Tyson
was just getting started.

He continued to dominate as champion

and soon became
one of the most famous people

in the world.

Now, he wasn't just a fighter,
he was a star.

In the late '80s, Mike Tyson
was an unmissable attraction.

It was like a national holiday
when Mike Tyson fought.

People who did not care
about boxing stopped.

[Ariel] It was Mike Tyson
and Michael Jordan.

You know, like, those were the two
most famous athletes on the planet.

[Barak] You see him
with so many different women.

You see him with all the celebrities.

All of the rappers wanted to be
around Mike Tyson.

He was that bad.

[Mike] You can't imagine what it's like
to be known as the best fighter ever.

You just can't imagine.

It's everything I wanted,
but a little bit more.

- I'll knock you the f*ck out, Mike Tyson.
- Yo, Mike Tyson, bro!

I will f*ck you up. You don't want
to go no rounds with me, n*gga.

- [Mike] Really?
- All gas, no brakes.

[Mike] I go outside and say,

"I can't believe these people
keep f*cking... Can they leave me alone?"

And my wife said, "If you walked outside

and no one knew your name,
you would die of a heart attack."

If somebody didn't say,
"Hi, Mike," you would f*cking die.

I say, "f*ck, I guess you're right."
[chuckles] "I guess you're right."

Mike, Mike, you about
to beat Jake Paul, you heard?

- I got my money on you, Mike.
- [Mike] You better.

- I got my money on you, Mike.
- [Mike] You better.

You better make me win, Mike.

[soft music playing]

[Jake] About two
and a half years ago now,

I went to Costa Rica
for my first ayahuasca ceremony.

I wanted to uncover things about myself.

One of the craziest things
was the vision I had

of me and Mike Tyson fighting.

As if it had already happened
or something in the future,

or was going to happen,
that's the feeling it gave me.

And it showed me
the millions of kids watching

like, through their TVs and devices.

And it showed the butterfly effect
of what that creates

for the sport of boxing.

I... [inhales]

...Jake Joseph Paul, will knock out
and defeat Iron Mike Tyson.

So, the next day,
I get in contact with Mike.

He's like, "Yeah, Jake, I love this idea."
[chuckles] "This is awesome, man."

"This sounds great.
We need to make this happen." [chuckles]

And that's the power of opening yourself
to the energy of the universe,

but also enacting on those things.

[Ice T] Let's back up a few steps
to really answer that question,

"How did we all get here?"

The answer starts
for 27-year-old Jake Paul

and his brother Logan in suburban Ohio.

A very different origin point for sure
from Mike Tyson's.

[Jake] Other than not getting good grades,
I was just pretty normal.

And I just really loved sports.

And then my dad gave
my brother and I a camera

so that we could record our football games

to see the footage back,
to see how we could get better.

Me and my brother took that camera,
started making YouTube videos

when we were like in our teens.

We were getting like 100 to 500 views,
which was cool at the time.

Then Vine comes out.

The sneeze.

Achoo!

- Logan, there's a spider on your shoulder.
- Where?

- [Jake] Stay still.
- I am.

I got it.

[laughs]

[Ice T] The popularity of Jake's videos
took off with astounding success.

And almost overnight,

he became one of the most
famous influencers in the world.

["Suavy Suavy" playing]

[Ice T] By the time he was 16,
he had 5.3 million followers

and more than two billion views online.

♪ I'm buzzing like a bee
Can I have some more please, sir ♪

[Ice T] From there,
he took his following to YouTube...

If you're new here, I'm Jake Paul.

[Ice T]
...where he launched his own channel.

And as his popularity
and infamy continued to skyrocket,

- so did his bank account.
- What?

You need to get out.
We're gonna call the police.

[Ice T] By his 17th birthday,
maybe everyone didn't like Jake Paul,

but he already had the last laugh,
making more money

- than he ever could have imagined.
- One million subscribers.

"Congratulations for surpassing
ten million subscribers."

We're making real money from this.
Then it was like, what's next?

Moved to LA at 17 years old,
auditioned for Disney Channel.

That kind of blew me up

because I was the first ever
"social media star" on, like, a real show.

Here we go! [cheers]

[Ice T]
His Disney career proved to be brief.

And from there, Jake set out
on building a genuine business empire.

[Jake] And that's where things
went to the next level.

And I was the most viewed YouTuber.

In the rain,
the Jake Paulers are still here.

Nothing can stop you. Stay positive.

Always have a smile
on your beautiful faces.

[Ice T] And in 2018,
a rivalry with some fellow YouTubers

inadvertently led Jake
to an entirely new place

in his wild journey.

The boxing ring.

[Jake] These brothers in the UK

started talking sh*t to me and Logan,
wanting to fight us.

Jake Paul is a *****.

Come on, dawg.

- You want to box me right now?
- [Jake] Talk the talk, walk the walk.

He just doesn't know. He just doesn't know
who he's messing with.

Just stand up and fight.
Stop being such a p****.

So we were just like,
"f*ck it, let's fight."

- [upbeat music playing]
- [man] Jake Paul versus Deji.

[reporter]
Two of YouTube's biggest young stars.

And I just loved it.

[commentator 1] Good left hook!
And he's rocked Deji early!

Deji is getting clobbered now.

Won my first amateur fight.

[commentator 1]
And Jake Paul is your winner.

And then the kid
that I beat in my first fight,

his friend was talking sh*t,
and he was like, "Let's do a pro fight."

[commentator 2] Big right hand and lands!

And now he's down again!

- And that is it!
- [audience cheering]

[commentator 2]
Jake Paul with a first-round destruction!

[music concludes]

[Ice T] Jake Paul was more popular
and richer than ever,

living what seemed like
a dream life in Los Angeles at the time.

But the truth was,
more money had brought more problems.

And deep inside,

the Midwestern kid
felt like a fish out of water.

[Jake] Los Angeles,
it's this fast-paced lifestyle.

Drugs, alcohol, money, looks.

I was lost in it as any 21 or 22-year-old

with tens of millions of dollars and fame.

I just don't understand why my son
would actually like somebody like him.

The neighbors hate me.

[interviewer] They say that you've created
a living hell out here.

- Ah.
- [interviewer] That it's like a circus.

Yeah, it is.

It wasn't until boxing

where I physically had
to fight someone else

and I had to be sober. I had to focus.

It was like this giant wakeup call
that boxing provided me.

I'm just thankful...

that I didn't, like, die,
because it was pretty f*cking crazy.

I've kind of found my old self

that had been stripped away
from me in Hollywood.

That's when I started to realize like,
"Oh, sh*t, I caught the boxing bug."

And I was like,
"This is all I'm going to do."

[energetic music playing]

[announcer] The digital superstar,

Jake "The Problem Child" Paul!

[Ice T] Each fight
felt like another step forward.

In 2020, he knocked out
former NBA star Nate Robinson.

In 2021, former MMA champion Ben Askren.

[Ariel] He's fighting influencers.

Then he's fighting fellow athletes,
if you will.

Then he's fighting MMA fighters.

And maybe it wasn't
the most like, you know,

aesthetically pleasing fight.

[Ice T] Sure, Jake might not exactly
have been turning heads

with his competition,

but his star power continued to grow
alongside his boxing career.

And he soon formed
his own promotion company,

Most Valuable Promotions.

And his next opponent
was UFC champion Tyron Woodley.

And Jake beat him not only once,
but twice in devastating fashion.

The turning point for me with Jake Paul
was the Tyron Woodley fight.

It was so devastating, that right hand,
that people thought it was fake.

[Jake] I beat all these fighters,

but then they keep on calling me
this fake fighter.

They should shut the f*ck up

because they don't know
what they're talking about.

What is it, guys?
Like, am I a fake fighter?

Am I a YouTuber?
Or do you just hate me?

[Ice T] Over four years now,
plenty of people will tell you

Jake Paul still hasn't fought a real star

or proven anything
that would impress an expert.

[Wallace] I know YouTube people think
he's wonderful.

I'm sure TikTok people think
he's wonderful.

I don't hear boxing people
calling up and saying to me,

"Hey, you got to see Jake Paul.
He's really good."

I just don't see it.

[Ice T] But for better or worse,
he's no longer on boxing's fringes.

In fact, he's one
of the sport's biggest stars.

[Jake] When I beat Mike Tyson,
it will not change a thing.

People won't give me my credit.
They never will.

[music concludes]

[Jake] We are here with Team USA Boxing

and we are about to... Go f*ck yourself.

One more. All right, we are here
at the US Olympic training center

in Colorado Springs
with Team USA Boxing.

Let's meet the fighters. Here we go.

[Barak] I've seen Jake Paul go
from looking like a pure beginner...

- [Jake whistling]
- [Barak]...to knocking out guys

who many people idolize.

We're in an age of haters.

The culture has decided
to not like Jake Paul.

[exhales] Is Jake Paul legit?

Why would he not be?

[indistinct chatter]

[Jake] It's my first day back to training.

My body definitely needed a break
after four fights in one year.

But now it's time to start getting back
into the swing of things,

except something tells me
that today isn't gonna be that at all.

It's... I feel like I'm gonna be thrown
into the deep end today. [chuckles]

[Billy] All right, let's go.

Let's get down there.
Let's get down there.

[Ariel] I've never had an issue
with Jake Paul, the boxer,

and I've understood his place
from the get-go.

[interviewer] There's been a knock on Jake

since he came into the sport
that it's more spectacle than sport.

What do you make of that criticism?

[Walsh] He's actually
publicizing the sport.

I think he's great for the sport.

Usually, media only turn up
every four years.

There you go.
A bit more in the backhand.

He's got a really good right hook,
really good power in that, you know?

Yeah, that's better.

He's a good athlete, you know,
he's got a good set of kahunas as well,

and that makes up for a lot
when you get inside the ring.

[grunts] Very good, again.

[Ariel] There's so much to lose
every time he fights, right?

There's a whole legion of fans
who are just praying for his downfall,

for him to get humble pie,
for him to get embarrassed,

and that's a level of pressure as well.

[intense music playing]

[Ice T] Haters are gonna hate.

But Paul is fully set on proving himself
as a legitimate fighter.

Along the way,
turning a new generation

onto a sport he's fallen so hard for.

And stepping into the ring against
one of the most famous fighters

of all time might just be
a good way to do it.

[Ariel] To me, anyone who fights...

I don't care if you're a TikToker
or a YouTuber or whatever,

you fight, you put your health
and safety on the line,

you go out there,
you put your ego on the line as well,

you have earned my respect.

All right, so watch in here
on each shoulder, right?

And then all the punches we're throwing
are going to be short.

Da-da-da-dum. Da-da-da-dum.

Change the angles.

- [whistle blows]
- [Walsh] Box!

[indistinct chatter]

[Ice T]
Sparring against Joshua Edwards,

a member of the 2024 U.S. Olympic team,

offers its own set of challenges,
especially early in camp.

[Walsh] Change the angles.

[Ice T]
But this is Jake Paul, and improbably,

against one of the best young fighters
in the sport,

he seems to hold his own.

[Joshua] I was expecting to be giving him
more pointers,

but it was a lot of stuff he was doing,
like, say high-level stuff.

He did a lot of body shots,
so he touched me a little more.

Like, I didn't run him over.
It was good work.

[indistinct shouting]

[Joshua] You can't beat that jab, Jake.

[whistle blows]

[Jake] I finally feel like
after four years, I'm getting my moment,

the opportunity to show the world...

and inspire millions and millions
and shut everyone the f*ck up.

[indistinct chatter]

[Rafael] Ah, so...

I'm gonna move back
and then I'm gonna put my right hand.

[Mike grunting]

[Rafael] Yes, Mike! [grunting]

- [grunts]
- Boom!

- [Mike] Head down, huh?
- [Billy] Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, and you can't go anywhere.
You got them right where you want them.

[both grunt]

- [Billy] Mm-hmm.
- Remember, finish, I go against you.

- [speaks indistinctly]
- [Mike] I won't do anything

if I don't risk being embarrassed.

I want to overcome my fears.

Like, now, I want to fight
this young m*therf*cker.

You know what I mean?

And like you say, "58,
sit your old a*s down."

No, I want to fight this guy
and kick his a*s.

[Rafael] Slip, roll, bring it on.

- Ooh! Whoo!
- [Billy] Wow.

- [Mike] Did I come then U it?
- [Billy] f*ck yeah.

- [Mike] U.
- [Billy] Beautiful U.

You finished where you can
throw another three-punch combo.

More missiles.

[Mike] I'm going into this fight
like a real fighter, very serious.

My intentions are to hurt him,
push ourselves to the limit.

That's who I am.

I'm a person that,
regardless if it hurts me, kills me,

I just push myself to the limit.

Because when I don't push myself
to the limit, I don't feel like I'm alive.

- [trainer 1] Seven. Eight.
- [trainer 2] Seven! Let's go. Two more.

- [trainer 1] Nine.
- [trainer 2] One more.

- One more!
- [trainer 2] Come on, come on. Ten.

Good work, Mike.

- [trainer 2] Impressive.
- I want to do this.

I want to do this. I want to be in there.

I'm an animal.

- [whimsical music playing]
- [exhales]

Sometimes I want to die.
You say, I just want to go to that limit.

What's that limit?
What is it where I can't give no more?

[Ice T] Under the constant
physical stress of camp,

and the spectacle of his bout
with Jake Paul closing in,

it's only natural
for Mike to have an outlet,

a hobby he's had
since he was just a kid in Brownsville

and hung on to
through all the twists and turns

life has thrown at him along the way.

[Mike] We're going to go inside
and look at them up close

and chase them in.

[shushes]

These are my babies.

This is my pride and joy right here.

They're world champion birds.
They won the World Cup.

I get up in the middle of the night,
I come here.

In the middle of the morning, I come here.
It could be any hours in the night.

Out of the 24 hours,
I'm probably here ten.

It's in my blood.
I can't live without them.

Beautiful babies.

They betray me sometimes
because they bump...

they land
on other people's roofs sometimes.

And that's a no-no in pigeon world.

They betray you, yeah, they do betray you.
Just like life, they betray you.

Look at this beautiful baby.

So beautiful.

I'm here so... so long.

My wife one day came in
and thought I had a girl in there.

I was partying.

She didn't understand,
my birds are my life.

That's all I want to be with.

She enjoys the fact that I don't go out
because this is where I stay.

This is just my sanctuary.
This is where I want to be.

Look at the eyes.
Pure clear with a black eyeball.

First class.

Top notch head bloodline.

I wouldn't have been a fighter
if it wasn't for pigeons.

All this stuff started from these birds.

[crew member] I want to see
what he looks like

- with his glasses on or off.
- [man] Of course.

- [Nakisa] Is this where I'm sitting?
- [crew member] Yeah, that's it.

[Nakisa] I'm Nakisa Bidarian,
co-founder of Most Valuable Promotions.

I've been partners with Jake Paul
throughout his boxing career.

If you ask Jake Paul
what his biggest accomplishment is

in his career?
It's not what he's done in the ring.

It's not how much money he's made.

It's not how many videos
he's had gone viral.

It's that he helped
put Amanda Serrano on and co-promoted

Taylor versus Serrano
at Madison Square Garden.

That's who Jake Paul is.

[upbeat music playing]

[Ice T]
Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor's

ferocious matchup in April 2022

at Madison Square Garden was arguably
the biggest women's boxing match ever.

Taylor was the winner that night
by way of split decision.

A decision that Serrano
and her fans will always dispute.

[announcer]...Katie Taylor!

[Amanda] I believe I won that fight.

But to me it was like,
I was just happy of what we've done

as two female fighters,
selling out Madison Square Garden,

breaking that million-dollar barrier.

That was something that I never thought
that we would be able to accomplish.

[Curran] Katie Taylor edged out fight one.

Everyone said,
"We want to see that again."

Let's run it back. The second fight
just got a whole lot bigger.

[Remy] Jake Paul's promotion
has been huge.

More people know who Amanda Serrano
and Katie Taylor is than ever before.

[upbeat music playing]

Katie Taylor versus Amanda Serrano,

the rematch as the co-main event
of me versus Mike Tyson,

July 20th, Dallas, Texas.
This event just got bigger.

♪ Got my bulletproof dress on
Feel no pain ♪

♪ Got the pedal to the metal
Yeah, you feel my reign ♪

[Katie] I take a lot of confidence
from that fight.

I took her best punches
and I wasn't moved.

I know going into the second fight,
into this rematch,

that I can take her best punches
and not be moved and keep going.

[Jake] As great of a fight
as me and Mike is,

I'm arguably more excited... [chuckles]
...to watch the fight before ours.

[music concludes]

[Ice T] Amanda Serrano has held
nine major world titles

across seven weight classes.

Good enough to be classified
as a Guinness World Record.

The Puerto Rican native
would be undisputed

as the best women's boxer ever,

if not for Katie Taylor,

who's only the eighth boxer,
man or woman,

to hold all four major titles
in a weight division at once.

It's all why the long-anticipated rematch
between Serrano and Taylor

is, in the minds of some,
a bigger attraction

than Jake Paul, Mike Tyson.

[Jake] Both of those women are incredible

and giving them
a record payday is massive.

But in my opinion,
Amanda won the first one.

And so I believe she has the ability

to rewrite what should have happened
the first time.

[soft music playing]

[Ice T] Like with any big fight,

- promotion is a big part of the game.
- [man] Harlem, New York!

- Make some noise!
- [Ice T] And the press tour kicks off

with back-to-back events
in Harlem and Arlington.

Every fight that's worth watching
happens for a reason.

There needs to be something at stake,

a motive for whoever's placing
their pride,

not to mention their life, on the line.

It could be something relatively simple,

like a rivalry between
two of the best in the world.

- Or something harder to understand.
- [host] Iron Mike Tyson!

[Nakisa] There's people who think

Mike Tyson is absolutely going
to k*ll Jake Paul.

There's people who absolutely
think the young man

is going to destroy the 58-year-old
who's not the same boxer that he was.

That's what makes this fight real.
That's what makes it exciting.

That's what's going to make people
tune in that night,

'cause you don't know
what's going to happen.

["Turning Heads" playing]

Hey, Dallas, shut the f*ck up.
Y'all keep booing, I'mma keep doing.

That's how y'all wanna do it?
Let's f*cking do it.

[Ariel] Every time I talk to someone,
they say, "Who's gonna win the fight?"

Everyone had an opinion on it.

♪ Black and white city
City wall, city wall ♪

♪ She could be dancing down a hall
Dancing down a hall ♪

[reporter] What do you say
to the people who are saying,

"You are too old to be fighting
a guy who's 28"?

I was born to do this,
but this is nothing new to me.

This is new to this young boy over here.

They say he's the baddest man
on the planet, so let's find out.

[Chris] You could present me
ten different scenarios

for how this fight was going to end,

and I'd probably find a way
to believe every single one of them.

I started Jake off,
and I'm gonna finish him.

You started me off.
I appreciate that, Mike,

- but I must discipline you.
- [laughs]

I'm gonna teach you how
to f*cking box, Mike.

Okay.

♪ We're turning heads, we're turning heads
We're turning heads ♪

This fight connects
several generations of fans.

[Chris] The boomers that grew up
worshipping Tyson,

it's going to bring in the 20-somethings
that live off Jake Paul's YouTube videos.

[Ice T] When these two superstars
collide in the ring,

it will be one of the most
anticipated boxing rematches in years.

Having Katie and Amanda on this card
adds legitimacy to the entire event.

I did win the fight. The right winner won.

It was a fantastic fight,
but the right winner won.

I'm going to start that fight
the way I started that fifth round,

but finish it.

Both of these fighters are two
of the best fighters in boxing history.

[Ice T] And then, a YouTube star
and a 58-year-old legend

will meet in a clash
impossible to look away from.

What round are you going
to knock out Jake Paul in?

As soon as he gets hit.

They call him Iron Mike Tyson,
but I'm Titanium Jake Paul.

I think you're suicidal,
that's what I think.

[blogger] Do you think Jake Paul
can beat Mike Tyson?

I don't think so. [chuckles]

If I was Jake Paul right now,
I would be sh1tting my pants.

[Chad]
Mike hasn't been in the ring in 20 years.

The conditioning,
that's the only thing I'm worried about.

When Tyson hits him, it's over.

f*ck Jake Paul.

- f*ck Jake Paul.
- f*ck Jake Paul.

- I like that sh*t, yeah.
- f*ck Jake...

[Ice T] Deep down,
all fighters are essentially the same.

They don't hide their pain
like the rest of us.

They transfer it to whoever dares
to stand in front of them.

[trainer] Come on, Mike!

[Ice T] The result can be spectacles
impossible to look away from,

undertakings that seem
foolishly loaded with risk,

stories that, at one point or another,
are destined to clash with reality.

♪ And nothing can stop us now ♪

[Jake] Life is not normal anymore.

I'm fighting
one of the most famous boxers ever.

And when I knock him the f*ck out,
I will be the new face of boxing.

[Mike] A guy like Jake, you hate him
or you love him in this kind of game.

There's nothing in between.
You just want to win.

But I want to do more than that.
I want to set a precedent.

f*ck him up.

- ♪ And nothing can stop us now ♪
- [music concludes]

[phone chimes]

[reporter 1] Boxer Mike Tyson's team
says he became nauseous and dizzy

onboard a flight to Los Angeles

due to an ulcer flare-up
about 30 minutes before landing.

[reporter 2] Mike Tyson's return
to the ring will have to wait.

Organizers announced his match
against YouTuber

Jake Paul has been postponed.

When I received the news that he was out
and not able to fight, I was just numb.

Just like... "f*ck."

["Brooklyn Showdown" playing]

♪ It's that concrete energy ♪

♪ Leveled up ambition
In a battle, claim victory ♪

♪ Surgical precision
When I'm chopping down enemies ♪

♪ Certified gangster
Only wins in my memory ♪

♪ A chance, the epitome ♪

♪ The force is centripetal
Leave contenders in critical ♪

♪ Figuratively or literal
Power up, super lyrical ♪

♪ Separate you from spiritual
These hands are a miracle ♪

♪ Wordplay is satirical
Technique is empirical ♪

♪ It's for the grimy
In the arena is where you find me ♪

♪ Shutting down any challengers
Who wanna try me ♪

♪ The empire state
Said triumph was my fate ♪

♪ Only the strong survive
Passing through the lion's gate ♪

♪ It's for the grimy
In the arena is where you find me ♪

♪ Shutting down any challengers
Who wanna try me ♪

♪ The empire state
Said triumph was my fate ♪

♪ Only the strong survive
Passing through the lion's gate ♪

♪ Yeah, the underground reigns supreme ♪

♪ The champ is here ♪

[music concludes]