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Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson · Clay & Buck Recommendations

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  Speaker 1: The way to judge fighters is not necessarily by by
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  Speaker 1: wins and losses by but by what they've survived. And
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  Speaker 1: I think in the case of Tyson, however you feel
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  Speaker 1: about him, you do have to acknowledge he has survived
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  Speaker 1: lack of a mother, a father who split drugs booze u,
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  Speaker 1: two stints in prison, actually three if you count you know,
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  Speaker 1: juvenile prison, don King boxing itself. And he emerged in
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  Speaker 1: a way that I could never have anticipated. In a
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  Speaker 1: certain way, he's out, he's outpaced my imagination and the
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  Speaker 1: idea that the book begins. I know everyone kind of
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  Speaker 1: knows him from from Jake Paul or the movies, the
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  Speaker 1: Hangover movies. But my book begins with him watching his
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  Speaker 1: kid play tennis, his daughter play tennis in Orange County,
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  Speaker 1: which is neither a place nor a situation I could
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  Speaker 1: have ever anticipated him being. I mean, I covered his trial,
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  Speaker 1: I covered his fights. I never thought he would have
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  Speaker 1: been here, So I got to give him some respect
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  Speaker 1: on that count.