Princess Diana whispered something to Michael Jackson that night that changed his life forever. What she told him in those private moments would remain hidden for decades until now. This isn’t just the story of two global icons meeting at a royal gala. This is the story of how a princess saved the king of…
The hotel conference room in Panama City, Panama on November 12th, 1984 was supposed to be secure, private, a place where powerful men could meet without surveillance, without interruption, without the world knowing they were in the same room together. Present were five men who between them…
March 1995, Mike Tyson, inmate number 9223-35, sat in the visiting room of the Indiana Youth Center prison, staring at the most unexpected sight of his incarceration, Muhammad Ali, the greatest boxer who ever lived, waiting patiently at a metal table with hands trembling from Parkinson’s disease. Tyson had lost everything. His heavyweight title, his…
Picture a government that hands organized crime the greatest business opportunity in human history. Not metaphorically, literally. The United States Congress drafts the legislation. The states ratify it. The president signs it into law. And on the 17th of January 1920, at midnight, the most powerful nation on Earth makes it illegal to manufacture,…
October 1, 1975, the Thriller in Manila. The greatest fight in boxing history. Muhammad Ali and Joe Frasier battled for 14 brutal rounds in 105° heat. What nobody knew was that Ali entered that ring with three broken ribs from a training accident two weeks earlier. For 22 years, the secret stayed buried in medical…
Muhammad Ali faced countless opponents throughout his legendary career, but none of them surprised him quite like seen Connory. [music] In the spring of 1966, while preparing for his rematch against Henry Cooper in London, Ali encountered a familiar face at the training gym. And what he assumed would be an ordinary day turned into…
George Foreman and Muhammad Ali had not shared a stage since Zire in 1974 when Ali knocked him out in eight rounds in what became the most famous upset in boxing history. 5 years later at a Houston charity gala, Foreman grabbed a microphone and invited Ali into the ring one more time. Ali was…
March 21st, 1980, 9:20 p.m. South Philadelphia, 9th Street, and Snyder Avenue. Angelo Bruno, 69 years old, compact and careful, the kind of boss who could end a dispute with a look, is sitting in the passenger seat of a car outside his own home. He smells the cigarette smoke. He hears the idle of…
The prison yard was different from anything Mike Tyson had ever experienced. And he’d been through hell before. But this this was a special kind of hell. Concrete walls stretching up to the sky, barbed wire coiled thick along the top, guards watching from towers with rifles ready, and everywhere you looked, men who had…
December 17,9 86 5:30 a.m. A truck stop off the New Jersey Turnpike. Richard Klinsky sat in his car waiting. He thought he was about to close a deal for cyanide and a mob hit. Instead, undercover ATF agents surrounded him, guns drawn. Operation Iceman was over. The suburban family man, the guy who…
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