26 years The Dewey Bozella Story — Transcript

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1. 0:08what is 26 years
2. 0:1526 years it's a long time fighting for
3. 0:22your freedom dreams goals snatched away
4. 0:30gone
5. 0:3426 years is a long time to lose life
6. 0:49June 14 1977 Poughkeepsie New York the
7. 0:55crime was as gruesome as it gets you
8. 0:59have a 92 year old woman entering her
9. 1:02home late at night 11 p.m.
10. 1:05she's attacked she has cloth stuff down
11. 1:11her throat and then more cloth tied
12. 1:15around her mouth till she suffocates and
13. 1:17dies when the victim is an elderly woman
14. 1:20and she is murdered in an in a brutal
15. 1:22way the community wants to see justice
16. 1:26you have pressure on the police pressure
17. 1:29on the District Attorney's Office to
18. 1:31find the person who did this and to
19. 1:35punish that person on June 14 1977 92
20. 1:44year old Emma crapster was murdered
21. 1:46during a home break-in based on a tip
22. 1:51from another suspect the Poughkeepsie
23. 1:53police arrested 18 year old Dewey Bo's
24. 1:55Ella and two others and charged them
25. 1:58with the brutal killing
26. 2:03douwe Bo's Ella's life had been shaped
27. 2:05by violence when he was 8 years old he
28. 2:10saw his father beat his pregnant mother
29. 2:12to death sending he and his siblings
30. 2:16into foster care
31. 2:19when he was 16 his brother was stabbed
32. 2:22to death in a fight at 17 he left New
33. 2:27York City and moved upstate to
34. 2:29Poughkeepsie to find a different life
35. 2:33instead he faced the charge of murder he
36. 2:38had been in trouble before but the
37. 2:39violent crimes weren't his thing okay
38. 2:43and he was scared and by the same time
39. 2:45determined that things were gonna work
40. 2:48out okay I'm not gonna tell you how good
41. 2:51he good II did I rob and I still yes but
42. 2:55was I murder one no they never found any
43. 2:57physical evidence it wasn't enough to
44. 2:59indict him the grand jury returned a
45. 3:01noble decision and that should have been
46. 3:05it
47. 3:05that should have been the end of the
48. 3:06case
49. 3:11it's six years later Dewey's gone to
50. 3:15Community College he's turning his life
51. 3:17around and all of a sudden he hears
52. 3:21there's a warrant out for his arrest for
53. 3:26what for a 1977 murder in Poughkeepsie
54. 3:29New York six years after Emma crappers
55. 3:33murder police came back to do ebo gsella
56. 3:36based on the word of two convicted
57. 3:38felons
58. 3:39Wayne Mosley and Lamar Smith Smith was
59. 3:44the suspect who originally implicated
60. 3:45Bo's Ella in 1977 Mosley was serving
61. 3:49time on a felony robbery conviction when
62. 3:52the district attorney approached him
63. 3:53with a deal he was offered again at a
64. 3:56jail free card if Wayne Mosley testified
65. 4:00against two IBAs Ella Wayne Mosley was
66. 4:02released from prison and that's exactly
67. 4:03what happened for testifying against
68. 4:06Bo's Ella Mosley was released from
69. 4:09prison with three years remaining on his
70. 4:11sentence for his cooperation Lamar Smith
71. 4:14was paroled
72. 4:15Dewey Bo's ella was arrested he told
73. 4:19police he was innocent miles away from
74. 4:22the scene when the crime happened
75. 4:23but in the fall of 1983 before an
76. 4:26all-white jury he went on trial for
77. 4:29murder the prosecutors offered the
78. 4:33testimony of two convicted felons Lamar
79. 4:35Smith and Wayne Mosley both of whom got
80. 4:38out of prison in exchange for their
81. 4:39testimony it was all testimonial
82. 4:42evidence there was nothing one could
83. 4:45hold touch smell or see that linked do
84. 4:50IBAs Allah to the murder of Hema
85. 4:51crapster who stole 100 items nothing had
86. 4:56my fingerprints on it
87. 4:57nothing December 3rd 1983 the verdict
88. 5:04came in guilty 20 years to life
89. 5:13everything was taken from me
90. 5:17you had about seven people have on the
91. 5:19jury but I broke down crime once they
92. 5:21found me guilty and so I found that to
93. 5:23be very strange and I looked at them and
94. 5:28I said it's too late it's too late you
95. 5:32know you set me away for the rest of my
96. 5:35life it's too late
97. 5:37[Music]
98. 5:49what breaks a man here it's what every
99. 5:54man loses and each man serves time is
100. 6:03being in a box
101. 6:04[Music]
102. 6:06we're hopes and dreams can be destroyed
103. 6:09[Music]
104. 6:11sometime there's no faith there's no
105. 6:13hope I was angry
106. 6:15I was bitter I was frustrated I was mad
107. 6:18I had to find myself to escape the box
108. 6:26beause Ella found the ring in 1985 Bob
109. 6:30Jackson a correction officer at
110. 6:32sing-sing started a boxing program I
111. 6:35knew that anything that one could
112. 6:39implement in the daily routine of the
113. 6:42inmates that they would like would help
114. 6:46to ease the tension I said I'm getting
115. 6:50on this I stayed out of trouble
116. 6:53I pushed away from all negativity
117. 6:56because it was me fight against the
118. 7:00system I'm trying to get my freedom in
119. 7:05the ring beause Ella excelled
120. 7:07he became sing sings light heavyweight
121. 7:09champion as part of the boxing program
122. 7:12top amateurs were brought into the
123. 7:14prison to box with inmates in 1989 an
124. 7:18undefeated Boz Ella faced New York
125. 7:21Golden Gloves champ
126. 7:22Lou Duvall he's one of those guys who
127. 7:25just kept picking as the fight got
128. 7:28longer he was coming on harder and I
129. 7:32caught him with a good shot and I kind
130. 7:34of
131. 7:35they stopped the fight because of a
132. 7:37cuddle hi you know but he was very lucky
133. 7:41I walked out of things he would like to
134. 7:44put it what made me proud is that he
135. 7:47went on ahead he won a championship in
136. 7:49the world as showing me that the
137. 7:51abilities would have ability with no
138. 7:56opportunity but after six and a half
139. 7:59years inside there was a glimmer of hope
140. 8:02an appeals panel ruled Bo's Ellis civil
141. 8:05rights were violated in his trial when
142. 8:07prosecutors excluded all potential
143. 8:09African American jurors his conviction
144. 8:12was overturned
145. 8:14Dewey Bo's Ella was going back to court
146. 8:22[Music]
147. 8:27in 1990 Dewey Bo's Ella was serving 20
148. 8:31years to life for murder but that same
149. 8:34year his conviction was overturned and
150. 8:36in December he was on trial again for
151. 8:39the murder of Emma Kratzer this time as
152. 8:42the trial neared its end prosecutors
153. 8:44approached posed Ella with a deal they
154. 8:48often need 7:14
155. 8:52then I had at that time six and a happy
156. 8:55is it so I couldn't went to the parole
157. 8:57board six months later and possibility
158. 9:00have gone along you get the words out of
159. 9:03her mouth and he said I didn't kill I'm
160. 9:05a crafter I can't can't plead guilty
161. 9:07then he came back and he offered me
162. 9:12manslaughter and they said all you had
163. 9:15to do was sign a piece of paper and tell
164. 9:16us how you did it and uh go home beause
165. 9:22Ella was 31 years old he dreamed of
166. 9:25becoming a professional boxer of
167. 9:27building a life of having a family of
168. 9:31being free sign the paper and walk out
169. 9:36of prison
170. 9:43no way I got the dying prison to tell
171. 9:47you something I didn't do I'll tell you
172. 9:50if I did it I'd be man enough to tell
173. 9:53you I did it
174. 9:54beause Ella rejected the plea offer the
175. 9:59case went to the jury if you see a of
176. 10:03your freedom in pates I'll do anything
177. 10:07just give my freedom and do he wouldn't
178. 10:09do that
179. 10:09on December 13th 1990 the jury came back
180. 10:15guilty again I couldn't live with that I
181. 10:25couldn't live with all the rest of my
182. 10:30life saying I did something that I
183. 10:34didn't do like this couldn't live with
184. 10:36that I couldn't
185. 10:44back to sing-sing back to 20 years to
186. 10:49life time takes but time teaches as
187. 10:54months became years mozella took classes
188. 10:58and earned degrees a bachelor's and a
189. 11:01master's as a model prisoner
190. 11:03he was profiled by a local news channel
191. 11:06for his participation in the new york
192. 11:08theology masters program
193. 11:09this first of learning this type of
194. 11:12education comes once in a lifetime in
195. 11:161995 in the prisons visiting room he met
196. 11:20elementary school teacher
197. 11:21Trina Boone while Boone was visiting her
198. 11:24brother at that time I didn't know what
199. 11:27he was in for I didn't know how much
200. 11:29time he had but I knew one thing as I
201. 11:32got closer to him there was something
202. 11:34there that I said I really need to meet
203. 11:36this person
204. 11:36I was very blunt and I said I'm not
205. 11:40looking for a girlfriend but I want a
206. 11:42wife and that's what had me cracking up
207. 11:45as I was leaving and got to the car and
208. 11:47I'm like oh wife you know I really
209. 11:50couldn't put prison and a wife together
210. 11:52it just didn't fit Beau's Ella called
211. 11:55and wrote and courted Trina in December
212. 11:59of 1995 he asked her to marry him I said
213. 12:04you know do we I don't I have to think
214. 12:08about that you know I like you I like
215. 12:11the person that you are
216. 12:12but you asking me to change my entire
217. 12:15life
218. 12:16she did on March 30th 1996 in a prison
219. 12:21visiting room
220. 12:22they became husband and wife you know I
221. 12:26did get to visit him we did get a chance
222. 12:28to sit next to each other it wasn't like
223. 12:30behind any walls or anything to me I
224. 12:33always called it the play marriage we
225. 12:37did this for years and years and years
226. 12:39you start to get used to it
227. 12:42married educated imprisoned after 20
228. 12:49years Bose Ella became eligible for
229. 12:51parole in 2003 I said baby and then you
230. 12:58know right now I'm never going to the
231. 13:00poor boy tell his people I did it but I
232. 13:02mean I got nine prisoners so be it you
233. 13:05can walk away now she said I hang all
234. 13:08over Bo's Ella was denied he went back
235. 13:13three more times in 2005 2007 and 2009
236. 13:19he was denied all three parole should
237. 13:23have been a rubber stamp and it wasn't
238. 13:25for the simple reason that do we
239. 13:26wouldn't confess to a crime he hadn't
240. 13:28committed since 2001 he had been writing
241. 13:32to the Innocence Project which helps to
242. 13:34free the wrongfully imprisoned through
243. 13:36DNA testing he wrote the same letter
244. 13:39nearly every week after four years of
245. 13:43letters the group finally took bows
246. 13:45Ella's case and then found out as part
247. 13:48of a routine purge by the City of
248. 13:50Poughkeepsie the evidence gathered by
249. 13:52police had been destroyed
250. 13:55the blood samples the hair samples and
251. 13:58everything that could prove my innocence
252. 14:00was gone he said train that was my last
253. 14:04hope
254. 14:06and I said no it's still just the
255. 14:10beginning
256. 14:11I said you're coming out of here I knew
257. 14:16he was innocent I knew that if somebody
258. 14:19just dug in there if somebody just did
259. 14:22some more investigation that they would
260. 14:23find something that would overturn that
261. 14:26conviction the Innocence Project
262. 14:29believed in Beau's Ella's case and
263. 14:31turned it over to a powerful New York
264. 14:33law firm Wilmer Hale second-year
265. 14:36associate Ross first and Baum
266. 14:37volunteered to explore the facts I
267. 14:41firmly believed from the trial
268. 14:44transcripts from talking to the
269. 14:47Innocence Project and from meeting Dewey
270. 14:49that he could not have committed this
271. 14:51crime how in the world were we going to
272. 14:55demonstrate that Dewey was wrongfully
273. 14:58convicted the lawyers from Wilmer Hale
274. 15:01immediately began re-examining the facts
275. 15:03and pursuing old leads they asked to
276. 15:08meet with the lead detective in the case
277. 15:09and to their surprise he handed over a
278. 15:12copy of his 30 year old case file in the
279. 15:16file they discovered interviews with
280. 15:18witnesses that directly contradicted the
281. 15:20testimony of Wayne Mosley and Lamar
282. 15:22Smith the convicted felons who
283. 15:25implicated Beau's Ella for the murder
284. 15:27pages of that report were never shown to
285. 15:29Beau's Ella's lawyers and those
286. 15:31interviews were never heard at fiber
287. 15:33trial here was this evidence showing
288. 15:37that Wayne Mosley story and Lamar Smith
289. 15:41story just didn't make sense it didn't
290. 15:44happen and yet the district attorney
291. 15:46didn't show it to do these lawyers
292. 15:49with these new findings Wilmer Hale
293. 15:53filed a motion to overturn Bo's Ella's
294. 15:55murder conviction on October 14th 2009
295. 16:00that conviction was dismissed but Bo's
296. 16:04Ella was not free the district attorney
297. 16:07would decide in court if Bo's Ella would
298. 16:09face a third trial for murder when the
299. 16:13day came to go to court we really did
300. 16:16not know for sure what the prosecutor
301. 16:18was gonna do the doors open and do he
302. 16:22appears in shackles
303. 16:26so the first time that I had seen him in
304. 16:28shackles our view of the matter has
305. 16:31determined that many of the witnesses
306. 16:33who were integral to the prosecution of
307. 16:35this case I no longer available what do
308. 16:38you want to do mr. prosecutor
309. 16:40are you want to take this man to order
310. 16:43trial are you were going to take this
311. 16:45case and let it go as a result it's our
312. 16:48position that the matter must be
313. 16:50dismissed in the interest of justice and
314. 16:52the people so move to dismiss the
315. 16:54indictment and rivers all in order to be
316. 16:56released immediately
317. 16:59[Applause]
318. 17:04the judge looked at Dewey and ordered
319. 17:07the guards to remove the shackles and
320. 17:10Dewey was free
321. 17:11[Music]
322. 17:28we did it i soap
323. 17:32[Music]
324. 17:34I am a lifetime
325. 17:38I got my life back we never prosecution
326. 17:42and the police did I'm gonna let it go
327. 17:45because I got to move on with my life
328. 17:47[Music]
329. 17:49I worry about what they did I've never
330. 17:51won't get away I need to go after 26
331. 17:55years in prison
332. 17:56Dewey Bo's Ella now fifty years old
333. 18:00wanted many things as a free man among
334. 18:03them to know what it would feel like
335. 18:05just once to fight as a professional
336. 18:11it's for me it's nothing everybody else
337. 18:13miss from here I need to know I need to
338. 18:17know what could it be
339. 18:26after spending 26 years in prison for a
340. 18:30murder he didn't commit
341. 18:31Dewey Bo's Ella was finally a free man
342. 18:40he volunteered for a job working as a
343. 18:42trainer and conditioning coach spreading
344. 18:49his story sharing his inspiration in
345. 18:54exchange Mozilla had a request he wanted
346. 18:58one fight I didn't want to fight amateur
347. 19:01I would really like to know what it
348. 19:03feels like to be a pro and I believe
349. 19:05that it was something that you know I
350. 19:07needed to find out for myself as word of
351. 19:12Beau's Ella's story spread it captured
352. 19:13the attention of the national media and
353. 19:15in July of 2011 he was honored with the
354. 19:18ESPN Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the
355. 19:21ESPYs
356. 19:22ladies and gentlemen please join me in
357. 19:24welcoming Dewey boos Ella
358. 19:29I saw a man who as he walked up to that
359. 19:31podium and he threw his hands up to me
360. 19:35that was him saying I told you I was
361. 19:38never giving up
362. 19:43[Applause]
363. 19:46every day I had to ask myself how do I
364. 19:50survive this nightmare sing-sing a place
365. 19:53where hate and anger are the order of
366. 19:56the day
367. 19:57boxing awakened me I felt free I was no
368. 20:01longer a prisoner so all the lawyers
369. 20:05involved in my case thank you for your
370. 20:08dedication and belief in me and most of
371. 20:10all for making me a free man may God
372. 20:15bless you all
373. 20:15good night
374. 20:21[Music]
375. 20:23we're sitting there watching the award
376. 20:24ceremony I'm I'm emailing our friends
377. 20:27and business partners at Golden Boy
378. 20:29Promotions Richard Schaefer and Oscar De
379. 20:31La Hoya and I said there's an incredible
380. 20:33story if you're not gonna believe this
381. 20:35this is giving a man who was
382. 20:39incarcerated for all those years an
383. 20:41opportunity to live his dream of
384. 20:42fighting that one professional fight
385. 20:44let's make it happen for him days later
386. 20:48promoters identified a potential fight
387. 20:50for Bo's Ella on the undercard of the
388. 20:52Bernard Hopkins Chad Dawson light
389. 20:55heavyweight championship fight on
390. 20:56October 15th in Los Angeles you think I
391. 21:00ain't gonna jump on it
392. 21:02right it's the once-in-a-lifetime I'm
393. 21:04not trying to embarrass myself you know
394. 21:07I know that I have you know the age
395. 21:08against me but first beause Ella needed
396. 21:12a license to fight professionally in
397. 21:14California no one over 50 years old had
398. 21:17ever earned one Dewey Bose Ella was 52
399. 21:24after the five-hour flight from New York
400. 21:26Dewey and his wife Trina arrived in Los
401. 21:29Angeles for a day-long battery of
402. 21:32medical tests followed by an evening
403. 21:34sparring session all part of his
404. 21:37California licensing exam one step at a
405. 21:42time
406. 21:43after this the next one this gets busy
407. 21:47rock and roll when I finally got to LA
408. 21:54for the next five hours I took nothing
409. 21:57but testing didn't even have a chance to
410. 22:01unpack my stuff
411. 22:06your EKG I'll tell you right now came
412. 22:08out completely normal
413. 22:09you will be undergoing an MRI the brain
414. 22:11a little bit later today right now
415. 22:13you're Wayne and at 205 with clothes dr.
416. 22:17Clough will be coming in here to do a
417. 22:18neurological examination on you an
418. 22:20extensive neural on you how many fights
419. 22:23do you think you've had altogether I had
420. 22:26ten ten and in prison isn't
421. 22:33once you've completed this I will email
422. 22:35all this over to the state of California
423. 22:37and then that way within two weeks you
424. 22:39will get a federal ID number providing
425. 22:41you pass your evaluation tonight show
426. 22:44the inspector that you've got you have
427. 22:46the skills of a boxer and that you know
428. 22:48you can defend yourself in a boxing ring
429. 22:59anyone has a right to be evaluated we'll
430. 23:03see today when we put him through these
431. 23:04number of drills if he has been doing
432. 23:06what he has said because if he has been
433. 23:09doing what he said then we will know
434. 23:11right away what we're gonna do now is go
435. 23:14over what we're gonna do exactly in your
436. 23:18evaluation to become a pro athlete in
437. 23:20the state of California you're gonna do
438. 23:22five minutes on the jump rope
439. 23:30time five minutes on the heavy bag time
440. 23:39five minutes on the speed bag
441. 23:44[Applause]
442. 23:48[Music]
443. 23:48[Applause]
444. 23:51five minutes on the mint and then you're
445. 23:59gonna do three three-minute round
446. 24:00sparring with mr. Karp I've been up
447. 24:07since 3 o'clock this morning correct
448. 24:09yeah again we're just doing what we were
449. 24:11told to do we were told to come here and
450. 24:12do an evaluation and that's all that
451. 24:15we're doing right now so we just follow
452. 24:17the same protocol we do with every
453. 24:18athlete in California okay after the
454. 24:22four phases of cardio testing mozella
455. 24:25entered the ring to spar with a man 22
456. 24:27years younger professional heavyweight
457. 24:30Andre car throg this is control
458. 24:47I could see that the opponent the guy he
459. 24:57was borrowing with it was uh really
460. 24:59going kind of wild Donald I made the
461. 25:03decision to just walk out at certain
462. 25:04point in my heart I knew he was dead
463. 25:09tired
464. 25:20[Applause]
465. 25:26Harger looked good technique looked good
466. 25:28in terms of how was it rated between one
467. 25:31and ten
468. 25:31that'll be determined by our office in
469. 25:34Sacramento
470. 25:34I believed 99.9% I proved him that I did
471. 25:39it so I believe that I should get it on
472. 25:41this close from getting that fight I'm
473. 25:44this close
474. 25:51every home
475. 25:53I think he was feeling like alright this
476. 25:56a third trial because his life was in
477. 26:01somebody else's hands again hey that was
478. 26:07a little nervous I'll be honest hello I
479. 26:14do it
480. 26:16how you doing Jay well okay first of all
481. 26:21I thank you for coming to California and
482. 26:23doing the evaluation for us yeah I
483. 26:25appreciate you giving me the chance I
484. 26:27put together a letter after going
485. 26:30through everything and I'm gonna go
486. 26:31ahead and read right off the letter and
487. 26:32then we'll go from there with a question
488. 26:34dear mr. Brazil is whether self service
489. 26:37know that that you're professional
490. 26:38boxing application is currently denied
491. 26:40this action being taken based upon your
492. 26:43performance and evaluation process
493. 26:44performance strong sports boxing gym in
494. 26:46Los Angeles despite receiving high
495. 26:49cardiological reviews it was the actual
496. 26:51sparring stage of the eval that raised
497. 26:53concerns do it it was reported that you
498. 26:55had difficulty with lateral movement in
499. 26:56the ring it was noted that you showed
500. 26:59questionable reflexes and lacked
501. 27:01adequate defensive footwork
502. 27:03this isn't be-all-end-all you have an
503. 27:05opportunity to next month
504. 27:06to hone your craft a bit more work on
505. 27:09some of the things we just listed off
506. 27:11and possibly coming up in another
507. 27:13evaluation to try and make it
508. 27:16rescheduled about in October 15 if
509. 27:18that's something you would like to do do
510. 27:21we just went to the men's room for a
511. 27:23minute this is his wife Trina bozo how
512. 27:25are you I'm doing great Trina did you
513. 27:28okay I hope so I know that the first
514. 27:31portion was stunning probably to doing
515. 27:34that first thing we gave him hope but we
516. 27:37gave him some Avenue to hone his skills
517. 27:39and here evaluate it okay we're very
518. 27:42confident that we came up with the
519. 27:44correct evaluation in that he doesn't at
520. 27:47the present time show the ability to be
521. 27:50at that level
522. 27:52all that for nothing manically just did
523. 27:54that from the beginning all that for
524. 27:56nothing all that work for nothing man
525. 28:03almost a bunch of booze somewhere my
526. 28:06life is being man always just struggling
527. 28:09the conflict I'm gonna try it again for
528. 28:12it's over with man they killed it so so
529. 28:20you're saying you guys will give him
530. 28:23another shot at this evaluation I do
531. 28:25agree that you probably didn't get the
532. 28:27best out of Dewey and I only believe
533. 28:30that it's fair then he come in fresh and
534. 28:32if you still have the same outcome I
535. 28:35think that that this was a fair decision
536. 28:38so this letter that you're sending will
537. 28:40tell Dewey the exact things he needs to
538. 28:42work on when you ain't got me doing over
539. 28:5425 minutes a word the man didn't do
540. 29:02anything I bust my butt man he didn't do
541. 29:06anything
542. 29:06he sat there for Oh laughter now I
543. 29:09worked out and then you go putting out
544. 29:11there and heavyweight when I'm a crews
545. 29:13away he got me by at least 25 pounds so
546. 29:16he's got the advantage you took the
547. 29:18advantage away from me if you didn't
548. 29:20take the fans away from I guarantee it's
549. 29:22a whole different fight I probably would
550. 29:24have dropped them but how can I drop me
551. 29:26you take away my energy he even said
552. 29:29your maybe you want me to fight this man
553. 29:31is wrong with this man after all the
554. 29:33work you did with him and y'all said go
555. 29:35out then do it and that's exactly what I
556. 29:37did he didn't beat him taking away my
557. 29:44dream okay I appreciate your time nope
558. 30:06she's overweight you know I'm not I'm
559. 30:09not thinking about it no can't quit now
560. 30:10it's not quittin it's just a reality
561. 30:13reality they're gonna do the same
562. 30:15get this doing nothing comes easy for
563. 30:18you oh yeah that's how did it I'm just
564. 30:21sick of it no you got 30 days 30 days
565. 30:24for what you need to find a trainer that
566. 30:26where's the store that's how it is
567. 30:29remember how you say either you lay down
568. 30:31or you get up and fight which one are
569. 30:33you gonna do it's not laying down that's
570. 30:36just a simple fact is they don't want me
571. 30:38to fight yeah they always all every
572. 30:48single time [ __ ] calm accomplished
573. 30:52wake up I only got to bust my ass and
574. 30:55prove something
575. 30:57[Music]
576. 30:59his quote to this world is to never give
577. 31:01up you're telling the world to never
578. 31:05give up and you're going to give up you
579. 31:09can't give up let nobody take away your
580. 31:14dreams he deserves another chance
581. 31:23Dewey Bo's eller was denied a license to
582. 31:26fight professionally in California but
583. 31:29he was given a second chance
584. 31:31another licensing test to be taken in
585. 31:34one month
586. 31:37this time he would train in Philadelphia
587. 31:41with a man who understood where he'd
588. 31:44been and what he'd been through the
589. 31:47difference between me and Dewey and my
590. 31:49story is that I I did what I did not pay
591. 31:52my time this is an innocent man at 17
592. 31:56Bernard Hopkins was serving time for
593. 31:57nine felonies like Bo's Ella he
594. 32:00discovered the prison boxing program
595. 32:03after his release he would go on to earn
596. 32:06the world middleweight title and
597. 32:08successfully defended a record 20 times
598. 32:11I never knew this man personally he
599. 32:16never knew me but the connection is if I
600. 32:18can give this lifelong dream that could
601. 32:21have been and was taken away give him
602. 32:24the opportunity to do it the work began
603. 32:31immediately at the hands of Hopkins
604. 32:33longtime assistant trainer Danny Davis
605. 32:37I thought I'd do something about
606. 32:39training I found out that I was pleased
607. 32:42I was way off
608. 32:46no I thought he wouldn't get past the
609. 32:49first eight exercises and when he did I
610. 32:52said this is probably not I was thinking
611. 32:58I'm like wow wow man we really can be
612. 33:02really do this when we got in the ring
613. 33:08that second round he was tired he was
614. 33:10pretty much spunked out and I told him
615. 33:19they're gonna do two rounds and he
616. 33:20turned around and he didn't complained
617. 33:24and he started dancing on his toes and
618. 33:26they started getting loose that was a
619. 33:29death deciding point that I wanted to
620. 33:31train him for this [ __ ] at the scene
621. 33:39he'll today we're gonna make some noise
622. 33:45in training as in boxing will is the
623. 33:50single way the road
624. 34:00the ring
625. 34:05the rounds
626. 34:09will is the path and the passage that
627. 34:13every fighter follows to get where he
628. 34:15wants to go he's not the average Vista -
629. 34:19yo I know a lot of 52 yards and
630. 34:24physically they in in good shape I know
631. 34:28a lot of 46 years old 35 year old they
632. 34:31come keep up with this man Bernard
633. 34:37Hopkins is a teacher of the game and a
634. 34:39student of the game and do we is in a
635. 34:43perfect position to learn everything
636. 34:46there is to know about boxing and he's
637. 34:48learning from the best
638. 34:49this is where I got it staying back up
639. 34:51like I made and make it happen one
640. 34:56minute rest three minutes just like the
641. 35:00fight
642. 35:03mosè Ella's biggest hurdle was climbing
643. 35:06back in the ring to spar mastering the
644. 35:09portion of the test he failed they need
645. 35:12to see action you understand
646. 35:18we got pitch them no no punches man Nate
647. 35:22Ruess no we pass a little test like that
648. 35:28this is jus just about one I want
649. 35:31pressure right and I want you to make
650. 35:33his head fight
651. 35:34so this is the rental he got I want him
652. 35:36to get to keep pressure on it
653. 35:39it's gonna make him up breaking
654. 35:41depression on it see Kenny handling
655. 35:44their pressure
656. 35:45see kidney hunter that pressure
657. 35:57[Applause]
658. 36:14[Music]
659. 36:16when we go in front of the Commission
660. 36:19they want to see that 52 is just the age
661. 36:29even if they said no I'll learn to let
662. 36:32it go like I learned let go everything
663. 36:33else in my life I just want to know that
664. 36:36I gave one Z in percent and then I can
665. 36:39live with that
666. 36:40a month after failing to get his license
667. 36:43Bo's Ella was back for his second and
668. 36:46final chance they find that much stuff
669. 36:49down I did a lot other people down as
670. 36:51well they took the chance on me with
671. 36:55Danny Davis in Philadelphia to work with
672. 36:58Hopkins assistant trainer
673. 37:00Wendell Chavis led the workout golden
674. 37:05boy president Oscar De La Hoya came to
675. 37:08see the fighter at first end he willing
676. 37:12to see if this is worth it because his
677. 37:14reputation is on the line before so what
678. 37:22we're looking for is being able to
679. 37:23defend yourself that's my main concern
680. 37:25obviously is safety in the ring the
681. 37:27first portion or do some five minutes of
682. 37:29jump rope get the blood flow in a little
683. 37:31bit
684. 37:38I don't wish for the Commission to look
685. 37:40at his speed that his punching power I
686. 37:47want them to focus directly on his heart
687. 37:53and think about what he has accomplished
688. 37:56what he has gone through to be right
689. 37:59here today it doesn't get any tougher
690. 38:03than that
691. 38:05after looking strong in the cardio
692. 38:07testing mozella returned to the ring to
693. 38:11confront the portion of the test he
694. 38:12failed the first time
695. 38:17[Music]
696. 38:35[Applause]
697. 38:36this is it one two three one two three
698. 38:40isn't it give it all you got
699. 38:50they're doing let's go talk real quick
700. 38:53the concern is the incoming job I notice
701. 38:56you were kind of taking those even
702. 38:57though we're going at about 80% you can
703. 38:59improve on that you got a couple more
704. 39:00weeks prior to your camp and prior to
705. 39:02the fight you're ready to go give it to
706. 39:05me you guys thank you may find that
707. 39:13finding a funny guy in there I finally
708. 39:16got it can you hear me all right I want
709. 39:46you know they passed the physical
710. 39:47gave me my license I did
711. 39:56they said I couldn't do it I did it now
712. 40:01let's move on to the next stage which is
713. 40:04fighting it truly is my honor to be
714. 40:10presenting to you making this
715. 40:12professional debut Dewey Bo's Ella do it
716. 40:16I wanted to buy the know this just what
717. 40:21the hand it's for you you may think that
718. 40:23this is a charity thing but this is not
719. 40:25a charity thing I'm out here to win and
720. 40:27I'm gonna give you one zillion percent
721. 40:28of what I got at 52 and I'm not busted
722. 40:38I'm not busted so I admire he had
723. 40:45exactly zero professional fights
724. 40:49he was 52 years old but on October 12th
725. 40:53of 2011 three days from his pro debut
726. 40:57Dewey Bo's Ella went from captivating
727. 41:00story to humble star hello mr. president
728. 41:06yes this mr. president yes sir how are
729. 41:08you oh I'm good and I'm good I heard
730. 41:15about your story and I wanted to call
731. 41:17and say good luck and your first
732. 41:18professional fight amen yes that's an
733. 41:21honor thank you very much
734. 41:23everything you accomplished while you're
735. 41:24in prison and what you've been doing
736. 41:26since you got out is something that I
737. 41:28think all of us are very impressed with
738. 41:31now you're certain there's only going to
739. 41:32be one fight you're gonna fight huh yes
740. 41:35absolutely
741. 41:36all right man well I wish you all the
742. 41:38best take care okay mr. president take
743. 41:40care
744. 41:44turn my pressure I think he'll toss and
745. 41:49turn all night until this fight is over
746. 41:53I believe he'll go back to his childhood
747. 41:58and I believe he'll think about all that
748. 42:01he's been through and I think that's
749. 42:06what he's gonna hold on to when he go
750. 42:09out in that ring
751. 42:13this is a guy who I met in prison who
752. 42:19probably had no right having any hope
753. 42:27and there he'll be standing in a boxing
754. 42:31ring as a professional boxer I'll have
755. 42:36just enormous pride and a little bit of
756. 42:42fear
757. 42:45[Music]
758. 42:53I'd be lying to you if I say I'm not
759. 42:56nervous my expectation is to go in there
760. 43:02to cheer them on and for him to walk out
761. 43:07of here victorious
762. 43:11and that one fight no more fights
763. 43:19he has nothing else to prove
764. 43:30okay guys let's go
765. 43:31[Music]
766. 43:35in my heart gonna give all that I got
767. 43:42and that's where I can say to myself
768. 43:44okay I did what I needed to do I gave my
769. 43:48all and I can do what the consequences
770. 43:53[Music]
771. 43:56and now ladies and gentlemen do we the
772. 44:09lights the announcer calling his name
773. 44:13it's gonna be very emotional
774. 44:20he's gonna ask himself can I do this all
775. 44:24those years that you were in prison
776. 44:26thinking about being free this is your
777. 44:30moment
778. 44:36new Evo's ella in the black trunks with
779. 44:39green trim 52 years old spent 26 years
780. 44:43in prison for a crime he didn't commit
781. 44:47[Music]
782. 44:54hasn't landed anything really
783. 44:56significant here and has taken a couple
784. 44:59of right hands hilarious
785. 45:01bringing brainy
786. 45:05you can't hurt me no more than I already
787. 45:08been hurt black eye busted lip busted
788. 45:12nose broken rib you can't hurt me no
789. 45:14more you came
790. 45:21I've been knocked down so many times I
791. 45:23had no choice but to get back up I was a
792. 45:26doubt in god and I ain't ready for that
793. 45:29yet
794. 45:31so I'm gonna fight
795. 45:33Rosella has been the active fighter he's
796. 45:36landed four or five clean body shots for
797. 45:39this moment I have him winning the round
798. 45:41nap on the bed around you give him the
799. 45:44good jag would let this damn right hand
800. 45:46go upstairs it's a great what F but
801. 45:54going out there at 52 you know it's like
802. 45:56look what I could have been at 25
803. 46:01they may have taken all my dreams away
804. 46:04years ago but this one dream nobody's
805. 46:08gonna take away
806. 46:11[Music]
807. 46:16[Applause]
808. 46:43no gave your winner let the rain wash
809. 47:02away all the pain of yesterday people
810. 47:08said you couldn't do it to prove them
811. 47:10wrong
812. 47:11never
813. 47:13gasps come what you see from the heart
814. 47:18[Music]
815. 47:19kingdom awaits and they've forgiven
816. 47:24[Music]
817. 47:26I'm coming
818. 47:29[Music]
819. 47:37[Music]