Frank Bruno can laugh about it now. Sitting a few feet away from his nemesis in his lavish Miami mansion, our national treasure is in the mood for reminiscing.
Bruno is remembering his first encounter with his boogie man - then a teenager - in the Catskill Mountains. "We sparred together and I watched you grow up," he tells Mike Tyson, who adds: "You were the European champion and they had high hopes for you." Bruno, as sharp as a tack, quips: "And you were the puncher who was going to stop my high hopes - and you did." Cue that booming laugh.
It is difficult to separate Bruno's story from Tyson's own saga and their intertwined tale is now being told in a feature-length documentary.
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