Netflix’s ‘TYSON’ Docuseries Is Streaming Now: Four Parts on the Rise, the Fall, and the Reckoning

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2026

Mike Tyson is back in the biggest ring of all — the cultural one. TYSON, Netflix’s four-part documentary series on the former undisputed heavyweight champion, is streaming now — all four episodes dropped October 13 — and if the trailer released September 17 is any indication, this is not a highlight reel. Tyson said in the trailer: “This is the dark side of me. That’s just who I became. Addicted to chaos.” Directed by Floyd Russ and executive produced by Bill Simmons, Jim Gray and Ian Orefice, the four-hour series promises an unfiltered look at a spectacular rise, a violent downfall and a complicated transformation — told with the cooperation of Tyson himself and the people closest to him.

02 The series: four hours, four episodes, one unfiltered sitting

TYSON runs four episodes, roughly an hour apiece, and Netflix dropped all of them at once today — the full four hours streaming globally right now. Russ, who previously directed Untold: Malice at the Palace and American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing, brings a track record of high-gloss, high-tension sports documentary storytelling. Producers Jenna Millman, Jacob Miller and Alexa Ginsburg shepherded the production, with a deep executive-producer bench that includes Simmons, Gray, Orefice, Amanda Spain, Jonna McLaughlin and Greg C. Lake, per the project’s credits.

The official billing is direct: the series chronicles Tyson’s trajectory from a chaotic upbringing in Brooklyn to becoming the youngest heavyweight champion in history, then confronts the fame, controversy and personal struggle that nearly derailed him. Netflix is describing the finished product as unfiltered and deeply personal — a portrait, in the platform’s words, of greatness, fall and redemption.

03 The episode guide: Power, Greed, Trust, Human

The four episodes play as chapters of a single life, each titled for what Tyson was chasing — or losing — at the time.

Episode 1, “Power” (1h 4m). A Brooklyn childhood of crime and arrests, until legendary trainer Cus D’Amato takes the teenager in and starts turning him into a fighter.

Episode 2, “Greed” (1h). Superstardom arrives at terrifying speed — along with a troubled marriage and a manipulative promoter closing in on the money.

Episode 3, “Trust” (1h 6m). The Buster Douglas defeat cracks the aura of invincibility, and a criminal conviction and prison sentence derail everything.

Episode 4, “Human” (1h 13m). After the Bite Fight against Evander Holyfield come retirement and bankruptcy — and the long, unfinished work of reinvention and recovery.

04 The rise: from Brownsville to the youngest heavyweight crown ever

The first act of the Tyson story is the one everyone knows and nobody can quite believe. A troubled kid from Brooklyn’s roughest neighborhoods — Bedford-Stuyvesant to Brownsville — mentored by the late Cus D’Amato, his first trainer and de facto father figure, who drilled him in the peek-a-boo style built on elite head movement and short punches on the inside. Tyson has long credited D’Amato with rewiring his mindset, while saying the trainer never prepared him for life outside the ropes.

Then came November 1986. At just 20 years old, Tyson demolished Trevor Berbick to become the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history — a record that still stands. He unified the division and became, in the space of a few terrifying years, one of the most feared athletes on the planet. The trailer intercuts those fight clips with the machinery of fame that followed: the money, the hangers-on, the sense of invincibility that, as the series appears ready to argue, was always the most dangerous opponent he ever faced.

05 The fall: conviction, chaos and the bite heard around the world

TYSON does not look away from the second act. The series covers the rape conviction and prison sentence, the substance abuse, the financial ruin and the rolling public controversies — and inside the ring, the moment that permanently stained his legacy: the 1997 disqualification for biting off part of Evander Holyfield’s ear. The trailer shows a younger Tyson in handcuffs and cuts to the infamous 1997 footage, framing the chaos not as a footnote but as the spine of the story.

That candor appears to be the series’ whole pitch. Tyson has told his story before — in books, films and television projects — but the trailer’s rawest moments come when a producer presses him on why he became who he became. The 60-year-old grows visibly uncomfortable. “You’re making this difficult for me now,” Tyson said in the trailer. It’s the kind of exchange that suggests the series got further than the standard victory-lap documentary usually does.

06 The reckoning: the family behind the fearsome persona

What may set TYSON apart is access. The series features interviews with Tyson’s inner circle — most notably his wife, Lakiha “Kiki” Spicer, and his son Miguel — discussing the damaged man behind the fearsome public persona. “The things that he’s gone through… most people would have just been dead,” Spicer said in the trailer. Miguel, now 24, said in the trailer: “I think he’s just so broken from his past, but inside, there’s a broken guy just trying to be a good father.”

The circle extends well beyond family. Lennox Lewis, the defining heavyweight rival of Tyson’s later era, weighs in on the legacy. James “Buster” Douglas — the man who authored the 1990 Tokyo upset that first cracked the Tyson myth — tells his side of the night everything changed. Longtime friend and former manager Rory Holloway is there too. And in the series’ most surreal booking, the story detours to an Oval Office interview with Donald Trump, whose friendship with Tyson dates to 1988, when Trump paid 1 million to stage Tyson against Michael Spinks in Atlantic City. Tyson won in 91 seconds.

The trailer also finds its softer register in Tyson himself — wiping tears from his eyes, and in one striking image, pouring champagne over the grave of D’Amato. As the footage closes, Tyson lands the line the whole series seems built around. “It’s hard to navigate your true self when you really don’t know who the f— you are,” Tyson said in the trailer’s final moments.

07 Why now — and what’s next

Netflix originally announced the project shortly after Tyson’s return to the ring against Jake Paul in November 2024. The then-58-year-old lost by unanimous decision, but the bizarre spectacle drew an enormous global audience — proof, if any were needed, that the public’s fascination with Tyson never really faded. The heavyweight division keeps churning through its own storylines — our heavyweight shakeup roundup tracks the latest — but nothing in the current scene carries the mythic weight of Iron Mike.

And today isn’t the end of the Tyson takeover. Netflix also announced Mike Tyson: Return of the Mike, a one-man stage special set to debut November 3. Directed by his wife, Kiki Tyson, and filmed at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, the special is his first one-man stage show since 2013’s Undisputed Truth — this time, Netflix says, trading menace for mischief as Tyson turns his own chaos into punchlines. For a fuller picture of where boxing’s biggest names stand right now, see our coverage of the Shakur Stevenson–Devin Haney showdown taking shape for December.