They grew up in different worlds, only neighborhoods apart, and fell in love on the national stage. Their colliding roads to success, their romance and larger-than-life personas begged the world to watch. But the union of heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson and ambitious actress Robin Givens turned out to be a bloody, well-attended prize fight--with a big purse at stake.

This True Hollywood Story tells of a troubled kid from the hard streets of New York who found his way--and his fortune--in the boxing ring. It tells, too, of a talented actress who landed on a hit sitcom and made a habit of dating famous men. Together, they fell in and out of love in the tabloids and national television.

By the time he was a teenager, Mike had lost his mother, rarely seen his father and been arrested more than a dozen times. Robin Givens was taking violin lessons, excelling in school and landing roles in The Wiz and on Diff'rent Strokes. As the street-fightin' Mike found his way from a juvenile home and into the hands of a caring trainer bent on turning him into a boxer, Robin was asking Bill Cosby for career advice.

The two met as Mike was on his way to becoming the youngest heavyweight champion in history and Robin starred on Head of the Class. Upon news of her pregnancy and at the urging of her always-on-the-scene mother, they were hastily married. Like a well-plotted soap, the year and a half that followed was packed with infidelity, megamillion-dollar homes, restraining orders, mysterious car crashes and a surreal interview with Barbara Walters in which Robin called her husband manic-depressive and described her life as a "living hell."

You'll see the whole 10-round, knock-down, drag-out fight and get to know the people behind the headlines--their long, hard roads before and after meeting each other. But first, get a preview of this True Hollywood Story with our facts and figures about Mike & Robin.