marving hagler and tommy hearns in the '80s and the tyson years came along. >> reporter: these days it'sbout love taps from 5-year-old giovanna. it's not his first time around, he's had two previous marriages and three grown kids, jason, katrina. nick charles had been searching. >> 45 years old, meeting corey, i had been happy immediately. >> reporter: he revels in every moment with his girls. giovanna and his wife corey. the one thing nick doesn't have is time. even his daughter knows it. >> you don't get to go to heaven yet. >> i'm not going to heaven yet. i'm still hanging around to play candy land and win. >> i'll going to win. >> reporter: in early 2009 nick was the happiest he's ever been. but a shadow was creeping in. the robust nick charles had never been sick in his life. but something was changing in his body. >> i would ask people, my age, do you get up at night to urinate? yes, i get up. i was getting up, gee, six and eight times. i said something's wrong. >> reporter: it took six months to find the culprit. >> i went to houston. she said here's the deal. you have metastatic