Cruel sport? Well, depends how you look at it. Boxing was/is always a man’s sport, despite of the few women (like Ali’s daughter) boxing for the gallery. Mike Tyson is in fact a cruel monster only in the ring. If his father figure Cus D’Amato didn’t died that early, then Iron mike won’t be there where he is now: down and broke, how he started in the year 1985, in Albany, New York.
Tyson info:
- Box records
- J.C Oates on Tyson
- Tyson’s persona
- Photo gallery
- Quotes
After D’Amato died, everything in Tyson’s private life went wrong: marriage to the low profile actress Robin Givens, the unfortunate liason with Don King and his career end at the fight with contender James “Buster” Douglas in Tokyo, 1990, forced by the mob. The betting at this time were 42–1 favorising Tyson, while confirmed info talks about a ten million US Dollar bet against Tyson. Count: 10 million with a 42-1 scheme, enough money to lay down.
Since then Tyson had no hand against the mob, followed by an arranged rape conviction in July 1991. After the unholy Douglas fight and the prison iron mike’s career was dead. Period.
