“I was petrified when I was alone with him,” Tyson wrote in his book IRON AMBITION: My Life with Cus D’Amato. More importantly, D’Amato made Tyson believe in himself.ĭ’Amato struck fear in Tyson. Mike Tyson makes a surprising comment about his motherĭ’Amato became the father Tyson never had. Stewart introduced him to legendary trainer Cus D’Amato, who later became his legal guardian after Tyson’s mother died when the boxer was 16. It was there that he met a man named Bobby Stewart, a counselor and former boxer. Tyson eventually became too much to handle and landed at the Tryon School for Boys.
My mother was so humble and proud and I was arrogant.” I’ve been arrested 40 times before I was 12. She would beat my ass so bad, in front of the police. Always going to police stations to get my ass out. “I didn’t want to let my mother down,” he said. She wasn’t always happy with her son, but she was there to help him. Whenever he got into trouble, his mother was always there for him. “One-punch knockout and then go in their pocket, robbery.” “Burglaries, pick-pocketing, snatching jewelry,” he said. He said he was knocking people out then when he was on the streets.
The book also chronicles Cus' courageous fight against the mobsters who controlled boxing, revealing more than we've ever known about this singular cultural figure.Watch or lose an ear /XlPbIvMET5- Logan Paul December 29, 2020ĭuring a December 2020 episode of the IMPAULSIVE podcast, Tyson spoke about the things that got him into trouble before he reached the age of 12. In Iron Ambition, Tyson elaborates on the life lessons that D'Amato passed down to him and reflects on how the trainer's words of wisdom continue to resonate with him outside the ring. In Tyson's best-selling memoir Undisputed Truth, he recounted the role D'Amato played in his formative years, adopting him at age 16 after his mother died and shaping him both physically and mentally after Tyson had spent years living in fear and poverty. D'Amato died a year before Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history. When Cus D'Amato first saw 13-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, "That's the heavyweight champion of the world." D'Amato, who had previously managed the careers of world champions Floyd Patterson and JosГ© Torres, would go on to train the young Tyson and raise him as a son. From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times best-selling memoirist comes an intimate look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D'Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson's surrogate father.
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