Covering Mike Tyson's complete amateur and professional boxing
career, this book follows the Brooklyn native from his early years
as a 12 year old criminal in Brownsville to his 1988 heavyweight
unification match with Michael Spinks. The book focuses on the
Catskill Boxing Club - where boxing guru Cus D'Amato trained the
210-pound teenager in the finer points of the art and developed his
impregnable defense - and on his home life with D'Amato and his
surrogate mother Camille Ewald, and the other boys who shared the
house with him. Tyson's boxing education began in the unauthorized
"smokers" held in the Bronx every week, matching his skills against
older, more experienced fighters. He won the 1981 Amateur
Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Colorado Springs at the age of
14, and repeated the amazing feat the following year. By 1985,
finding no other challenging amateur competition, he was forced to
join the professional ranks where, in November 1986, he became the
youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history. Less than two
years later, he unified the crown, establishing himself as one of
the most dominant heavyweight fighters in the annals of the game.
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