Knockout. The Mike Tyson Story.

By Pat Dwyer

Mike Tyson was a tremendous boxer. He had an incredible career. This book chronicles his career from top to bottom. If you like professional boxing or sports in general you will relate to this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HISTORY
• Release date: Apr 18, 2024
• ISBN: 9798869320575

Pat Dwyer

The author, Pat Dwyer is a free-lance writer and photographer. His homepage is www.patdwyer.weebly.com

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        Mike Tyson.

Chapter 1. Introduction.

Chapter 2. The professional ranks.

Chapter 3. The Heavyweight Title.

Chapter 4.  Losing in Japan, plus the remainder of his career.

(Copyright. 2024, Pat Dwyer).

Chapter 1.

Ever see someone on television that is versed in their field?  Everyone has at some point.  How did they get to such a height? They simply had to work at for years and  had the correct guidance.  With such variables  in accordance  they seem to be able to reach the pinnacle of success. Ronald Reagan, the politician,  was such a figure. So was Johnny Carson from the entertainment field and John Wayne from Hollywood. Mike Tyson also fits this profile. As a boxer he was quite successful. The enclosed  literature offers  a review of his career and what led him to be so prominent in the sport of boxing. 

    Professional boxing has had some colorful characters in the past ranging from Muhammad Ali, Roberto Duran to Sugar Ray Leonard.  Iron Mike Tyson as he is nicknamed also is indeed one of them. He seemed to rather quickly burst upon the professional boxing scene in the year 1985. He was a short, stocky, big puncher with a personality that people related to. He had a nice smile with a gold tooth.  He single handedly brought interest right back into the sport of boxing which had dwindled a bit due to the retirement of the ever popular Muhammad Ali.  When Tyson boxed, ratings soared.  Back in that era he boxed on cable and network television. Always in shape, focused and with his string of knockouts he seemed to be an up to date boxing phenomenon in every sense of the word.

    He began boxing in reform school which he was forced to attend due to an extensive juvenile record. It consisted of muggings and robberies and other crimes. He grew up poor in the high crime neighborhood of Brownsville section of Brooklynn, New York. He was abandoned by his Father.  At school with his  clothes  and shoes which would  have holes in them he was called Bummie Ikeby other youths. Kids also made fun of his high pitch voice and lisp and also called him Dirty Mike. By age thirteen he had been arrested over thirty times. In retrospect Tyson has called his youthful criminal career exciting and action oriented. At reform school (Tryon School in Johnston, New York) he was quite a student of the science of boxing.  He was trained by a counselor at the school who had boxed in the professional ranks who taught him the basics. (Bobby Stewart) At first, Tyson, who declared he wanted to be a boxer, was just another boxer with raw physical talent and strength. But, as the weeks went by he advanced rather quickly. He also changed his behavior as he acted up much less. For Tyson boxing was his key to success. At around age fourteen he was introduced to Cus D’Amato who worked out of a boxing gym in Catskill, New York, above the police station.  D’Amato was a experienced boxing trainer and had worked with world champions in the past including former Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson. He saw Tyson’s physique which was quite impressive and stated, He could be Heavyweight Champion of the world if he wanted to be.He, with Teddy Atlas,  took over as Tyson’s trainer  and they taught him the finer points of professional boxing. Early on Tyson has been described as a sponge as he absorbed the knowledge put forth by his trainers. He also had natural blistering hand speed. Through training he developed  elusive head movement in addition to his incredible punching power which was generated  by his short pungent physical stature. Through training Tyson was being molded into force of devastation. Tyson was