: sparring, medicals, interviews, training, the weigh-in before the fight, after the fight, food, transportation. In 1980, they got Mike Tyson and I really started working with him in 1985. “In the 1970s, the managers Jacobs and Cayton were funding the training camps of Cus D’Amato. You’re hiring sparring partners, and they’re men, and he’s hurting them and knocking them out.” You’re developing a guy who’s 12 years old, and you can’t put him in with kids to spar because there are none. Tyson’s maybe one of the best punchers in history. He learned the technique to make you miss and catch you clean, but power’s power and punchers are born not made. Anyone who could be knocking out men when he’s 12, 13 years old is a damn good puncher. Tyson had a tremendous chin and a helluva neck for shock absorbers. He had to impress me and Cus he had to box his first day with a 27-year-old man who was a professional fighter and he was able to do that. “As far as most pure, God-given talent… raw, from the earliest stage that you saw, it would have to be a 12-year-old Tyson, who was 190 pounds but no fat. Here we speak to former amateur rivals, ex-coaches, sparring partners and former opponents who assess just how good Mike Tyson was: AMATEUR RIVALS, COACHES, SPARRING PARTNERS On Saturday, the ex-champ will face Roy Jones Jr. He retired in 2005 with a record of 50-6 (44 knockouts) and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2011. In June 2002, Lennox Lewis dominated him en route to an eighth-round knockout win and that was his final championship fight. Returning to boxing in August 1995, the former champion feasted on some light competition before regaining WBA and WBC titles.īut following a brace of losses to Evander Holyfield, Tyson’s ambition and drive deteriorated. He was The Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year in 19 and sat atop the mythical pound-for-pound list until he was shockingly knocked out by Buster Douglas in February 1990.Ĭonvicted of rape in 1992, Tyson served three years of a six-year sentence in an Indiana prison. As his star ascended, he transcended boxing and became arguably the most recognizable face in sports. “Iron” Mike went on to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
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