The Rise of Mike Tyson, Heavyweight

Covering Mike Tyson''s rise through the amateur and professional boxing ranks, 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 young fighters who shared the house with him. Tyson''s boxing education began in the unauth.
Abstract: Covering Mike Tyson''s rise through the amateur and professional boxing ranks, 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 young fighters who shared the house with him. Tyson''s boxing education began in the unauth