Mike Tyson

Author : Mike Tyson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142181218
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Undisputed Truth written by Mike Tyson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be sure to check out IRON AMBITION: My Life with Cus D’Amato by Mike Tyson “Raw, powerful and disturbing—a head-spinning take on Mr. Tyson's life.”—Wall Street Journal Philosopher, Broadway headliner, fighter, felon—Mike Tyson has defied stereotypes, expectations, and a lot of conventional wisdom during his three decades in the public eye. Bullied as a boy in the toughest, poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn, Tyson grew up to become one of the most ferocious boxers of all time—and the youngest heavyweight champion ever. But his brilliance in the ring was often compromised by reckless behavior. Yet—even after hitting rock bottom—the man who once admitted being addicted “to everything” fought his way back, achieving triumphant success as an actor and newfound happiness and stability as a father and husband. Brutal, honest, raw, and often hilarious, Undisputed Truth is the singular journey of an inspiring American original.

Author : Peter Heller
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786748281
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Intentions written by Peter Heller and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the man who would become heavyweight champion of the world and rock the sporting world with scandal.

Author : William F. McNeil
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786496487
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Mike Tyson, Heavyweight written by William F. McNeil and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering Mike Tyson's rise through the amateur and professional boxing ranks, this book follows the Brooklyn native from his early years as a young 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 sport and developed his impregnable defense--and on his home life with D'Amato and surrogate mother Camille Ewald and the other young fighters who lived with them. Tyson's boxing education began in the unauthorized "smokers" held every week in the Bronx, 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 the sport had ever seen.

Author : Richard Hoffer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684809087
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Savage Business written by Richard Hoffer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's best sportswriters chronicles the unhappy rise and bizarre fall of Mike Tyson, from his release from prison after serving his sentence for rape through his disqualification in the second Evander Holyfield fight for biting the champion's ear. Also included is a profile of Don King, Tyson's comical, ruthless, arrogant promoter, who has has earned the sobriquet, "Blackiavelli". of photos.

Author : Lori Grinker
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 9781576877760
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mike Tyson written by Lori Grinker and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of never before seen photographs showing a very little known side of Mike Tyson at his prime and peaking the 1980's and 1990's, in and out of the ring, sometimes with epic legends. It all began with an art school photography assignment: Lori Grinker was shooting a project on young boxers under the guidance of the legendary trainer Cus D'Amato. Her main focus became a nine-year-old boxer Billy Hamm. While photographing him, Cus wandered over and asked why Lori was shooting that kid, when the bigger kid in the corner working a speed bag would one day be the heavyweight champion of the world! The kid was a then 13-year-old Mike Tyson. Lori's early boxing photographs of Mike Tyson are without peer--little exists from that era and all of Grinker's work is personal with uniquely privileged access in and out of the ring. Over the next decade Lori would photograph the coterie that surrounded Mike; Cus's funeral, going home to Brownsville, old friends, trips abroad, in hotel suites before and after fights, his hook-up with Robin Givens, their wedding, their divorce, and the training and fights in between until Tyson's first defeat--the Buster Douglas fight in 1991. This is a side of the Mike Tyson story rarely seen or shared.

Author : José Torres
Publisher : Warner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780446514859
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire & Fear written by José Torres and published by Warner Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former lightweight champion and acclaimed biographer Jose Torres has written this first, full-scale portrait of boxing's most explosive, intriguing and dominating champion--Mike Tyson. 16-page photo insert.

Author : Ted Kluck
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 076276645X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facing Tyson written by Ted Kluck and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ring-level view on what is was like to face boxing's most notorious and brutal fighters.

Author : Daniel O'Connor
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560253563
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron Mike written by Daniel O'Connor and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2002-06-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iron Mike collects the best writing on the tumultuous fifteen-year career of the most reviled and idolized athlete in the world, Michael Gerard Tyson. Since becoming, at age nineteen, the youngest heavyweight champion in history, Tyson's dramatic rise, fall, and continuing struggle has provoked more passionate writing, both in and out of the sports pages, than that of any other boxer since Muhammad Ali. Iron Mike is about more than boxing. Like no other athlete, Mike Tyson is at the nexus of America's cultural anxieties about race, class, masculinity, violence, and celebrity; like no other athlete his story of high drama and low comedy inspires writers to wrestle with these themes, with Tyson often no more than the occasion for the writer's own preoccupations. And Tyson has provided many such occasions: his rise to the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship at age twenty-one; his rocky marriage to Robin Givens; his controversial conviction for the rape of Desiree Washington; his return to boxing and reclamation of the WBC and WBA belts; his biting of Evander Holyfield. Iron Mike is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a man who, for better and worse, is one of the most recognizable, popular, and defining icons of our time. The book includes selections from Joyce Carol Oates, Pete Hamill, Jose Torres, Pete Dexter, Phil Berger, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Lipsyte, Dave Anderson, Jonathan Yardley, Richard Rodriguez, Katherine Dunn, Budd Schulberg, William Plummer, David Remnick, Keith Botsworth, and others.

Author : Chris Huntington
Publisher : Boaz Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781893448100
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mike Tyson Slept Here written by Chris Huntington and published by Boaz Pub. This book was released on 2011 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every May, college graduates across the country ask themselves one very important question, now what? For Brant Gilmour the answer is prison. With little thought to a career, Brant takes a job teaching GED classes to inmates at the Indiana correctional facility made famous when Mike Tyson was incarcerated there. And so begins Brant's education.

Author : William F. McNeil
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147661802X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Mike Tyson, Heavyweight written by William F. McNeil and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering Mike Tyson's rise through the amateur and professional boxing ranks, this book follows the Brooklyn native from his early years as a young 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 sport and developed his impregnable defense--and on his home life with D'Amato and surrogate mother Camille Ewald and the other young fighters who lived with them. Tyson's boxing education began in the unauthorized "smokers" held every week in the Bronx, 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 the sport had ever seen.