Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

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With a triumphant one-man stage show, his unforgettable performances in the Hangover films, and his newfound happiness and stability as a father and husband, Tyson’s story is an inspiring American original. Tyson made history again by being the first heavyweight boxer to hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles concurrently, and then again by being the only heavyweight to unify them in succession. One of the reasons we love YouTube so much was because it was a place where we could watch and relive the old Tyson interviews and press conferences and damn near die from laughter when he seemed out of his mind and would say the most random things. Training for the Lewis fight in Hawaii – "epicentre of some of the baddest weed in the world" – was not a great idea, boxing-wise, but just as all that "Maui Wowie made for some interesting press conferences" so his "stupid un-fucking-legible English" makes for some surprising prose.

The person who was such a perfectionist he would tell Mike what he did wrong even after a first round knockout.Another bright guy who happens to have a speech impediment (like Stallone) so people think he's retarded, but he's actually quite intelligent. emblematica la conversione di sola facciata all’Islam (ispirata verosimilmente a quella di Cassius Clay) riassumibile nel motto: Alla fica e la coca. This book gives insight into how he lost his edge, what fighting meant to him, and how the fight game spilled into his everyday life. By the age of 23 he was hailed as possibly the greatest fighter to ever live, married to a movie star, earns millions of dollars, and by 24 he was broke, in jail and a worldwide disgrace.

Tyson, now 47, looking back, with a combination of revulsion and regret, at his younger self, trying to come to terms with his contradictory, often self-destructive impulses. Michael Gerard Tyson, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York on June 30, 1966, is a professional boxer-turned-author.

This is a man who once thought of himself as “the baddest man on the planet,” but considered getting his face covered with tattoos of little hearts.

Thankfully, all of that information was enumerated in great detail, and reading about his rise to the top was genuinely fascinating. Nicknamed "Iron Mike" and "Kid Dynamite" in his early career, and later known as "The Baddest Man on the Planet", Tyson is considered to be the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. He has been listed by The Ring magazine as the 16th greatest puncher of all time, and by ESPN as ‘The Hardest Hitters in Heavyweight History. Cus D’Amato saw potential in thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson, proclaiming “That’s the heavyweight champion of the world”. This book started really well but unfortunately spent far too much time disrespecting women and going into far too much detail during the 600 pages.In 1991, Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, accused Tyson of raping her in an Indianapolis hotel room. The first of Mike Tyson’s books was titled ‘Undisputed Truth,’ was published in 2013 and tells the story of Tyson’s life and his journey from humble beginnings to championship success. The extremes he lived with at an early age he was not prepared for, and many people were taking advantage of him. Tyson says he “began to fantasize that if I actually killed someone inside the ring, it would certainly intimidate everyone.