"Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson" by Mark Kriegel (2025)

I like that Kriegel showed restraint - well, after his initial essay on the NY boxing writers' scene overflow and morph into a Tyson biopic - in cutting things off in '88. There's plenty more Tyson story to be told past that, obviously - but it's been done & will be again. The story he tells here begins in Do-Or-Die Bed-Stuy and ends with the peak moment of his aura, fulfilling Cus' prophecy.

I also like that he fully discloses all of his own biases and owns up to having been a longtime critic (and one might even say hater) of Tyson.