Cus d'Amato was an exile from boxing?

Hold on, what??

iirc correctly in Tyson's autobiography he wrote that on his death bed Cus stated he regretted not marrying E'Wald.

I assumed D'Amato, Jacobs, & Jay Bright were all sausage jockeying gaylords...

 

Cus was definitely an outsider in boxing by the time Bobby Stewart brought Tyson to him. He may have pissed mobsters off, he was always worried they would come after him so he would sit in a restaurant with his back to the wall so he could see them come in (not sure what he could do anyway if they were really intent on getting him). He was a notoriously paranoid and strange guy though.

Cus and Jacobs may or may not have been gay, who knows. Doesn’t matter that they were married (Camille was Cus’s common law life) gay guys were more likely back than now to take a wife as a beard.

There’s been a lot of rumors and speculation about the Catskill crew. Jacobs was gay and died of AIDS, Cus was gay, Cus was a chomo, Cus was asexual, etc.....nothing would really surprise me at this point.

 

I didn't had paid attention to his personal life.
As boxing coach he was good.
Bobby Stewart too was good and if he was not in this world then you didn't had ever knew who Mike Tyson is.

 

I met a couple from Catskills, ny while shuttle busing in peg city Canada. I was speechless. I couldn't think of what to ask them as they were on their way to Churchill to see the polar bears.

They said "mind you Tyson didn't have an easy life" and Camille "is still up there in the Catskills." I was from up north and my eyes went like saucers when they told me where they were from , OF ALL PLACES Sheesh. We talked about the gym on top of the police station and tbh the ride to the train station was too short

I came back all elated and told my stoner dishwashing buddy coworker what just happened. He said that was pretty cool/crazy. We laughed it off. Just a good day!