don king got involved more and more and started playing the "white man the devil" race card with tyson ..and eventually got into mikes head to ditchy rooney... i'd say rooney wasn't a very good trainer for other guys but he was great for tyson .. like others have said he knew the style .. he knew the fighter .. hell he'd watched tyson grow up! ... he was the one dude who could go "come on mike quit ****ing up ya stupid ***** and hit the ****in bag!" .. and mike would hit the ****in bag lol ..