This content is protected _____ Somebody's Gotta Tell It: A Journalist's Life on the Lines By Jack Newfield "A Guilty Pleasure" Page 105 So prior to that, on page 104 he talks about how Tyson had a sweet side to him pre-Don King, pre-Robin Givens days. This content is protected On to page 105... "A Guilty Pleasure" "I thought it was ironic yet fitting that the fighter I once saw as a modern Samurai would lose his first fight, and his cloak of invincibility, in Japan. He lost to Buster Douglas in Tokyo in 1990." This content is protected This content is protected "After Mike beat Trevor Berbick in 1987 for partial recognition as champion, he became a little harder to reach by phone. but whenever I asked Jose or others, to get a message to him, he would always call me back and chat about his new life as a celebrity without privacy." "After Mike went with Don King in June of 1988, I never heard form him again. No message got returned, or possibly delivered. Soon Jose, Rooney, and Steve Lott were cut out of his life. It was as if Tyson vanished into a cult. Anyone who was critical of King was cut off. Jose had a signed contract to write a book with Mike's cooperation. Suddenly that cooperation stopped, and Mike would no longer talk to the man who had been like a big brother to him since he was fourteen." "Jose's book, Fire and Fear, ends with him going to a gym in Las Vegas in 1989 to see Mike Tyson. Mike had invited Jose to meet him at the gym. Two bodyguards asked Jose to leave the gym. Mike's manager, Rory Holloway, told Jose that Mike left specific instructions that Jose should be kicked out of the gym if he showed up. When I saw Jose a few days later back in New York, he told me about the insulting eviction and how much it hurt him." " This content is protected made some excuses for Tyson: This content is protected This content is protected I was less forgiving" Other things: He mentioned how Tyson brought flowers to Sonny Liston's gravesite on the morning of his second fight with Holyfield. And he thought it fitting: This content is protected This content is protected
