Mike Tyson was born in Brooklyn, in 1966, a time of racism and poverty. Her mother, Lorna Smith, already had other two children of her previous marriage and were in free union with her father, Jimmy Kirkpatrick who was part Irish left it before he was born. For that reason it takes the Tyson last name of the first husband of his mother. Lorna was changed with its children to an apartment without heating in Browsville, one of the marginalized and violent zones more of Brooklyn, where it began to take with regularity. The family depended on "welfare" and when the account of the heating could not be paid, she had to sleep between clothes many nights. Daily they speculated which would be its following food, that was flour with water almost always. The three children suffered, but plus the minor, who was harassed and ridiculed in each detail of his appearance and its character by other children who nicknamed "Cabezón to him Mike" and they beat to him by any thing, from his stammerings to his spent shoes, to which she had to put to him fine cardboard to cover the holes. To the nine years, he began to raise doves in a barrel in the roof of his building of apartments. A day, a gang member of 15 years of age that saw it playing with its doves took one from them. Mike requested that was given back it but the boy refused and began to slowly turn the heads to him to the doves until breaking the neck them. Then it entered a rage blinds and he attacked to him like a enjaulado animal, beating to him yet what had. As of this day it stopped being the "Cabezón Mike" and one became Mike Tyson. Having found this new notoriety, it entered the local gang of the "Glad Pisotones", a particularly brutal killer gangue specialized in "muggins", robberies and levellings of dwellings. Tyson feels to taste as the youngest member of this equipment and participates precise in the activities of the gang, which sends to him repeatedly to the Center of Youthful Halting of Spofford, where it has the opportunity to know Muhamed Ali, that a day visited Spofford. Tyson wants to be boxer. After been to have implied in some thirty crimes, among them armed assault, Tyson were sent to Tryon School, a neuyorkina correctional house. Her mother never was against this transfer since she could not control it and hoped that there you would inculcaran discipline to him. There Tyson is rebelled with all those that come near to him and requests to see Bobby Stewart, old weight to welter and professor of sports of the establishment. This one went to the cell of Tyson and it said to him, "I I am Stewart, what demons you want" Tyson responded timidly, "I want to be boxer". Stewart, which it felt necessary to show who was to the control shot to him, "then does like the rest of" assholes "of here. If you maintain your head low and she stays remote of the problems, we will see what happens ". As of that day there was a significant improvement in the conduct of Tyson, when finding out it, Stewart accepted to work with Tyson. After few lessons and noticing the enthusiasm of Tyson, Stewart made a deal with him. In the measurement in which Tyson advanced in its studies, Stewart would teach more boxing to him. Mike studied much, although which knew that never it would obtain a university scholarship, did not frighten it. It never requested to take off of the lessons of boxing of Stewart. One had become obsessing with the sport of the boxing. It was reading on the great boxers of the past, practiced technical and it trained hard. The personnel of Tryon spoke of how he was possible that snores were listened to and moaned originating of the quarter of Tyson to 3 and 4 of the dawn. He was he practicing his boxing. Bobby Stewart noticed the profits of Tyson in Ring. In a recent interview, Stewart it described as Tyson connected jab to him that made want him to place a knee in the canvas. The trusteeship of Cus D'Amato. Stewart knew an old trainer in bankruptcy Catskill (New York) call Constantine "Cus" D'Amato, 70, that was a reference in the world of the boxing to have taken to Floyd Patterson and to Jose "Chegüí" Towers to be world-wide champions. Tyson and Stewart lead until their house a weekend of the spring of 1980. Tyson and Stewart would raise Ring to give a demonstration him to Cus. When this one saw Tyson, it asked to him Stewart that with what they fed this youngster in Tryon, because to his 13 years of age already it weighed solids 80 kgs. Once on Ring, Tyson demonstrated to rapidity of hands and power in its fists, as well as aggressiveness and an affluent bombing of placed blows that Stewart could not stop in repeated occasions. Cus had a hunch and said "This is a future world-wide champion of the heavy weights". In June of that year, Cus D'Amato would persuade to the authorities so that they allowed him to become guardian legal of Tyson and to take it to it to live with him and its wife Camille Ewald, to a great house in the district of Catskill, where it would teach to him to box like a professional and not like an amateur. It it was necessary to find support financial and a suitable trainer. Cus obtains the support of Jim Jacobs and Bill Cayton, great enthusiastic of the boxing that conceive the idea to recreate the image of a champion of long ago, dressing to Tyson in short and slippers black color, without thousands averages... look to leguas of the boxers of the moment, eager for shining clothes. Tyson begins in the boxing amateur having to Teddy Atlas like its first trainer, but this one would separate of the future star in a violent incident: Atlas would declare that Tyson had abused a girl of 12 years sexually and that he, in an attempt to scare it in behaving responsibly more, had threatened it a weapon. Product of that, Tyson would be given back reformatorio of Tryon, where it would remain by few days, since Cus would fix to take them it again to its house. Kevin Rooney, the new trainer of Tyson, would have to happen in one of the pillars of its race. With him it wins, in June of 1981, the Olympic Match of Juniores of the United States in the category of 91 kgs (Heavy weight). When finalizing that year, Tyson, 15, it accumulated a record of 21 victories and a 1 defeat. To his 16 years of age, it repeats as champion of the Olympic Match of Juniores (1982) and it is decided his incursion to the category of + 91 kgs (Heavy Super weight). In the National Championship "Golden Gloves" of March of 1983, in Alburquerque, New Mexico, falls by points in the end before Craig Payne, a stature boxer and reaches very superior. After returning to fall by disqualification in National Championship AAU of December, they decide to lower it again to the category of the 91 kg, facing trying to conquer the Olympic Games of the coming year. In 1984, Tyson conquers Youthful the National Championship (Sub-19) and the National Championship "Golden Gloves". Its passage by the Eliminatora Pre-Oli'mpica of the United States was sweeping until in the end loses controversialmente to the points before Henry Tillman and, when repeating itself the same result in the Box-Offs, is excluded from the selection. Mike and Cus cried when listening the unfavorable verdict. One says that Tyson so furious and was frustrated before the decision that left the building to go to box against a tree. As it notices peculiar is the fact that previous to those Olimpíadas of the Angels, Mike made several guanteos with super the heavy Lennox Lewis, representative of Canada. To his 18 years, it waited for everything to him cuatrienio of matches and championships until the next Olimpíada. In October of 1984 they send to him to represent the United States the Tammer Match of Finland, where it wins all its combats. One glimpsed that it participated the following year in Youthful the World-wide Championship (Sub-19) of Bucharest - in whose end the Cuban Felix Savonand the Pole Andrew Golota would face -, but what it happened it was that the 6 of March of 1985, in Albany, New York, Mike made debut as professional giving to account of Héctor Mercedes in less of an assault. The youngest champion of the heavy weights. Cus passed away the 4 of November of 1985, and his pupilo and adoptive son it virtually handed over of the inescrupulous promoter Don King. Of the hand of Don King, Tyson became the champion of the weights heavy more young person of history the 22 of November of 1986, in Fertile valleys, when it snatched the title to him of the W.B.C. to Trevor Bervick in less than two assaults.
good info. Maybe if he had not grown up in such violent conditions, he would have have had that kind of personality
