“People see the public celebrations of my sensational knockouts but they don’t hear Cus talking to me alone after the fight… They were never around when Cus made me feel two inches tall, when he asked me: ‘Am I wasting my time with you? I’m an old man. “I was petrified when I was alone with him,” Tyson said in his 2017 book ‘Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D’Amato’. OL20056063W Page_number_confidence 94.92 Pages 506 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211223115104 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 456 Scandate 20211216044052 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780399177033 Tts_version 4.When Tyson was asked in a TV interview long after his retirement whether he feared or loved D’Amato, he answered simply: “Both.” The book also chronicles Cus's courageous fight against the mobsters who controlled boxing, revealing more than we've ever known about this singular cultural figure'-Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:32:23 Associated-names Sloman, Larry, author Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40315712 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier In Iron Ambition, Tyson elaborates on the life lessons that D'Amato passed down to him, and reflects on how the trainer's words of wisdom continue to resonate with him outside the ring.

In Tyson's bestselling memoir Undisputed Truth, he recounted the role D'Amato played in his formative years, adopting him at age sixteen after his mother died and shaping him both physically and mentally after Tyson had spent years living in fear and poverty. D'Amato died a year before Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history. When Cus D'Amato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, 'That's the heavyweight champion of the world.' D'Amato, who had previously managed the careers of world champions Floyd Patterson and Jose Torres, would go on to train the young Tyson and raise him as a son.

'From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times-bestselling memoirist comes an intimate look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D'Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson's surrogate father.

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