![]() ![]() Fame and fortune followed, and that's when a new set of troubles began. ![]() At one time he was on the fast track to a lifetime behind bars instead he became the youngest boxer ever to win the WBA, IBF and WBC titles. His life was eventually changed by boxing manager and trainer Cus D'Amato, who became a surrogate father to him and got him to take his athletic talent seriously. Juvenile detention led to boxing mentors, who could see at a glance that those metal fists of his were being wasted in alleyways. Beating the daylights out of people gave him his identity, his self-respect. ![]() At 10, he was battling bullies who traveled to his block to take him on. Living in drug-infested, crime-ridden neighborhoods (his family moved from hell to the devil's toilet is how he characterizes it), Tyson developed a reputation as a street fighter. Tyson tells us that his mother, a "country girl" at heart lost in the inner city, drank to ease the pain and that for a long time he was confused about the identity of his real father. ![]()
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