Mike tyson born biography review
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Mike Tyson
American boxer and media personality (born 1966)
For other people named Mike Tyson, see Mike Tyson (disambiguation).
Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1985 to 2024. Nicknamed "Iron Mike"[4] and "Kid Dynamite" in his early career, and later known as "the Baddest Man on the Planet",[5] Tyson is regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time.[6] He reigned as the undisputed[a] world heavyweight champion from 1987 to 1990. Tyson won his first 19 professional fights by knockout, 12 of them in the first round. Claiming his first belt at 20 years, 4 months, and 22 days old, Tyson holds the record as the youngest boxer ever to win a heavyweight title.[7] He was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), and International Boxing Federation (IBF) titles, as well as the only heavyweight to unify them in succession. The following year, Tyson became the lineal champion when he knocked out Michael Spinks in 91 seconds of the first round.[8] In 1990, Tyson lost the undisputed heavyweight championship when he was knocked out by underdog Buster Douglas, ma
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Summary
Undisputed Truth is an in-depth autobiography that tells the story of Mike “Iron Mike” Tyson. The book begins with Mike’s life as a poor and troubled child growing up in Brooklyn. It charts his rise and training to become the youngest heavyweight champion in the history of boxing. At one point “Iron Mike” was regarded as the baddest man on the planet but addiction and poor business management would lead to his downfall.
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As a kid growing up in Brooklyn during the 1990s, Mike Tyson was the man. I saw him a few times during summer vacation when he would ride down Flatbush or park on my block. So there’s a certain nostalgia that I’ll most likely always feel about him. Not so much for him as a person but what he represented to me as a kid growing up in Brooklyn at that time. Brooklyn then was not gentrified like it is now and had a reputation for being gritty and grimy, the home of stickup kids. To see this guy from my borough, from an even rougher neighbor, with a far worse upbringing, become rich and famous meant that anything was possible.
But Mike Tyson is also a deeply flawed individual which is something that I think he would also say about himself. I was in elementary school whe