Baddest Man
The making of Mike Tyson
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Product details:
- Publisher Ebury Spotlight
- Date of Publication 5 June 2025
- Number of Volumes Trade paperback (UK)
- ISBN 9781529958959
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x153x40 mm
- Weight 700 g
- Language English 700
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Long description:
On a defining evening of the 1980s, Donald Trump hosted celebrities and high rollers in a Jersey Shore town to witness 21-year-old Mike Tyson knock out Michael Spinks in just 91 seconds, earning more than the annual payrolls of the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics combined.
Only eight years earlier, Tyson, a troubled child from Brooklyn, was taken under the wing of boxing legend Cus D?Amato in upstate New York. Their story of mutual redemption captivated novelists, screenwriters, and the emerging cable TV industry. Tyson became HBO?s leading man long before Tony Soprano.
Despite the immense success, Tyson's story was more complex and darker than it appeared. Over the decades, he has been villainized, lionized, and fetishized?but never fully humanized until now. Acclaimed biographer Mark Kriegel, who first encountered Tyson as a young reporter, explores Tyson's life through what he survived rather than whom he knocked out.
Tyson, often compared to Jack Dempsey, was more akin to Sonny Liston?Black, feared, and expected to die young. What made Liston a pariah made Tyson a touchstone for a generation influenced by hip hop and gunfire. Kriegel captures not just Tyson?s rise but his profound impact on the American psyche.
