This is a very interesting read, Tyson never disappoints
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Ya reckon he was overdoing it on be mates with the scouse mafia?
Youd imagine so, surely tall tales.
It’s one of the best sports books I’ve read in years, particularly the very early stuff of his early teenage years, finishes after the Spinks fight in 88 so there may be a follow up
Robin Givens would probably beg to differ.
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A strange aul fish, they were a match made in hell, but he gave her the profile she wanted at the time, according to the book anyway, I don’t recall a great deal about her.
Remember I’m only up to 1988, I’ve no idea what happens next 
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Does it address how he became a rapist?
In a way yes, he was heavyweight champion of the world in a time when that meant something, he could do what he wanted and it would be covered up, he was riding women at an incredible rate, mostly willing participants obviously but he was quite persistent, there were probably many more before Desiree Washington that didn’t follow through.
Cus D’amato enabled him in a major way
He’s a convicted rapist.
To be honest I find it strange why anyone would read a book about him and categorise it as a ‘Sports Book’.
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The book is about boxing which is a sport 
Maybe.
I just dislike Tyson and find it strange that his rape conviction seems to have been generally forgotten about.
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I’d say there is barely a person alive over 45 years old that doesn’t know about that conviction, he was one of the most famous people in the world around that time.
I don’t just read about people I like, I find Tyson fascinating, as a teenager he would leave the Catskills for weekends in Brooklyn and fall back into the habit of mugging old ladies etc, despite being marked as a future champ.
I would say he forced himself on many women around that time, he fell out with an early trainer for touching up his little sister, there’s plenty of anecdotes in the book,
But he seems a grand fella these days
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That’s what Conor McGregor reckons too
Wasn’t there a story about himself and Naomi Campbell in a jacks at a party.
I don’t think he raped her. The whole thing including trial was rotten. He was always going to be guilty- a violent black man… everything white America viewed black people as subconsciously - beasts.
However, he admitted himself that he done far worse with other women and you can say karma had its way. But that’s also not how criminal courts work.
I’d never excuse him, but he had a horrific upbringing. He had to watch his prostitute mother have sex with strangers all throughout his childhood. By the time he was 10 or 11 he was completely neglected, half starved and stinking of shit going around the place. No doubt he was a classic case of completely wanting to shame/dominate women as an adult due to what his mother put him through.
He seems to have gone to the very depths of his soul in recent years to quiet the demons…but I’d say there’s one more dance in Mike.
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Put “Tyson 1985” into YouTube. Talk about an athlete at the absolute peak of his powers
The book was an eye opener
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It is reckoned by many well-placed boxing people of the time, that he may very well have been a rapist, but that he didn’t rape that particular woman.
There’s a Eubank clip doing punditry on Sky, when referring to the case he states that she ‘consented to oral sex’. Sky quickly went to break and Eubank was removed. I’ve never read about the trial in any depth, but the talk was always that he was convicted for the wrong girl.
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