![]() ![]() The fighter emerged through the other side with a desire to leave it all behind, at one time retiring to a simpler lifestyle of raising and caring for pigeons.Įventually, he emerged in a series of speaking engagements, a cathartic autobiography delivered onstage in which the fighter let his guard down and delivered his story with an honesty and humility that few would expect from someone who made his physically destroying others. ![]() While his success in the ring followed a background that included growing up in Brooklyn’s hardscrabble Brownsville and Bed-Stuy neighborhoods and dealing with a series of deaths to those family members closest to him, it led to other pitfalls including drugs, debts and a personality unable to dodge and jab media missteps and scrutiny with the same finesse he carried into the ring. Mike Tyson was one of the sport’s most brutal, entertaining and successful fighters, with a career spanning from the mid 1980s to a couple stuttering comebacks in the early 2000s that might now remain most well-known for an ear-biting disqualification. ![]() Boxing great Mike Tyson’s Round 2 of his Undisputed Truth at Reno has been postponed. ![]()
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