![]() The birds were so small, so insignificant looking. I was bullied every day until I was brought up onto a roof near where I lived and told to clean up the pigeon coops by the older, cooler guys who kept their birds there. I was a fat Poindexter when I was growing up. He took the weak and made them strong.īut before Cus, pigeons saved my life. He touched the lives of so many people and helped them become a better version of themselves. ![]() How did Cus D'Amato, this legendary boxing manager and trainer who was in exile in upstate New York, watch me spar for less than ten minutes when I was thirteen years old and predict that I would be the youngest heavyweight champ ever?Ĭus was one of the most unique men ever to walk the planet. I don't really understand how it all happened. Copyright © 2017 by Tyrannic Literary Company LLC. Published by arrangement with Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Random House LLC. The following is excerpted from IRON AMBITION: My Life with Cus D'Amato by Mike Tyson and Larry Sloman. ![]()
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