![]() “I would have girls pull up to the limousine and throw their underwear at me and say, ‘Give this to your boss. Jon Buckle/Empics via PA Images via Getty Images, FILE ![]() After so much pain leading up to that point in his short life, Tyson finally had safety, direction and support. ![]() D’Amato consistently encouraged the young boxer, telling him that he’d become the greatest. Tyson moved into D’Amato’s home in the Catskills and lived among other young fighters in a sort of dormitory for amateur boxers. D'Amato immediately saw Tyson's potential and took him in. Stewart introduced Tyson to Cus D’Amato, a famed boxing coach who had trained champions Floyd Patterson and Jose Torres. ![]() “Everything I showed him, it was almost like he’d been doing it for 25 years,” Stewart said. It was there he was introduced to Bobby Stewart, a guard at the facility and a former professional boxer, who introduced him to the sport. He was arrested dozens of times and was eventually sent upstate New York to the Tryon School for Boys, a now-shuttered juvenile facility. ![]() so violence, sex, alcoholism, abuse of women - those were his baseline for normal.”Īs a child, Tyson picked up the nickname “Dirty Ike” due to his lack of personal hygiene. “Oftentimes, his mother would get beat up. “She would be drinking, she was extremely abusive,” Murray told ABC News. ![]()
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