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My Life with Cus D'Amato
Blue Rider Press
June 2017
On Sale: May 30, 2017
480 pages
ISBN: 0399177035
EAN: 9780399177033
Kindle: B01KGZVNMC
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Non-Fiction Memoir
From the former heavyweight champion and New York Timesβbestselling author comes a powerful look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus DβAmato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tysonβs surrogate father. When Cus DβAmato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, βThatβs the heavyweight champion of the world.β DβAmato, who had previously managed the careers of world champions Floyd Patterson and JosΓ© Torres, would go on to train the young Tyson and raise him as a son. D'Amato died a year before Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history. In Tysonβs bestselling memoir Undisputed Truth, he recounted the role DβAmato played in his formative years, adopting him at age sixteen after his mother died and shaping him both physically and mentally after Tyson had spent years living in fear and poverty. In Iron Ambition, Tyson elaborates on the life lessons that DβAmato passed down to him, and reflects on how the trainerβs words of wisdom continue to resonate with him outside the ring. The book also chronicles Cusβs courageous fight against the mobsters who controlled boxing, revealing more than weβve ever known about this singular cultural figure.
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