6/27/2023 0 Comments Mike tyson undisputed truth 2013![]() ![]() Professional boxing, gambling and the mob were all in bed together. You could ask anyone in any bar, anywhere in the word, who the champ was and get the correct answer. I was 12-years-old and cannot emphasize enough what it meant to be heavyweight champion of the world at that time. Mike Tyson is the heavyweight champ of my time, becoming the youngest ever in 1986. Tyson’s story, like the man himself, is complicated and morally challenging, relentlessly honest, and surprisingly sensitive. It challenges the reader to really understand what made Tyson one of the greatest fighters of all time, an animal, a convicted rapist, a husband, father, actor, addict, sexual assault survivor, and all the hundreds of other things he has been in his life. In fact, the book is less about Tyson and more about whoever is reading the book. ![]() Undisputed Truth is not a difficult book, but I was truly unprepared for the 600-page exercise in mental gymnastics it took to unpack the whole of Mike Tyson. With help from Larry Sloman, a veteran New York writer who already had famous books from working with Howard Stern, Bob Dylan, and Anthony Kiedis, Tyson’s life of magnificent horror is exposed for all to see, genital warts and all. The narrative is distinctly Tyson’s voice, as is the choice of words. I spent last week reading Undisputed Truth (2013), the Mike Tyson autobiography. We take a look back to 2013 to Undisputed Truth, the Mike Tyson autobiography, trying to figure out whether there’s a man behind the monster. ![]()
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