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Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography by Mike Tyson – review

N othing in his subsequent exchanges with Paul Holdengräber could quite live up to the moment when Mike Tyson took to the stage last month at Madison Square Garden – sorry, I mean the New York Public Library. His mentor, Cus D'Amato, had assured the 15-year-old Tyson that one day, when he entered a room, "people will stand up and give you an ovation". That's how it was here. A collective gasp and we were on our feet – not as an expression of admiration, more a recoil from sheer physical and psychic proximity. This would never happen with the writers and intellectuals who usually grace this august stage. They are interesting, admired or even loved on the basis of stuff they have created, that is external to them. But everything that had made Tyson famous and infamous – the fact of his body and its capacity for violence – was there in the room.

Among the living only Diego Maradona (whom I also saw once, in an equally improbable setting, as he emerged from the Oxford Union) has risen to comparable heights from such depths – and then plummeted back down again. Paul Gascoigne was an amazing footballer and Ben Johnson ran extremely fast but Maradona's and Tyson's life stories place them in a different realm. In Naples there are still shrines to Diego. When Tyson, at the library, said that he had been a god this seemed a self-definition that even Richard Dawkins might allow.

Holdengräber begins his interviews by asking guests to define themselves in seven words. Tyson's were "Came, saw, conquered, got conquered, bounced back." The ungodly twist is all in the last two. Maradona and Tyson fell – and fell prey to pretty similar temptations – while avoiding a fatal Senna-esque collision with destiny. And so, after being a god, Tyson has ended up like thousands of other literary contenders: on the promo circuit with product to hustle.

Undisputed Truth is the latest and biggest bounce in a bills-to-pay comeback that began with James Toback's intimate documentary, Tyson , and continued with an acting role in The Hangover . Tyson played himself, naturally, a role he reprised for a one-man Broadway show that was then filmed by Spike Lee . The autobiography grew directly out of that show and even if it is not, as Holdengräber claimed, up there with St Augustine's Confessions , it's got a lot more fighting.

That it's also addictive is down in part to Tyson's co-author, Larry Sloman. Tyson claims he "inherited Cus's ability to tell stories" but as he regaled the audience with lispy anecdotes – growing up in Brooklyn, breaking into houses and being on the roof with his pigeons – it rapidly became as interesting as hearing a celebrity recount a dream. Tyson is a history nut, and a prompted digression on the Visigoths was as dull as – if slightly more confusing than – a lecture by a Cambridge don. Things only really got going when he burst into invective and profanity. I missed the one-man show but a friend reported that the best moment came when Tyson spotted a guy asleep in the front row. Mike went up to him and yelled in his face that he was gonna stick his dick in his mouth. It wasn't quite on a par with the pre-fight/post-brawl press conference with Lennox Lewis – "I'll fuck you in your ass in front of everybody," Tyson screamed at a reporter. " I'll fuck you till you love me, faggot! " – but the sleeper in the front row went home persuaded that he'd got his money's worth.

Having encouraged Tyson to ramble through his past, Sloman shaped the mass of material into a narrative that opens with the most vehemently disputed part of the story: the conviction for raping Desiree Washington in 1991. Adamant that he did no such thing, Tyson goes into graphic detail, later, to explain how he didn't (he went down on her while she was menstruating, apparently unaware that he was "gargling blood"). The conviction might have been shaky but so is the defence that it's impossible to "rape someone when they come to your hotel at two in the morning. There's nothing open that late but legs." Bear in mind also that any charm Tyson possessed was inseparable from the "bad intentions" manifest in the ring: "My social skills consisted of putting a guy in a coma." But remember, also, that his capacity for brute intimidation did nothing to staunch the flow of women eager to have sex with him, not just after the conviction but while he was in prison. Out of jail after three years, he became an easy mark for claims of assault and sexual harassment even when he was trying to keep some of these women at bay – not because, as a convert to the Nation of Islam, he was newly abstemious, but because they were skanky hos. It got to the point where he "was hardly seen out in public. One reason for that was that I spent a lot of time indoors at strip clubs." More time, certainly, then he spent at his mansion in Connecticut with its 5,000 sq ft master bedroom and the 19 other bedrooms he aimed to fill with different girls at the same time. He had a palace in Vegas, too, but his true home was what Conrad called "the destructive element". Throw in an annual income that was often in excess of $50m (enough to ensure that, like the former champions he idolised, he'd wind up flat broke), a titanic coke habit (he'd wander round with his stash in a big bag, "a straw coming out of it like it was a milkshake") and you have a young man in the unusual position of being both gladiator and emperor, "a sewage rat with delusions of grandeur", a ghetto kid with zero self-esteem and an ego borne of the knowledge that, in a fair fight, he could beat everyone on the planet to a pulp.

Unconvinced that he had been fairly beaten, one of those opponents, Mitch Green, high on angel dust, starts taunting Tyson who beats him up again in the street. Bloodied – "I had crushed his eye socket, broken his nose, cracked some ribs" – but unbowed, Mitch comes back for another helping a few pages later when Mike is "on a date with some exotic hot Afrocentric chick named Egypt or Somalia or some other country like that". She stops him carving Mitch up with a steak knife ("I wasn't a vegan then") but being with Tyson or working for him could turn bad almost as quickly as fighting against him. One feels zero sympathy for Don King ("a wretched, slimy reptilian motherfucker") or Frank Warren, both of whom get richly stomped, but spare a thought for the bodyguard who "actually began to think his name was 'Motherfucker' because all he'd hear was 'Motherfucker. Get me this."'

As will be clear by now, Sloman brings Tyson's voice springing off the page with its often hilarious combo of street and shrink, pimp profanity and the "prisony pseudo-intellectual modern mack rap" of the autodidact. Training for the Lewis fight in Hawaii – "epicentre of some of the baddest weed in the world" – was not a great idea, boxing-wise, but just as all that "Maui Wowie made for some interesting press conferences" so his "stupid un-fucking-legible English" makes for some surprising prose. There's a moment of flat-out brilliance when he gets the Maori tattoo on his face: "I hated my face and I literally wanted to deface myself."

The later journey to sobriety sees him leaning harder on cliche – he's particularly fond of the idea that relapse is part of recovery – but the sense of threat, to himself and others, is constant. Which makes you wonder if one of the regrettable things about the years of substance abuse involved a drug he didn't take. A dealer (called Chance, appropriately enough) is ordered to get Tyson a Scarface quantity of coke even though "all he did was sissy drugs like ecstasy". Would MDMA have got him all loved up (a state and place he now longs to be) or had the iron been forged too deeply in his soul?

The commonly understood narrative – one with an undeniable chronological truth – is that Tyson only began to go off the rails after the death of goodly Cus D'Amato. Cus had taken this kid from the ghetto under his wing and trained him to be a champion, dying before the ambition was realised. After that, Mike had no one to guide him. But D'Amato, who didn't have "a happy muscle in his face", didn't just want Tyson to be "totally ferocious" in the ring; he trained him to be fearsome outside it as well. D'Amato might have been able to restrain some of the later excesses, would have stopped him getting cheated, but he helped incubate the toxins that coursed freely through Tyson's system and world after he became champion.

As for the boxing, Tyson was a great fighter who never fought any great fights. Either because he beat his opponents too easily – he was too good – or, with the possible exception of the first, toothless encounter with Evander Holyfield, because he was beaten too easily (as a result of failing to prepare properly, of losing his earlier hunger). He never went toe-to-toe with greatness, as Ali and Frazier did repeatedly, was never fully tested while fully committed to passing that test. As Cus intended, many of Tyson's opponents were out on their feet before a punch was thrown. The fights rarely lasted long and, in keeping with this, the era of Tyson's indomitability – brought to an end when journeyman Buster Douglas floored him in Tokyo in 1990 – flashes quickly past in the book.

After that, victories and defeats in the ring become almost irrelevant in the chaos and swirling mania that surround and consume him. He burns his way through an unbelievable fortune and never, not once in almost 600 pages, expresses any regret on that score. Apparently Sloman's opening move in tempting Tyson into this collaboration was to send a copy of Nietzsche's Ecce Homo to him while he was in prison. Nietzsche's notion of greatness was the capacity to embrace your fate wholesale: if you enjoy one divine moment then you say yes to all others, however hellish. Tyson, with his jailed grasp of momentary immortality, got this right away, probably knew it already: "Just to have one year of living Mike Tyson, the champ's life, I would be a bum sucking rat piss in the gutter. Shit, yeah."

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‘Baddest Man on the Planet’ (and His Vulnerable Side)

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By Michiko Kakutani

• Nov. 18, 2013

For many years, Mike Tyson lived a life without brakes.

The youngest heavyweight champion of the world at the age of 20, in 1986, Mr. Tyson would become as famous for his run-ins with the law and the wretched excess of his lifestyle as he was once feared and revered for his boxing prowess.

Mr. Tyson’s new memoir, “Undisputed Truth,” written with Larry Sloman, is a splashy hodgepodge of a book, by turns exhausting and fascinating, self-pitying and candid. Parts of it read like a real-life Tarantino movie. Parts read like a Tom Wolfe-ian tour of wildly divergent worlds: from the slums of Brooklyn to the high life in Las Vegas to the isolation of prison. And parts read like transcripts from a marathon therapy session, in dire need of editing.

The book shares the title of Mr. Tyson’s one-man stage show (HBO has been showing a filmed version), but in terms of raw emotion and psychological drama, the volume has more in common with James Toback’s powerful 2008 documentary “Tyson,” which was based on hours of taped interviews with its subject. Mr. Tyson’s idiosyncratic voice comes through clearly on the page here — not just his mix of profane street talk and 12-step recovery language, cinematic descriptions of individual fights and philosophical musings, but also his biting humor and fondness for literary and historical references that run the gamut from Alexandre Dumas to Tolstoy to Lenin to Tennessee Williams.

Mr. Tyson gives us earnest efforts to make sense of the crazy extremes of his life; angry, pull-no-punches portraits of people he feels victimized by (like the boxing promoter Don King, whom he describes as “a wretched, slimy reptilian” guy who “contaminated my whole barometer”) and colorful descriptions of the “bling-bling” life he led at the height of his fame, including a Las Vegas mansion furnished in everything Versace and with a pool “ringed with seven-foot statues of fierce warriors like Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Genghis Khan and Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the Haitian revolutionary.”

Perhaps because of uneven editing, the book’s more compelling sections are intercut with repetitious mea culpas and perfunctory inventories of drug and sex binges. (At one point, Mr. Tyson claims he was “juggling at least 20” girlfriends.) Passages devoted to particularly notorious aspects of his life — like his tumultuous marriage to the actress Robin Givens, his 1992 conviction for the rape of a beauty pageant contestant, and his 1997 biting of Evander Holyfield’s ear — are among the more predictable parts of the volume: They tend to feel like recitations of stories Mr. Tyson has told many times before.

By far the most absorbing sections of this book deal with Mr. Tyson’s pungent descriptions of individual fights, served up in immediate, visceral prose; his hard-knock childhood on the mean streets of Brownsville in Brooklyn; and his transformation from an awkward, fat boy, who was cruelly bullied — a kid named Gary stole one of his beloved pigeons, “twisted the bird’s head off and threw it at me, smearing the blood all over my face and shirt” — into a fearsome warrior, under the tutelage of his guardian and trainer, Cus D’Amato.

Mr. Tyson talks about being recruited as a thief at the age of 7 by an older boy, who had him squeeze through the windows of houses targeted for burglary. He talks about using stolen money to buy pigeons and nice clothes. (“I had a ski suit, with the yellow goggles, and I’d never been to a ski slope in my life.”) And he talks about D’Amato’s schooling him in the technical aspects of boxing — like the “peek-a-boo style” defense, and aggressive counterpunching — while teaching him how to cultivate a psychological advantage by adopting a savage persona in and out of the ring.

When people suggested he was too short to be an effective heavyweight, Mr. Tyson says he “began to fantasize that if I actually killed someone inside the ring, it would certainly intimidate everyone.”

“Cus wanted an antisocial champion,” he says, “so I drew on the bad guys from the movies, guys like Jack Palance and Richard Widmark. I immersed myself in the role of the arrogant sociopath.” He says he eventually created the “Iron Mike persona, that monster,” but underneath remained “this scared kid who didn’t want to get picked on.”

The young Mike Tyson — hungry for love and glory — was eager to be D’Amato’s soldier, but D’Amato’s death in 1985 left him feeling lost and abandoned. Mr. Tyson says that during his 2002 loss to Lennox Lewis, his body (weakened from years of partying) not only let him down, but he also realized that his will to fight — to be Iron Mike — had left him.

“Iron Mike had brought me too much pain, too many lawsuits,” he says, adding, “each punch I took from Lewis in the later rounds chipped away at that pose, that persona. And I was a willing participant in its destruction.”

There is a lot of self-mythologizing (and de-self-mythologizing) at work in these pages. But if Mr. Tyson sometimes seems to be spinning or rationalizing episodes in his life, the reader gets the sense that his book as a whole is less a calculated attempt to rebrand himself than a genuine effort by a troubled soul to gain some understanding of the long, strange journey that has been his life. In fact, there is a kaleidoscopic feel to the book: the older, more introspective Mr. Tyson, now 47, looking back, with a combination of revulsion and regret, at his younger self, trying to come to terms with his contradictory, often self-destructive impulses. There are his grandiosity and self-loathing; his arrogance and vulnerability; his narcissism and naïveté; his neediness and isolation; his capacity for disciplined training; and his susceptibility to temptation and addiction.

The book is peppered with boasts: “I was Clovis. I was Charlemagne. I was one mean son of a bitch”; “I was a titan, the reincarnation of Alexander the Great.” It’s also filled with lots of self-abasement: “I was a pig back then”; “I was just a sewage rat with delusions of grandeur.”

This is a man who once thought of himself as “the baddest man on the planet,” but considered getting his face covered with tattoos of little hearts. (The tattoo artist talked him into getting a Maori tribal design instead.) A man who reportedly ran through several hundred million dollars — thanks to bad management, huge legal fees, lavish gifts and parties, expensive homes, dozens of cars and luxuries like pet tigers and private bathrooms in strip clubs — who, in recent years, says he was so broke that he and his wife, Kiki, would “have to count the items in our cart” at the supermarket “just to be certain that we didn’t go over our budget.” An expert in “the science of hurting people,” who says he now likes to read parts of his favorite book, “The World’s Greatest Letters: From Ancient Greece to the Twentieth Century,” every day, and cries over letters written by Napoleon and the German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist to their loved ones.

After the death of his 4-year-old daughter, Exodus, in 2009, Mr. Tyson was determined to change his life. He has built a new life with Kiki and their children, but he does not claim to have found peace or closure or redemption — or any of the things that many celebrity authors boast of in their memoirs. Instead, his book ends with him still struggling with his demons, and trying to stay sober, after a slip in April, after finishing this book.

“I truly want to deepen my relationship with Kiki and see my kids grow up to be healthy and happy,” he writes. “But I can’t do any of those things if I don’t have control over myself. I can’t help anyone if I’m not well myself, and I desperately want to get well.”

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In this, his first, autobiography, ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson pulls no punches and lays bare the story of his remarkable life and career. Co-written with Larry Sloman, author of Antony Keidis’s best-selling memoir ‘Scar Tissue’, this is a visceral, and unputdown-able story of a man born and raised to brutality, who reached the heights of stardom before falling to crime, substance abuse and infamy. Full of all the controversy and complexity that you would expect from a man who delighted as much as he shocked, this is a book that will surprise people and reveal a fascinating character beneath the exterior of violence. If you think you know all about Mike Tyson, read this book and think again.

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Mike Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles at 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, with 12 of them occurring in the first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after defeating Trevor Berbick by a TKO in the second round. In 1987, Tyson added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker. He was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to individually unify them.

Larry Sloman is the author of bestselling collaborative books with Bob Dylan, Howard Stern, and the critically acclaimed ‘Scar Tissue’ with Anthony Kiedis.

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Love him or loathe him, ‘Iron' Mike Tyson is an icon and one of the most fascinating sporting figures of our time.

In this no-holds-barred autobiography, Tyson lays bare his demons and tells his story: from poverty to stardom to hell and back again.

In his first autobiography, ‘Iron' Mike Tyson pulls no punches and lays bare the story of his remarkable life and career.

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• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,690

The inspiration for the major motion picture Priscilla directed by Sofia Coppola, this New York Times best seller reveals the intimate story of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, told by the woman who lived it.

What a story!

• By Pen Name on 08-28-22

The Demon Next Door

By: Bryan Burrough

• Narrated by: Steve White
• Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 30,697
• Performance 4 out of 5 stars 27,486
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 27,378

Best-selling author Bryan Burrough recently made a shocking discovery: The small town of Temple, Texas, where he had grown up, had harbored a dark secret. One of his high school classmates, Danny Corwin, was a vicious serial killer. In this chilling tale, Burrough raises important questions of whether serial killers can be recognized before they kill or rehabilitated after they do. It is also a story of Texas politics and power that led the good citizens of the town of Temple to enable a demon who was their worst nightmare.

Odd narration choice

• By Amanda Fredericks on 03-08-19

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

By: Jack Weatherford

• Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
• Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 19,664
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,260
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,256

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.

Golden Horde/Platinum Listen

• By Cynthia on 12-11-13

• The Unadulterated Story of the World’s Most Scandalous Website
• By: Trevor Aaronson, Sam Eifling, Michael Mooney
• Narrated by: Trevor Aaronson, Sam Eifling, Michael Mooney
• Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 26
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 26
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 26

Hold Fast is the uncompromising story of Backpage.com, the world’s most scandalous website, and the rise and fall of alternative weekly newspapers nationwide.

An amazing, crazy ride. Highly recommend.

• By Tara N on 04-17-24

By: Trevor Aaronson , and others

The Debutante

By: Jon Ronson

• Narrated by: Jon Ronson
• Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,318
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,092
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,089

Thirty years ago, award-winning journalist Jon Ronson stumbled on the mystery of Carol Howe—a charismatic, wealthy former debutante turned white supremacist spokeswoman turned undercover informant. In 1995, Carol was spying on Oklahoma’s neo-Nazis for the government just when Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.

Interesting but not compelling

• By Gail Jester on 04-15-23

Sorry for Your Loss

By: Michael Cruz Kayne

• Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,193
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,112
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,110

A sidesplitting, heartrending look at life—and death. This powerfully personal production, recorded live from the Minetta Lane Theatre, cuts through the platitudes, directly reaching out to anyone who has ever experienced loss—or will. So...everyone.

A Must Listen for the Grieving

• By Chris on 09-25-23

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

• As Told to Alex Haley
• By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
• Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
• Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 12,059
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 10,722
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 10,662

Experience a bold take on this classic autobiography as it’s performed by Oscar-nominated Laurence Fishburne. In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American dream and the inherent racism in a society that denies its non-White citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.

Audible Masterpiece

• By Phoenician on 09-10-20

By: Malcolm X , and others

French & Saunders Titting About (Series 5)

• By: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders
• Narrated by: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders
• Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 13
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 12
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 12

Once again, the legendary comedy duo unearth six vitally important subjects... and then tit about about them. From surviving on a desert island to being eaten by a cardboard crocodile, Dawn and Jennifer will entertain, inform and thoroughly tit about for your pleasure. (Batteries not included.)

Please do more

• By Mr P Ellerington on 04-23-24

By: Dawn French , and others

The Run of His Life

• The People v. O.J. Simpson

By: Jeffrey Toobin

• Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
• Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,201
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,977
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,970

The definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The Run of His Life is a prodigious feat of reporting that could have been written only by the foremost legal journalist of our time. First published less than a year after the infamous verdict, Jeffrey Toobin's nonfiction masterpiece tells the whole story, from the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman to the ruthless gamesmanship behind the scenes of "the trial of the century".

Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles

• By Cynthia on 05-24-16

Two Women Walk into a Bar

By: Cheryl Strayed

• Narrated by: Cheryl Strayed
• Length: 51 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 264
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 248
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 248

Twenty-one years after Cheryl Strayed set off on the Pacific Crest Trail to heal from the death of her beloved mother, Cheryl’s mother-in-law, Joan, is given weeks to live. As she and her husband help see Joan through her final days, Cheryl reckons with their complicated relationship, determined to connect with a woman who both showed her love and (sometimes hilariously) held her at a distance. Cheryl reflects on their two decades together as she comes to a deeper understanding of the secrets and sorrows in Joan’s complicated past.

Cheryl tells a great story!

• By Amazon Customer on 01-01-24

George Orwell: The Man and the Mind Behind 1984

• By: Michael Shelden, The Great Courses
• Narrated by: Michael Shelden
• Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 13
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 11
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 11

In George Orwell: The Man and the Mind Behind 1984 , Professor Michael Shelden will show you how 1984 presents a plausible reality of thought control and totalitarian power that feels contemporary even as it reflects its own time.

Creating Big Brother

• By Gilbert M. Stack on 04-19-24

By: Michael Shelden , and others

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My first audio book ever and I absolutely loved it. Definitely not for the faint hearted.

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Great narrator, loved Mike training with Cus, the chapter where he is in jail and the 3 last chapters which shows Mike struggle with heavy drug addiction and sex addiction.

• Ramtin Hosseini

Excellent, must read

Loved his honesty and story, he is a true champion in life and boxing like no one else.

• Amazon Customer

If I had bought the print version I would have struggled to put it down. The story telling is so visual, it’s a roller coaster that sent me from intense laughter to tears and back chapter by chapter. The man is a living legend. The pain and demons are real. We probably have a Mike Tyson hidden in all of us. Thanks Mike for your gut wrenching honesty. I wish you and your family love and peace.

• Kindle Customer

Once started, couldn't put the book down

I didn't expect how honest & engaging this book would be. No filters. A once-in-a-decafe story told in an engaging manner. Just like a friend would be telling this in a night bar, where no one is around. Mike, thank you!

as if Mike Tyson was talking to you

waaw. what a story. what a life. most captivating book I've listened too in a while

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Tyson fan before and more after reading the book

I've always been a Tyson fan since I was a kid. He will always be one of the most exciting boxers to watch in my mind. I got to know more about him after reading the book and wish him all the best. Hope he finds peace and happiness--that I believe is just as cool as finding success in the limelight. Cheers!! 👊😉

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