Despite his success, legendary trainer Cus D’Amato once told Ali that there was just one heavyweight in particular that would ...

Thirty years after Diamond fought his last, D’Amato unfurled tall tales about him to an impressionable young buck called Mike Tyson. About the punches he took without flinching. His thirst for combat ...

Bobby Stewart would then introduce Mike Tyson to Cus D'Amato. Tyson opened up about living with D'Amato from an early age at his home, and his relationship with his trainer and mentor.

There’s always been a certain mystique around Mike Tyson’s knockout power - an almost mythical quality to the way he ...

The Cus D'Amato Memorial Award was founded by the Boxing Writers Association of America and was first presented to Tyson on May 16, 1986. Ewald, Tyson's motherly figure, passed away in 2001, aged 98.

The story of Mike Tyson's time in juvie and reform school, and how he ended up meeting Cus D'Amato, who proclaimed he would be the future heavyweight champion of the world.

Cus D'Amato produced three world champions in Mike Tyson, Floyd Patterson and Jose Torres. 'Non-Compromised Pendulum' commemorates the science behind D'Amato's teachings.

Mike Tyson ’s first trainer, Cus D’Amato was a major influence on him as both a boxer and a man. D’Amato helped Tyson turn his life around and taught him the techniques that would later help ...

Two Stocktonians appear in “Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D’Amato,” a new book by Mike Tyson, former world heavyweight boxing champion. One is San Joaquin County Supervisor Tom Patti. The ...

Mike Tyson’s second memoir — “Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D’Amato — traces back to his days being bullied and abused in Brownsville, through his stops in a Bronx juvenile detention ...

Before dying in 1985, Cus D’Amato was Mike Tyson’s surrogate father, manager, trainer, and the man largely responsible for shaping Tyson into the tour de force he eventually became. Tyson went ...

Mike Tyson pays respects at mentor Cus D’Amato’s grave before his highly anticipated fight against Jake Paul.