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

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

Despite proving himself to be such a dominant force during the late eighties, Tyson revealed in his autobiography that former ...

There is no other sport that lends itself to dramatic, real-life storytelling like boxing. You have two protagonists and with most boxing narratives, you have grit, grime, colourful characters, ...

Cus D’Amato trained plenty better fighters, just none with as much grit. No quit in this kid. His bark worse than his bite, even when shipping punishment, he never took a backward step.

With the advent of televised sports—and, in recent decades, faster, more modern ways of documentation—sports documentaries ...

Mark Kriegel's excerpt from "Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson" looks at the fights of a 14-year-old Tyson.

Mike Tyson was born in Brooklyn, but the former heavyweight champion of the world calls Catskill home. That's where he was discovered by boxing trainer Constantine "Cus" D'Amato, who became a ...

Regrettably, for Cus D'Amato, he never saw his protégé's career florish to his fullest potential. Infact, D'Amato passed on in 1985 from pneumonia on 4 November at the age of 77.

Cus D’Amato’s KO Boxing Gym Inc., which is located on the third floor of a village-owned building above the police station on Main Street in Catskill.

Tyson's reflected on D'Amato's spark-to-blaze philosophy, saying on Hotboxin', " He made me believe I could be somebody." Today, at 58, he's found peace, a far cry from the chaos post-Cus.