Over 30 years ago, when Tom Patti first began his boxing training under Cus D’Amato, he received a blunt yet honest message during his orientation, one that became a frequent lesson throughout his ...

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 other is ...

On a November night in 1986, a crowd gathered in Las Vegas for an event that was hyped as "Judgement Day." Muhammad Ali was there, along with celebrities Sylvester Stallone, Eddie Murphy and Rob Lowe.

Mike Tyson recalls in a new book on his beloved mentor Cus D’Amato that the legendary trainer told the future heavyweight as a teen that he might one day own a house worth $300,000. “At the end of our ...

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 center and into ...

Mike Tyson was a chubby 13-year-old juvenile delinquent in 1979 when boxing svengali Cus D’Amato turned him into a lightning-fast destroyer in the ring. Then 71 and past his heyday managing champions ...

In this tender and disturbing hybrid of memoir and biography, former heavyweight boxing champion Tyson examines one of the most unusual characters in boxing history. The story begins in 1979 with ...

Cus D'Amato and Mike Tyson (Images Credits: Getty Images) In the sixth episode of his series Behind the Mike, fans got a deeper look at Tyson, revisiting key moments from his past that shaped who he ...