Word: tysons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trainer Cus D'Amato, who died a year ago lost and lonely, three decades after standing up to the cowardly little mobster Frankie Carbo. Maybe lonely is wrong, though Cus never married in 77 years, admitting only one passion. As the legal ward of D'Amato, Tyson was kin to Floyd Patterson, the youngest champion until last week. A Tyson left hook in the second round sent the World Boxing Council's Trevor Berbick bouncing across the ring and almost through the ropes. That made 28 victims in 28 fights, 26 by concussion, from "hydrogen bombs" thrown "with murderous intentions...
...property of Film Collectors Bill Cayton and Jim Jacobs, Tyson is the only fighter of this century who could knowledgeably declare, "I always wanted to be like John L. Sullivan." Through his managers' remarkable archives, including Tom Edison's 1894 kinetoscope of Gentleman Jim Corbett, Tyson is conversant with a day when boxers soaked their faces in brine and their hands in walnut juice. Fighting twice a month, at first in an Albany cracker box suitably called the Egg, Tyson has seemed to be of that...
About Sullivan's height (5 ft. 10 1/2 in.), and Jim Jeffries' weight (220 lbs.), Tyson is a square, two-fisted hulk with a short man's proclivity for uppercuts. His urgency suggests Rocky Marciano. "A lot of comparisons are made," he says, "but I can't see them. Maybe if I could stand outside myself. Cus used to tell me that every fighter felt some nervousness just before he fought. But that's when I'm most at ease." D'Amato's surrogate, Kevin Rooney, does the training now, literally by the numbers. "Seven-six- two," he barks from...
...Tyson still has "his 20-year-old days" (a bachelor, he proclaims his accessibility to women), Rooney considers him "a mature fighter, a very elusive boxer -- smart. He doesn't have a high school diploma, but he's on the verge of a master's." Studying the old films, Tyson likes "to look in the background and see all the people who are dead." But he also noticed the way Joe Frazier sometimes bent forward into Ali's flurries; when Marvis Frazier did the same thing, Tyson flattened Joe's son in 30 seconds. "I really believe, deep down...
...Tyson's bout with Berbick, the winner of Muhammad Ali's last battle in 1981, Ali received two old newspaper friends in his hotel suite. He only faintly remembered them and vaguely introduced his fourth wife. He performed his card tricks as if they had never seen them before, and once more stuffed the disappearing handkerchief into his plastic thumb. "I'm good, I'm free," he said with an animal effort, a coughing rumble and a low growl. "I stay so busy, I'm in another world. All my boxing, it was all for this." Painstakingly, appearing unable...