Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson is a retired boxer. Mike Tyson was born in brooklyn, New York City on June 30, of 1966.

family:
He has a brother, Rodney, who is five years older than he. His sister, Denise, died of a heart attack at age 25 in 1991. Tyson's father, Jimmy Kirkpatrick, abandoned his family when Tyson was 2, leaving his mother, Lorna Smith Tyson, to care for them on her own. The family lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant until their financial burdens necessitated a move to Brownsville when Tyson was 10 years old.Tyson's mother died six years later, leaving 16-year-old Tyson in the care of boxing manager and trainer Cus D'Amato, who would become his legal guardian.

Education:
Although Mike Tyson dropped out of high school as a junior and never graduated.

First experience at sport:
According to an interview in details his first fight was with a bigger youth who had pulled the head off one of Tyson's pigeons. Tyson was arrested a lot of times when he was a child. When he has 13 years old he had been arrested 38 times.

Early succeses:
Tyson competed at the 1981 and 1982 Junior Olympic Games, and won the gold medal twice: in 1981 against Joe Cortez and in 1982 against Kelton Brown, whose corner threw in the towel within the first round. He holds the Junior Olympic quickest knockout record with 8 seconds. In addition he won every bout at the Junior Olympic Games by knockout.

Greatest achievments:
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, he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. he's boxing record is 44 wins and 6 loses.

I admire Mike Tyson because he was a really good player and he won a lot of fights.