Mike Tyson Biography

Lest anyone forgets, James ‘Buster’ Douglas handed ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson his first pro loss on February 10, 1990. Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo, Japan was the venue for the forty-two-to-one underdog’s stunning triumph over a man many considered the most unbeatable heavyweight champion since a young George Foreman terrorized the division in the seventies. Individuals mentioned its resemblance to the concluding moments in Rocky II, which came out over ten years before Buster’s motion-picture-caliber stoppage victory.
There was the thirty-seven-and-oh Tyson, sporting the same invincible auras ‘Big’ George did when he stepped into the ring to face Muhammad Ali just over fifteen years earlier, and Buster, a native Columbus Ohioan whose ascent atop the heavyweight
It was a bright and sunny morning in Marco Island, Florida. Buster woke up and put on what had become a daily uniform for him: white canvas Sperry Docksider shoes, loose-fitting gymnasium shorts, and a faded T-shirt with stripes he never tucked. He looked huge—as huge as a two-ton truck—and had reached three hundred and twenty pounds, seventy-four pounds heavier than what he had weighed in his last fight before retiring from boxing, but no one could convince him to admit it. “I don’t know my weight, and it doesn’t matter,” he said. After going downstairs to the massive gourmet kitchen to see what he could have for breakfast, which was a problem that day because it was the housekeeper’s vacation day, he wandered around the oversized mansion he had purchased after getting the twenty-four million for his last fight. To put it in perspective, it boasted over twelve thousand square feet of living space, eight bedrooms, ten bathrooms, an unused gymnasium, a movie theater he always used, and two hundred feet in prize waterfront
It is what Jack Nicholson said following an incident involving vats containing toxic waste, which brought about his transformation from day jobber to Gotham’s most wanted career criminal. Buster, thirty-three and retired from boxing for the last four years, could refer to quotes from any movie the moment its name got mentioned. Films were now a significant part in his life. As the days drifted by, a huge Mitsubishi cathode ray tube television played host to the films he screened as he imagined sharing the big screen with Hollywood’s elite. Apart from Batman Buster enjoyed quoting Raging Bull, the movie on Jake La Motta, an iconic former world middleweight champion best known for his six meetings against Sugar Ray Robinson, a man with universal recognition from boxing experts spanning many eras as the greatest fighter ever to have laced up a glove pair. He imitated Robert De Niro imitating Jake La Motta imitating Marlon Brando in a film entitled On the Waterfront. “I could have been a contender,” Buster said. One did not laugh given how there was meaning in what he