Ring Observer Boxing by Scoop Malinowski
By Scoop Malinowski
The power of Mike Tyson and Cus D’Amato uniting their forces proves how powerful black and white can be working together. Fake news agenda-driven media divide & conquer hate evil must be stopped…
Mike Tyson was a juvenile delinquent teenager, on the path to nowhere, living in a detention home for troubled kids. Cus D’Amato was a retired boxing manager with little money, living with a friend in Catskills, NY. Fate would bring Mike and Cus together and immediately the keen eyes and senses of D’Amato noticed the extraordinary genius and talent in the troublemaker youth nobody wanted, nobody could handle. Somehow Cus knew this young black kid from Brooklyn, was destined to become the greatest champion on the planet. Through words, belief, and teaching, D’Amato inspired Tyson to become Heavyweight Champion of the World in 1986 at age 20, less than a decade after they first met.
It’s one of the most amazing stories in the history of sport, or also humanity.
On the Jimmy Connors podcast “Advantage Connors”, Tyson revealed the special synergy between himself and Cus. “I was never self confident, I didn’t have self discipline. I had a great trainer, a great teacher, more than anything else (Cus D’Amato). He helped me discover who I was in a certain area at that stage of my life. I never understood the definition of ego, I never had an ego. He formed that ego. No one had ever spoke to me like that before. He discovered the ego in my head. I grasped the ego. The affirmations he gave me I had to make come true. That’s the person I became. Then I created some illusions of my own.”
“Once you start to believe, have that confidence applied, it supersedes the genius. Sometimes we don’t know we have it.”
“We’re all more than what we actually are.”
D’Amato’s intentions with young Tyson were always pure. As D’Amato’s former light heavyweight champion Jose Torres revealed. “When I quit boxing in 1969, I counted up how much money I had made, and it was close to one million dollars, ” Jose Torres once said. “Then I checked how much Cus had taken for his cut, and it came to zero. He never took one cent. In fact, he doubled the purse for my first couple of fights out of his own pocket.”
