Stewart introduced Tyson to Cus D’Amato, a famed boxing coach who had trained champions Floyd Patterson and Jose Torres. D'Amato immediately saw Tyson's potential and took him in. Tyson moved into D’Amato’s home in the Catskills and lived among other young fighters in a sort of dormito...
Mike Tyson is a retired boxer and a former WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight champion. In his 58-fight career, Tyson won 50 of those matches, 44 of them by KO. During and after his career, he has been a controversial figure both in and out of the ring.
Today,Evolve Dailyrevealsthe secrets behindMike Tyson’s KO Punch: Head Movement Cus D’Amato, Tyson’s coach, was an expert at utilizing head movement to make his fighters difficult targets. He developed thepeek-a-boo boxing style, which included continuous movement of the head, trunk, and ...
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In 1959, Jimmy Kirkpatrick moved to Brooklyn, where he met Tyson’s mother, Lorna Mae (Smith) Tyson. According to Mike Tyson, “My father was just a regular street guy caught up in the street world”. Trainer Cus D’Amato looked after him and trained him to be a boxer. Later Tyson ...
Mike Tyson “A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear, who has you see what you don’t want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be. Today, you have 100% of your life left." ...
Gordon Marino, a boxing coach and philosophy professor at St Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, first met Tyson 20 years ago and has done training drills with him. He recalls by phone: “It was weird to do it with him because I had never experienced a body so electric. ...
I have nothing at all against peek-a-boo, quite the opposite. I have always admired and been fascinated by Cus D’Amato and was blown away by the peak Mike Tyson. He used the concept of peek-a-boo to delight and excite the boxing world. ...
Mike Tyson’s Peek-a-Book Boxing Style Disadvantages DISADVANTAGE #1 – Uses a LOT of energy The Peek-a-boo boxing style is not at all what you call a smooth style or “efficient” boxing style. It’s fast, explosive, and intelligent but it isn’t subtle. How many older peek-a-boo...
for instance andinside slip, then the additional power generated is very significant, and when this power is transferred correctly into the shot then it can be a fight winner. As I said, check out any one of Mike Tyson’s earlier fights and you’ll see this shot used to devastating ...