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People adapt to circumstances and as these kids get older, their crimes become more serious as do the penalties. This removed the only two people who tried to hold him accountable or instill any kind of discipline in his life. This might have very well started as a booty call but if she changed her mind at any time during the encounter and Tyson continued, it then became rape.
Putting aside his rape conviction, there were several incredibly misogynistic moments and behaviors that Tyson seemed to regard as acceptable at the time they occurred and possibly even now.
There was a lot of effort put into shaping Tyson into a great boxer but not nearly enough attention was paid to his development as a person. Honestly, I can’t call it.
There was some insight into the legal proceedings with regards to his defense attorneys and their perceived shortcomings in court. It was obvious that Tyson loved and adored his sister.
This made me wonder how Tyson’s life might have been different if his family had continued living in Bed-Stuy and there was less drama in their home.
It’s an incredible story from which most people would be able to take something away. Maybe it was further exacerbated by him holding a grudge about his failed relationship with Robin Givens?
There’s some background on how Don King and some of Tyson’s other managers robbed him blind by taking outsized percentages of his purses and charging him for questionable expenses.
Those beatings escalated over time and became just as much about his mom venting her frustration as it was about her trying to correct him. You can also read or listen to your favorite titles offline and challenge yourself with a quiz to help you retain the content at the end of each microbook.
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Summary
Undisputed Truth is an in-depth autobiography that tells the story of Mike “Iron Mike” Tyson.
It also didn’t help that they were both inviting other people into their relationship in the form of Givens’ mother and Tyson cheating with several other women (which would continue to be an issue in his relationships).
Around the time that Tyson was going through his drama with Givens, the business wolves were also jockeying for position to stake claims to his earnings.
If he took issue with his defense strategy or his lawyers, why didn’t he speak up then and make changes as he was paying for them and would be the one doing time if they lost the case? He still partied with pimps, drug addicts and hustlers, and he was determined to feed all of his vices and fuel several drug addictions at the cost of his freedom (he recounts his well-documented incarcerations), sanity and children.
The opportunity to make money, although illegally, allowed him to buy clothes, food, and other things that boosted his ego and gave him some sense of self-esteem.
This is part of why kids in so many poor areas became heavily involved with selling drugs during the 1980s. He doesn’t provide a real explanation as to why he’s either uninterested or passive when it comes to business, legal, or financial matters.
During the prologue, Tyson explained that the judge mentioned date rape during the sentencing but he and Washington were not on a “date” but rather the situation was a “booty call”.
However, the pressures of fame, combined with his personal demons, led to a dramatic fall from grace. Tyson’s reflections on this period are especially poignant as he grapples with the personal and societal implications of his actions.
Tyson does not offer any easy justifications for his behavior, but he does discuss the factors that contributed to his self-destructive tendencies.
They probably just didn’t have enough knowledge or access to resources at the time to handle this kid who might have been dealing with any one of those issues as well as his emotional problems that weren’t being addressed.
Over three or four years, he got into all kinds of criminal mischief and ended up with a lengthy rap sheet. That’s where the “Iron Mike” persona really took root but unfortunately, instead of leaving it in the ring, Tyson adopted it as his everyday public personality.
But again, this points to Tyson’s willingness to allow professionals acting in his name to exert full control with limited participation on his part. And his self-destructive habits indicated that his low self-esteem and feelings of low self-worth still existed beneath the facade that he’d created.
In some ways Undisputed Truth explores how becoming a boxer rescued Mike Tyson from Brownsville but destroyed him as a person.
Generally speaking, I don’t take much interest in other people’s romantic relationships so this part of Undisputed Truth was just ok to me. Undisputed Truth does not shy away from Tyson’s darkest moments, nor does it gloss over the moments of triumph that solidified his place in boxing history.