The Cus D'Amato Memorial Award was founded by the Boxing Writers Association of America and was first presented to Tyson on May 16, 1986. Ewald, Tyson's motherly figure, passed away in 2001, aged ...

Mike Tyson and Cus D'Amato in training. "I'm not a creator," D'Amato once said. "What I do is discover and uncover." Ken Regan/Camera 5/Courtesy of Blue Rider Press & Plume hide caption ...

Mike Tyson was a chubby 13-year-old juvenile delinquent in 1979 when boxing svengali Cus D’Amato turned him into a lightning-fast destroyer in the ring. Then 71 and past his heyday managing ...

Mike Tyson’s second memoir — “Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D’Amato — traces back to his days being bullied and abused in Brownsville, through his stops in a Bronx j… ...

Tyson has spoken about his relationship with D'Amato before, noting how important the trainer was to him during an October 2020 episode of his podcast Hotboxin' with Mike Tyson. "If Cus was happy ...

Cus D'Amato produced three world champions in Mike Tyson, Floyd Patterson and Jose Torres. 'Non-Compromised Pendulum' commemorates the science behind D'Amato's teachings.

With nowhere to go, it was Tyson's boxing trainer, Cus D'Amato,… Mike Tyson's life growing up was a difficult one, and he's talked frequently about how it shaped him for the years that followed.