“Five years ago my friend José Torres told me that Cus D'Amato had found a troubled 14-year-old kid from Brooklyn who is going to become the heavyweight champion of the world”
Originally published December 10, 1985
“Toward the end, he thought perhaps that he had the perfect heavyweight at last in young Michael Tyson: "I have no doubt he'll be a champion. But more than that, he might be a great fighter”
Originally published November 19, 1985
“Though Tyson lacks Muhammad Ali’s inspired narcissism… for all his reserve, his odd, even eerie combination of shyness and aggression, his is a wonderfully marketable image.”
Originally published March 24, 1987