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‘Iron’ Mike Tyson’s early life, fighting journey, professional career - and fall from grace
Tyson's story involves incessant drug abuse, visits to prison, theft & deceit, childhood adoption and of course, one of the greatest boxing careers of all time.
Michael Gerard Tyson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in June of 1966. As a child, he endured a particularly difficult start to life, both in his upbringing and surroundings.
He never knew his biological father, Purcell Tyson - and his stepfather, Jimmy Kirkpatrick, abandoned the family when Tyson was just two years of age.
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Tyson was sexually abused by a stranger when he was seven, and his mother, who was an alcoholic, died when he was just 16.
After his stepfather left, Tyson's mother moved the family to 178 Amboy Street in Brownsville, on the eastern side of Brooklyn.
Brownsville was renowned for being the murder capital of New York, whilst also boasting the highest rate of incarceration and violent crime of anywhere in