I wanted people to look at me and adore me but then I got mad when they did! Cus’s face turned red and he looked over at his friends who were there and everyone was smiling. An intimate look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D’Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson’s surrogate father. If he does, then we’ll work harder and then we’ll come back and come back until he sees we can do it.”Cus’s gym was on top of the police station in Catskill. He thought about finding a gym down there for me to work out of but then he had another idea.“Listen man, my wife is mad. I was introduced to Cus and in a second I could see that he was totally in control of everything there. But you can screw it up in one second. “Come on,” I said. It’s not that I wanted to become a boxer after hearing him. That’s a concept that I would soon learn from Cus.The story of Mike Tyson's time in juvie and reform school, and how he ended up meeting Cus D'Amato, who proclaimed he would be the future heavyweight champion of the world. Suddenly he came out of a clinch and the motherf---er hit me in the stomach and I went down.

He was saying just beautiful, inspirational stuff.

With nowhere to go, it was Tyson’s boxing trainer, Cus D’Amato, and his wife…

“Mr. © 2020 ABG-SI LLC. “I’m ready to work.”On the ride back to Tryon, I just knew I was going to be a success.

All he wants to do is talk to you,” they told him. I watched the documentary Tyson on DVD and found Mike's worship of Cus to be fascinating. We deal with losers here.”“All I want to do is be a fighter. They’d be out in the street, going to school, getting a job. I'm gonna do everything to coddle him, to protect him, to develop him, because he is my revenge on the world. He made Jose Torres into a light heavyweight champ. I turned the same desire I had for robbing into fighting. Was Mike Tyson''s boxing coach, Cus D''Amato gay?

“The staff can’t be seen getting beat up by the kids.”I was so excited the day we sparred for the first time. For all my street bravado, I was really a shy kid. For me it was a badge of honor.I was in isolation but there was a tiny window in the door and I’d hear some inmates walking by. I didn’t know what to do. He went to the staff psychologist and said, “What is this?” She told him that I was intellectually handicapped.

He took Floyd Patterson to the heavyweight title. He knew that if I went back to Brooklyn I might fall back into a criminal mindset. “But, maybe he’ll say we can come back. One of the guys told me that they had just finished sparring with Mr. Stewart, one of the guards. I got right up but I couldn’t breathe.“Walk it off,” he barked. I was a fat Poindexter when I was growing up. The CO who ran the place came in and read the report and then he told me to get up and take my punishment, ten hits in the head with a half pool stick.A few days after that thrashing, my class worker came in and told me that I was being sent away to finish the last year of my sentence.

It was in the woods an hour northwest of Albany. They don’t tell you where you’re going so you can’t tell your peeps where you’ll be. I can't find anything on the net about Cus having a wife or family and he seemed obsessed with his boxing students. From October 26, 2017 through November 4, 2017, an international, online "Science of Victory" marathon was dedicated to the memory of Cus D'Amato. But I didn’t know what I was going to have to do for people to do that s--t.I was always in trouble in Spofford.

I felt like I was ready to throw up everything I had eaten for the last two years. “Walk it off.” I got my air back and we started boxing again. Joseph Baxter Feb 20, 2020 Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins headlines biopic Cus and Mike, set to play Mike Tyson’s legendary trainer, Cus D’Amato. “If you think he’s got potential then bring him down tomorrow.”On the way there, Stewart tried to tamp down my expectations.“Cus may not even like you the first time, I don’t know,” he said. I don’t really understand how it all happened. Maybe you could stay at his house with him.”Before Bobby called Cus, he showed me a few moves that were meant to impress the old trainer. I can’t box with you no more, but I’m going to take you somewhere where they’re going to take you to the next level. I couldn’t even look him in the eye when he barged into my room.

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