Tyson's heavyweight adulation

Book review of 'Iron Ambition: Lessons I've Learned from the Man Who Made Me a Champion'

Iron Ambition: Lessons I’ve Learned from the Man Who Made Me a Champion

Mike Tyson with Larry “Ratso” Sloman 

Hachette India 

465 pages; Rs 699

In November 1986, a few days after becoming the youngest-ever heavyweight champion of the world, Mike Tyson emptied a bottle of Dom Pérignon champagne on the grave of Constantine “Cus” D’Amato. That same week, he made his way down to Brownsville, the treacherous, crime-infested Brooklyn neighbourhood where he was born. There, he and his buffoonish, weed-smoking mates mugged visitors in an elevator.

If the first came as a form of belated homage to the man who