Mike Tyson: The Youngest Heavywei...
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Mike Tyson: The Youngest Heavyweight Champion Who Had to Survive His Own Legend
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Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history at twenty, terrorized the division with first-round knockouts, and then spent the next three decades trying to survive the destruction his own fame inflicted. Prison, bankruptcy, the ear-biting incident, the face tattoo, the one-man show — Tyson's life after boxing has been a longer and stranger story than the career that made him famous.

This episode traces Tyson from his Brownsville childhood and Cus D'Amato's mentorship through the youngest title in history, the Buster Douglas upset, the rape conviction, and the improbable reinventions that followed.

  • The Brownsville streets, juvenile detention, and Cus D'Amato's transformation of a delinquent into a champion
  • The youngest heavyweight title at twenty and the reign of terror that followed
  • The Bu ... 
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