Tyson's Bio Pulls No Punches: 'Iron' Mike Recounts Cocaine Binges and Fights in Memoir
Tyson's bio pulls no punches. "Iron" Mike Tyson shared some of the roughest patches in his life in his new memoir, "Undisputed Truth," including some of his craziest moments like cocaine binges and fights.
Some of Mike Tyson's biography was released on Deadspin, and it showed a much darker time in the prizefighter's life. An excerpt talked about just one of the incidents with Don King the famous fight promoter and why "you don't turn your back on a jealous cokehead."
"Don King was offering me a $20 million settlement in exchange for him getting to promote my fights again. … I wanted three things of mine that Don still had- a green Rolls-Royce, a painting that the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi had given me that was supposed to be worth a lot, and the thing I was worried the most about: a drawing of me in the middle of a bunch X-Men that Stan Lee had done," Tyson wrote.
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"I packed a big block of coke and a duffel bag with a half-pound of reefer," the 47-year-old admitted. "The drugs were playing with my head and I was freaking out and getting jealous."
"Don picked us up at the (South Florida) private airport in his Rolls … Don said some innocuous thing, and all that jealousy and rage spilled out of me and I kicked him in his f------ head. Boom! You don't turn your back on a jealous cokehead."
From there, Tyson detailed how he choked King, bit and punched the chauffer so hard he "shattered his left orbital bone," bent the steel on the Rolls Royce, and still avoided arrest.
"They were talking to us and I had the half brick of coke and Luz was holding the duffel bag with the half-pound of weed. These cops were so excited to see me that [they] didn't even ask me what we were doing on the side of the highway," the book reads.
The book hasn't been out more than a few days, but already reviews have been very positive.
"Mike's had a tough life, but there is a lot of wisdom in his words," B. Billerbeck wrote on Amazon.com. "It's a brutally honest look into a life so different from mine."
"Very touching and macho- simultaneously. It was real. Tragic. Explosive. Significant. It made me appreciate Mike and see him as a human being. What guts it must have taken to expose so much," LateNightShopaholic added. "I loved this book."
Mike Tyson's one-man show "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth" will air on HBO Nov. 16.
