"But I don't know about the abuses he suffered as a young child. Did he? "
Again, I hope you're kidding.
His father had 16 children, by multiple women. At least 3 with Tyson's mother. The father left when Mike was 2 and was never in his life.
His mother was an abused alcoholic, moving from man to man to try to support herself and her kids. They lived in the the worst sections of Brooklyn (Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville). Mike raised himself, on the streets. He was constantly in trouble. I believe the report I read said he was arrested 38 times by the age of 13. He was constantly in fights over his lisp and high pitched voice. (Kids are so understanding.)
At 13, the mother admitted she couldn't raise him and had him sent to a reform school. While he was there, at age 16, his mother died.
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