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Just about everyone knows who Mike Tyson is. Undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. Prodigious, powerful boxer who won 50 of his 58 fights 44 by knockout.

Lesser known is how Tyson became one of the fiercest fighters of all time.

The absolutely improbable tale began when a troubled young kid met a cantankerous old trainer at a small boxing gym in the sleepy town of Catskill, New York.

Cus DAmato would change the whole trajectory of Tysons life, teaching him everything he knew about success in and out of the ring, before dying just a year before his protege became the youngest heavyweight champion of the world at the age of 20.

How did this hard-boiled trainer turn a kid whod been abandoned by his parents, mercilessly bullied, and imprisoned for dozens of crimes, into a pedigree pugilist? How did he take an unfocused, insecure, lost young man and turn him into a champion who lived to train, fought with an unconquerable spirit, and positively lusted after victory?

Cus did it by teaching Tyson the way of the warrior monk the art of focus and ferocity. In this short and punchy book, we uncover the five universally-applicable strategic principles of Cus philosophy. Included are details on:

The contents of Cuss library, and the books he gave Tyson to read

Tysons training routine

The mental affirmations and tactics Cus shared with Tyson to strengthen his mind

Cuss approach to making fear your friend instead of your foe

No matter what kind of fight youre in, the savage wisdom of one of boxings greatest minds will help you come out the victor.

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THE WARRIOR MONK PHILOSOPHY OF TRAINER CUS DAMATO

2019 Brett and Kate McKay

Cover Design by Derek Hart

Cover photograph from Ken Regan/Camera 5

Book Design by Phillip Gessert

ISBN 978-0-9993222-4-6

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PREFACE

Cus DAmato was one of the most unique men ever to walk the planet. He touched the lives of so many people and helped them become a better version of themselves. He took the weak and made them strong. And he took a fat, frightened thirteen-year-old and made him into a guy who cant walk the streets because Im the most recognizable face on the planet.

MIKE TYSON,

IRON AMBITION: MY LIFE WITH CUS DAMATO

Not everybody becomes champion, but if you apply the same principles and techniques that I will teach you, youll become successful no matter what the endeavor. My objective is to develop the persons character so that they have the ability to transcend and succeed, no matter where theyve come from or no matter how difficult the task.

CUS DAMATO

On the face of it, the teenager sparring in the ring didnt have much to recommend him. The kid had heart but he was short, chubby, and a rank beginner at boxing. Yet after only ten minutes, the trainer watching him outside the ropes had made up his mind: That is the heavyweight champion of the world and possibly the universe.

The kid was Mike Tyson; the manager Constantine Cus DAmato. And the moment marked the beginning of arguably the greatest boxer/trainer combination in history.

In some ways, the pair were a true odd couple. Tyson was an adolescent black kid; Cus was an old white Italian guy whod already been around for seven decades.

But in many other ways, the two shared much in common.

Already a seasoned criminal at 13, Tyson first met DAmato on a visit from a state reformatory, where he was doing time for the 38th crime hed committed since first being arrested for stealing at the age of ten. Despite his tough guy exterior, and his penchant for acting out, Tyson was incredibly shy, insecure, and emotionally wounded. As a child he had been mercilessly bullied and beaten up by other kids on the streets of the notorious Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, and had found no solace from the torment at home; abandoned by his father, his single mother was an abusive alcoholic who dismissed her son as retarded and irredeemable.

A pugnacious, hard-boiled boxing trainer, Cus had also grown up poor in a bad neighborhood of Brooklyn and been bullied by his peers. His mother had passed away when he was five, and his father, who raised him with strict discipline and severe beatings, died when Cus was still a young man. While his father had possessed a stern disposition, he had also been selfless and service-oriented, and Cus followed in his footsteps, becoming a tireless advocate for the underdog and champion of the little guy. If someone in his neighborhood had a problem, of any kind, Cus was the guy who would fix it. Hed freely give away his money to anyone in need, and mentored many wayward kids, often using boxing as a way to channel their miscreant energy into a positive pursuit.

Cuss own career as an amateur boxer was cut short by an eye injury, but he became an exceptional trainer and manager, overseeing the rise of two world champions in the 1950s and 60s. But his Quixotic fight against the mafia and corrupt promotional bodies to clean up the sport had left him isolated from its inner circles. He had spent the last couple decades living a quiet life in Upstate New York, training kids and amateurs in a small dank boxing gym above the Catskill police station.

Besides the commonalities in their backgrounds, Tyson and Cus were alike in another crucial way: while both had been written off, both yearned to do something more with their livesto succeed, to be famous, to win glory. As boys, both had felt that there was something different about themselves, that they were destined to do something great. At the time of their first meeting, Tyson wasnt yet sure where destiny was calling, but knew he wanted to escape the streets that were sucking his peers towards jail, and the grave. Cus knew exactly what he wanted: to train one last world champion. As Tyson puts it in Iron Ambition, this improbable partnership, this old washed-up dude and this young street urchin, would fulfill each others desires in an extraordinary way.

Its hard to deny the element of fate in the unbelievably serendipitous forces that brought Tyson and DAmato together.

Tyson had landed at Tryon School for Boys in Upstate New York after being bounced from other correctional facilities for repeated offenses. Yet the new location did nothing to quell his misbehavior until he met one of the counselors there, Bobby Stewart. Stewart was a former fighter and practiced boxing with boys who were interested in learning the sport. Tyson was keenly so, and begged Stewart to teach him too, but the counselor made the young man promise to go straight first. When Tyson did a one-eighty overnight, and began keeping all the rules and making an effort in his classes, Stewart kept his part of the bargain and started showing the eager kid the ropes. He soon became incredibly impressed not only with Tysons natural skill, but his work ethic; after they trained together from 9:30 to 11pm, the nascent fighter would continue to shadowbox by himself in the dark of his dorm room until three in the morning. As this counselor, who happened to be a former boxer, happened to know Cus DAmato, who also happened to be living in Upstate New York, he decided to take this kid, who he happened to meet at the reformatory, up to meet him.

Something was destined not only in how Tyson and Cus ultimately connected, but in the fact that Cus was probably the only trainer in the world who could have turned Tyson into a world-class fighter. Tyson had the physical potential for which any trainer would kill, but his internal game was a mess, and only Cus had the toolbox to address it.

Cus knew absolutely everything about the sweet science; Muhammad Ali called him the bible of boxing and the best boxing teacher in the world.

But Cuss knowledge of the sport went well beyond its mechanics. He was one of the first trainers to really focus on boxings psychological aspects, which Cus believed amounted to as much as 75% of the sport. Will, he thought, could often beat skill.

Cus, who Tyson called a manic genius, had developed incisive principles for controlling and directing ones mind and emotions in ways that led to success both in and out of the ring. The psychology of fighting was in Cuss bone marrow, Tyson recalls. I couldnt get enough of him. I absorbed this old bald-headed man.

For a kid who had never had emotional security, never had a context that could help him make sense of what was going on inside himself, Cus provided a map. As Tyson, who moved in with Cus soon after their meeting, remembers, Hed talk to me about my feelings and then hed tell me why I was feeling that way. Cus wanted to reach me at the root. It wasnt just about the physical aspects of boxing; it was getting at the mental sidewhy a fighter got bubble guts, why our minds play tricks on us so that something seems more difficult than it is.

For a young man who was wholly lacking in self-confidence and suffered a deeply-set inferiority complex, Cus worked to peel back his layers, finding Tysons better qualities, and introducing them to him. Cus taught Tyson how to make his fear work for, instead of against him, and how to channel his emotions towards a positive goal. He taught him he could improve himself every single day. And he boosted the young mans ego, built up his self-esteem, even to grand proportions. As Tyson recalls, Cus always dropped [such] charged words as he trained him: Love yourself, look in the mirror, shadowbox, and look at your work. Its magnificent, what youre doing, its never been done in the annals of fight history.

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