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Rund einen Monat nach seinem enttäuschenden Ringauftritt musste sich Tyson wegen der Vorwürfe der Körperverletzung vom August des vorangegangenen Jahres vor Gericht verantworten; am 5. Februar wurde er zu einer einjährigen Haftstrafe verurteilt, die er im Gefängnis von Montgomery County im US-Bundesstaat Maryland antrat. Schon nach knapp vier Monaten durfte Tyson auf Anordnung des Bewährungsausschusses das Gefängnis wieder verlassen, wurde aber unter Hausarrest samt psychologischer Betreuung gestellt.

Raised in Billings, Montana, Patrick Sauer is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer who primarily covers sports, https://tysonhistory.com/ history and sports history. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Smithsonian, Defector, Los Angeles Times, Montana Quarterly and countless publications that no longer exist.

Almost as soon as Givens left Tyson’s life, Don King entered. King had waited a long time. For years, Tyson had been making mincemeat of King’s stable of heavyweight champions, and it frustrated the promoter deeply that he had no piece of the champ. King’s first opening came at Jim Jacob’s funeral, which he attended uninvited, loudly condemning Tyson’s managers for such indignities as not having a limo ready for the champ. He had also worked strenuously to bring to light the suspicions of Givens and her mother toward Bill Cayton. And now, with Givens out of the picture, he pounced, offering Tyson the use of his farm in Ohio to recuperate from his disastrous marriage. King also proved useful, moving swiftly to close Tyson’s joint accounts with Givens, just in time to prevent her from transferring over $600,000 into her own account.

Michael Gerard Tyson was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 1966, to Lorna Tyson and Jimmy Kirkpatrick. His father ran off before he was two years old, and Mike grew up with all the temptations of ghetto life. By the age of twelve, he was in a street gang and had been in and out of juvenile court. Finally, after an armed robbery conviction, in 1978, he was sent to the Tryon School for Boys, a reformatory, where the physical education instructor, Bobby Stewart, spotted his potential as boxer. In 1981, Stewart introduced the 14-year-old Tyson to his friend, the legendary Cus D’Amato, and D’Amato introduced him to the “sweet science” of boxing.

While attending the Miss Black America contest, Tyson met 18-year-old Desiree Washington. On July 19, 1991, Tyson took her back to his hotel room and allegedly raped the young pageant contestant. He was tried and convicted of rape and, in March of 1992, Tyson was sentenced to six years in prison. He spent three years of his six-year sentence in jail. Word leaked out that Tyson was a different man after spending time behind bars. He was said to be reading communist literature and Malcolm X, and had even converted to Islam.

The exit of Givens left Don King firmly in control of Tyson. For five years Tyson had destroyed opponent after opponent, but that would soon change. On February 11, 1990, Tyson fought James “Buster” Douglas, a 42-1 underdog. From the very beginning of the fight, there was a different atmosphere. Tyson was sluggish—some claim from anti-depressant medication—and his journeyman opponent seemed to be different also, as if he were not afraid of the man so many others had feared to fight. Tyson knocked down Douglas, but the challenger recovered and ended up knocking out the champion in the tenth round.

Douglas would still dominate the middle rounds, although Tyson managed to land a few of his signature uppercuts. Tyson was wobbled by a chopping right during the fifth round. Soon, Tyson’s left eye began to swell from Douglas’ right jabs, preventing him from seeing his opponent’s punches well. Tyson’s cornermen were caught unprepared; they were so confident Tyson would easily beat Douglas that they had not brought an endswell or ice packs, usually standard equipment for a fight. Instead, they filled a latex glove with ice water and held it on Tyson’s eye between rounds. Aaron Snowell, Tyson’s primary cornerman, at one point caught the chain from the identification badge hanging from his neck between the iced glove and Tyson’s eye. Tyson winced in pain as Snowell moved dragging the chain from one side of his injured eye to the other. Confusion and panic grew in his corner as the fight went on. Despite Tyson’s inability to execute an effective fight plan, his corner continued to give him the same advice between rounds to move his head, jab his way inside and deliver a right hand. In the eighth round — a round Douglas dominated until the last few seconds — HBO’s Larry Merchant noted, “Douglas is asking of Tyson some questions he hasn’t been asked before…in the last few rounds of a fight, you have to come back and win it.”

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