Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Undisputed Truth My Autobiography by Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography by Mike Tyson – review. N othing in his subsequent exchanges with Paul Holdengräber could quite live up to the moment when Mike Tyson took to the stage last month at – sorry, I mean the Public Library. His mentor, Cus D'Amato, had assured the 15-year-old Tyson that one day, when he entered a room, "people will stand up and give you an ovation". That's how it was here. A collective gasp and we were on our feet – not as an expression of admiration, more a recoil from sheer physical and psychic proximity. This would never happen with the writers and intellectuals who usually grace this august stage. They are interesting, admired or even loved on the basis of stuff they have created, that is external to them. But everything that had made Tyson famous and infamous – the fact of his body and its capacity for violence – was there in the room. Among the living only Diego Maradona (whom I also saw once, in an equally improbable setting, as he emerged from the Oxford Union) has risen to comparable heights from such depths – and then plummeted back down again. Paul Gascoigne was an amazing footballer and Ben Johnson ran extremely fast but Maradona's and Tyson's life stories place them in a different realm. In Naples there are still shrines to Diego. When Tyson, at the library, said that he had been a god this seemed a self-definition that even Richard Dawkins might allow. Holdengräber begins his interviews by asking guests to define themselves in seven words. Tyson's were "Came, saw, conquered, got conquered, bounced back." The ungodly twist is all in the last two. Maradona and Tyson fell – and fell prey to pretty similar temptations – while avoiding a fatal Senna-esque collision with destiny. And so, after being a god, Tyson has ended up like thousands of other literary contenders: on the promo circuit with product to hustle. Undisputed Truth is the latest and biggest bounce in a bills-to-pay comeback that began with James Toback's intimate documentary, Tyson , and continued with an acting role in The Hangover . Tyson played himself, naturally, a role he reprised for a one-man Broadway show that was then filmed by Spike Lee. The autobiography grew directly out of that show and even if it is not, as Holdengräber claimed, up there with St Augustine's Confessions , it's got a lot more fighting. That it's also addictive is down in part to Tyson's co-author, Larry Sloman. Tyson claims he "inherited Cus's ability to tell stories" but as he regaled the audience with lispy anecdotes – growing up in Brooklyn, breaking into houses and being on the roof with his pigeons – it rapidly became as interesting as hearing a celebrity recount a dream. Tyson is a history nut, and a prompted digression on the Visigoths was as dull as – if slightly more confusing than – a lecture by a Cambridge don. Things only really got going when he burst into invective and profanity. I missed the one-man show but a friend reported that the best moment came when Tyson spotted a guy asleep in the front row. Mike went up to him and yelled in his face that he was gonna stick his dick in his mouth. It wasn't quite on a par with the pre-fight/post-brawl press conference with – "I'll fuck you in your ass in front of everybody," Tyson screamed at a reporter. "I'll fuck you till you love me, faggot!" – but the sleeper in the front row went home persuaded that he'd got his money's worth. Having encouraged Tyson to ramble through his past, Sloman shaped the mass of material into a narrative that opens with the most vehemently disputed part of the story: the conviction for raping Desiree Washington in 1991. Adamant that he did no such thing, Tyson goes into graphic detail, later, to explain how he didn't (he went down on her while she was menstruating, apparently unaware that he was "gargling blood"). The conviction might have been shaky but so is the defence that it's impossible to "rape someone when they come to your hotel at two in the morning. There's nothing open that late but legs." Bear in mind also that any charm Tyson possessed was inseparable from the "bad intentions" manifest in the ring: "My social skills consisted of putting a guy in a coma." But remember, also, that his capacity for brute intimidation did nothing to staunch the flow of women eager to have sex with him, not just after the conviction but while he was in prison. Out of jail after three years, he became an easy mark for claims of assault and sexual harassment even when he was trying to keep some of these women at bay – not because, as a convert to the Nation of Islam, he was newly abstemious, but because they were skanky hos. It got to the point where he "was hardly seen out in public. One reason for that was that I spent a lot of time indoors at strip clubs." More time, certainly, then he spent at his mansion in with its 5,000 sq ft master bedroom and the 19 other bedrooms he aimed to fill with different girls at the same time. He had a palace in Vegas, too, but his true home was what Conrad called "the destructive element". Throw in an annual income that was often in excess of $50m (enough to ensure that, like the former champions he idolised, he'd wind up flat broke), a titanic coke habit (he'd wander round with his stash in a big bag, "a straw coming out of it like it was a milkshake") and you have a young man in the unusual position of being both gladiator and emperor, "a sewage rat with delusions of grandeur", a ghetto kid with zero self-esteem and an ego borne of the knowledge that, in a fair fight, he could beat everyone on the planet to a pulp. Unconvinced that he had been fairly beaten, one of those opponents, Mitch Green, high on angel dust, starts taunting Tyson who beats him up again in the street. Bloodied – "I had crushed his eye socket, broken his nose, cracked some ribs" – but unbowed, Mitch comes back for another helping a few pages later when Mike is "on a date with some exotic hot Afrocentric chick named Egypt or Somalia or some other country like that". She stops him carving Mitch up with a steak knife ("I wasn't a vegan then") but being with Tyson or working for him could turn bad almost as quickly as fighting against him. One feels zero sympathy for Don King ("a wretched, slimy reptilian motherfucker") or Frank Warren, both of whom get richly stomped, but spare a thought for the bodyguard who "actually began to think his name was 'Motherfucker' because all he'd hear was 'Motherfucker. Get me this."' As will be clear by now, Sloman brings Tyson's voice springing off the page with its often hilarious combo of street and shrink, pimp profanity and the "prisony pseudo-intellectual modern mack rap" of the autodidact. Training for the Lewis fight in Hawaii – "epicentre of some of the baddest weed in the world" – was not a great idea, -wise, but just as all that "Maui Wowie made for some interesting press conferences" so his "stupid un-fucking-legible English" makes for some surprising prose. There's a moment of flat-out brilliance when he gets the Maori tattoo on his face: "I hated my face and I literally wanted to deface myself." The later journey to sobriety sees him leaning harder on cliche – he's particularly fond of the idea that relapse is part of recovery – but the sense of threat, to himself and others, is constant. Which makes you wonder if one of the regrettable things about the years of substance abuse involved a drug he didn't take. A dealer (called Chance, appropriately enough) is ordered to get Tyson a Scarface quantity of coke even though "all he did was sissy drugs like ecstasy". Would MDMA have got him all loved up (a state and place he now longs to be) or had the iron been forged too deeply in his soul? The commonly understood narrative – one with an undeniable chronological truth – is that Tyson only began to go off the rails after the death of goodly Cus D'Amato. Cus had taken this kid from the ghetto under his wing and trained him to be a champion, dying before the ambition was realised. After that, Mike had no one to guide him. But D'Amato, who didn't have "a happy muscle in his face", didn't just want Tyson to be "totally ferocious" in the ring; he trained him to be fearsome outside it as well. D'Amato might have been able to restrain some of the later excesses, would have stopped him getting cheated, but he helped incubate the toxins that coursed freely through Tyson's system and world after he became champion. As for the boxing, Tyson was a great fighter who never fought any great fights. Either because he beat his opponents too easily – he was too good – or, with the possible exception of the first, toothless encounter with , because he was beaten too easily (as a result of failing to prepare properly, of losing his earlier hunger). He never went toe-to-toe with greatness, as Ali and Frazier did repeatedly, was never fully tested while fully committed to passing that test. As Cus intended, many of Tyson's opponents were out on their feet before a punch was thrown. The fights rarely lasted long and, in keeping with this, the era of Tyson's indomitability – brought to an end when journeyman floored him in Tokyo in 1990 – flashes quickly past in the book. After that, victories and defeats in the ring become almost irrelevant in the chaos and swirling mania that surround and consume him. He burns his way through an unbelievable fortune and never, not once in almost 600 pages, expresses any regret on that score. Apparently Sloman's opening move in tempting Tyson into this collaboration was to send a copy of Nietzsche's Ecce Homo to him while he was in prison. Nietzsche's notion of greatness was the capacity to embrace your fate wholesale: if you enjoy one divine moment then you say yes to all others, however hellish. Tyson, with his jailed grasp of momentary immortality, got this right away, probably knew it already: "Just to have one year of living Mike Tyson, the champ's life, I would be a bum sucking rat piss in the gutter. Shit, yeah." [PDF] Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography Book by Mike Tyson Free Download (579 pages) Free download or read online Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in November 28th 2013, and was written by Mike Tyson. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 579 pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this biography, sports story are , . The book has been awarded with William Hill Sports Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2014), and many others. Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography PDF Details. Author: Mike Tyson Original Title: Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography Book Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 579 pages First Published in: November 28th 2013 Latest Edition: June 1st 2014 Language: English Awards: William Hill Sports Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2014) category: biography, sports, sports, non fiction, biography, autobiography, autobiography, memoir, biography memoir, cultural, african american, audiobook, cultural, combat, martial arts Formats: ePUB(Android), audible mp3, audiobook and kindle. The translated version of this book is available in Spanish, English, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, Portuguese, Indonesian / Malaysian, French, Japanese, German and many others for free download. 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Mike Tyson, right, goes through the referee to reach Lou Savarese at Hampden Park in 2000. Tyson says he took marijuana and cocaine before going into the ring for a fight he won in 38 seconds. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian. M ike Tyson once famously referred to himself as "the baddest man on the planet". In his new autobiography, co-written with Larry Sloman, he explains why, going into detail about his addictions to drugs and alcohol and his violent past. Here are 10 of the most amazing claims he makes about his life in the book. He admits to fighting while under the influence of drugs. Tyson admits to being on drugs during several fights in the 2000s. He says he took marijuana and cocaine before walking to the ring against Lou Savarese at Hampden Park in 2000, in what was his third comeback fight after a nine-month break, in no small part down to serving a four-month prison sentence for assaulting two motorists. Despite this he beat Savarese in 38 seconds by technical , which was the second fastest victory of his career. He also admits to taking drugs before his shock defeat by Danny Williams in his 2004 comeback fight in Louisville, Kentucky. He used to pass drug tests by using a fake penis. Tyson says that during periods of drug addiction he would use what he refers to as a "whizzer" in order to pass drug tests, which was a fake penis filled with clean urine. He tested positive for marijuana in 2000 before his fight with Andrew Golota, which he blames on not having his whizzer to hand. It was carried from fight to fight by a member of his entourage. He looked for 'divine intervention' in an attempt to avoid prison. He writes that before his trial for rape in 1992, a friend he names as Calvin told him about a "hoodoo woman", who said if he got a jar filled with $500, peed in it and then brought them to her she would pray for him. He responded by saying that it was even too much for someone who threw his money around like he did. Other friends suggested he try a voodoo priest, who proposed that he wash in oils and drink special water. "I was drinking goddamn Hennessy. I wasn't going to water down my Hennessy," Tyson retorted. He writes that he eventually settled on looking for help from a Santeria witch doctor, with whom he went to the courthouse with a pigeon and an egg. Tyson was to drop the egg and release the bird while yelling: "We're free!" He was sentenced to six years for the rape of Desirée Washington. He had several relationships in prison. Tyson claims that while serving his sentence for rape, he started a relationship with his drug counsellor, beginning when he gave her $10,000 to fix the roof of her house. In the book he writes: "She'd be calling me back three times a day … if anyone asked why I was putting so much time into the class she'd just say 'He needs to finish his preparation for the test.'" He also had relationships with a string of visitors from outside prison, before eventually he was caught by the guards. As a result, he says, all outside visitors were banned. He kicked his former promoter Don King in the head. On a trip to try to make amends with his former promoter, Tyson flew in King's private jet down to Florida in 2003 but says he spent the entire journey doing drugs. Tyson went into a rage, partly fuelled by jealousy over the money he had earned King, and partly due to drugs. He claims he attacked King during negotiations over a $20m deal for King to become Tyson's promoter again. He says of the incident: "Don picked us up at the private airport in his Rolls. We were driving down to Miami from Fort Lauderdale on the I-95. Don said some innocuous thing and all that jealousy and rage spilled out of me and I kicked him in his fucking head." He fought with autograph-hungry fans. Tyson says that on more than one occasion if he encountered any obsessive fans who followed him around or asked for an autograph when he was in a bad mood he would "kick his ass". He expresses regret for doing so, referring to himself at this time as a "disrespectful ignorant monster". Another example came in 2003, when he said: "If I wasn't on coke, probably nothing would have happened. But I was, so I chased them into the lobby and up the escalator. We got to the top of the escalator and I knocked one of them out with one punch. "The other guy was hiding behind the front desk and I pulled him out and hit him. He was spared when hotel security came." He was on the verge of quitting before the Tony Tucker 'Ultimate' fight. A month before one of the most famous fights in his career, in 1987, he almost quit altogether. Tyson says he disappeared from training camp and partied in Albany for two weeks straight. In a nightclub, he told friends he was going to retire. But his manager, Jimmy Jacobs, called him and said that they would be sued if he backed out of the fight, talking him out of it. He says: "I should have retired then but I didn't have control of my own life." He went on to beat Tucker to become undisputed champion of the world. He lost millions through failing to keep track of his money. Despite earning huge amounts of money for fights in his heyday, Tyson was declared bankrupt in 2003. At one point he left $1m in a Louis Vuitton holdall and had forgotten about it after a "rough night" in Las Vegas. Fortunately one of his friends found it. Another time a woman unsuccessfully sued him after she was bitten by one of his tigers in 2000. She was an animal enthusiast who climbed over the fence to see his pet, Kenya, who bit the woman. He says he felt sorry for her and gave her $250,000. In 2000 he started the year with $3.3m and earned more than $65m but he spent all of it, including $2.1m on cars. After retiring, he weighed close to double his current 15st 10lb. Following his retirement in 2005 he carried on partying. Due to a diet of ice cream, Oreos and alcohol, at his heaviest he weighed 172kg (27st 2lb). He writes initially that he is a much healthier 100kg (15st 10lb) due to a strict diet, working out and staying sober. Sadly, in a poignant postscript to the epilogue, written after the core of the book had been finished, Tyson reveals that he began drinking again in April of this year, writing: "I'm a vicious addict and, if I don't follow my steps, I'm going to die." He came clean to the press in August about his addictions. Only an audience stopped him from going too far in a street fight. Tyson says the boxer Mitch Green confronted him in a Harlem street in 1988, two years after their fight at Madison Square Gardens, claiming Tyson's promoter Don King owed him money. The result was a brutal street fight which ended up with one of Green's eyes being completely closed in the brawl following a punch by Tyson. In the book he says that the fact a crowd had gathered around the two of them stopped him from hurting Green further. Undisputed Truth by Mike Tyson with Larry Sloman (£9) is published by Harper Collins and will be available in the UK on 21 November. To download click here. Die größten Hörerlebnisse nur bei Audible. Erlebe Audible auf dem Smartphone, Tablet, am Computer oder deinem Amazon Echo. Auch offline. Die größten Hörerlebnisse. Entdecke genau das, was du hören willst: Wähle aus 200.000 Titeln und inspirierenden Audible Original Podcasts. Natürlich werbefrei. Genieße dein Hörerlebnis ohne Unterbrechung. Einfach ausprobieren. Teste Audible 30 Tage kostenlos. Du kannst jederzeit kündigen. Hör die Welt mit anderen Augen. Mit Audible Originals und exklusiven Geschichten. Wir können dich kaum erwarten! Entdecke Audible einen Monat lang völlig kostenlos. Genieße jeden Monat ein Hörerlebnis deiner Wahl - und so viele exklusive Audible Original Podcasts, wie du willst. Keine Bindung, keine Frist – du kannst dein Abo jederzeit pausieren oder kündigen. Mike Tyson's ex-trainer wanted to 'kill' champ over inappropriate incident involving sister-in-law. Years later, Tyson discussed the incident in his autobiography 'Undisputed Truth' Fox News Flash top headlines for May 25. Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Teddy Atlas, an assistant who worked under Hall of Famer trainer Cus D’Amato, revealed for the first time Tuesday night his violent response to a sexual assault incident involving a then 15-year-old Mike Tyson and a relative during ABC’s documentary, "Mike Tyson: The Knockout." The incident caused a breakup between Tyson and Atlas. It happened when the legendary boxer sexually assaulted Atlas’ sister-in-law. Atlas revealed in the documentary that the incident occurred after Atlas was married and Tyson touched his new sister-in-law inappropriately. "I knew what I was prepared to do," Atlas said in the documentary. "I was going to kill him if I had to… He saw me coming. I just called him a piece of crap. And I put the gun to his head and I told him that he will never go near anybody in my family again. And I said, ‘you understand?’" Atlas added that Tyson made a smirk-like facial expression, and that’s when he felt like he needed to make a statement. "I saw that and I stuck the gun in his ear," Atlas continued. "I started to pull the trigger and at the last second, I pulled it out of his ear. And I fired the gun then he fell on the floor grabbing his ear." Following that incident in 1982, Atlas decided to leave D’Amato’s camp. Years later, Tyson discussed the incident in his autobiography "Undisputed Truth." "I was just playing around and I grabbed her butt and I shouldn’t have," Tyson said in the book. "It was just a stupid thing to do. I didn’t think it through… As soon as I did it, I immediately regretted it."