But Cole insisted that the match continue and then, after another knockdown that he ruled a slip, let it continue for another 35 seconds before Velasco’s corner mercifully threw in the towel. I stayed in the house with Cus, Camille Ewald, and the young men Cus was working with, including Tyson. Mike Tyson also said in the book that Cus D'Amato had predicted he would be the youngest heavyweight champion within ten minutes of watching him spar. But things in the ring deteriorated after that, culminating in Tyson’s February 11, 1990, knockout loss at the hands of Buster Douglas. After waiting around for an hour past the appointed time, Cus figured that fear must have kept the knife fighter from showing up.

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However, he could not get a license to become a professional competitor because of an eye injury that he had suffered in a street fight. According to Tyson, the man was “training the unconscious mind of his pupils similar to how a Zen monk taught archery. Cus knew that for a boxer to be successful he had to be able to control his emotions, control his fear, and control his mind so he could access a higher state of consciousness when facing his opponent. There came a time after Jacobs’s death when Tyson was lured away from Cayton and fell under the spell of Don King and then Shelly Finkel.In 1980, on one of Tyson’s early visits to D’Amato’s home in Catskill, Cus told him, “You know, I’ve been waiting for you. Pacquiao looked good enough against Matthysse to suggest he’d make a viable candidate to face either Terence Crawford or Vasyl Lomachenko next. Maltsev’s scientific analysis of the psychological underpinnings of the D’Amato approach and the second being Patti’s explanation of the style’s in-ring mechanics. A win over Vargas puts Khan in good position to secure a bout with Pacquiao, and the fight is a reasonable move by both camps. A sports psychologist, former boxer and coach Alexander Balykin wrote in his review that the book should be read not only by coaches, but also by the athletes regardless of the sport they are doing.

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Reflecting on what happened afterward, Tyson declares, “The one person who betrayed Cus the worst always got a pass from him. In the end, readers of Iron Ambition are left with the question of what D’Amato would have thought about the way Tyson squandered his ring talent. Saparkina also said the Russian-language version of book two is already available for download and that the English version will be released in the near future. He also sprinkles graphics detailing D’Amato’s sayings into the text, such as “any pain is a consequence of a lack of skill,” or “I don’t want to hear any excuses; I just want to see results.The quartet was immersed in a revolutionary program created by D’Amato that melded meticulously detailed boxing techniques with a vigorous psychological regimen that forced his students to confront, explain, and, hopefully, control and conquer their deepest fears. Boxing historian, founder of Boxing Hall of Fame, Inc (Las Vegas, Nevada) Steve Lott reviewed the book stating that the piece is something which was never done in the history of boxing.