I want to learn more about Cus D'mato's peekaboo and its intricacies

[thirty3breeze]

I want to learn more about Cus D'mato's peekaboo and its intricacies. I know Kevin Rooney and Teddy Atlas know the ins and outs of that style, but I don't have access to those guys. Anyway, I want to learn as much as I can because I am incorporating Rodney King's crazy monkey defense into learning boxing and the system appears to use some things from that style. I know there has to be more info out there aside from watching Mike Tyson and Floyd Patterson.

[salty trunks]

Actually Kevin Rooney took the Cus style a little further and put his own twist on it to marry up with Tysons physical attributes. I dont think there is any books written on that style but there is plenty of videos and training footage of Tyson to get an idea of what he worked on. I believe at one point Ringside was selling a slip bag with a booklet on what to practice when using it so that would be a good start.
I will say that style is very difficult to master and I think its suited for a specific type of fighter with certain attributes, like stocky speedy and powerful. Your squared up moving your upper body and throwing punches and thats very difficult to generate power from that type of stance unless your naturally gifted. Thats probably why we havent seen too many other fighters successful using that style. Omar Sheika and Vinny Pazienza were the last to try. Sheika was very exciting against the lower tiered opponents but once he stepped up in class, the squared up stance really exposed him. Pazienza was always too underpowered but had some success at super middle before getting blown out by Jones Jr. Good luck.