Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
Can read it now. Tyson lived eat and breathed boxing. He was a sponge.
Well yeah and he also had a full support system with Cus et al allowing Mike to be able to LIVE boxing not just train, but LIVE it....Tyson didn't have to put a roof over his own head, he didn't have to put food on the table, he didn't have to work a job.....not many people are able to do that, it's a privilege to be able to focus 100% on training and nothing else.

Think about someone like Glen Johnson who wasn't even a full time boxer" until he fought Roy Jones Jr....up until that point he had to work a job to finance his life AND box. Look at James J. Braddock, dude had to rough it through the Great Depression working odd jobs AND box.

Mike Tyson had an extremely rough childhood, but his upbringing around Cus was for a boxer Heaven on Earth....could you imagine it? You wake up, you train, you feed your body, you feed your mind, Cus was not only a great trainer but a boxing historian as well so it was just nothing but boxing all day every day. Maybe that doesn't work for everyone, but for somebody hungry to learn and achieve it was the perfect setting.