Well it could have been handled better.

While Cus D'mato prepared Mike for the trials and tribulations he would go through in the ring he completely ignored what Mike was going to do once he was too old to fight.

Teddy Atlas has said that Cus let Mike get away with some stuff at school as well as with his relatives and that Tyson was never disciplined for any of his wrong doings, he had no accountability.

Now I know Teddy ain't the best authority on Tyson in regards to not using his run ins with Mike to affect his opinion of the guy but I think it's pretty much true.


Think about the situation, you have an old guy searching for one last bit of glory, one last shot at the big time and along comes this prodigy who is ALREADY in trouble at 13...it's simple, Cus let him slide but kept him fighting so as to not let the world see the Mr. Hyde of Mike Tyson. Cus probably had the intentions of making Mike a good gentleman but he never pushed Tyson to do that....he was nice in the begining but then he really became Sonny Liston