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Mike Tyson ~ Forged in Brownsville
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Episode 195
He came from the kind of streets where nobody makes it out clean. Brownsville, Brooklyn—where the walls talked in gunshots and glass, and kids learned how to run before they learned how to read. Mike Tyson wasn’t born into fame. He was born into chaos.
He was small. He was quiet. He had a lisp, wore broken clothes, kept pigeons on rooftops. And for all the fire that lived in him, the world never looked twice—until he fought back.
This story begins before the belts. Before the knockouts. Before the roar of arenas. It begins in darkness—where fists were currency, pain was normal, and nothing was ever promised.
It’s about the boy who found a father in an old trainer named Cus D’Amato. The boy who was broken, then rebuilt in a crumbling gym with blood on the mats and dreams in the rafters.
It’s about loss, discipline, violence, obsession. About the moment he realized he could become something terrifying. Something unforgettable. Something the world hadn’t seen before.
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