Майкл Джерард Тайсон родился 30 июня 1966 года в Нью-Йорке в семье Лорны Киркпатрик (урожденной Смит) и Джимми Киркпатрика. Фамилия Тайсон досталась Майку от первого мужа его матери — Персела Тайсона. Джимми Киркпатрик покинул семью еще до рождения Майка, и Лорна с детьми (у Майка был старший брат Родни и старшая сестра Дениз) переехала в Браунсвилль — один из самых неблагополучных районов Нью-Йорка, населенный преимущественно чернокожими. Из-за тяжелого финансового положения их семье несколько лет пришлось ютиться в доме, где не было ни отопления, ни горячей воды.
В детстве Майк отличался чрезвычайно мягким характером и неумением постоять за себя. Его старший брат Родни и соседские мальчишки, а позднее и одноклассники постоянно издевались над ним, избивали, отбирали мелочь и сладости, которые давала ему мать. Однако в возрасте то ли 9, то ли 11 лет в Майке произошел перелом. Как он сам рассказывает, однажды один из членов местной уличной банды, бывший на несколько лет старше, вырвал у него из рук любимого голубя (разведение голубей было любимым занятием Майка с детства и остается его главным хобби и по сей день) и оторвал ему голову. Разъяренный Майк набросился на своего обидчика и жестоко избил его. Этот эпизод завоевал Майку уважение местных малолетних бандитов, которые приняли его в свою компанию и научили лазить по карманам, воровать и грабить магазины. Все эти занятия, естественно, оборачивались неоднократными визитами в исправительные учреждения для малолетних правонарушителей, в ходе одного из которых Тайсону удалось повидаться с Мохаммедом Али, приезжавшим туда, чтобы пообщаться с трудными подростками и попытаться наставить их на путь истинный. Сам Тайсон впоследствии вспоминал, что именно после встречи с Али он впервые задумался о карьере боксера.
В 13 лет Тайсон был отправлен в спецшколу для несовершеннолетних преступников, расположенную в северной части Нью-Йорка. К этому моменту он считался неисправимым и отличался огромной для своего возраста физической силой: когда Майк выходил из себя, его удавалось утихомирить лишь совместными усилиями нескольких взрослых мужчин. В школе, в которую определили Тайсона, работал учителем физкультуры бывший боксер Бобби Стюарт. Попав однажды в карцер за очередное нарушение режима, Майк внезапно попросил возможности поговорить с ним. Стюарт пришел к нему, и Майк заявил, что хочет стать боксером. Стюарт согласился тренировать его при условии, что Майк не будет нарушать дисциплину.
Поведение Майка после этого действительно изменилось к лучшему, и спустя некоторое время Стюарт заключил с ним еще одни договор: чем лучше Майк учится в школе, тем больше Стюарт занимается с ним боксом. И это сработало: Тайсон, которого до этого считали умственно отсталым, сумел заметно повысить свою успеваемость. Он был настолько захвачен боксом, что персонал школы порой заставал его за тренировками в 3-4 часа ночи, когда он боксировал с тенью или качал мускулы в своей комнате.
Michael Dzherard Tyler was born on June, 30th, 1966 in New York in a family of Lorny Kirkpatrik (nee Smith) and Jimmy Kirkpatrika. The surname Tyler has got to Mike from the first husband of his mother — Persela Tyler. Jimmy Kirkpatrik has left a family till Mike's birth, and Lorna with children (Mike had big brother of Relatives and elder sister Deniz) has moved in Braunsvill — one of the most unsuccessful areas of New York, occupied mainly black. Because of a heavy financial position to their family some years were necessary to huddle in the house where was not neither heating, nor hot water.
In the childhood Mike differed extremely gentle disposition and inability to stand for itself. Its big brother of Relatives and neighbour's boys, and later and schoolmates constantly scoffed at it, beat, selected a trifle and sweets which were given to it by mother. However is elderly whether 9, whether 11 years in Mike there was a crisis. As he tells, once one of members of the local street gang, were for some years is more senior, has pulled out at it from hands of a favourite pigeon (cultivation of pigeons was Mike's hobby since the childhood and remains to its main hobbies and to this day) and has torn off to it a head. Furious Mike has snatched on the offender and has severely beaten it. This episode has won to Mike respect of local juvenile gangsters which have accepted it in the company and have learnt to climb on pockets, to steal and plunder shops. All these employment, naturally, turned around numerous visits to correctional facilities for juvenile offenders, during one of which Tyler managed to see Mohammed Ali coming there to communicate to difficult teenagers and to try to set them on the right path. Tyler recollected subsequently, what exactly after a meeting with Ali he has reflected for the first time on career of the boxer.
In 13 years Tyler has been sent in a special school for the minor criminals, located in northern part of New York. By this moment it was considered incorrigible and differed huge physical strength for the age: when Mike flew into a rage, it managed to be calmed down only joint efforts of several adult men. At school in which have defined Tyler, the former boxer Bobbi Stewart worked as the teacher of physical culture. Having got once to a punishment cell for the next infringement of a mode, Mike has suddenly asked possibilities to talk with it. Stewart has come to it, and Mike has declared that wishes to become the boxer. Stewart has agreed to train him provided that Mike will not break discipline.
Mike's behaviour after that has really changed for the better, and after a while Stewart has concluded with it one more contract: the better Mike goes to school, the more Stewart is engaged with it in boxing. And it has worked: Tyler as whom before considered mentally retarded, has managed to raise the progress considerably. It has been so grasped by boxing that the school personnel at times found it behind trainings at 3-4 o'clock in the morning when he boxed with a shade or swung muscles in the room.
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