As Father’s Day gifts go, Mark Kriegel’s new book ‘Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson‘ may not be the most obvious choice. After all, Tyson didn’t really know his pops, rendering a touching father-son story rather difficult.
He was first told his father had been a Jamaican-born cab driver, only for his mother Lorna to later point to Jimmy ‘Curlee’ Kirkpatrick, a known pimp around 1970s Brooklyn. Tyson naturally preferred the latter explanation because a pimp’s son had more ‘status’ than a cabbie’s, as he explained in his 2013 one-man show, ‘Undisputed Truth.’
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