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  • #2
    Henno30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭Henno30


    Anyone here read Dark Trade by Donald McRae? There's a bit in it about Tyson having read guys like Machiavelli, Voltaire, Dumas, Mao, Marx, Tolstoy and Hemingway when he was in prison. I wonder was it a Don King inspired fabrication or if he actually did it? It would seem like an incredible leap for a guy who was barely educated to immerse himself in literature of that nature.


  • #3
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57,358 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Henno30 wrote: »
    Anyone here read Dark Trade by Donald McRae? There's a bit in it about Tyson having read guys like Machiavelli, Voltaire, Dumas, Mao, Marx, Tolstoy and Hemingway when he was in prison. I wonder was it a Don King inspired fabrication or if he actually did it? It would seem like an incredible leap for a guy who was barely educated to immerse himself in literature of that nature.

    I wouldn't be surprised. Mike came across as quite a literate and articulate guy.

    I do know that he was a real enthusiast for boxing and its history and its fighters. He had access to so much film from Jimmy Jacobs and Bill Cayton.


  • #4
    Wild_Dogger
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    walshb wrote: »
    ........ Mike came across as quite a literate and articulate guy.

    He did like to use an expansive vocabulary during interviews.
    I remember talking about the " bourgeois and erudites " at one stage ........ where did he learn that lingo - maybe reading Marxism


  • #5
    megadodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭megadodge


    Henno30 wrote: »
    Anyone here read Dark Trade by Donald McRae? There's a bit in it about Tyson having read guys like Machiavelli, Voltaire, Dumas, Mao, Marx, Tolstoy and Hemingway when he was in prison. I wonder was it a Don King inspired fabrication or if he actually did it? It would seem like an incredible leap for a guy who was barely educated to immerse himself in literature of that nature.

    If you listen to Tyson at any stage of his life, he always comes across as very articulate and with a far more wide-ranging vocabulary than your average boxer. Whether he actually read those guys or not I don't know, but it's not as far-fetched as it might initially sound.

    Dark Trade is a very good book too.


  • #6
    soprano123
    Site Banned Posts: 40 ✭soprano123


    I was with Tyson last October and spent a lot of time with him .
    I couldnt believe when he talked to me about Michael Collins and Dev and the situation in 1920/21 in Ireland , I think the man actually knew more of Irish history than the majority of Irish people.
    He also had a big interest in Brian Boru , spoke about him when he saw a painting of Boru in Dromoland Castle .

    The man is highly intelligent and well read indeed ,along with being one of the nicest people Ive ever met .
    My small one gave him a collection of Yeats and he was delighted.


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