What’s up, man? What are you doing?” he shouted. One time, I was walking through the range, where the cells were, and I saw Little Spike from the Bronx who had been locked up with me in Spofford. I gave my friends the shoes off my feet, the jewelry off my neck, and the guards were all looking the other way. I had gone to school with most of the people who worked at the prison there, so when I’d go up there to visit my friends who were in jail, I wasn’t going to the visiting room, I would hang out with them in their cells, because I knew the warden and all the guards. In this exclusive excerpt, Tyson recalls his days of multitasking with his criminal friends back home and celebrities like Rick James and Anthony Michael Hall.Ī lot of my friends from Brownsville wound up incarcerated in Otisville, which was not too far from Catskill. The book is an honest account of the boxer’s rise to fame, from his early Brooklyn days, when he often had to steal just to eat, to his status as pop culture icon. This week marks the publication of Mike Tyson’s no-holds-barred memoir, Undisputed Truth.
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