Tyson The Terrible
February, 1988
Back in the early Sixties, when Floyd Patterson was still heavyweight champion of the world, an intelligent and high-spirited boxing writer named Jack McKinney was passing an afternoon in Darien, Connecticut, with Cus D'Amato, talking, among other things, about Patterson's upcoming fight with Sonny Liston. D'Amato, of course, was Patterson's manager.In its way, it was a melancholy conversation. The question was not if Liston would win but if Patterson--a limited fighter--would be maimed. D'Amato...
