Editing Mike Tyson (section)

==Early life==
Michael Gerard Tyson was born in [[Fort Greene, Brooklyn]], New York City, on June 30, 1966.<ref>{{cite web |title=Local Black History Spotlight: Cumberland Hosptial &#91;sic&#93; |url=https://myrtleavenue.org/local-black-history-spotlight-cumberland-hosptial/ |website=myrtleavenue.org |date=February 20, 2014 |access-date=July 17, 2021 |archive-date=July 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717153703/https://myrtleavenue.org/local-black-history-spotlight-cumberland-hosptial/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="McNeil-2014">{{Cite book |last=McNeil |first=William F. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/890981745 |title=The Rise of Mike Tyson, Heavyweight. |date=2014 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |isbn=978-1-4766-1802-9 |location=Jefferson |oclc=890981745}}</ref> He has an older brother named Rodney (born {{circa|1961}})<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E4D71238F932A15756C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon= |title=Boxing: Tyson Remains an Object of Fascination |last=Berkow |first=Ira |date=May 21, 2002 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=January 18, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203061940/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E4D71238F932A15756C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon= |archive-date=December 3, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and had an older sister named Denise, who died of a heart attack at age 24 in February 1990.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tyson's Sister Is Dead at 24|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/22/sports/tyson-s-sister-is-dead-at-24.html|access-date=August 1, 2013|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 22, 1990|archive-date=August 28, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828212951/http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/22/sports/tyson-s-sister-is-dead-at-24.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Tyson's mother, born in [[Charlottesville]], [[Virginia]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fromthestage.net/mike-tyson-pens-heartbreaking-tribute-to-his-late-mother-i-know-nothing-about-her |title=Mike Tyson Pens Heartbreaking Tribute To His Late Mother: "I Know Nothing About Her" |website=fromthestage.net |date=June 7, 2020 |access-date=April 26, 2022 |archive-date=March 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312211237/https://fromthestage.net/mike-tyson-pens-heartbreaking-tribute-to-his-late-mother-i-know-nothing-about-her/ |url-status=live }}</ref> was described as a promiscuous woman who might have been a prostitute.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/mar/21/mike-tyson-interview-boxing |title=Mike Tyson: 'I'm ashamed of so many things I've done' |website=The Guardian |date=March 21, 2009 |access-date=April 26, 2022 |archive-date=April 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422121120/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/mar/21/mike-tyson-interview-boxing |url-status=live }}</ref> Tyson's biological father is listed as "Purcell Tyson", a "humble cab driver" (who was from [[Jamaica]]) on his birth certificate,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/boxing/25429599 |title=Mike Tyson staying clean but still sparring with temptation |last=Costello |first=Mike |date=December 18, 2013 |newspaper=[[BBC Sport]] |access-date=December 23, 2013 |archive-date=December 23, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131223041351/http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/boxing/25429599 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/story/2012-03-20/Mike-Tyson-on-his-one-man-Vegas-act-Raw-revealing/53678512/1|title=Mike Tyson on his one-man Las Vegas act: Raw, revealing, poignant|work=USA Today|access-date=September 12, 2014|archive-date=September 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913032611/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/story/2012-03-20/Mike-Tyson-on-his-one-man-Vegas-act-Raw-revealing/53678512/1|url-status=live}}</ref> but the man Tyson had known as his father was a pimp named Jimmy Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick was from [[Grier Heights|Grier Town, North Carolina]] (a predominantly black neighborhood that was annexed by the city of [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]]),<ref>{{citation|url=http://ww.charmeck.org/Planning/Annexation/Annexation_History.pdf|title=Charlotte, North Carolina, Annexation history|work=Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department|access-date=September 4, 2013|archive-date=May 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521224909/http://ww.charmeck.org/Planning/Annexation/Annexation_History.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> where he was one of the neighborhood's top baseball players. Kirkpatrick married and had a son, Tyson's half-brother Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick, who would help to integrate Charlotte high school football in 1965. In 1959, Jimmy Kirkpatrick left his family and moved to Brooklyn, where he met Tyson's mother, Lorna Mae (Smith) Tyson. Kirkpatrick frequented pool halls, gambled and hung out on the streets. "My father was just a regular street guy caught up in the street world," Tyson said. Kirkpatrick abandoned the Tyson family around the time Mike was born, leaving Tyson's mother to care for the children on her own.<ref name="Puma">Puma, Mike., [http://static.espn.go.com/classic/biography/s/Tyson_Mike.html Sportscenter Biography: 'Iron Mike' explosive in and out of ring] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407095913/http://static.espn.go.com/classic/biography/s/Tyson_Mike.html |date=April 7, 2010 }}, ''[[ESPN]].com'', October 10, 2005. Retrieved March 27, 2007</ref> Kirkpatrick died in 1992.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/03/02/3889545/where-are-they-now.html|title=Where are they now?|work=The Charlotte Observer|access-date=March 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103073834/http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/03/02/3889545/where-are-they-now.html|archive-date=November 3, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The family lived in [[Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn|Bedford-Stuyvesant]] until their financial burdens necessitated a move to [[Brownsville, Brooklyn|Brownsville]] when Tyson was 10 years old.<ref>{{cite book |title=Mike Tyson Biography |url=http://www.bookrags.com/biography/mike-tyson-cri |publisher=BookRags |access-date=May 24, 2008 |archive-date=May 18, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518135534/http://www.bookrags.com/biography/mike-tyson-cri/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Throughout his childhood, Tyson lived in and around neighborhoods with a high rate of crime. According to an interview in ''[[Details (magazine)|Details]]'', his first fight was with a bigger youth who had pulled the head off one of Tyson's pigeons.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.details.com/culture-trends/news-and-politics/201008/interview-boxing-mike-tyson |title=Mike Tyson Interview, ''Details'' magazine |access-date=July 6, 2010 |archive-date=July 9, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709015124/http://www.details.com/culture-trends/news-and-politics/201008/interview-boxing-mike-tyson |url-status=live }}</ref> Tyson was repeatedly caught committing petty crimes and fighting those who ridiculed his high-pitched voice and [[lisp]]. By the age of 13, he had been arrested 38 times.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Tannenbaum|first=Rob|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/mike-tyson-on-ditching-club-life-and-getting-sober-20131204|title=Mike Tyson on Ditching Club Life and Getting Sober|date=December 4, 2013|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=September 18, 2014|archive-date=September 24, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924053856/http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/mike-tyson-on-ditching-club-life-and-getting-sober-20131204|url-status=live}}</ref> He ended up at the Tryon School for Boys in [[Johnstown (city), New York|Johnstown]], New York. Tyson's emerging boxing ability was discovered there by [[Bobby Stewart]], a juvenile detention center counselor and former boxer. Stewart considered Tyson to be an outstanding fighter and trained him for a few months before introducing him to boxing manager and trainer [[Cus D'Amato]].<ref name="Puma" /> Tyson dropped out of high school as a junior.<ref>{{cite book|title=Jet Magazine|year=1989|page=28|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PogDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28|access-date=October 20, 2020|archive-date=December 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208043953/https://books.google.com/books?id=PogDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28|url-status=live}}</ref> He was later awarded an honorary [[Doctorate in Humane Letters]] from [[Central State University]] in 1989.<ref name="nyt1989">{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEED91730F936A15757C0A96F948260 |title=Sports People: Boxing; A Doctorate for Tyson |date=April 25, 1989 |work=The New York Times |access-date=December 15, 2008 |archive-date=December 27, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071227090650/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEED91730F936A15757C0A96F948260 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Kevin Rooney (boxer)|Kevin Rooney]] also trained Tyson, and he was occasionally assisted by [[Teddy Atlas]], although Atlas was dismissed by D'Amato when Tyson was 15. Rooney eventually took over all training duties for the young fighter.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140607214003/http://networthcity.com/mike-tyson-net-worth/ Mike Tyson Net Worth]}}, NetWorthCity.com. Retrieved May 30, 2014.</ref>

Tyson's mother died when he was 16, leaving him in the care of D'Amato, who would become his legal guardian. Tyson later said, "I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: she only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally."<ref>[http://kjkolb.tripod.com/homepage/miketysonquotes.html Mike Tyson Quotes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404224807/http://kjkolb.tripod.com/homepage/miketysonquotes.html|date=April 4, 2012}}. Kjkolb.tripod.com. Retrieved on November 25, 2011.</ref>