Monteith Illingworth - Mike Tyson (Text Only Edition)

Tyson was alone again and second-guessing the motivations of his supposed intimates. The same nagging paradox remained: Did they want him faults and all, or did they want only the future heavyweight champion of the world?

At first it seemed they only wanted the champion. In the months immediately following D’Amato’s death, Jacobs and Cayton were more focused on the business of Mike Tyson than the person. Remembered Camille Ewald: “After every victory, Cus used to have some kind of celebration for Mike. A cake or something. It gave him prestige. Jimmy and Bill didn’t do that. They were losing contact with Mike.”

Cayton didn’t want intimate contact with Tyson. In the four years of Tyson’s amateur career, he visited Catskill only once. His only gesture of intimacy with Tyson after he turned professional was to give him a book on raising pigeons. Tyson threw it in the garbage. “Mike knew he was just a business to Cayton,” said Jay Bright, another of the boys living in the house during the 1980s.

Jacobs didn’t want that kind of intimacy with Tyson, either, but he knew that someone had to step into D’Amato’s role. It was that or run a much higher risk that Tyson would self-destruct, either in or out of the ring. Jacobs revealed those views to Nick Beck: “To Jim, Mike became a business. I think that, despite what he wanted everyone to believe, was what motivated Jim in the relationship.”

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