One does not dare to say that he was a guy to imitate. But I know that very few athletes – Perico, Poli, Pinone, Futre – made me so happy.
Mike Tyson, former boxer.
In his autobiography All the truth, Mike Tyson he told why he fell in love with Jack johnson.
It wasn't because he was the first African-American heavyweight champion in 1908, a time when there were toilets for blacks. It wasn't because he did more than a hundred fights he only lost 13. It wasn't because Johnson ended up in the jail unfairly after defying racial laws.
Or not only because of all the above.
If Tyson fell in love with the Galveston Giant it was because of his unbeatable
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