Two unknown facts about Mike Tyson: the day he cut off his brother’s arm and when he almost blew up their house

Mike Tyson grew up in Brownsville, one of the most humble and dangerous neighborhoods in BrooklynEven in several interviews, he insisted that the memories of these streets are not pleasant because problems were on every corner and he only dreamed of being able to get out of there for one day. Despite the hostility of this environment, in his autobiographical book, Undisputed truthHe recalled two moments that at least gave him humor around that time and helped him understand the personality he was forging in his early years of life.

The former boxer, an American sports star in the late 1980s and early 1990s, lived with his brothers and his mother, a sex worker, in a tiny apartment that nearly ended up on fire because of him. . Is it his brother Rodney He was a fan of chemistry and medicine and had a set of test tubes that he used to carry out experiments with at home.

Mike had the same level of curiosity as his older brother, but he didn’t have the wisdom to mix up the formulas, so it all ended in chaos. “We are black from the ghetto and he was like a scientist: he had these little test tubes and he was always doing experiments. I was like, “White people do these things. He once went to the chemistry lab at the Pratt Institute, a nearby university, and got chemicals to do an experiment.. A few days later, while he was away, I snuck into his room and started adding water to his test tubes.… ”.

The ending went according to plan: “I blew up the entire rear window, causing a fire in his room.” Miraculously, the flames did not spread and a little water was enough to end the problem.

But it wasn’t the only time Tyson He put his family at risk for these kinds of activities. His hours in front of the television made him one day try to imitate the doctors of his favorite shows, but in the absence of a scalpel, he took a razor blade.

Who accompanied him in his misdeeds on this occasion was his little sister, Denise, who served as a nurse to treat the patient, Rodney. Of course, it should be noted that the larger of Tyson He was not aware of the situation since he was completely asleep in his bed, but it was the pain of the metal cutting his arm that woke him from this placid dream.

In his book, Tyson he called his older brother “the number one traumatized boy in the country” because of all these episodes he suffered as a child.

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