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Article: PARASITES MAKE TYSON EASY TARGET.(Sports)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 12, 1987
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Byline: Bill Lyon Philadephia Inquirer
Inside the ring, the boy king of boxing is a remorseless, relentless punching machine, a stockingless warrior who rips a hole for his head in a hotel towel and calls it a robe.
Outside the ring, Mike Tyson is guarded, almost timid, wary of strangers but unfailingly courteous. His grin is gaptoothed, self-conscious and engaging, and he speaks in a gentle lisp that is, at once, contradictory and becoming.
In one instant, he is sitting on his stool between rounds and, quite without warning, kissing his trainer full on the lips, a spontaneous, heartfelt show of affection. In the next instant, he is rampaging ...