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THE INNER RING FIRST APPEARED ON THE PUBLISHING SCENE IN MAY OF 1995, ABOUT ONE MONTH AFTER MIKE TYSON WAS RELEASED FROM AN INDIANA PRISON.

TYSON HAD SPENT MORE THAN THREE YEARS THEIR FOR HIS CONVICTION IN THE RAPE OF DESIREE WASHINGTON, A BEAUTY-PAGEANT CONTESTANT

Original Book Cover In 1995

THE BOOK IMMEDIATELY IGNITED A FIRESTORM OF CONTROVERSY.

ON MAY 17, 1995, MICHAEL KATZ WROTE IN THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS DAT TYSON’S CHAUFFEUR MAINTAINED HIS BOSS WENT TO PRISON COZ “DON KING WAS AFRAID TO LOSE HIM TO ANOTHER PROMOTER.”

KATZ ALSO TOLD HIS READERS THE INNER RING PAY-PER-VIEW ON TYSON’S FIRST FIGHT BACK. “WAS A BETTER BUY THAN THE” SPORTS COLUMNISTS IN OTHER PUBLICATIONS SUCH AS USA TODAY,

THE LAS VEGAS SUN, AND THE NEW YORK POST ALSO WEIGHED IN ON RUDY’S RIVETING STORY ABOUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THE GREATEST HEAVYWEIGHT OF ALL TIME. MIKE TYSON EARNED MORE THAN $400 MILLION DURING HIS BOXING CAREER, BUT HIS NET WORTH NOW IS ESTIMATED TO BE ONLY AROUND $2 MILLION.

A FEW YEARS AGO, KEVIN ROONEY, TYSON LEAD TRAINER WITH THE ORIGINAL “TEAM: TYSON,” STATED “MIKE COULD HAVE BEEN 100-0 AND MADE A BILLION DOLLARS IF HE HAD STAYED WITH ME.” WHY DIDN’T MIKE TYSON STAY WITH KEVIN ROONEY AND THE ORIGINAL “TEAM TYSON”?

2018 New Cover With Updated Postscript

“HERE RUDY REVEALS SOME OF THE SADDEST AND MOST SHOCKING STORIES BEHIND THE HEADLINES AND BEHIND THE FACES. THIS BOOK COULD ONLY HAS BEEN WRITTEN BY SOMEONE WHO LOVED MIKE TYSON".- 

BILL CAYTON, CO-MANAGER OF TEAM TYSON

“A WILD RIDE OVER ROADS WE’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE, THE ALL-THROTTLE DRIVE OF MIKE TYSON.”-BERT RANDOLPH SUGAR, BOXING ILLUSTRATED

“A MUST-READ FOR ANY FAN OF BOXING OR CHICANERY.”-

MICHAEL KATZ, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS.

“RIVETING! NO BOOK CAN BRING YOU CLOSER TO MIKE TYSON COZ RUDY WAS THERE!”- 

W.G. RAMIREZ, LAS VEGAS SENTINEL VOICE

“LIKE DON KING’S HAIR…SHOCKING!, SHOCKING!, SHOCKING!”- 

JON SARACENO, USA TODAY.

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1945

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