Cus D'amato Books He Read. The door was heavy, with painted zinc nailed across its face and a misspelled sign saying “gramacy gym,” and when you opened the door, you saw a. The book is about the story of how cus and mike were a match made in heaven.
People think cus is a sweet old man, but to paraphrase tyson, he was actually more akin to a cantankerous italian gladiator. December 16, 2013 at 9:13 am. But fear is your best friend.
These fighters can move, when and where they want and control the fight at minimal risk.
My friend josé torres was then the hottest young middleweight in the city and one of cus d’amato’s fighters. Critics have received the book well, and it has also received much positive feedback from the boxing community. In those days, you had to pass a small candy stand to get to the door of the gramercy gym on east 14th street. I have to first determine his emotional state, get his background, to find out what i have to do, how many layers i have to keep peeling off so that i get to the core of the person so that he can recognize, as well as i, what is there.” [heller, 60]