Mike Tyson's Real Weakness Revealed By Former Trainer

Mike Tyson’s real weakness has been revealed by his former trainer.

In boxing, the name Tyson is synonymous to a ferocious and brutal heavyweight KO artist. In fact, even to this day, what the world remembers about “the baddest man on the planet” are the helpless opponents he viciously knocked out. However, despite his indestructible persona, Tyson also had his own weakness.

Teddy Atlas was one of Tyson’s first trainers and mentors. At the age of 12, the young Tyson already weighed 190 pounds and was knocking out grown men during sparring sessions.

As a kid, Tyson was exceptionally powerful, but according to Atlas, the young Tyson was “mentally weak” and had “residual stuff from his upbringing.”

Speaking on the "Joe Rogan Experience," Atlas described how a 12-year-old Tyson behaved. And based on his recollection, Tyson was actually “hiding between walls” just to avoid getting bullied.

“He used to hide in between abandoned building walls in Brownsville, it was a rough place. He used to hide between walls to not get picked on,” Atlas revealed.

The veteran trainer continued by emphasizing that despite imposing a fearsome aura, Tyson was in fact weak as a person.

“He was as strong a guy as you’re ever gonna see, but he was as weak of a person as you’re ever gonna find,” Atlas added.

Atlas was Tyson’s trainer when he was boxing in the 1981 Junior Olympic Games. Apparently, what Atlas was saying could be 100 percent true as a rare video shows a crying 15-year-old Tyson being consoled by Atlas before a boxing match against Joe Cortez.

Aside from revealing that Tyson was weak as a person, Atlas also claimed that he once pulled a gun on a teenage Tyson when the boxer allegedly grabbed the butt of her 11-year-old niece and told the girl all of the sexual things he would like to do to her.

It could be certain that Tyson got scared of Atlas after the incident, but just recently, Tyson himself admitted that there was one person who really “petrified him.”

In the book titled “Iron Ambition: My life with Cus D’Amato,” Tyson revealed that his mentor Cus D’Amato often criticized his performances. And despite winning his fights by knocking his opponents out cold, D’Amato would still make him feel bad about it. As a result, Tyson stated that he “soon learned to walk on eggshells whenever D’Amato is around.”

“People see the public celebrations of my sensational knockouts but they don’t hear Cus talking to me alone after the fight. He’d make me feel like s---, play with my emotions. He would put things in your head all day,” Tyson stated.