Kevin is truly a good person he puts his heart into everything he does.

Tyson has never manned up to the firing of Rooney . I’d love these 2 to get back together and do an interview or just become friends again .
Rooney has never bad-mouthed Tyson . He still means the world to him .

@CanvassBlack Cus did employ a tutor for Mike .

@2011TREADSTONE

totally agree, it was the beginning of the end…we all know Don King was behind it.

D’Amato + Rooney + Tyson = DREAM TEAM

@CanvassBlack That’s teddy’s spin. What you have to remember is Cus made the same allowances for Teddy that he made for Tyson. Teddy was assaulting and robbing people when he trained under Cus, but Cus made allowances because knew it takes time for people to change. It takes time. Cus never put a gun to  Teddy’s head and said change right now or i won’t train you. Cus did the best that could be done with Mike, as far as discipline, without breaking his spirit.

is this gym still open?

BIGGEST MISTAKE TYSON EVER MADE WAS FIRING TRAINER KEVIN ROONEY. DON KING RUINED EVERYTHING. KING YOU’RE A CUNT

@ShitWrangler My agenda is to set the facts straight and not portray Rooney as this loving guy who adored Mike. It was a business agreement plain and simple.

You guys are giving Rooney too much credit as a human being. He was a good trainer that’s it. Like Teddy Atlas said If Cus and them really cared about Mike they would have made sure that he went to school. Cus had a singular goal for Mike Tyson ;be champion of the world at any cost. Teddy said Cus would overlook Mike’s Bad behavior.Tyson once fondled a niece of Atlas and when Cus did nothing, Atlas pulled a gun on Mike. Atlas was then replaced by Rooney. Rooney also was getting a 1/3 cut.

@MrLukedanger Atlas stopped training mike when mike was either 13 or 14 because mike had an incident with Atlas’s young neice. Rooney trained tyson from then untill the spinks fight. Which is like seven years and all of mikes professional career so your comment is inacurate at best.

@mike649fox i suppose in honesty no one likes DIscipline
when ur that RICH or famous u look for the good things in lIFE partying, women, cars etc etc..
DON KING gave tyson that freedom .
ROONEY and his crew didnt want that lifestyle for TYSON as knew it would decline him from training and fighting !
and like u said the very 1st time he fired ROONEY that was it
he was never the same
LOOK at him against HOLYFIELD in Both fights ??
SO SLOW and too much muscle

@italianoval You’re so right my friend. Cus and Rooney made tyson the unstoppable fightin machine he was. Without Rooney Tyson was just a good boxer, nowhere near a great one. Had he have stuck with Rooney I agree he would have been the greatest of all time. That was one of the first things he lost, his head movement and Cus and rooney made that one of his best weapons in the ring. It does stink how Tyson was so ungreatffull with Rooney. I’m sure Cus wouldn’t have been proud.