In our broken span, the age of zero hits with endless distractions, it is impossible to figure out how powerful the world heavyweight champion was once. It is impossible to convey to modern, celebrity-saturated audiences, Mike Tyson once casts a huge and all-encompassing shadow on all American cultures.

Now seeing Tyson - Bro Avatar, the lovely tough guy, the weed tycoon - is seeing a man fall off and surpassing everything that makes him so charming and so dangerous. He is a boxer and criminal, philosopher, knee buck foot. Before inventing the concept of "content", he was a machine that generates content, a scandal, controversial, fierce, continuation of victory, a whirlpool of stirring. In short, he is the worst man, so he is still fascinating.

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Now is "The Worst Man: Mike Tyson's Destruction", a new book by longtime New York combat scribe Mark Kriegel. Like Tyson himself, the “worst person” is a return to the insights into pictures, video passages, memes. This is not only a reminder of what Tyson used to be, but also a reminder of the performance of sports journalism.

First, Kriegel answers the question why even a book about Mike Tyson was published in 2025. There is an economic perspective - he owes publishers a book, and Tyson always sells it. But this raises a bigger question: Whyto be precise, does Tyson still arouse this interest?

"First of all, the fact that he is still alive," Kriegel said. “I don’t think it’s expected, he’ll see this year. But even the bigger anomaly, he still maintains a strong effect economically – now almost as it was at his peak, financially.

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"The Worst Man" starts with the most unlikely image - Mike Tyson is a tennis daddy in an exclusive Newport Beach community. Of course, it shows that he is a survivor, but it also shows that Tyson has struggled with the rarest air to enter the gated community and social circle of teenagers he never thought of.

Kriegel and Tyson served as criminal journalists for the New York Daily News early in their career. During his work for only one month, Kriegel received a call from the editor at 4 a.m.: Mike Tyson fights Mitch Green at a clothing store. get up. A few weeks later, Kriegel announced that Tyson had been wasting the mansion he shared with his girlfriend-turned wife-turned-wife Robin Givens.

Then there is another Tyson story, another story, and then another…that has anything to do with his ever-increasing total number of wins. Kriegel understands that Tyson is the center of a new type of celebrity culture.

"It represents the origin of what we call 'tabist culture' over the past 40 years or so," he said. "It's really a splash, it's really a voyeur, we can't get enough of it."

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Kriegel moved to the New York Post sports table in 1991, and since then, Tyson's career has been slow and slow, becoming what he calls "designated villain... Nuance is not a priority when you're a 30-year-old columnist in New York."

Kriegel began to have empathetic sympathy for Tyson, which has been decades – the struggles he experienced, the obstacles he overcomes, the obstacles of personal, psychological and spiritual challenges that he struggled to put him in trouble. There is no excuse for the crimes Tyson committed or the crimes he caused to others, but sympathy still brings Kriegel the perspectives necessary to tell the story of "the worst person."

"There's too much kindness pointed at him," Kriegel said. "I think, to some extent, people are surviving virtues that survived him - being beaten as a kid, mom died early, dad split, level of violence nearby. ... His character is the victim, but he is also a victim."

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"The Worst Man" covers Tyson's earliest days growing up in the Brooklyn Brooklyn's Brooklyn Brooklyn's Brooklyn-based community of lifesaving relationships with coach Cas Amato, who is upwardly responsible in the ranks of professional boxing. This volume - there will be another - ends with the most relevant battle of Tyson's career, the defeat of Michael Spinks on June 27, 1988. At that time, the most expensive battle in history hosted by Atlantic City real estate tycoon under the name of Donald Trump, a battle of pure cruelty, destruction and excellence.

"It's hard to overestimate the hype of the fight at the time," Kriegel said. "It was the highest peak of Tyson's boxing career. It was a very neat cultural moment when Trump rose, Tyson was ascending. You don't have to be a prophet to read between two lines - like, it's not a good direction - but in that moment, he was invincible."

The “worst man” is now on any shelf where books are sold. This is a portrait of boxing and a strange era in America, whose echoes are still resonating.