BADDEST MAN: The Making of Mike Tyson

Kriegel was a young cityside reporter at the New York Daily News when he was first swept up in the Tyson media hurricane, but here he measures his subject not by whom he knocked out but by what he survived. Billed as a modern-day Jack Dempsey, Tyson, in truth, was closer to Sonny Liston: Black, feared, and born to die young. Photos.