CATSKILL, N.Y., 1985: In the ring Tyson became a model of the D'Amato style of boxing. Hands up in a modified peekaboo, chin down, he moved aggressively forward in an elusive bobbing motion, exploding punches in flurries at the targets D'Amato thought vital: the liver on the right side, the floating rib on the left, the jawbone below the ear lobe, the point of the chin.

--From "Ready to Soar to the Very Top" by William Nack, Sports Illustrated, January 6, 1986

Photograph by Manny Millan