#13 Steve Lott

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2018

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

When Mike Tyson rocketed onto the scene in the mid-1980s he had a support system that included mentor and father-figure Cus D'Amato, co-managers Jim Jacobs and Bill Cayton, trainer Kevin Rooney and Steve Lott. Lott had already been in the boxing business a decade, working closely with Jacobs and Cayton. He went on to forge a close friendship with Tyson, who as the champion of the world would sometimes sleep on Lott's couch. They have been in and out of contact in subsequent years, but there is no one with a better understanding of the highs and lows of Mike Tyson in the 1980s than Steve Lott.

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0:00.0	When the bell rang for round one of the Mike Tyson fight, Mike came out like he just scored a knockdown and he's coming out to end the fight.
0:08.0	Now that's what mainstream wants to see.
0:12.0	The moment I heard that on the phone, I said I'm dead.
0:17.0	We're dead.
0:18.0	Don Scott.
0:19.0	I should have set him, wait one minute by the elevator I'll be right down I go back to
0:25.4	Bill came Bill give me a check for a thousand bucks I'm gonna cash you downstairs
0:29.7	you'd say why I said I want to take Mike down to Rio de Janeiro I'm gonna get him
0:35.0	late 44 times a day I'm gonna get him drunk he's in pain Hello and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me Trist Dixon.
0:57.0	My guest this week is Steve Lott.
0:59.0	Through the mid to late 80s, Steve was part of Team Tyson,
1:02.0	the group that included trainer,
1:03.8	Cus Damato and Fight Managers, Jim Jacobs and Bill Cayton.
1:07.2	Cus realized he had the future heavyweight champion of the world when Mike was just
1:10.8	13 years old and Mike would fulfill that prophecy.
1:14.2	He also wound up becoming close to Lott, actually slept on Steve's couch when he was the
1:18.9	World Heavyweight champion, confided in him, trusted him and received around around 3 to 400 letters from Steve while he was in prison.
1:25.8	If you're a fan of those early Tyson days, you do not want to miss this.
1:29.9	So I just want to go way back to your first boxing memory.
1:34.0	What was the first thing you remember about the fight game?
1:37.0	I knew absolutely zero about boxing
1:41.0	until I began working with Bill,
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