This is the Dan Levatore Show with the Stucats podcast.

Dominique, our next guest here, Mark Kregal, is one of the best.

He's the foremost boxing writer in America, but for a long time, he has been one of the best sports writers in America.

He's currently a boxing analyst for ESPN. And like the best

sports writers, he gravitates toward the boxers because they're weird and fascinating and often

vulnerable, publicly courageous. And his latest book, Baddest Man, The Making of Mike Tyson,

is available now. And this writer with this project. I'm fascinated by

Tyson because I just think he's the most interesting athlete of my time for a lot of different

reasons, just interesting. And it's at least in part because he'd reveal himself to you and is

somebody that was more comfortable in prison than outside of it. Didn't want to leave prison when he got to prison because prison had more order.

And I'm just sure that Kregel has found a thousand things about this man's life

because he's one of the best reporters, too, that there's been.

So, Mark, thank you for joining us.

And just start us here on, like, you tackled this project

because I imagine you too find him more

interesting than anyone else you've covered.

I tackle this project because I owed the publisher money and he broached the idea of Tyson.

And my first thought was like what what body part would I rather impale than revisit all the crap

I wrote in the 90s

and the schmuck I was back then?

And, you know, in large measure who he was back then.

And I started to think about it.

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