Rodney Tyson is the brother of Mike Tyson who is regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion from 1987 to 1990. He is now a member of both the World and International Boxing Halls of Fames. When Tyson was ten years old, the family had to relocate to Brownsville due to financial difficulties, so they had previously lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Rodney Tyson | Quick Bio |
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Nick Name | Rodney Tyson |
Occupation | Brain Surgeon |
Age | 62 yrs old, in 2023 |
Birthday | 1961 |
Parents’ name | Purcell Tyson, Lorna Smith |
Born In | Fort Greene, New York, United States |
Nationality | American |
Ethnicity | Mixed |
Religion | Christian |
What about alma mater? | Not known |
Height | In feet: 5’6” (1.67 m) |
Weight | Approx. 93 Kg or 205 lbs |
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Rodney Tyson Early Life & Biography
Rodney Tyson was born in 1961 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York City. He is 62 years old, as of 2023. He has a younger brother named Mike Tyson and had an older sister named Denise, who died of a heart attack at age 24 in February 1990.
Tyson’s mother, born in Charlottesville, Virginia, was described as a promiscuous woman who might have been a prostitute. His father Purcell Tyson is a “humble cab driver” (who was from Jamaica).
Who Is Rodney Tyson?
Rodney Tyson is five years older than Mike Tyson. He is a brain surgeon who has aided Mike’s pals on numerous occasions. He candidly discussed his brother with Canelo Alvarez.
“I have a brother that’s a brain surgeon. I can fing barely read and write and this guy’s a brain surgeon and s. A couple of my friends were shot, he went there and sewn them up. One friend says, “Mike, that’s your brother? Yes it is my brother.”
Tyson discusses his brother and sister at detail in his autobiography, The Undisputed Truth. After calling his brother “weird,” as Tyson put it in a letter,
“We’re black guys from the ghetto and he was like a scientist – he had these little test tubes and was always experimenting. I was like: “White people do this stuff.” He once went to the chemistry lab at Pratt Institute, a nearby college, and got some chemicals to do an experiment. A few days later, when he was out, I snuck into his room and started adding water to his test tubes, and I blew out the whole back window, starting a fire in his room.”
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