I whanau a Michael Gerard Tyson i Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York i te Pipiri 30, 1966. He tuakana tona ingoa ko Rodney (whanau i te tau 1961) me te tuahine ko Denise, i mate i te mate ngakau i te 24 o nga tau i te marama o Hui-tanguru 1990. Ko te papa koiora o Tyson e whakahuatia ana ko "Purcell Tyson" (i ahu mai i Jamaica) i runga i tana tiwhikete whanautanga, engari ko te tangata i mohiotia e Tyson ko tana papa ko Jimmy Kirkpatrick. I ahu mai a Kirkpatrick i Grier Town, North Carolina (he takiwa pango i whakauruhia e te taone o Charlotte), i reira ko ia tetahi o nga kaitakaro petipeti o te takiwa. I marenatia a Kirkpatrick me tana tama, ko te tuakana o Tyson a Jimmie Lee Tyson, nana nei i awhina ki te whakauru i a Charlotte ki te whutupaoro whutupaoro i te tau 1965. I te tau 1959, i noho ia ki te taha o tana tuakana ko Denise Tyson, i mate i te mate o te mate o te ngakau i te marama o Hui-tangata
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