Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography (75 page)

My father, Jimmy “Curlee” Kirkpatrick Jr.

My mother, Lorna Mae.

Me at nine years old.

Cus D’Amato.

Me at thirteen years old.

Cus and me.

With Cus in Catskill.

Dinner with Cus and Camille.

Running while surrounded by trucks as I shoot a Pepsi commercial.

Cus’s funeral on November 7, 1985. Left to right: Jimmy Jacobs, Kevin Rooney, Tom Patti, me, Jay Bright, José Torres, a relative of Cus’s, and Floyd Patterson.

At Steve Lott’s apartment for my nineteenth birthday party. Left to right: Steve Lott, Susan O’Brien, Jimmy Jacobs, Bill Cayton, my first girlfriend Angie, me, Loraine Jacobs, and Doris Cayton.

With my pigeons in Catskill.

Mitch Green and I fight at Madison Square Garden in 1986. I won in a unanimous decision, running my record to 21–0.