However, Atlas left the camp in 1982 following an altercation with the 15-year-old Tyson after Tyson had been sexually inappropriate with an 11-year-old female relative of Atlas' (Tyson said he had grabbed the girl's buttocks). His duties included assisting in the training of D'Amato's teenage protégé Mike Tyson. In 1980 he trained Sweden Olympic Boxing Team for 1980 Summer Olympics. Atlas was an assistant to D'Amato, although his role in the Catskill Boxing Club was short-lived. He had some amateur fights and won a 135-pound Golden Gloves title but had to turn to work as a trainer due to a back injury. The attack left him with a distinctive scar.Ītlas trained as an amateur boxer with Hall of Fame trainer Cus D'Amato. The wound took 400 stitches in total to close, with 200 on the outside of his face and 200 on the inside. Atlas was involved in a street fight in Stapleton, Staten Island, in which his face was severely slashed with a '007' flick knife. He participated in an armed robbery and served time on Rikers Island. He dropped out of school and was arrested several times. Atlas was raised in his mother's Catholic faith and spent summers in Spring Lake, New Jersey, with his family's friends.īy his own admission, Atlas had a somewhat troubled, rebellious youth.

His father was of Hungarian Jewish ancestry and his mother of Irish descent.

His mother, Mary Riley Atlas, was a former contestant in the Miss America pageant system, as well as a model. The son of a doctor, Atlas grew up in a wealthy area of Staten Island, New York City, New York.

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