At 10 years old, Tommy Morrison’s mother gave him his first tattoo, etching a crude pair of boxing gloves on to his arm. Not long after that, his alcoholic, abusive father granted him access to the pornography he kept in his house and truck.
By 13, the kid was fighting unregulated Toughman contests against grown men wearing jeans and work boots at fair grounds and honky tonks across the midwest. An unlikely breeding ground for a future heavyweight champion, his exploits in those most anarchic arenas supposedly earned him a role as an enforcer with the Missouri mob while still in his teens.
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- March 3, 2022
