Kevin Rooney Biography

Kevin Rooney is an American former boxer and a current boxing trainer. He was portrayed by Clark Gregg in the 1995 movie Tyson and by Aaron Eckhart in the 2016 movie Bleed for This.

Kevin Rooney Age

Rooney was born May 4, 1956, in Staten Island, New York. He is 62 years old as of 2019.

Kevin Rooney Wife

Rooney has been married to his wife Carol Davis for 13 years now.hey were dating for 1 year after getting together in 2005 and were married in 2006. Carole Davis is a 61-year-old British Actress. Born Carole Raphaelle Davis on 17th February 1958 in London, England, she is famous for Going the Distance. Her zodiac sign is Aquarius.

Kevin Rooney Net Worth

Rooney net worth is still underreview.

Kevin Rooney Boxing 

Kevin Rooney won the 1975 147 lb Sub-Novice New York Golden Gloves Championship. He defeated Kevin Higgins of West Point in the finals. Rooney trained at the Police Athletic Leagues 120th Precinct in Staten Island, New York.

Kevin Rooney began professionally boxing in 1979 and acquired a record of twenty-one wins, four losses, and one draw.

In his most important fight as a professional, on July 31, 1982, Kevin Rooney lost to three division world champion Alexis Argüello, who was making his first fight in the Junior Welterweight division, by a second-round knockout.

He also lost to future WBA world Junior Middleweight champion Davey Moore, who avenged an amateur loss to Rooney, by a knockout in seven rounds, on June 21, 1981.

Kevin Rooney trainer

During the period when Kevin Rooney was Tyson’s trainer, Tyson had a record of 35 fights, 35 wins. Rooney was then fired at the urging of Don King, who had successfully urged Tyson to break all ties with the D’Amato stable. Tyson’s mobility skills in the boxing ring noticeably declined after Kevin Rooney’s firing and Tyson suffered his first loss in a professional fight 18 months after Rooney’s departure. Rooney trained world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson from the start of his professional career in 1985 until Tyson’s bout with Michael Spinks in 1988.

Kevin Rooney was the second-closest trainer to young Mike Tyson, after D’Amato himself, who was also Tyson’s adoptive father and is most familiar with Cus D’Amato’s famed “Peek-a-Boo” boxing style. Rooney has continued to train fighters, working most notably with Vinny Paz who after hooking up with Rooney, won the light middleweight title.

Kevin Rooney Arrest

In November 1994, after being stopped by State Police in Connecticut for erratic driving, Kevin Rooney refused to take sobriety tests and assaulted a State Trooper. Rooney was subsequently taken into custody and charged with driving under the influence along with assaulting a police officer and interfering.

Kevin Rooney Currently

Kevin Rooney continues to train young boxers in Catskill, New York, at the same gym that he trained under Cus D’Amato. He was involved on a Comedy Central comedy show, “Punch Line”, alongside Bert Sugar, former world Middleweight champion Vito Antuofermo and former world Middleweight and Super Middleweight champion Iran Barkley.

Kevin Rooney successfully sued Mike Tyson for over four million dollars claiming Tyson broke a contract by firing Kevin Rooney in 1988.

As of 2010, Kevin Rooney is acting in a consultative capacity on a stage play and screenplay written by Dianna Lefas about the life of Cus D’Amato, entitled KNOCKOUT: The Cus D’Amato Story.

Kevin Rooney Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson was ordered by a federal jury to pay his former trainer Kevin Rooney more than $4.4 million, a ruling denounced by the heavyweight champion and his activist supporters. Rooney had sued Tyson for $49 million, claiming the boxer had broken a lifetime contract by firing him in 1988.

Outside the courthouse, about two dozen demonstrators brought to Albany by New York City activist Al Sharpton to support Tyson chanted “No Justice, No Peace!”An all-white jury has just robbed Mike Tyson of human status,” Sharpton said of the decision by the jury of five women and three men.

Tyson, who is black, promised he would appeal what he called a “peculiar” and “unjust” verdict. But he would not comment when asked if he thought the decision was racially motivated. Tyson also indicated he would have given Rooney $4 million if he had just asked for it without suing. Rooney said he was satisfied with the award of $4,415,651.“I never expected $49 million,” Rooney said. “You can’t take blood from a stone. They came in with what they feel is a just verdict and I’m not going to argue with it.”During the trial, Rooney could produce no written contract with Tyson to train the boxer. But he argued that the arrangement was established by Tyson’s mentor, the late Cus D’Amato when Rooney started to work with the teenager in 1982.

D’Amato died in 1985. Cayton testified that he and Jacobs, who took over Tyson’s affairs after D’Amato died, continued the arrangement. In its verdict, the jury determined that Tyson had broken a contract and unjustly fired Kevin Rooney. They did not determine the duration of the contract and ruled that Rooney should not get any money from future Tyson fights.

Tyson said he had fired Rooney after being angered by the trainer’s televised comments about Tyson’s marriage to actress Robin Givens and his contract dispute with former manager Bill Cayton. The jury deliberated about nine hours last Thursday and Monday, coming back into court twice to hear evidence again — once to see Rooney’s televised interview that triggered the firing and another to hear Tyson explain his decision. Boxing promoter Don King, who grew close to Tyson following his estrangement from Cayton, Rooney and the 1988 death of former manager Jim Jacobs, called the verdict a “terrible thing.”

Tyson said he would fight the verdict because he believed he should have the right to fire someone working with him. And he said his status as a rich boxer had something to do with the verdict.