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Mike Tyson was one of the most controversial and striking fighters in the world of boxing. The American had a hot temper in and out of the ring. His image gained much more popularity for his eccentricities to the point of having up to three Bengal tigers in his mansion
One of the most exotic possessions that Mike Tyson had, were three tigers worth 60 one thousand dollars each. In 815, one of his tigers knocked out several of his gold teeth with a headbutt, when he He leaned in to “give her a kiss.” #box #DatoCurioso pic.twitter.com/2su5YMzCMV
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How did the tigers come into Tyson’s hands?
After the boxer had to spend some time in jail after being accused of abusing a young woman from 15 year old, Mike’s business continued behind bars. The former American boxer himself explained how his infatuation with felines was born.
“I was in jail and talking to one of my friends he told me that a friend of his owed him money. He commented: ‘If you don’t pay me the money, I’ll take some of the cars and I’ll exchange them for animals’. And I asked, ‘What kind of animals’. To this he replied: ‘Horses and such.’ (…) In that I told him: ‘Why don’t you ask me for a pair (of tigers). I’ll be out of jail in a couple of months’. So when I came home I had two tiger cubs”, Mike Tyson recalled in a statement compiled by Mediotiempo.
In this sense, Mike Tyson’s life became even more curious, now with bengal tigers in power of him . The former American boxer even slept with them in his desire to tame them.
Why did Mike Tyson leave his tigers?
“Iron Mike” began to have a series of incidents and his tigers were the protagonists . Little by little he had to get rid of them The first one bit him while trying to give him a tetanus shot ; the second tried to eat a neighbor’s dog in one of his properties in Las Vegas and in this sense , the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals decided to take it away from him; the third tore off an arm of a person who entered one of the properties of the former boxer , but Mike Tyson had to compensate her with $250,000 Dollars.
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