Mike Tyson is one of the great heavyweight boxers the world has got to witness. He IS known for his unique knockout ability. But Tyson wasn’t just famous for his boxing skills, he is also pretty well-known as an owner of a wild animal. He used to have tigers as his pets. Tyson owned three Bengal tigers which were named Kenya, Storm, and Boris. Among the three, Tyson loved Kenya the most, and he had her with him for almost 16 years.

But then later, Kenya got old and she even bite a visitor’s arm off for which Tyson had to pay $250 grand as compensation. So, Tyson had to get rid of his tiger pet. But that wasn’t the only wild cat encounter Tyson had in his life. In the recent episode of his podcast, ‘Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson’. ‘Iron’ Mike told his guest, Cedric the Entertainer, about his experience with a lion.

Now in the past, Tyson has shared his experiences of having a tiger as his pet, but this is one of the rare times when he talked about his encounter with a lion.

Tyson shared the difference between a lion and a tiger as pets

Now, the three men on the screen, Mike Tyson, Cedric the Entertainer, and Sebastian Joseph-Day were watching a video of a woman who was grabbed by a tiger. Then Cedric asked Tyson about his experience with tigers and whether he ever had a run-in with one of them. Then Mike Tyson talked about his experience with another wild cat, a lion.

Tyson said, “Well they chill yeah but lion gotta get in shit, he gotta let you know he run this motherf*ker. You’re eating at the table, he gets in the f*king chair with you, you know.”

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Then he further expanded on what the lion tries to do to establish his dominance. Tyson said, “It’s just something he’ll be playing with your son, he go over there play with your wife“.

Then Tyson explains how a tiger’s behavior is different from that of a lion. He said, “Now the tiger doesn’t do that. He’ll stay with one person, even if it’s your kid, wife she tell you, (groans). No one can come by me.” Now, Mike Tyson also had a mountain lion for some time, and he had a bit of an accident with it. So Tyson was trying to give it a tetanus shot when he was bitten by the lion, and in turn, had to get six or seven stitches for it.

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Mike Tyson was then asked by Cedric, about the incentive to keep such a wild carnivorous animal as a pet. What good could come of it?

Mike Tyson explains his reason for keeping tigers as his pet

So, Mike Tyson goes on to talk about the time he was in prison, one time he was talking to his ‘car dealer’ as he wanted to buy a car. And a friend of Tyson owed the car dealer some money. So he had some of the friend’s cars as leverage.

The car dealer was planning to sell the cars and get some animals from the money. So Tyson asked him, “What the f**k you mean animals?” So, the dealer replies that maybe he’d get a horse or a coyote, or a wolf. And then the car dealer expresses his fascination as he thought it’d be cool if Tyson had a Ferrari and on the passenger seat, there was a tiger sitting on it.

This idea amazed Mike Tyson, and he instantly said, “Yeah give me three of them.” Then a week later, when Mike Tyson was out of prison, his car dealer sent the three tigers to his address. So this is the story of how Tyson got his pet tigers.

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