When Mike Tyson threw his first fist in anger, it wasn’t because someone teased him for his lisp or funny voice. It was over something much dearer to him – one of his prized pigeons.
Before learning the former heavyweight champ-turned-bizarro bad boy-turned-reformed charmer would come to Thailand to participate in an international pigeon race next year, we had no idea nothing captivates Mike Tyson like a beautiful pigeon.
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“The guy ripped the head off my pigeon. This was the first thing I ever loved in my life: the pigeon.” he told The Telegraph.
Here are photos of Mike Tyson holding, kissing, touching, and caressing pigeons.