Boxing legend Mike Tyson bought a £50,000 tiger from Netflix star Joe Exotic, before it was donated to a local sanctuary

MIKE Tyson bought a tiger from Joe Exotic erstwhile helium was serving clip for the rape successful the 1990s, we tin EXCLUSIVELY reveal.

Iron Mike, who became the youngest heavyweight champion aged conscionable 20 successful 1986, was jailed successful 1992.

But earlier his merchandise successful 1995, he splashed the cash connected 3 Bengal tigers costing astir £50,000 each.

SunSport has learned that Tiger King prima Exotic, 61, was down selling a chaotic feline to the boxing legend.

A root revealed: "Mike Tyson doesn't cognize this, but Joe sold 1 of his tigers to him.

"Joe received the petition done a communal interaction and was blessed to facilitate Mike's request.

"Mike was precise circumstantial and wanted a Bengal tiger aft becoming fascinated by them erstwhile successful prison.

"Being 1 of the precise fewer radical successful the US capable to root exotic animals, Joe was approached.

"But helium didn't manus the carnal implicit to Tyson personally."

Previously, Tyson, who is gearing up to combat Jake Paul connected Friday, has alluded to the information helium believed the Netflix prima was progressive determination on the enactment successful acquiring his tigers.

When helium was released from an Indiana correctional facility, 'the Baddest Man connected the Planet' bought 3 tigers, Kenya, Storm and Boris.

"It could person been, possibly wherever I got my cats could person got their cats from Joe. But I don't know," helium told the Daily Mail successful 2020.

"If you are successful the exotic carnal satellite you are alert of him."

Tyson besides admitted helium was a instrumentality of the Netflix improvement that made a prima of zookeeper and tiger collector Joseph Allen Maldonado - amended known arsenic Tiger King.

"People ever accidental these radical are scumbags," Tyson continued.

"But these are astonishing radical with what they tin bash with their ingenious minds and power implicit different people’s minds. These guys are calved leaders."

Exotic is serving clip down bars aft helium was convicted of 17 charges of carnal maltreatment and 2 counts of execution for hire.

Tyson was forced to manus implicit his tigers to section sanctuaries, aboriginal admitting helium was "foolish" to deliberation helium could person them arsenic pets.

He told rapper Fat Joe successful an Instagram Live: "I was foolish. There’s nary mode you tin domesticate these cats 100 percent … There’s nary mode that’s going to happen.

"They’ll termination you by accident, particularly erstwhile you’re playing unsmooth with them, you’re punching them back. They get hyped up, deed you backmost and you’re dead.

“I’m conscionable blessed I educated myself. I was doing the incorrect s***. I shouldn’t person had them successful my house, believing they were domesticated. I was wrong."

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Tyson besides recounted having to wage a pistillate $250,000 aft 1 of his tigers spot her manus off.

"Somebody jumped implicit my obstruction wherever the tiger was and started playing with the tiger," helium told Fat Joe.

"The tiger didn’t cognize the woman truthful it was a atrocious accident. She jumped into the spot wherever the tiger was."