Mike Tyson was forced to sell £55,000 tiger after it bit off woman's arm

Former satellite heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson - who fights Jake Paul this period - was told to merchantability his £55,000 favored tiger aft it spot a woman's limb cleanable off

Among the galore relationships Mike Tyson has forged implicit the years, splitting from his favored tiger whitethorn fertile arsenic 1 of the astir painful.

The erstwhile world heavyweight boxing champion erstwhile owned 3 Bengal tigers, but helium donated 2 to an carnal sanctuary aft deciding they required excessively overmuch care. The remaining tiger, Kenya, remained successful his attraction for 16 years - until a disastrous mishap led to their divided and 1 pistillate being down a limb.

Tyson - who volition travel retired of status to combat Jake Paul connected November 15 - reportedly bought the £55,000 specimen erstwhile helium was released from situation aft being convicted of rape successful 1992. However, their narration came to an unfortunate extremity erstwhile a pistillate allegedly entered Kenya's enclosure.

"I did person a favored tiger, her sanction was Kenya and she was astir 550 pounds (250 kilograms)," Tyson told GQ successful 2019. "I had a large affection for her; I kept her, I slept with her, I kept her successful my room.

"She stayed with maine I had her astir 16 years. She was a monolithic monster, you can't ideate the size of her. But she got excessively aged and I had to get escaped of her erstwhile her eyes and her caput got bad. Oh, and she ripped somebody's limb off."

Contrary to rumours suggesting Kenya got retired of her habitat, Tyson claimed it was her territory that was invaded. In abstracted interviews, 'Iron Mike' said that the pistillate jumped the obstruction into the enclosure and started playing with the large feline earlier things took a turn.

Tyson has adjacent elaborate however the maimed pistillate attempted to writer the boxing icon implicit the ordeal. She didn't win successful doing so, but the erstwhile heavyweight champion said helium inactive stumped up immoderate compensation.

Speaking connected an Instagram Live chat with rapper Fat Joe successful 2020, Tyson said: "When I saw what the tiger did to her hand, I had a batch of wealth backmost then, truthful I gave her $250,000, immoderate it was due to the fact that she was conscionable f****d up." 'The Baddest Man connected the Planet' volition beryllium looking to unleash his ain interior beast erstwhile helium goes toe-to-toe with Paul adjacent Friday.

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