Mar 16 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Boxing champion Mike Tyson has a new profession these days, as a TV star for the upcoming TV series on bird racing, which will be telecast on Animal Planet. Mike Tyson has a deep connection with pigeons, as he has been a lifelong pigeon keeper, and he will showcase his love for birds on the new series ‘Take on Tyson’.

In this TV series, the boxing legend Mike Tyson will pit his pigeons against other racing-pigeon owners in New York. He tells the New York Post, “I may have stopped fighting. But I never stopped flying birds. It’s my first love.” It will be quite interesting to watch Mike Tyson in a different avatar as a racing pigeon keeper altogether. The series will be shot from April 2010, and it is said that it will be telecast in early 2011 on the channel Animal Planet.

The channel Animal Planet is also quite enamored with him, after they saw the amount of passion that the boxing legend Mike Tyson has for this feathered friends. The officials of the channel said that, that the show “peels back new layers of the remarkable persona and deep humanity of Mike Tyson.” Animal Planet’s general manager Marjorie Kaplan also said that, “Tyson’s passion for his pigeons takes my breath away.”