Mike Tyson’s first love was a pigeon!
March 7th, 2011 - 3:14 pm ICT by ANILondon, March 07 (ANI): Mike Tyson has revealed that ‘first thing he ever loved was a pigeon’.
The boxer confessed that he threw his very first punch at the age of 11 after another boy killed one of his feathered friends.
Tyson made the revelations in his new Discovery TV series, ‘Taking On Tyson’.
The 44-year-old has had his own pigeon coop in Brooklyn, New York, since he was a schoolboy.
“The first thing I ever loved was a pigeon,” the Daily Star quoted him as saying.
“I had 100 birds and this one guy grabbed one, and when I asked for it back, he cracked it and then poured the blood over me.
“I just started fighting. I had some pride that day,” he added. (ANI)
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