- Mike Tyson said recently that one of his pet tigers in the 1990s attacked a woman who had trespassed on his property.
- The tiger "f----- up" the trespasser so badly he paid her approximately $250,000.
- "I didn't know what they could do to a person's flesh," Tyson said. "I had no idea."
- These days, Tyson has replaced the big cats with a poodle but he still looks back. "I loved them … [but] I shouldn't have had them in my house. I was wrong."
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Mike Tyson once had three pet tigers and he said one of them attacked someone trespassing on his property.
Tyson told the story to the rapper Fat Joe on a "Fat Joe Show" video posted on Instagram Live.
Tyson said he raised them as cubs and even placed an order for the animals while he was serving time in prison, likely between 1992 and 1995.
He told Fat Joe that a friend of his who imported cars said he was considering trading vehicles for some animals. Tyson asked him what kind of animals.
"He said, 'Horses and stuff, and my dad raised tigers and lions, too. If you got one of those that would be cooler than a Ferrari.'
"I said: 'Why don't you order me a couple, I'll be getting out in a couple of months.' I was in prison. And so when I got out, came home, I had two cubs."
