One of the greatest boxers of all time, Mike Tyson wasn't someone who backed off from a fight. He was someone who didn't mince his words and was a brute force in the ring.?
He was so fascinated by fighting anyone and everyone that he once wanted to fight a silverback gorilla for $10000.?Yes, you read that right.?Tyson's always been an animal lover. He likes his pigeons and famously owned & cared some wildcats. We're talking exotic tigers.
However, he once wanted to fight an animal. Not just any animal but a bloody gorilla.?In the 80s, when Tyson was an unbeaten heavyweight-wrecking machine, he went to a zoo with his then-partner Robin Givens.
He had the whole zoo to himself after paying them to keep it open after it had closed. As he was going around the zoo, he saw a gorilla intimidating other gorillas present there. While you can't do much about it, Tyson took offence.?
Any normal human being would've walked past without having a problem, but Tyson isn't your ordinary human. He took offence and wanted to enter the exhibit.
Not just walk in but have a fight with a gorilla.?He was prepared to offer the zookeeper $10,000 to open the cage so he could go in there and punch a gorilla. He had once narrated?the whole tale.?
"When we got to the gorilla cage there was one big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas.?"They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined."
That is Mike Tyson in a nutshell.?