Mushy Mike

It appears that the ‘Baddest Man on the Planet’ is not so bad,after all. Legendary American boxer,Mike Tyson has a strange love affair with pigeons and he is in the mood to bare it all on a new television series,titled Taking on Tyson,on Animal Planet. On air till June 19 at 9 pm every day,the show reveals the heavyweight’s love for breeding and raising pigeons since childhood. In fact,as a child,Tyson first punched a bully when one of his pigeons was killed. In this short series,the heavyweight champion talks about the highs and lows he faced in his professional and personal life and how he found sweet escape on the rooftop with the pigeons. The docu-drama moves beyond his adoration for these feathered creatures as he raises the adrenaline with pigeon racing. It’s finally time to look past the tattoo on his face and his intimidating voice.