LOL! MIKE TYSON WILL RACE PIGEONS FOR ANIMAL PLANET!

Mike Tyson's new TV show is strictly for the birds.

Tyson returns to the Brooklyn neighborhood of his childhood for "Taking on Tyson," a six-episode reality series that begins March 6 on Animal Planet.

The show focuses on competitive pigeon racing, a world Tyson says has always fascinated and comforted him.

His manager, Mario Costa, talks about how, when Tyson was flat broke, he would go on the roof and spend all day with pigeons. "All he had was the birds," said Costa. "And he'd tell me, 'I'm rich.'"

A relaxed Tyson cautioned critics at a Los Angeles appearance, however, that this show is not about ordinary street pigeons.

A writer who lives in Queens said she had pigeons all over her building and wanted to know how she could send them to Tyson in Brooklyn.

Tyson laughed and said, "We don't even want your pigeons! The pigeons we race are the crème de la crème. They have only the best bloodlines."


LOL! MIKE TYSON WILL RACE PIGEONS FOR ANIMAL PLANET! HEY! ATLEAST IT'S A GIG! HE'S THE NEW BIRD MAN!

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