Tyson's offer was turned down. Mike Tyson once offered a zookeeper $10,000 in the hope that he’d let him fight a silverback gorilla.
The legendary former heavyweight champion told the story of how his offer was declined on a day he’d hired out the entire zoo just for him and his wife at the time, Robin Givens.
Tyson would get his chance to own powerful animals and wrestle with them in years to come.
The former undisputed king kept multiple white tigers in his home for more than a decade between the 1990s/2000s.
“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 me smash that silverback’s snot box. He declined.”
The former heavyweight champion of the world is a known animal lover and recently made the news discussing his past owning exotic animals, staking his claim as America’s original ‘Tiger King’.
However, Tyson seemingly has less love for gorillas than big cats as he has revealed how in the late 1980s he once told a zookeeper he wanted to climb in a cage and fight a silverback.
The former heavyweight champion of the world is a known animal lover and recently made the news discussing his past owning exotic animals, staking his claim as America’s original ‘Tiger King’.
However, Tyson seemingly has less love for gorillas than big cats as he has revealed how in the late 1980s he once told a zookeeper he wanted to climb in a cage and fight a silverback.
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