You didn’t misread the headline.
Mike Tyson. A tiger (a white tiger, specifically). And the process of domestication so the tiger doesn’t kill Mike.
Seriously.
The legendary boxer relayed this story to Shaquille O’Neal on a recent podcast episode.
The story started when Shaq described coming to Tyson’s house, having a tiger come running down the stairs and watching Tyson wrestle the tiger into submission.
But then Tyson threw this out:
“I sleep with my tiger. He’d kill me. You’ve gotta be with him every day, for two years, every day. When I traveled, I got an 18-wheeler, so when I went to another state, he’d come with me.”
Some of us sleep with a stuff toy… Mike Tyson actually SLEEPS with his tiger. 🐯😳
He’s so built different.
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— theScore (@theScore) July 18, 2025
To be fair to Tyson, it’s sound logic. You can’t just expect the tiger to be comfortable after a day or two.
But we’ll leave it to him to figure that out.
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