From Heavyweight to Featherweight, Pigeon racing goes primetime with it’s own reality show!
Former world heavyweight champ Mike Tyson will take flight on Animal Planet with a new sport — pigeon racing.
The network this week announced a new reality show that will pit Tyson, a novice pigeon racer, against serious competitors.
The show is currently titled “Taking on Tyson” and promises to bring audiences inside this “intensely competitive and bizarrely fascinating world.”
Tyson has raised pigeons all his life but will take to the rooftops as a racing rookie. The network says he’ll be assisted by a colorful team of pigeon experts as he rears, trains and races them.
“I’m honored to be a part of this monumental show on Animal Planet. I feel a great pride acting as an official representative for all the pigeon fancier’s out there. I want people to see why we love these birds. It feels good returning to the rooftops of the city where it all started for me — New York.”
The show is scheduled to be taped this spring in New York City and air early next year.
Watch the video below as Mike Tyson takes us inside his pigeon loft:
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As luck would have it, Pigeons do not have ears!!!!!!!!!!
When is this show going to air.
It’s time!!! all these other sport program on TV, and finanlly, the sport of pigeon racing and handleing of other type of pigeons. Thanks to “Mike” and the Discovery Chanel Network for spear heading this program. “Bring it on!!!
Did any body have an e-mail adress off Mike Tyson I want to e-mail Mike.YOUR Pigeon Articles are off a high standard
Regards
Hannes
I cannot warch the videos cause I only have dial-up , just too slow . Anybody know how to download videos off the website that could be watched offline ? Donna
Wonderful !
I can’t wait for this show ! I have been a fight fan since my teens……actually have photographed Roberto Duran working out in Gleasons’ Gym in NYC in the 70’s. I didn’t know this about Tyson , it certainly softens his image abit . It will be wonderful for him and pigeon racing.As a novice pigeon breeder ( maybe someday racer ) I will follow it religiously! Donna in VT
I think it is a good thing……..YOU GO MIKE!!!! HAVE SOME FUN.
I think this show is going to be great for our sport, something that it’s needed for quite some time. I just hope they show pigeons and fanciers in a positive light.
No Probblem Its My Plesure !! looking to start my Own Stock In DR !!!
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