Many know Mike Tyson as a force in the boxing ring, but recently he participated in a very different competition.
As part of Fusion TV’s new docuseries Outpost, Tyson, 50, flew out to Suriname with one of his 70+ birds to compete in a songbird contest. A long-running tradition in the country, these contests are all about testing a songbird’s chirping power. Feathered competitors get a set amount of time to chirp as much as possible, and the bird with the most chirps wins the match.
In Tyson’s round his bird got out an impressive 107 notes, but was beaten by the contest’s champion,...
As part of Fusion TV’s new docuseries Outpost, Tyson, 50, flew out to Suriname with one of his 70+ birds to compete in a songbird contest. A long-running tradition in the country, these contests are all about testing a songbird’s chirping power. Feathered competitors get a set amount of time to chirp as much as possible, and the bird with the most chirps wins the match.
In Tyson’s round his bird got out an impressive 107 notes, but was beaten by the contest’s champion,...
- 3/27/2017
- by Kelli Bender
- PEOPLE.com
Mike Tyson currently has 74 pigeons, and yes, he can tell the difference between all of them, the former heavyweight champion of the world told TheWrap during a recent interview. Why did that even come up, you ask? Well, Tyson was talking about his lifelong love of birds, which recently took him to South America’s Republic of Suriname to film an episode of Fusion’s “Outpost.” On his “Wild Coast” episode of the program, Tyson traveled to learn about the long-running tradition of songbird contests, where small birds compete against one another in signing battles. The boxing legend even adopted a bird to.
- 3/23/2017
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
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