Comments Thread For: Mike Tyson Once Offered Zookeeper $10,000 To Fight Gorilla

[Liondw]

Always bet on the gorilla, and any powerful wild animal.

[Murcielago]

That title made it seem Mike would pay the zoo keeper for him, the zookeeper, to fight the gorilla.

[Mindgames]

I guess Tyson would never have ever lost in the ring had this match come off. And Holyfield would still have hes ear.

[Guest]

As requested, I bumped the original thread on this.

A lot of educated, erudite answers on there by the all-knowing, never wrong boxing scene chorus of members.

[johnbook]

That gorilla was way too young to challenge Mike then for the title.
Would have been KOed.

And for the rest of its life would have lamented to the zookeeper: "I could have been a contender. I could have had class. Instead of being a.."

[Boxing_1013]

I honestly wonder how some of those big animals would react to a good right hand to the face from a human

[PeasantCrusha]

BS. Mike knew the answer was NO.


Had the zookeeper agreed, Mike would never have climbed in with a Gorilla. He would have been ripped to shreds trying that cus D'amato sh it with a beast. It didn't work with Holyfield, it definitely would not have worked with a gorilla.


Urban legend bs

[TheReadyTimeBoy]

Silverback gorillas are no joke. Same with chimps. Humans don't want that smoke.

[NachoMan]

That gorilla was way too young to challenge Mike then for the title.
Would have been KOed.

And for the rest of its life would have lamented to the zookeeper: "I could have been a contender. I could have had class. Instead of being a.."

Yeah, lucky silverback for sure.

[elfag]

this story is 20 years old and everyone already heard it by now