Mike Tyson admits Tiger King's Joe Exotic could have sold him big cats as pets

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Mike Tyson admitted he could have got his big cats from Tiger King star Joe Exotic. The boxing champion, 53, splashed out his cash on three Bengal tigers as house pets at his home.

Tyson confessed he could have got his tigers from now-jailed zoo operator Joe indirectly when he bought the wild animals after leaving prison in the early 1990s.

The boxing legend also noted anyone in the exotic animal world would be "aware" of Joe. He told The Daily Mail : "It could have been, maybe where I got my cats could have got their cats from Joe.

But I don’t know. “If you are in the exotic animal world you are aware of him." Tyson lost his tigers in the late 1990s. The world heavyweight champion has recently been hooked on the Netflix docuseries Tiger