{"id":930581,"date":"2026-10-16T19:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/930581\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:12:11","slug":"tyson-didnt-sign-up-to-do-a-show-with-stuffed-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/930581\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson &#8216;Didn&#8217;t Sign Up to Do a Show With Stuffed Animals&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Mike Tyson wanted to go viral, but not necessarily by chatting with a giant pigeon, a London court has heard. The boxing icon and his company Tyrannic are being sued for allegedly walking away from a $2 million sponsorship deal with Medier Ltd., promoters of the Rabona gambling brand, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/talking-pigeons-podcast-mike-tyson-b3067181.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Independent<\/a>. Medier says Tyson ditched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/talking_pigeons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Talking Pigeons&#8221;<\/a> livestream concept\u2014and a planned appearance at a major Amsterdam gaming conference\u2014once his higher-paying $15 million Netflix fight with Jake Paul was confirmed, per <a href=\"https:\/\/gamingamerica.com\/news\/1104944\/mike-tyson-fights-gambling-company-in-court-over-talking-pigeons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gaming America<\/a>.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Tyson&#8217;s side counters that Medier pushed him into a &#8220;goofy&#8221; show with a &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; mascot of a giant pigeon far beyond what his contract required, which they say was limited to him playing casino-style games online, per the Independent. His wife, Lakiha Tyson (aka Lakiha Spicer), who runs Tyrannic, told London&#8217;s High Court that they objected to scripts, mascots, and &#8220;big puppets,&#8221; insisting they weren&#8217;t going to make him &#8220;the butt of the joke.&#8221; &#8220;Mike didn&#8217;t sign up to do a show with stuffed animals,&#8221; she noted.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Mike Tyson wanted to go viral, but not necessarily by chatting with a giant pigeon, a London&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,21944,9225,2462,2022,46904,39476,8199,497418,112155,85,3586],"class_list":["post-930581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-gambling","tag-jake-paul","tag-lawsuit","tag-london","tag-mascot","tag-mascots","tag-mike-tyson","tag-pigeon","tag-pigeons","tag-sports","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}