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.
The show is scheduled to be taped this spring in New York City and air early next year.
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Animal Planet is owned by Discovery Communications.
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