Once when he was 9 years old, a 15 year old gang member came up to Tyson when he was playing with his pet pigeons and took one of them off him, Mike pleaded with him to give it back; the boy refused and slowly began turning the pigeons head until it snapped off. Tyson flew into a blind rage and attacked like a caged animal pummeling his foe with everything he had. Some locals witnessed this fistic beating of one of the areas most respected gang members and word got around, now he was known to the whole of Brownsville, not as Mike, but as Mike Tyson.
