Taking On Tyson premiered on ANI on March 6, 2011. In this series former heavyweight champion of the world Mike Tyson will take audiences inside the intensely competitive and bizarrely fascinating world of pigeon racing. The show will give audiences an insider's look at pigeon rearing and racing, a sport that is far from the mainstream. The novice pigeon racer Tyson goes toe-to-toe against several individuals in hopes of being crowned a champ all over again. Tyson has a deep passion for the birds and raised pigeons all his life. In fact his first-ever fight as a child was in defense of his birds. But this show will follow his first foray into racing them competitively. So for the first time in years, Tyson enters a sport as an underdog.