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1. Mike Tyson – $26M in Debt…

$26,000,000, give or take a few million. That’s the staggering number we have to work with when we consider Mike Tyson’s debt in 2003. I don’t think I could spend $26 million if I wanted to. However, if there’s anyone out there who wants to give me the opportunity, I’ll gladly give it a shot. But anyway, I digress. The most astounding thing about Tyson’s bankruptcy filing is that he had supposedly made over $350 million in his career. I can’t really wrap my head around the $26 mil number, so $350m is kind of completely beyond my ken. What I do understand, though, is that Iron Mike spent a lot of cash on a lot of crazy stuff. Most shocking (and awesome) was the $10,000 he owed in back fees for “care of his tigers.” Yup, you read that right — Tyson had tigers and he wasn’t paying the bills to keep the tigers happy. I don’t know about you, but if I had tigers living with me, I would do everything possible to keep them happy.

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