Miguel Olivo always wanted to be like Mike Tyson

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On Tuesday, Albuquerque Isotope teammates Miguel Olivo and Alex Guerrero got into a fight during the eighth inning of their Pacific Coast League game against the Salt Lake Bees.

When the fight was finally broken up, Guerrero realized he was missing part of his ear. During the scrap, Olivo went "full Mike Tyson" and bit off a part of his teammate's ear.

The incident is arguably one of the most bizarre sports stories of the year.

But what's even more bizarre is that during a spring training interview conducted in Spanish, Olivo admitted that if he were not a baseball player, he would want to be a boxer like Tyson, only without the ear-bitting. 

Unfortunately for Olivo, the exact opposite happened. Instead of becoming a boxer who doesn't bite ears, he's a baseball player who does.

(TrueBlueLA.com)

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