Soccer Star Bites Opponent, Gets Twitter Follow From Mike Tyson

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Sam Laird
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Soccer Star Bites Opponent, Gets Twitter Follow From Mike Tyson

Only on Twitter, folks. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up.

Luis Suarez, our antagonistic protagonist here, is something of a bad boy in the soccer world -- that is, not necessarily known for his sportsmanship or sense of fair play. Suarez's latest misstep? Biting an opponent during his Liverpool squad's 2-2 draw with Chelsea over the weekend.

The bite, of course, drew all sorts of criticism and outrage. But it also gained Suarez a very famous new Twitter follower: ex-boxer Mike Tyson, a notorious biter in his own right.

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Tyson famously took a chunk out of Evander Holyfield's ear during a 1997 fight (then last year tweeted a reference to the carnage while pimping Holyfield's barbecue sauce).

Media reports over the weekend said Tyson's follow came just minutes after Suarez's chomp. We haven't been able to confirm that, but the uncertainty does raise a juicy conspiracy theory: What if Tyson in fact followed Suarez just before the bite and recruited him into his carnivorous cabal? Now that'd be a meaty sports story, indeed.

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