so this king of tigers is about to be eaten by his own cat no not this king of tigers this king of tigers his name's Roy and Roy's story starts a long time ago when he's 12 and the poor little guy he's growing up in a really chaotic household with an alcoholic father and unfortunately he's neglected and he never feels a sense of family with his parents but one day all that changes when Roy goes to the local zoo and there he meets this cheetah named Chico and Roy loves Chico he's never seen a cat
like that before and he feels like they have a special connection and eventually he even gets a side job at that Zoo so that he can help care for Chico then at some point he ends up becoming Chico's owner he allegedly straight up stole him from the zoo I guess regardless he now owns Chico and because Roy has always been neglected by his parents Chico becomes the family he's never had so I guess you could say that Chico saved Roy by just being there for him and this is an actual picture of the two of
them now not too long after this Roy is around 13 years old he runs away from home and he gets a job as a bellhop on a creu ship and that is when he meets this guy sigf freed and Sig Freed's around 18 years old and he works on the ship as an Entertainer as a magician and so he and Roy they're both teenagers and they become friends however Roy isn't really all that impressed with Sig Freed's magic tricks he's like cool you can pull a rabbit out of a hat but why not a cheetah
and Sig's like where the am I going to get a cheetah and Roy's like say less and so Roy takes him to his cabin and there inside he's been lowkey hiding a whole ass cheetah the whole time Roy had apparently snuck him on board anyway so the two of them they put this act together for the passengers on the cruise ship doing magic shows that now involve this cheetah and this act is blowing everyone away they're so impressed with this magic exotic cat and thus the famous Duo Sig freed and Roy is born and now
eventually they decide to take this show on the road and they do some shows locally and then they tour places in Europe and they start to find some success and over time their act keeps growing and they keep adding more and more big cats as the show gets more and more popular and 20 years go by and it's now 1989 and by this point Sig freed and Roy have started doing shows at venues in Las Vegas and these Vegas shows have gotten so popular the owner of a bunch of local hotel casinos offers them a
$57 million contract to perform at his brand new hotel The Mirage and so they get a huge budget and they're finally putting on this big budget production and boom it's a massive hit and Sig freed and Roy become icons everyone around this time has heard of them even people who have never been to Vegas had heard of them and suddenly during this time they're the highest paid entertainers in Las Vegas history so what do they do with this crazy amount of money they now have well first they build a big ass dream home where they
live with over 50 of their exotic animals Lions Jaguars Panthers a freaking elephant and over 30 Tigers 30 tigers and of course this point Chico unfortunately is no longer with them because you know cheetah don't live nearly as long as we do but clearly Roy is still into big cats and here is some footage of him riding a tiger in his backyard and he swims with them in his Lakes siiz swimming pool and he gives them their own air conditioned rooms to live in Roy even sleeps with a big cat in his bed every night
bro is living the dream like here he is with millions of dollars hanging around with huge exotic cats who would never in a million years want to hurt him until here's the thing about tigers specifically I know when you look at a tiger you're like oh he's so cute just I want to hug the kitty just he's such a good kitty however at the end of the day they're still 500 lb apex predators and on a normal day they typically attack and kill their prey with a single bite of the neck which sever the prey's
arteries and then the tiger carries them off to eat them for dinner so like we're easy prey for them just just keep that in mind so anyway one night gets real for Roy cuz it's 2003 and he's 59 years old at this point and he and Sig freed are still selling out shows in Vegas still making millions of dollars a year but on this night they're performing with this guy montor and montor he's a white tiger he's one of the many big cats who lives in Roy's house with him he's also 7 ft tall and
400 lb and so they start the show that night and just like every night 1,500 people in the audience are watching and Roy he walks out on stage and he's with montor this is monor and tonight is his first appearance in front of an audience he says it's monor's first time on stage but it's not that's just something they always tell the audience it's like part of the show anyway then Roy puts a microphone up to monor's mouth so the audience can hear him [Music] growl now for some reason tonight montor is a bit irritable
and about a beat later when Roy reaches down again montor snaps and he nips at Roy's hand and Roy says no no no and he Taps him on the head with the soft tip of the microphone but then Roy backs away a little but then pow montor leaps at him knocking him to the floor and snap he sinks his huge teeth into Roy's neck slicing his vertebrae and severing an artery that cuts off blood to his brain and Roy suffers a massive stroke on stage and keep in mind there's 1,500 people in the audience watching
this like uh is this part of the show but then just like tigers do to their prey in the wild montore drags Roy off stage by the neck and so all the people there are horrified and the stage is covered in blood and one of the stage hands yells cat loose and all the cast members start to panic and the cat handlers leap into action and they run to save Roy's life and it takes four grown men to get monor to finally let go of him then minutes later Roy's in the back of an ambulance
being rushed to the hospital and at this point he's barely conscious but he loves big cats and he still loves montor and he knows they'll want to put him down for this attack so he decides to use whatever strength he has left to try and save him the same way Chico had saved him all those years ago by being his only family and so Roy looks at everyone and he says montor is a great cat make sure no harm comes to monor then he passes out now miraculously Roy survives however he suffered three strokes and
he ends up with half his body paralyzed and from there his entire life's work is over and the Sig freed and Roy show closes for good and the duo never does their full Las Vegas show again until about 6 years later in 2009 it's it's at this point that after many years of Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy Roy musters up the strength for a charity benefit and he and sigfreed do one final show together and montor is there to perform as well as Roy never allowed him to be put down he saved him when I hug
the kitty just he's such a good kitty and a huge shout out to leonardo.da for your videos or just for your life like this or like this then sign up for leonardo.da
