A new report says that during a criminal trial in the NYC on Thursday, a witness testified that heavyweight champ and ear biter Mike Tyson put up $50,000 for a "hit" on members of a vicious Brooklyn drug gang who allegedly shot his former bodyguard, Darryl "Homicide" Baum, to death.

However, the witness went on to say that nothing ever came of the contract.

Baum was gunned down just a few months after allegedly firing nine shots at rapper 50 Cent.