Kradek posted...
The guy was clearly prepared for it and knew how to handle the situation. If you're just some random person walking along and a random leopard appears, that's a very different scenario. I'm gonna assume you are not professionally trained to contend with big cats.
It's also a pet tiger and wasn't really that interested in killing him. I think I remember someone, maybe Steve Irwin's son, saying that tigers are basically housecats x100 so like a swat from a cat that you'd otherwise be able to just ignore would get your ass knocked down by a tiger but they're basically both the same motion and the same intentions.