'My ex-girlfriend cooked and ate one of my beloved pigeons,' reveals Mike Tyson

He's famous as a fearsome fighter, but Mike Tyson has a surprising soft spot for his beloved pigeons. 

                                                               Pretty bird: Mike Tyson with one of his many beloved pigeons

And now the former heavy weight champion has revealed he was traumatised after an unnamed ex-girlfriend cooked and ate one of his birds in front of him. 

The 46-year-old, who has called pigeon racing his 'first love' and at one pointed owned up to 350 bird, recalled the incident during a interview on US sports talk-radio show Boomer & Carton.

But it is meat now!?