Mike Tyson is best known for his chops in the ring, but the boxing legend also has a soft spot for his pigeons.
The former heavyweight champ recently revealed he was traumatized after an ex-girlfriend cooked and ate one of his birds in front of him. Tyson, who at one point owned up to 350 birds, recalled the incident during an interview on sports talk-radio show Boomer & Carton.
Tyson was asked if he had ever eaten one of his animals.
"I tried. I was dating this young lady and she said, "I don’t know why you’re flying those damn birds, you should be eating them."
"She happened to grab one and — and she cooked one and proceeded to eat it. And I just couldn’t do it."
"You loved that pigeon so much," host Craig Carton responded.
"Well, ‘cause he’s got a relationship with the pigeons," co-host Boomer Esiason added.
"It just wasn't the right thing to do," Tyson added. "That's why she's not my woman anymore."
When asked why he allowed it to happen, Tyson responded: "It was her house and we were living off of her dime, so she could do [it]."
Source: dailymail.co.uk
