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Mike Tyson Even athletes have long been an advocate for marijuana use. But he once had another medication taken at his peak back end.
The heavyweight champion is “Katie Miller Podcast” He took fentanyl “many times” in the late 1990s.
“That’s a painkiller, and I used it to fix my toes,” Tyson said.
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Mike Tyson weighed at the Toyota Music Factory in Irving, Texas, before the match against Jake Paul. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The effect of the drug was quickly given to the boxer, and quitting smoking was obviously difficult.
“It’s like heroin – once it wears out, it takes off the band-aid, it starts exiting, throwing it away, like on heroin,” Tyson said.
But Tyson had no choice but to stop.
“If anything, it is illegal [was] Grab my blood. My friend told me that it was a narcotic. This is brand new. I told my friends “Can I use this?” No one has heard of it,” Tyson said.
On the podcast, Tyson calls again Using marijuanaespecially for athletes.
“This is not a drug. This is a drug,” Tyson said.
American boxer Mike Tyson (top right) advises Poland’s Andrew Golota (not demonstrated) to continue the fight as referee Frank Garza Jr. (Daniel Lippitt/AFP via Getty Images)
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Tyson added that athletes would “perform better” when smoking and said he wished he would smoke during the days of fighting.
Tyson told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview on June 30, his 59th birthday, that whether he fights again will depend on whether marijuana is legalized and rescheduled.
He leads a league of current and former athletes, including Kevin DurantDez Bryant and Antonio Brown signed a letter to the White House in late June lobbying for federal marijuana reform. The letter calls for a rescheduling of marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, a leniency treatment of “non-violent” cannabis crimes and ends the “discriminatory banking” related to the financial regulations of the cannabis industry.
Mike Tyson and Jake Paul were separated while meeting in front at the pavilion of the Toyota Music Factory on November 14, 2024 at Irving, Texas. The two are scheduled to meet at a heavyweight match at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on November 15. (Christian Peterson/Getty Image)
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Tyson told Fox News Digital in an interview on June 30 that rescheduling was the most important goal in Thaksaw. He added that he was “disappointed” at how former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden handled federal marijuana reforms, but hoped Trump would take a new approach.
Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to the report.
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