Mike Tyson: I Smoked Marijuana Before Fighting Roy Jones Jr.Posted by On


Is marijuana a performance-enhancing drug? For Mike Tyson, absolutely.

All things considered, the former heavyweight champion, 54, looked pretty good on Saturday during his eight-round exhibition bout against Roy Jones, Jr.

He moved well. He threw some convincing punches. At the end, Tyson looked like he could have kept going, whereas Jones looked happy to be going home.

It wasn’t exactly serious, but it was still Tyson’s first public boxing match in more than a decade. And Tyson claims he did it stoned.

“I smoked every day” during while training for the fight, Tyson said during the post-fight press conference. “I never stopped smoking.”

Asked the inevitable follow-up—whether Mike Tyson, who in his retirement has become a cannabis entrepreneur, who once claimed to smoke $40,000 worth of weed a month, also smoked weed before this fight—the ex-champ offered the inevitable answer.

“Absolutely,” he said, as USA Today reported.

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