Mike Tyson makes 'junkie' admission ahead of Jake Paul boxing fight

Former heavyweight champion of the satellite Mike Tyson is acceptable to look YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul successful the ringing connected November 15 successful Arlington, Texas

Former heavyweight satellite champion Mike Tyson has admitted to being a 'junkie' conscionable months earlier he's scheduled to combat YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul.

The brace were acceptable to spell head-to-head earlier this summer, but the boxing fable was forced to postpone his instrumentality to the ringing aft suffering from an inflamed ulcer. Tyson was forced to halt grooming connected his doctor's orders but has precocious returned to the gym and insists helium volition beryllium acceptable to locomotion to the ringing aboriginal this year.

The clash betwixt the 2 large stars is acceptable to take spot connected Friday, November 15 successful Arlington, Texas. The combat volition instrumentality spot astatine the AT&T Stadium successful beforehand of up to 90,000 fans.

'Iron Mike' hasn't fought a nonrecreational outing came successful 2005 erstwhile helium discontinue connected his stool aft 5 rounds against Kevin McBride. His past bout took spot successful an accumulation against chap fable Roy Jones Jr down closed doors successful 2020.

With conscionable nether 2 months to spell until the arguable showdown, Tyson has made a stunning admittance and has revealed that helium was calved an addict.

Speaking connected the Come And Talk 2 Me podcast, Tyson was asked what made him commencement smoking weed, with the erstwhile boxing champion replying: "I smoked weed each my life. Listen, I was calved an addict. I was calved that way. I'm a junkie. So, that's conscionable however I was born.

"I don't cognize what to do. I don't get precocious now, but that's who I am. I power my addiction to thing else, but I'm a junkie."

He added: "I was smoking not excessively agelong ago. I'm chill now, astir apt 2 weeks oregon truthful without smoking. I did a small mushrooms earlier I came present though."

In August, Tyson admitted helium volition take psychedelic drugs up of his showdown with Paul, adding that helium “always trains connected mushrooms.”

The American has not shied distant from speaking astir his substance use, peculiarly of psychedelic drugs. "I person to instrumentality them erstwhile I train, I ever bid with my mushrooms," Tyson said connected Logan Paul's Impaulsive podcast. "I bid with mushrooms. I consciousness truthful beautiful, it takes maine to heaven, baby."

Both Paul and Tyson volition beryllium subjected to cause investigating earlier they interaction gloves successful the autumn. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation told World Boxing News : "Contestants who combat successful Texas are taxable to random cause testing. Combatants implicit the property of 36 are besides required to walk an EKG and an EEG."