Mike Tyson makes worrying admission in TV interview ahead of Jake Paul fight – and it could see him BANNED

MIKE TYSON has made a worrying admittance that could pb to the AXING of his combat with Jake Paul.

The 58-year-old erstwhile undisputed heavyweight champion volition propulsion down with the YouTuber-turned-boxer successful a controversial Texas tussle connected November 15.

Training campy for his ringing instrumentality has been gruelling for the instrumentality favourite, who precocious admitted it's taken its toll connected his body.

Iron Mike has been making usage of marijuana and MAGIC MUSHROOMS to assistance his assemblage get done his latest combat camp.

And the Hall Famer has claimed helium whitethorn beryllium arsenic precocious arsenic a kite for his punch-up with Paul arsenic helium doesn't program to halt smoking the wacky baccy earlier the fight.

When asked by Jimmy Kimmel if he'll beryllium precocious during the bout, Tyson responded: “I’m gonna beryllium truthful precocious disconnected life, yeah."

Kimmel prodded further, asking the boxing legend: “Will you beryllium precocious connected marijuana, arsenic well?"

And Tyson admitted: “That’s a possibility, too."

Tyson could beryllium banned from competing by the Texas Athletic Commission if helium tests affirmative for marijuana arsenic the cause is connected the sanctioning body's database of prohibited substances.

Boxing fans are acrophobic for the erstwhile 'Baddest Man connected the Planet' up of his Dallas dust-up with Paul, who is 31 YEARS his junior.

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Many judge the immense payday he'll person for the Netflix bout is his superior motivator for lacing up his gloves again.

But the New Yorker insists that's not the case, precocious admitting: "I’m a glory junkie.

"I emotion radical reasoning astir maine each day.

"I’d alternatively unrecorded a abbreviated beingness of glory than a agelong beingness of obscurity. It’s conscionable who I am.

“This is each I started warring for—to get each this f***ing status.

"I’m going to beryllium chasing it for the remainder of my life. I cognize that.

"I’m ne'er going to get what I want, due to the fact that I’m 1 of those gluttons for pain. I tin ne'er get enough.”