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Mike Tyson is putting connected muscle, showing disconnected velocity and giving up activity and marijuana up of his July 20 conflict against YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul.
The 57-year-old appeared connected "The Damon Elliott Show" precocious and said he had not smoked aliases had activity successful much than 2 weeks. It was not clear erstwhile nan question and reply was taped. He gave Forbes Life a different timeline connected his abstinence from nan supplier and sex.
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Mike Tyson exits nan ringing aft his divided tie against Roy Jones, Jr. during a heavyweight accumulation boxing bout for nan WBC Frontline Belt astatine nan Staples Center successful Los Angeles connected Nov. 28, 2020. (Joe Scarnici/Handout Photo via USA TODAY Sports)
"Right now, I’m surviving my life disciplined. It’s been six weeks that I haven’t gotten precocious aliases had sex," he told nan outlet successful a communicative published Saturday. "I haven’t done that since I was a small kid.
"I dislike not being capable to smoke. But I’m doing it for illustration I emotion it; I dislike not being capable to slumber pinch my wife, but I'm doing it for illustration I emotion it."
Tyson’s ear-shaped marijuana edibles deed New York dispensaries successful March arsenic nan conflict pinch Paul was announced. His publicist told USA Today that nan boxer was giving up marijuana to comply pinch fight rules arsenic marijuana is connected nan database of banned substances by nan Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation – nan agency overseeing nan fight.
Mike Tyson looks connected anterior to nan Heavyweight conflict betwixt Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou astatine Boulevard Hall connected Oct. 28, 2023 successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)
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Roy Jones Jr., nan past personification to conflict Tyson, offered a informing to Paul astir nan information nan erstwhile heavyweight champion is in.
"The first clip he deed maine successful nan chest, it felt for illustration a mule had kicked maine successful nan chest," Jones told Shane Mosley on his YouTube show. "If he hits anybody pinch a changeable for illustration that, they are either going retired aliases down, particularly guys who are not utilized to being deed for illustration that. With these types of group for illustration Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis, these guys are bigger and tin return it."
Roy Jones Jr., left, and Mike Tyson observe their divided tie during Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr. presented by Triller astatine Staples Center connected Nov. 28, 2020 successful Los Angeles. (Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Triller)
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"But Jake Paul, I don’t deliberation he’s going to beryllium capable to return that. It mightiness deed him connected nan chin for illustration that, we’ll see, but it’s going to beryllium tough."
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