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<\/p>\nMike Tyson says\u00a0he\u2019s given up more than marijuana\u00a0while preparing for his\u00a0fight against Jake Paul.<\/p>\n
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The former heavyweight champion also said he\u2019s given up sex.<\/p>\n
“Two and a half weeks I haven\u2019t smoked,” Tyson said during an interview on The Damon Elliott Show. “And I haven\u2019t had sex for 2\u00bd weeks.”<\/p>\n
A video of the undated interview was posted on YouTube on Saturday.<\/p>\n
In an videotaped interview with Forbes Life, Tyson said it’d been even longer \u2013 \u201cprobably for six weeks I haven\u2019t gotten high or had sex.”<\/p>\n
Tyson, 57, told Forbes his giving up marijuana and sex is connected with discipline\u00a0as he prepares to face Paul, 27, in a\u00a0bout scheduled for July 20\u00a0at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m living my life disciplined now, so I\u2019m going to have to fight disciplined now,” he said.<\/p>\n
Tyson, during a 2018 TV interview, said he\u2019d abstained from sex for about five years, apparently because he believed it would make him a better boxer.<\/p>\n
“I’m an idiot, you know,” he told Graham Bensinger during the interview back then. “\u2026 I just went by what people told me.”<\/p>\n
Tyson\u2019s publicist told USA TODAY Sports the boxer was giving up marijuana to comply with rules in the fight with Paul. Marijuana is on the list of banned substances enforced by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, which oversees combat sports in Texas.<\/p>\n During his professional boxing career, Tyson was well known for wearing black trunks. More recently, he\u2019s gaining attention for what he’s not wearing.<\/p>\n In March, a week after his fight with Paul was announced,\u00a0Tyson was shirtless and hurling a medicine ball\u00a0against the ground in a video posted on his Instagram account. Earlier this month, photos of\u00a0Tyson shirtless at a memorabilia show\u00a0were posted on his Instagram account.<\/p>\n The caption on one of those photos read: “Yes I did go shirtless, to show you what you\u2019re betting on.”<\/p>\n The phenomenon continued during his interview on The Damon Elliott Show. This time Tyson blamed the lack of air conditioning as he took off his shirt \u2013 and took pride in his physique.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s just an unbelievable situation at this particular moment,” the boxer said with a smile. “Mike Tyson at 58 looks like an Adonis superstar.”<\/p>\n Tyson will turn 58 on June 30.<\/p>\n The interview with Damon Elliott took an unexpected turn when Tyson was asked if preparing for the fight is nerve-wracking.<\/p>\n “No,” Tyson replied, “I said, ‘Wow, how many friends am I going to lose or family members are going to turn on me now?'”<\/p>\n Because they all want the freebies, Elliott asked.<\/p>\n “No, they get them anyway, but they\u2019re still going to hate me anyway,” Tyson said. “I\u2019m going to give them everything and they\u2019re still going to say, ‘(expletive) you. I hate you.'”<\/p>\n “I can handle my enemies,” Tyson continued. “But, God, please protect me from my family and friends. I can handle my enemies. Enemies are no problem. I just got my family and my friends that are just kinda a small complication.”<\/p>\n Tyson suggested the problem stemmed from his being in the spotlight.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s always been shining on me,” he said. “The darker I was, the more it shined.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mike Tyson says\u00a0he\u2019s given up more than marijuana\u00a0while preparing for his\u00a0fight against Jake Paul. The former heavyweight champion also said he\u2019s given up sex. “Two and a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7324,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions\/7324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Mike](\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/04\/29\/USAT\/73495897007-miketyson-0428.jpg?width=660&height=441&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp\")
<\/figure>\nMike Tyson disrobes \u2013 from waist up<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nMike Tyson says friends, family a problem<\/h2>\n