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Mike Tyson, the former heavyweight boxing champion and founder of the cannabis company Tyson Ranch, returned to the boxing ring at 54-years-old for the first time in 15 years for an exhibition match against Roy Jones Jr. over the weekend.
Tyson has been more known for his marijuana ventures than his boxing since leaving the sport, but over the weekend he brought the two together.
Following the fight, Tyson admitted that he toked up some marijuana just before heading to the ring for his fight with Jones.
“It’s just who I am,” Tyson told reporters after the fight, according to MMAjunkie.com. “It has no effect on me from a negative standpoint. It’s just what I do and how I am and how I’m going to die. There’s no explanation. There’s no beginning. There’s no end.
“It just numbs me,” he said. “It doesn’t numb the pain.”
Hey, can you blame the man?
Tyson has credited marijuana for helping to turn his life around and if that’s what’s helping him get through the day-to-day grind, more power to him.
And because this was an exhibition match in a state where weed is legal, no harm, no foul.
As for the fight itself, it ended in a lackluster draw.