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The heavyweight icon is on the verge of returning to the ring 15 years after retiring on his stool.
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Tyson faces YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul on November 15 in Texas in a controversial clash slammed by many for the 30-year age gap. The youngest heavyweight champion of all time, aged just 20 when he won the belt, did have an exhibition with Roy Jones Jr in 2020. That was just a year after he first smoked TOAD VENOM in a bid to treat his substance addiction.
The practise involves venom being extracted from the glands of the Sonoran Desert toad, dried into a crystalline substance and smoked in a pipe.
Effects range from easing depression and post-traumatic stress disorder to panic, dysphoria and the complete loss of one’s sense of self.
Tyson’s first toad venom smoking ceremony lasted 20 minutes and left him fearing for his life.
Gerardo Sandoval, a pioneer for the practise, told The Times: “At the beginning he thought he was actually dying. He was demanding that I make it stop.
“He launched himself towards me. He tried to give me a punch, then the toad fully grabbed him and he fell. It gave him a knockout.
“What Mike went through was almost like a rebirth. He stopped taking antipsychotic and sleeping pills because he wasn’t sad or angry any more. — Sun.
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