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Boxing Legend Admits He Used Dangerous Drug ‘Quite a Few Times’
Mike Tyson admitted to multiple fentanyl uses in the late 1990s to manage severe pain during his boxing career, raising concerns ahead of his 2026 exhibition fight with Floyd Mayweather.
- Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson revealed that he used fentanyl several times in the late 1990s to manage pain, including applying it to heal a toe injury.
- Tyson stopped using fentanyl due to legal risks and testing positive as it was banned in the sport, though he would have continued otherwise.
- He compared fentanyl withdrawal to heroin, describing intense symptoms like vomiting, and advocated cannabis as a safer alternative for athletes.
- Tyson led a coalition of athletes lobbying the White House in late June 2025 to reschedule cannabis, calling it medicine and citing its benefits for pain and stress.
- Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid linked to over 73,000 U.S. deaths in 2023, remains a crisis, while Tyson focuses on cannabis advocacy and plans an exhibition fight in 2026.
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Mike Tyson makes fentanyl admission as boxing legend prepares for blockbuster Floyd Mayweather fight
Mike Tyson has revealed he used fentanyl “quite a few times” during the peak of his career in the 1990s, describing the powerful opioid as being “like heroin.”The former heavyweight champion, now 59, has been candid for years about his battles with substance abuse and addiction. Speaking on The Katie Miller Podcast, Tyson admitted he turned to fentanyl as a painkiller while competing at the very top of the sport.“It was a painkiller, and I used …
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