With the release of his autobiography “Undisputed Truth” earlier this week, we are finding out even more incredible information about Mike Tyson. Now we hear that he was coked up before many fights. We also find out how Tyson was able to pass the drug tests without being detected. Hit the jump.
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Tyson said that he was high before taking to the ring for a match against Lou Savarese in Glasgow in June 2000—and came up with an ingenious method to prevent detection by the sport’s official testers. Confessing he had taken “blow” and “pot” before the bout, he said: “I had to use my whizzer, which was a fake penis where you put in someone’s clean urine to pass your drug test.” He blamed a $200,000 fine for testing positive for marijuana after a 2000 fight against Andrew Golota in Detroit on the fact that he was tested before having a chance to get the ‘whizzer’ from a member of his team, whom he claims typically carried the device from fight to fight.
He went on to add “I was a full-blown cokehead”, referring to his bout in 2004 with Danny Williams, which he lost. When Tyson got into a brawl before a January 2002 fight with Lennox Lewis, he explained that cocaine was to blame for his actions, which included biting into one of Lewis’ legs.
“I lost my mind,” said Tyson. “I looked over at him and wanted to hit the motherf***er.”
Everyone needs to go out and pick up his book. It is very refreshing to see someone bare their soul the way he has in the book.
