Boxing legend Mike Tyson was featured in a recent episode of his “Hotboxin’” podcast. The podcast saw powerful conversation among the stars as it was in a “studio full of smoke” and Tyson was seemingly too high to speak with guest Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Mike Tyson seemed high during the podcast
The episode has gone viral due to Tyson barely speaking during the 1-hour, 19-minute conversation. Luckily, co-host Henry Cejudo helped fill the time with the former UFC champion often asking Tyson his thoughts on various topics to prompt him to speak.
When the episode aired, Twitter critics pointed out Tyson’s “stoned” attitude. Some fans expressed disappointment in Tyson for “wasting” an interview with a fighter of Nurmagomedov’s caliber. Khabib ‘Humiliated’ In Training Fight By UFC Star
“Mike Tyson came to the Khabib podcast way too high. Ruined it for me, guy was barely awake,” one person tweeted. Another added that Tyson “wasted the Khabib interview. I know the podcast is called Hotboxin but what’s the point of the podcast if you’re too high to talk.”
Despite the mixed reviews, other fans poked fun at Tyson being “too high” to talk, and praised the legendary boxer.
It looks Mike Tyson is on another planet, too high for the mic. 🤣🤤😇 https://t.co/8n7PkMeEtb
— Ace©️es 🃏 (@Primyado) August 6, 2021
Mike Tyson and his love for marijuana
Tyson had previously admitted his love for marijuana. He had joined the marijuana industry in 2018, and owns a 40-acre cannabis ranch in California that manufactures marijuana, along with a number of other weed products. He also has his own school, Tyson Cultivation School, where farmers are taught how to grow and develop strains of cannabis.
In November, “Iron Mike” had said he smoked marijuana before his eight-round exhibition bout against Roy Jones Jr. which was his first fight in 15 years.
He said:
“Absolutely yes… Listen, I can’t stop smoking,” the former heavyweight champion of the world told reporters at Staples Center after the fight. “I smoked during fights. I just have to smoke, I’m sorry. I’m a smoker. … I smoke everyday. I never stopped smoking.
“It’s just who I am,’’ Tyson continued. “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.”
