Mike Tyson: I used fake willie to fool drug-testers and fought on cocaine
Mike Tyson: I used fake willie to fool drug-testers and fought on cocaine
Former world heavyweight boxing champion makes amazing claims about his career in new book Undisputed Truth
Cunning plan: Tyson's method for passing drug tests worked... but not always
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Mike Tyson claims he fought while high on drugs and used a fake penis to fool dope testers.
“I was a full-blown cokehead,” says Tyson in his autobiography, ‘The Undisputed Truth’. Former world heavyweight king Tyson claims he spent a large chunk of his career addicted to cocaine and marijuana.
Tyson,
47, admits taking drugs before his shock loss to Londoner Danny
Williams in Louisville in July 2004 in his memoir published yesterday.
He
claims
he first tried cocaine aged just 11 and wrote: “The history of war is
the history of drugs. Every great general and warrior from the beginning
of time was high.”
The
New Yorker, who retired in 2005, also admits devising a fake penis, or
his ‘whizzer’ as he called it, to avoid failing drugs tests.
Tyson
says he came up with the idea before his fight against Lou Savarese at
Hampden Park in June 2000 and one of his team would bring it to each
contest.
He admits he had taken ‘blow’ and ‘pot’ before the bout and filled his ‘whizzer’ with someone else’s urine to dupe the testers.
That same year, Tyson tested positive for marijuana and was fined $200,000.
He
blames that failure on being tested before his whizzer caddy - the
member of his entourage who carried the fake todger - could hand it over
to him.
Tyson
also claims he had taken cocaine before his press conference brawl with
Lennox Lewis in New York in January 2002 when he bit the Brit on the
leg.
“I lost my mind,” said Tyson. “I looked over at him and wanted to hit the motherf*****”.
When
he
faced Frank Bruno for the first time in February 1989 in Las Vegas, he
claims he was in such bad condition that Bruno “should have kicked my
ass”. Tyson won inside five rounds.
The two met again in 1996,
when Bruno was world champion, and Tyson - who won in the third round -
claims the Englishman "smelled of fear."
Tyson, the youngest boxer
ever to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles, has retired from
boxing and been through years of rehab.
Recently, he has appeared
in hit movie The Hangover and a one-man Broadway show and even sung and
danced on stage at the Tony awards (go to 3:10).
This summer, sporting his infamous face tattoo, he claimed to be close to death because of his alcoholism.
He
said: “I’m a bad guy. I did a lot of bad things and I want to be
forgiven. I want to change my life. I want to live my life sober.
“I don’t want to die. I’m on the verge of dying because I’m a vicious alcoholic.”
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