Mike Tyson wanted to start boxing again, and he got help from something called toad venom and a wise person called a shaman.
Before his fight with Jake Paul, Mike talked to Rosie Perez in a special interview. Mike shared that after he tried the toad venom, he felt like he met God. The venom is a special substance that helps with feeling sad or worried, and it made Mike ready to get back in the boxing ring after stopping in 2005.
Mike Tyson Credits Toad Venom for His Comeback
“You see a toad, you bust its puss, you put it on like a mirror, and it gets hard. You rub it down until it become fine sand, and then you smoke it. Then you meet god. And this is what god told me to do,” Tyson told Perez.
Mike Tyson said he tried toad venom about 80 or 90 times with the help of a shaman. When Rosie asked him if he saw God, Mike said, “No, you don’t see him. You feel him.”
He explained that when he did it, he felt like, “I’m nothing, but I’m everything.”
“Well, listen. I was scared to death. Because I had a spiritual death; I died,” the 58-year-old added. “I’ve dealt with death to the closest magnitude I ever could. But once you go through that process, you realize dying is beautiful. How could death be bad and life be beautiful? It’s a total contradiction.”
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When Rosie said she’d be “terrified” to try it, Mike Tyson replied, “It’s good to be afraid because you realize there’s nothing to be afraid of.”
“That’s what the toad is all about: dying with dignity, and not being afraid of dying,” he added.
Mike Tyson said he was “very conscious” the whole time and felt “overwhelmed” during his first time doing toad venom. His wife, Lakiha “Kiki” Spicer, was with him.
“It’s better to do it when someone you love is with you as well as the shaman,” Tyson said, adding that his wife of 15 years “cried a little bit.”
“But she tried it as well. Anything that helps me, I give it to my wife, my kids. I gave it to everybody that I love. I gave them the toad,” he said.
When someone asked if toad venom should be legal, Mike Tyson said it’s not a good idea. He explained, . “Well, they don’t want it to be legal because we would have a whole different perspective of life. Everybody might start loving each other. And we don’t want that, do we?” Tyson asked.
Mike has talked about trying toad venom a lot, even on ESPN, just a few months after he first tried it.
“It lasts forever, but it was only 15 minutes, but it felt like hours,” he said around the 1:30-minute mark of the video below. “It was frightening.”
