Mike Tyson smoked marijuana right before his comeback fight against fellow boxing legend Roy Jones Jr on Sunday (AEDT).
Tyson, a legal cannibis mogul in his post-boxing life, reportedly smokes about $US40,000 ($54,000) worth of marijuana per month.
He made no exception for his boxing return, in which the fighters were tested for performance enhancers but marijuana was apparently not on the banned list.
"Absolutely, yes," he said when asked it he'd inhaled pre-fight.
"Listen, I can't stop smoking. I smoked during fights. I just have to smoke. I'm sorry. I'm a smoker. I smoke every day. I never stopped smoking."
Tyson and Jones fought out a draw at Staples Center in Los Angeles. It was 'Iron Mike's first exhibition fight in 14 years and 15 years past the end of his professional career.
Tyson says that he's escaped the downward spiral of using harder drugs like cocaine. But at age 54, he stuck to his regular routine of getting on the green on Sunday.
"It's just who I am," he said. "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.
"It just numbs me. It doesn't numb the pain."
Tyson indicated that he may like to fight again. He said that he was largely focused on charity work in his later life.
"I'm here for a purpose," he said. "I'm not here for my ego. My ego is taking the money, buying some planes, some nice houses, packing up a bunch of chicks and have some orgies and stuff.
"This is not who that is right now. That guy was just somebody that had to be. Eventually, he was a platform to become me.
"In a perfect world, I'm a missionary. In a perfect world."
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