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Mike Tyson is looking downright shredded after making some unorthodox changes to his routine.
The 54-year-old boxing legend is going to extraordinary lengths to get back into fighting shape and prepare for his comeback pay-per-view fight against Roy Jones Jr., 51, on Nov. 28.
“Really I would just change my diet and just do cardio work,” Tyson told rapper LL Cool J on the SiriusXM’s “Rock the Bells Radio” show. “Cardio has to start, you have to have your endurance to go and do the process of training. So something to do is get in cardio, I would try and get two hours of cardio a day, make sure you get that stuff in. You’re gonna make sure you’re eating the right food.”
For years, that meant a vegan diet that helped Tyson shed the 100 pounds he had gained since he had last fought in the ring in 2006. Tyson told Joe Rogan he would often fast and go to extremes when he was a vegan for approximately five years.
However with the Jones exhibition match approaching, Tyson made some extreme changes to his eating plan to go along with some extreme claims.
“I only eat elk and bison — wild stuff — and I’m starting to feel fit,” Tyson said on Rogan’s podcast in September. “I realized the stuff that’s good for other people — like kale, vegetables and blueberries — for me is really poisonous…. Kale will kill me!”
The change is an about-face from the former heavyweight king’s previous stance on consuming meat. As recently as 2019, he stated he doesn’t eat “anything that has a mother and father.”
“For me it’s almost like slave food,” Tyson said. “Doing what you hate to do but doing it like it’s nothing. Getting up when you don’t want to get up. That’s what it is. It’s becoming a slave to life. Being a slave to life means being the best person you can be, being the best you can possibly be, and when you are at the best you can possibly be is when you no longer exist and nobody talks about you. That’s when you’re at your best.”
But Tyson isn’t relying solely on diet and exercise to make these changes. He’s also turned to stem-cell therapy which has left him feeling like a “different person.”
“Yes. As they took the blood it was red and when it came back it was almost transfluid,” he said of the alternative treatment. “I could almost see through the blood, and then they injected it in me. And I’ve been weird ever since, I’ve got to get balanced now.”
Stem-cell therapy can be used to treat certain cancers, such as leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma and other conditions, such as aplastic anemia and sickle cell anemia.
“Six weeks of this and I’d be in the best shape I’ve ever dreamed of being in,” Tyson said. “As a matter of fact, I’m going through that process right now. And you know what else I did, I did stem-cell research.”
The WBC Frontline Championship exhibition match — which was rescheduled from September due to the COVID-19 pandemic — is Saturday, Nov. 28 and is slated to begin at 10 p.m. ET at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The match will be streamed on FITE.tv and Triller and available for purchase on pay-per-view for $49.99.
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