Mike Tyson forms cannabis partnership with Evander Holyfield

Former heavyweight boxing champions and in-ring rivals Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield are now business partners. 

Per Ryan Glasspiegel of the New York Post and Scott Thompson of Fox News Digital, Tyson and Holyfield have come together to market "Holy Ears." The THC and Delta-8 THC-infused edibles are set to launch later this month through the Tyson 2.0 cannabis company. The products reference how Tyson bit off a chunk of Holyfield's ear during a June 1997 bout and, thus, are shaped like bitten ears. 

"I wanted to make sure that things were going to be right, and I realized it was a good deal," Holyfield explained while speaking with Glasspiegel. 

Back in September, Tyson openly campaigned for the use of cannabis-related products over opiates while promoting what were known at the time as "Mike Bites" edibles. 

"I said, 'That’s awesome.' Then, we played with it, we released it, it was an immediate success," Tyson told Thompson about those products. "It was immediate success, and so I was saying, 'Why don’t Evander get involved too?'"

Holyfield was skeptical at first but came around after he educated himself on multiple health benefits linked with cannabis use. 

"They said it’s about helping people," Holyfield said while speaking with Thompson. "So I said, 'I ain’t got no problem helping people.' I didn’t know if it was something that I had to act like I was smoking reefer. I realized it is for helping somebody else. So the fact that [it was] something that helped somebody else, I was fine with that."

Holyfield also admitted to experiencing what he referred to as "anxiety attacks" in the ring during his career that made it "kinda hard to breathe." He added that "marijuana helps a lot of different things" and that he's happy to be part of something that aids people. 

Meanwhile, Tyson is now able to joke about what is probably the most infamous moment of his boxing career. 

"If I was on cannabis, I would’ve never bit his ear!" Tyson said to Holyfield during the Fox interview. 

Tyson 2.0 is in 25 states and Canada.