Fight Night Highlights: Top Pot Moments in Combat Sports

WBC Heavyweight Champion, Deontay Wilder, was recently busted with pot in Alabama after he took the wrong car out from his fleet, so we’re looking back at some of our favorite ridiculous pot moments in combat sports. You can’t blame Deontay Wilder for trying to keep things under wraps; many of the sports where you’re putting life and limb on the line in a fairly literal sense are extra harsh on athletes who choose to use cannabis outside the ring, cage or dohyō… ring thing used in traditional Japanese sumo wrestlers. Whether it be five-year bans like the one Nevada’s State Athletic Commission tried to stamp on Nick Diaz, continued issues for other medical marijuana patients who fight or just haters, cannabis consuming athletes have plenty to put up with. Here are our picks for some of the craziest pot moments in combat sports: Boxing While lacking stars not named Floyd Mayweather at the moment, during the last 20 years there have been plenty of run-ins between pot and pugilists: The now-heavyweight champ is just the latest in a long line of boxing royalty busted over THC. Let’s start with Iron Mike Tyson, poor guy thought he had found his trick, as the Telegraph reported back in 2014. He blamed a $200,000 fine for testing positive for marijuana after a 2000 fight against Andrew Golota in Detroit on the fact that he was tested before having a chance to get the ‘whizzer’ from a member of his team, whom he claims typically…

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