Henry Cejudo had quite a trip doing psychedelics with boxing legend Mike Tyson.
It’s been a little over a month since Henry Cejudo retired from professional competition. These days, he’s enjoying life, sharing a few puffs from a blunt with Joe Rogan.
During that recent appearance on the JRE MMA Show, “Triple C” also talked about the time he did DMT with none other than boxing legend Mike Tyson.
“I feel like the toad is probably one of the best things that’s happened to me,” Cejudo said (via MMA Mania). “Honestly, because it makes you realize and reflect on what truly matters.
“It was something scary in some ways because it takes you out of your body. It’s almost like you’re in judgment day and you’re the one being convicted and you’re the judge, too. It’s like you’re so dead that you’re alive.”
As Cejudo recalls, he and Tyson did the ritual in the island of Antigua with a Shaman present. During the short psychedelic trip he had, he says he was essentially brought back to his childhood through “movie-like” experience.
“I go up, and I do it, and man it took me to a … especially out of retirement here, I almost kind of wanted some answers,” he recounts “I was hoping that it would give me like, ‘Okay man, this is the path,’ and it took me to my mom’s first love, man.
“It showed me, almost like in a movie, you know, how I was born, how my mom had me, how by the time I was 8 years old I had my sister so I was no longer the youngest. How my mom somewhat pushed me to the side, leaving home at the age of 17 and substituting my mom’s love for self-fulfillment, wrestling.
“I’m almost tripping out, but at the same time intrigued.”
As for his fighting career, Cejudo recently expressed his intentions to come out of retirement and challenge featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski.