Present ONE Championship flyweight titleholder Demetrious Johnson is holding the door open on an MMA return.
‘Mighty Mouse’ hasn’t competed in nicely over a 12 months. The previous UFC champion famously headed to ONE Championship in late 2018 and shortly compiled a three-fight successful streak. Whereas Demetrious Johnson suffered a knockout loss to Adriano Moraes in April 2021, he avenged the loss the next 12 months.
In his trilogy bout with the Brazilian, he once more outworked ‘Mikinho’ en path to a unanimous determination victory. Previous to ONE Combat Night time 10, Demetrious Johnson admitted that the combat is perhaps his final. Within the 12 months since then, the 38-year-old has proven curiosity in varied matchups. Nonetheless, he’s didn’t e-book his return to the cage.
Actually, Demetrious Johnson hasn’t performed a whole lot of precise MMA coaching since that evening final April. Showing on the JAXXON Podcast earlier this week, the flyweight champion was requested about retirement. There, Johnson said that he was holding the door open relating to extra look within the cage.
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Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson says he’s not formally retired from MMA however he’s holding the door open.
MMA shouldn’t be on his thoughts proper now and he’s been give attention to his BJJ coaching.
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ONE Championship star Demetrious Johnson provides retirement replace
Nonetheless, Demetrious Johnson added that he’s not actively coaching proper now. Whereas ‘Mighty Mouse’ has stayed lively within the health club, and performed some rolling, he hasn’t hit the pads in 18 months. Nonetheless, Johnson believes that he may have yet one more combat if the fitting alternative arose.
“I feel that when I formally retire, as a result of I’ll all the time go away that door open.” Demetrious Johnson said within the interview. “Identical to you left that door open proper? You’ll all the time have that love for combined martial arts. I’m simply saying, combined martial arts isn’t on my thoughts proper now. But when one thing got here by and ‘Hey man you need to do that combat?’, yeah positive why not?”
He continued, “I nonetheless practice day-after-day, my weight remains to be there, however I don’t practice MMA. I practice martial arts. However, it’s simply jiu-jitsu. I haven’t hit pads, that’s the primary time that I’ve hit pads in a 12 months and a half. Yeah, I nonetheless have it. However I imply, I really feel like folks assume that should you don’t practice martial arts, you continue to can’t do it. It won’t be on the highest stage [right now], however I can get again to the best stage.”
What do you make of those feedback from the ONE Championship star? Do you need to see Demetrious Johnson combat once more?
