Demetrious Johnson dominated the flyweight division, however the MMA GOAT believes he wasn’t being compensated sufficiently till he joined ONE Championship.
“Mighty Mouse” defined to MMA Preventing’s Damon Martin this previous week that being traded to ONE Championship allowed him to grow to be financially sound for the primary time in his life – regardless of a protracted, profitable tenure within the UFC.
“ONE Championship is the very best factor that’s ever occurred to me,” Johnson instructed MMA Preventing.
“The explanation why I say that’s on a number of fronts. Clearly the [UFC antitrust] lawsuit simply went preliminary [approval] and I bear in mind anyone stated you’re taking 23 % of no matter you made within the firm and that’s what it could be.
“That time-frame from 2011 all the way in which to 2017, I had 17 fights. I believe 12 of them have been world championship fights and 5 of them weren’t. So I did all the maths, I did all that stuff and I used to be like what the f*ck? That’s all I made? I used to be in mattress final night time simply doing the maths. I used to be like godd*mn, I’m f*cking gutted.”
Johnson competed within the UFC between 2011 and 2018. He cemented himself as the very best flyweight on the earth, defending the gold a file 11 instances.
The American then moved to ONE in 2019, the place he gained the ONE Flyweight MMA World Grand Prix and the ONE Flyweight MMA World Title. He then retired as king this previous September at an emotional sendoff at ONE 168: Denver.
