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 Combating’s Damon Martin this previous week that being traded to ONE Championship allowed him to turn out to be financially sound for the primary time in his life – regardless of an extended, profitable tenure within the UFC.
“ONE Championship is one of the best factor that’s ever occurred to me,” Johnson advised MMA Combating.
“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 someone mentioned you are taking 23 p.c of no matter you made within the firm and that’s what it will be.
“That timeframe from 2011 all the way in which to 2017, I had 17 fights. I feel 12 of them had been world championship fights and 5 of them weren’t. So I did all the mathematics, 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 evening simply doing the mathematics. 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 one of the best flyweight on this planet, defending the gold a document 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.
