Anthony Johnson gick tidigare i pension efter sin submissionförlust mot Daniel Cormier och berättade att han hittat någonting annat han brinner för att göra.
Enligt Johnson var det inte enbart detta som gjorde att han beslutade om pension, utan även risken för CTE och hjärnskador.
Det här berättade Johnson via ’Heated Conversations’:
We’re opening up a facility, if you know what I mean. It’s for medical uses. … We got some good things going on. It’s already big. We’re just waiting for that law to pass and whenever it passes, we’re golden. We’re playing our cards right, we’re playing by the book, so that way there’s no issue.
My health, man. You hear about CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) and all this other stuff. Head injuries. You’re harming your body playing football and stuff like that, but this stuff can happen just as fast in mixed martial arts as any other sport, because we’re constantly beating on each other. I love myself, you know what I’m saying? A lot of guys don’t think about that.
If those guys want to go in there and do that to themselves, go ahead, that’s your life, that’s your body, that’s your future. But for me, I’m destined to do something greater.
I just couldn’t do it anymore. You gotta go in there and do your thing. You’ve gotta make your money and get out. That’s why Conor McGregor is killing it. He’s straight killing it.
