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Demetrious Johnson vill gå matcher 5 år till innan pension

Den forne flugviktsmästaren i UFC, Demetrious Johnson, gjorde förra helgen sin debut i ONE FC efter det historiska bytet mellan de två organisationerna.

Han mötte då japanske Yuya Wakamatsu och segrade via submission i andra ronden.

Johnson känner nu att han vill fortsätta gå matcher under 5 års tid innan han lägger handskarna på hyllan.

Via Ariel Helwani MMA Show:

I give myself five more years in mixed martial arts then I’m done. Five years, I’ll be 37, I’ll be old. At the end of the day, the biggest thing I’ll say, the difference… It’s been since 2011… Was the last time I fought at 135 [pounds]. And for me making this weight cut… Or weighing in at 135… My body’s being able to recover a lot faster. So who knows, I might be able to postpone five years to seven years because I’m not having to put my body through that traumatic weight cut to make 125.

It’s hard, man. For example, Eddie Alvarez, awesome dude, and to see what happened to him, it was one punch. It wasn’t a combination of punches, it was just one punch that landed in the right spot, hit him in the eye and I was like, ‘damn your eye is f*cked up,’ He could possibly go blind! One shot. So at the end of the day, man, why risk it? Why risk that happening to me if I can say, ‘you know what? You gotta cut it off at five years.

Johnson kommer härnäst att möta vinnaren av Tatsumitsu Wada och Gustavo Balart i ONE FC:s flugviktsturnering som fortsätter under helgens gala ONE: Roots of Honor.

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