ONE Championship: Demetrious Johnson politely declines Rodtang’s offer for kick-boxing fight
- ‘Mighty Mouse’ admits he was ‘crazy’ to consider competing in a ONE kick-boxing bout following Adriano Moraes defeat
- ‘When you’re stuck in a Singapore hotel room for 10 days, you start to think all kinds of things,’ Johnson says
In the aftermath of Demetrious Johnson’s dramatic defeat by Adriano Moraes, the flyweight “GOAT” had a brief moment of madness.
“When you’re stuck in a hotel room in Singapore for 10 days, you start to think all kinds of crazy s***, right?” the 34-year-old American told SCMP MMA in a recent interview, before walking back the whole idea.
The problem for Johnson was his desire to try his hand at kick-boxing was politely taken up by ONE’s flyweight Muay Thai champion, Rodtang Jitmuangnon.
“I would gladly accept [the match],” Rodtang said this month. “But it’s up to ONE’s discretion. Personally, I want to face great fighters because it will be a life experience for a fighter like me.”
Luckily, Johnson knows how crazy he would be to even consider such a proposal.
