Demetrious Johnson has recently made a bold claim…
That the present-day state of MMA makes it less exciting than boxing!
Even though he is the reigning ONE Championship flyweight champion, “Mighty Mouse” shared his sentiment in an interview with Ariel Helwani:
Right now, I feel like boxing is more exciting than mixed martial arts.
There are points in time where mixed martial arts is having its peaks but right now, you just had Ryan Garcia vs. Devin Haney, Francis Ngannou, who just got knocked out by Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and [Oleksandr] Usyk just beat him, became the heavyweight champion.
That fight was amazing.
From round one to round twelve, I was at the edge of my seat.
Johnson added that it’s about the storylines themselves as well, not just about the fights:
When I was doing some work with “Run It Up”, a show on DAZN, they brought up that five versus five and I was like: “Okay, you know, that’s interesting”, and I was like: “Where’s this coming from?”
And it almost reminded me of WWE [Survivor Series].
The storylines, as I have transitioned into this role of covering the sport and covering it as my passion, I like the storylines.
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