Name: Why Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson Left the UFC
Uploaded: 2022-10-27T18:41:25.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson Left the UFC' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson Left the UFC' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-27. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience so this Rod Tang fight but one of the things that's
very interesting about 1FC is how they're just really mixing everything up
they've got grappling matches you know Mikey Musumechi's over there competing
Gary Tonin the Rotolo brothers it's like it's very wild what they're doing
they're having Muay Thai matches kickboxing matches we've had one boxing
match which was for a WBC title so oh yeah it was boxing gloves boxing gloves
full-blown boxing like it was a world title fight that's one of the things I
love about one championship is that they're mixing it up right so when I got
the opportunity to go over there and compete like I knew I had the
opportunity to do something fun like I did with Rod Tang right now was it
difficult to make that decision to leave the UFC because you you were you know
coming off of a very close controversial loss to Henry Cejudo very close fight
yeah you know it was like mostly the wrestling is a couple takedowns
takedowns that he got yeah it was a couple takedowns and I think I relied too
much on allay kicks like I like and that fight I couldn't get him down to the
ground the striking scene on the feet like with the hands it seemed like it was
pretty even I was I think I outlanded him like when you look at the strike
strike
copybox strike numbers but I felt like I relied too much on allay kicks because
I
was I was fucking tearing those legs up well you hurt his leg real bad in that
first round yes he got that drop foot thing yep yep he had the drop thing
going on but I was like I couldn't get there with the hands right I couldn't
knock on the hands I was like you know I'm gonna tear your I'm gonna take your
I'm gonna tear your leg up kept on tearing the leg up and when the fight ended
and I
was like ah he probably got it I was like he he beat me and then they read the
scorecard and I was like huh it is what it is like what are you gonna do so
when I was the
decision after that like what was that like so it was frustrating um but then
you
know at the time I was like I wonder if I can do something different right
because
I was going in the back and at the time Maki Maki was in uh managing me he
still
is uh first round manager is and I was like he's like you tell me to do bro you
know you send me know and we'll figure it out and I was like I wonder if I get
out
of my contract I was like you know try to do something different because at the
time I looked at it this way if I were to fight Henry Ceuta again for the third
time it could have gone either two ways one I beat Henry then I'm still stuck
in
the same situation I am right now when at the time they're trying to get rid of
they're in talks about getting rid of the fight with division right or two if I
lose to Henry then I'm still stuck in the same position I just lost him again
so
why not see if I can go explore other options right and then that's when the
trade talks came about and so the UFC just said fine go ahead well there was
more
to it right I mean obviously um you know Chacha just you know talked about it
it
was uh I heard you had something to do with it as well like yeah I did yeah
yeah
yeah well I'll get to that point so obviously um you know they want it Ben
Askren has been wanting to fight in the UFC for a long time right and then so
one
championship and the UFC were talking back and forth between Hunter and Matt Hume
and Maki so they're like hey let's do a trade right like we'll give you Ben Askren
for Demetrius Johnson and then at one point I heard that you know Dana was like
nah I don't
I don't want to make that happen right I don't know the full I'm not in the
room where all the
puzzle pieces are being shifted and then I was hanging out somewhere and then
somebody said you
know Joe Rogan had a piece and I was like really he goes yeah and I was told
that you kind of
convinced and I'm like who gives a shit like just get get Ben Askren or
something like that so
yeah I know right so that's not really no I definitely was trying to get them
to get Ben Askren but I was
trying to get them to get Ben Askren back when he was at Bellator when he was
in his prime yeah you
know I was like listen man this guy is wrestle fucking everybody I want to see
if he could do that to the
to the whole division like when when Ben was in his prime when he did that the
chorus golf and did that
to Douglas Lima yep I was like you got to understand how crazy this is that
this guy can do this to
everybody yeah and people say oh it's boring it's boring look no no no no no no
it's fighting yep this
guy is you imposing his style on these murderers yeah I mean chorus cough was a
murderer and Douglas Lima is a
fucking savage yep and he was just ragdolling these dudes and doing it weird
ways I remember he he has a
funky style about doing things and I remember somebody said he was training
with him and he was able to
twist and turn a certain way to where if a normal human being would do it they
would like tear their cartilage in
their ribs and he was able to do that and bring him back to where he was and I
was like yeah dude
that's that's a freak right there well he's always wrestled like that because
he's not like a physically
imposing guy I'm sure he's very strong because he's been wrestling his whole
life but yeah his style
was always like this is weird style that was very difficult for people to
understand so they would
they would try to like do traditional shit with him and all of a sudden they'd
be on their back
yeah it just didn't work by the time we got him though he was already fucked up
he needed a hip replacement
and he was already retired right and so that's that's what I heard and so when
they were
wanted to do that trade they're like yeah we'll take Demetrius over Ben because
Demetrius is still
active and he's still you know still I always look at myself as a workhorse
right like I will you're
paying me to fight I'm gonna fight right and so I think it was a no-brainer for
them and that's
that's how it happened well I definitely would have kept you in the UFC so that's
not I'm sorry
I mean if you look at guys like Davidson Figueiredo Brandon Moreno there's some
amazing
fights for you yeah absolutely and the flyweight division has sort of risen up
now there's there's
a lot of like very interesting contenders now yeah but I don't have any say in
like what goes down yeah
I'm not the guy negotiating room why am I saying you're the one I was like we
need to make this happen
okay when you make it happen like I just heard that you kind of had like some
type of persuasion
I guess you can say when you guys were out and about but that's what I've been
told like I said
I don't know the full story because I'm just an athlete I'm just hey this is
what I want
can you guys make it happen then I'll let the higher-ups like Hunter, Matt Hume,
Malky
they're doing all the pieces and then you know shit for all I know that could
have been a
fucking rumor right so yeah it's definitely a rumor oh well there you go it's a
rumor don't
believe anything you hear I definitely was excited to see Ben Askren come over
to the UFC but
and also as a fight fan I was excited to see you go over to one yeah because
the same way I was
excited to see Eddie Alvarez over there and I think we need more events more
competition
is good well that's good for everybody absolutely and what you're seeing now
with one FC is these
world-class fucking guys