Demetrious Johnson: Proper now 'boxing is extra thrilling than blended martial arts'

Demetrious Johnson argues that boxing is extra interesting than MMA in the meanwhile.

Johnson, a former longtime UFC flyweight champion and present ONE flyweight champ, has been extra intrigued with boxing’s storylines over MMA’s.

“Proper now I really feel like boxing is extra thrilling than blended martial arts, proper?” Johnson stated on his YouTube channel. “I imply, there are factors of time the place blended martial arts is having its peaks, however proper now you simply have Ryan Garcia vs. Devin Haney. Ryan Garcia simply popped.

“You then had Francis Ngannou, who acquired knocked out by Anthony Joshua. You then simply had the attractive Tyson Fury and (Oleksandr) Usyk, simply beat him, grew to become the heavyweight champion. That battle was completely superb. From Spherical 1 to Spherical 12, I used to be on the fringe of my seat.”

Johnson has beforehand talked about that he’s not sure of his MMA future and just lately expressed curiosity in making his boxing debut. He seems to be ahead to Saturday’s UFC 302 headliner between light-weight champion Islam Makhachev and Dustin Poirier on the most in MMA, as he sees it as Poirier’s final shot at changing into undisputed champion.

“Proper now we’re sitting right here ready for within the blended martial arts world,” Johnson stated. “We have now a pair issues happening. ONE Championship, we acquired Kade Ruotolo making his debut in blended martial arts. We acquired a pair different issues. However proper now, I feel that the story we’re ready for in blended martial arts is Islam taking over Dustin Poirier.”