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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
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In the aftermath of Demetrious Johnson’s dramatic defeat by Adriano Moraes, the flyweight “GOAT” had a brief moment of madness.
Speaking to the media not long after his second-round TKO loss at ONE Championship’s TNT 1 card, “Mighty Mouse” expressed a desire to compete in the Asian promotion’s kick-boxing division.
“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.
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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.”
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