“That’s a giant f*cking dude!”
ONE flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson realized he could have bit off greater than he may chew as he approached the mats.
Michael Sante Medina, a 6-foot-3, 248-pound BJJ heavyweight champion, stood in place ready for “Mighty Mouse’s” arrival for the open-weight match on the 2024 Pan IBJJF Championships. Johnson, who stands at 5-foot-3, weighed in at 155 kilos for the occasion.
“If I don’t make it, inform my story to my spouse, OK?” Johnson stated into the digicam on an all-access video on his YouTube channel.
Whatever the dimension distinction, Johnson took a bow and jogged onto the mat, keen to determine methods to clear up a large puzzle.
It wasn’t straightforward early on, as Medina swung Johnson round like a small youngster – or, as Johnson would describe it, like a scene from “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze” when Rahzar spun Michelangelo in circles earlier than launching him throughout a warehouse.
Maybe unsurprisingly as the most effective combined martial artists to ever do it, Johnson discovered a approach to get the job performed, and ended up tapping his a lot bigger opponent.
Take a look at the entire match within the video under, together with these in his weight class, wherein he took gold:
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