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MMA GOAT claims it’s easier to become world champ in MMA than boxing: “Look at Brock Lesnar”

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August 29, 2023

Demetrious Johnson. Photo: Ron Chenoy – USA TODAY Sports

Legendary UFC flyweight champion, and current ONE flyweight title holder Demetrious Johnson is one of the best MMA champions to ever do it.

However, “Mighty Mouse” recently claimed that MMA is the easiest sport to become a world champion.

“That’s the thing about boxing,” Johnson said on Instagram. “Mixed Martial Arts is the easiest sport to become champion in. When you fight boxing, it’s boxing. Every person you fight in boxing is going to be good in boxing, wen when you fight mixed martial arts, you’re gonna have people who have significant big holes in them, right? You have a guy like Alex Pereira, 6-1 and he becomes a champion in mixed martial arts.”

“You can have no wrestling experience and become a world champion. You look at Brock Lesnar, he became a world champion in mixed martial arts and he had no stand-up experience whatsoever.”

“That’s why I feel MMA is the easiest to become a world champion… you can have deficiencies and still become a champion. In boxing, you can’t, you have to be a good boxer to become a world champion, you just have to.”