{"id":144257,"date":"2015-05-18T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=144257"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:26:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:26:46","slug":"anthony-johnson-on-new-opponent-im-still-fighting-for-the-title-still-getting-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/anthony-johnson-on-new-opponent-im-still-fighting-for-the-title-still-getting-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Johnson On New Opponent: &#8216;I&#8217;m Still Fighting For The Title, Still Getting Paid&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Anthony-Johnson.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-141077\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Anthony-Johnson.png\" alt=\"Anthony Johnson\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Anthony-Johnson.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Anthony-Johnson-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Anthony-Johnson-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Anthony-Johnson-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anthony &#8216;Rumble&#8217; Johnson doesn&#8217;t seem to mind that Jon Jones was pulled from their title fight.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has been training for Jones but is now scheduled to fight Daniel Cormier at UFC 187 because of Jones legal issues (and the whole getting stripped of title and suspended indefinitely thing). Johnson talked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2015\/05\/17\/anthony-rumble-johnson-jon-jones-suspended-hit-and-run-ufc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ<\/a> about the change in opponent and what he thinks about a fight with Jones down the road.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited either way. I&#8217;m still fighting for a title and I&#8217;m still getting paid so I&#8217;m good.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Yea, of course [he would be willing to fight Jones]. Why wouldn&#8217;t I be? He&#8217;s the pound-for-pound king. He&#8217;ll definitely be motivated and try to destroy everybody like he was before.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;He&#8217;ll come back bigger, faster, stronger, better than ever.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By: <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/ryan-miller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan C. Miller<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryancmiller1630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ryancmiller1630<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Phuket Dreaming Season 2 &#8211; Episode 3: &#8220;Black Dynamite&#8221; (On Location at Phuket Top Team)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Phuket Dreaming Season 2 - Episode 3 &quot;Black Dynamite&quot; (On location at Phuket Top Team)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F_rPnaSGctg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony &#8216;Rumble&#8217; Johnson doesn&#8217;t seem to mind that Jon Jones was pulled from their title fight. Johnson has been training for Jones but is now scheduled to fight Daniel Cormier at UFC 187 because of Jones legal issues (and the whole getting stripped of title and suspended indefinitely thing). Johnson talked to TMZ about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":141077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Anthony Johnson On New Opponent: &#039;I&#039;m Still Fighting For The Title, Still Getting Paid&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&#039;Rumble&#039; doesn&#039;t seem to mind fighting Cormier instead of Jones, but says when the former champ comes back......Full story on BJPENN.COM.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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