{"id":290697,"date":"2018-11-08T01:52:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T09:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=290697"},"modified":"2018-11-08T22:28:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T06:28:15","slug":"exclusive-one-championship-stars-react-to-recent-signings-of-demetrious-johnson-eddie-alvarez-miesha-tate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-one-championship-stars-react-to-recent-signings-of-demetrious-johnson-eddie-alvarez-miesha-tate\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE | ONE Championship stars react to recent signings of Demetrious Johnson, Eddie Alvarez, Miesha Tate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the span of just a few weeks, Singapore-based martial arts promotion ONE Championship has added former UFC flyweight champ Demetrious Johnson and former UFC lightweight champ Eddie Alvarez to its roster, and<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/miesha-tate-joins-one-championship-as-a-new-vice-president\/\"> brought on former UFC bantamweight champ Miesha Tate as one of its Vice Presidents<\/a>. Needless to say, these are tremendously exciting times for the promotion.<\/p>\n<p>ONE Championship&#8217;s top fighters, as you can probably expect, are feeling that excitement, and are thrilled about the promotion&#8217;s deepening talent pool.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how a few of ONE Champion&#8217;s established fighters reacted to the addition of Demetrious Johnson, Eddie Alvarez and Miesha Tate to the promotion&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-bibiano-fernandes-confident-he-can-defeat-kevin-belingon-by-submission-or-knockout\/\">Bibiano Fernandes<\/a>: ONE Bantamweight World Champion <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAbout DJ, Eddie Alvarez, I think it\u2019s great. It\u2019s good for me. For me, before, it was always me and [Shinya] Aoki. A lot of guys come and go, come and go. A lot of guys come here and fight and left, but I stayed, Aoki stayed, but now DJ and Eddie Alvarez stay, and that\u2019s good for me because now I can say this guy is good too. It\u2019s exciting times, it\u2019s good for ONE Championship.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin Belingon: ONE Interim Bantamweight World Champion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019re all very excited to be with them in one promotion. So hopefully we can fight on the same card with DJ and Eddie. We\u2019re very excited.\u201d<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eduard Folayang: ONE Lightweight Contender <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s a good move for ONE Championship. I think that ONE Championship is sending a message that it\u2019s really one of the biggest promotions, especially here in Asia. It\u2019s the next step that they\u2019re doing for a bigger vision.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-jungle-cat-muhammad-aiman-is-calm-and-collected-on-the-road-to-one-championship-glory\/\">Muhammad Aiman<\/a>: ONE Bantamweight Contender<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI feel like it\u2019s a dream come true, you know? All of these guys that I grew up watching, whenever I come fight, they\u2019re going to be there. They\u2019re going to be around, I\u2019m going to say hi to them, it\u2019s weird. Even though it\u2019s still new, I\u2019m excited for what\u2019s coming.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen Rich [Franklin] came to ONE, he would be always around, and I would be like, \u2018this is Rich Franklin, I grew up watching him,\u2019 and now all of these new guys coming in, it will be crazy. It\u2019s a good feeling. When Rich came, just seeing him every time I fight, it was a good feeling. I was like, \u2018I\u2019m here now, that\u2019s Rich Franklin, that\u2019s the guy that fought Anderson Silva.&#8217; Now Miesha Tate is here\u2026 I\u2019m really happy to be a part of ONE.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What do you think of ONE Championship&#8217;s recent high-profile signings?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 11\/8\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the span of just a few weeks, Singapore-based martial arts promotion ONE Championship has added former UFC flyweight champ Demetrious Johnson and former UFC lightweight champ Eddie Alvarez to its roster, and brought on former UFC bantamweight champ Miesha Tate as one of its Vice Presidents. 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