{"id":308006,"date":"2019-03-31T19:31:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T02:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=308006"},"modified":"2019-03-31T19:31:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T02:31:51","slug":"demetrious-johnson-reflects-on-one-championship-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/demetrious-johnson-reflects-on-one-championship-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Demetrious Johnson reflects on ONE Championship debut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many fans expected former UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson to blow through former Pancrase champion Yuya Wakamatsu in his ONE Championship debut. Yet while Johnson ultimately earned himself a second-round submission win, the first frame of his fight with the young Japanese knockout artist was actually quite competitive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demetrious Johnson opened up on his entertaining scrap with Yuya Wakamatsu at the ONE: A New Era press conference in Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ONE Championship: A NEW ERA Post-Event Press Conference\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nOAZpCIRJ9s?start=945&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, I don&#8217;t rate my opponents,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Obviously Yuya Wakamatsu is tough. Being my first time ever competing in Japan, overseas, not having my head coach (Matt Hume) in the corner&#8230; I knew I was going to battle some adversity because that&#8217;s kind of his style. I knew I wanted to put the pressure on him, and when you put pressure on people, you leave yourself open to counter shots, getting hit. It happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s tough, he&#8217;s young, he&#8217;ll be back. It was a good fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demetrious Johnson also commented on his competition in the ONE Flyweight Grand Prix; Kairat Akhmetov and Danny Kingad, who also picked up big wins at ONE: A New Era. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They were great matches,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Danny Kingad looked good against Senzo Ikeda and Kairat Akhmetov looked great against Reece McLaren. They were both great fights. 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