{"id":332020,"date":"2019-11-14T05:31:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T13:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=332020"},"modified":"2019-11-14T06:50:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T14:50:02","slug":"demetrious-johnson-stopped-at-u-s-customs-due-to-one-championship-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/demetrious-johnson-stopped-at-u-s-customs-due-to-one-championship-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Demetrious Johnson stopped at U.S. Customs due to ONE Championship belt"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>ONE Championship star Demetrious Johnson was recently stopped at U.S. Customs as a result of his ONE Flyweight Grand Prix title belt.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Mighty Mouse&#8221; kickstarted <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/looking-back-on-the-ben-askren-demetrious-johnson-trade-one-year-later\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"his run with the Asian promotion (opens in a new tab)\">his run with the Asian promotion<\/a> earlier this year at ONE Championship: A New Era, and ever since then he has defeated Yuya Wakamatsu, Tatsumitsu Wada and Danny Kingad en-route to securing the grand prix win.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Johnson will now challenge for the ONE Flyweight Championship, but before that, he needs to deal with the added attention that comes with holding onto the aforementioned title belt &#8211; which is absolutely massive.<\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Demetrious Johnson vs. Danny Kingad | ONE Full Fight | October 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6BBi867GNMo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Johnson spoke about being stopped at Customs during a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/11\/demetrius-johnson-one-championship-customs-questions-supersize-belt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMA Junkie (opens in a new tab)\">MMA Junkie<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cYeah, I got stopped,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cYou can\u2019t bring something like that through and not expect them to be curious. They were like, \u2018What is that?\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018a belt.\u2019 And then they were like, \u2018Where did you get that?\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018in Asia.\u2019 And then I guess they weren\u2019t MMA fans, so I had to explain the whole deal with it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The former UFC champ also spoke about what the grand prix success meant to him.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cThis is my favorite one, man,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThis one means the most to me. Years ago I was a huge fan of PRIDE, and you\u2019d see the belts guys like Mirko Cro Cop got when they won their grand prix tournaments. That was a special deal. So to go over to Japan with their history for tournaments and add my name to the list of people who have won tournaments and get the belt, yeah, that makes this one real special for me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Demetrious Johnson is widely known as one of the greatest mixed martial artists of his generation and potentially of all time, and as we look ahead to his ONE Championship future, that legacy could continue to grow.<\/p>\r\n<p><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\/13\/2019.<\/i><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONE Championship star Demetrious Johnson was recently stopped at U.S. Customs as a result of his ONE Flyweight Grand Prix title belt. &#8220;Mighty Mouse&#8221; kickstarted his run with the Asian promotion earlier this year at ONE Championship: A New Era, and ever since then he has defeated Yuya Wakamatsu, Tatsumitsu 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