{"id":367554,"date":"2020-11-13T05:57:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T13:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=367554"},"modified":"2020-11-13T05:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T13:57:09","slug":"demetrious-johnson-says-he-might-never-fight-again-due-to-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/demetrious-johnson-says-he-might-never-fight-again-due-to-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Demetrious Johnson says he \u201cmight never fight again\u201d due to COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ONE Championship star Demetrious Johnson has admitted that he may never fight again as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson made the transition over to ONE <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-names-the-ultimate-goat-of-mma-did-everyone-just-forget-about-demetrious-johnson\/\">from the Ultimate Fighting Championship<\/a> in late 2018 with Ben Askren heading in the opposite direction, and ever since then, he&#8217;s been able to go 3-0 in the promotion &#8211; with all three of those wins coming in the 2019 Flyweight Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Now that he hasn&#8217;t fought for over a year after his April title shot was called off due to the pandemic, Johnson has admitted that there&#8217;s a chance he may never fight again.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Demetrious Johnson&#039;s Best ONE Championship Highlights\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0_1OKlU7QXk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope we don\u2019t see a COVID-22, knock on wood right now,\u201d Johnson told <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2020\/11\/demetrious-johnson-on-covid-19-impact-to-career-one-championship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a> Radio. \u201cYou just never know. I mean, COVID-19, like I\u2019m not going to lie \u2013 I was getting ready for this fight, I had my ticket booked to go out to Jakarta, and then this (explicit) just happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then to sit on the sidelines for a full year, I\u2019m going to have to start thinking about something else because it only takes one new virus to wipe out your entire career,&#8221; Johnson added. &#8220;I thought, \u2018What if I never fight again? What if I never fight again because of COVID-19?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI might never fight again, all that needs to happen is COVID 2022, and everything gets shut down, no live events,\u201d Johnson continued. \u201cCOVID-19 didn\u2019t really hit me hard. I didn\u2019t care about fighting. I just cared about being with my wife and kids, helping them being successful in their schooling. Obviously, me staying healthy for when the time comes I can be ready to fight. But when the COVID-19 hit, I was more father-retirement mode because when else I\u2019m I going to fight again, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think the future holds for Demetrious Johnson amid the coronavirus pandemic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONE Championship star Demetrious Johnson has admitted that he may never fight again as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Johnson made the transition over to ONE from the Ultimate Fighting Championship in late 2018 with Ben Askren heading in the opposite direction, and ever since then, he&#8217;s been able to go 3-0 in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":337280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10171,19776],"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>Demetrious Johnson says he \u201cmight never fight again\u201d due to COVID-19 pandemic | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ONE Championship star Demetrious Johnson has admitted that he may never fight again as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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