{"id":394732,"date":"2022-06-29T09:37:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T09:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=394732"},"modified":"2022-06-29T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T09:37:09","slug":"his-hands-are-legit-hes-a-gamer-demetrious-johnson-has-high-praise-for-henry-cejudos-odds-in-a-potential-fight-against-aljamain-sterling-and-alexander-volkanovski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/his-hands-are-legit-hes-a-gamer-demetrious-johnson-has-high-praise-for-henry-cejudos-odds-in-a-potential-fight-against-aljamain-sterling-and-alexander-volkanovski\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;His Hands are Legit&#8230; He\u2019s a Gamer&#8217;- Demetrious Johnson Has High Praise for Henry Cejudo&#8217;s Odds in a Potential Fight Against Aljamain Sterling and Alexander Volkanovski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consensus flyweight GOAT Demetrious Johnson spoke to MMA Fighting and commented about Henry Cejudo\u2019s chances in some potential blockbuster fights. Cejudo was the man to dethrone Johnson after his long run of title defenses that ultimately saw Johnson making a move to ONE Championship in a landmark trade for Ben Askren.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has since settled into ONE Championship and has turned in some spectacular performances that have been added to his highlight reel. Moreover, he was also recently seen spending time catching up with Cejudo, and the two have seemingly become close associates.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All I see is \ud83d\udc10\ud83d\udc10<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StayTuned?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StayTuned<\/a> \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MightyMouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MightyMouse<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YouQGFRa7a\">pic.twitter.com\/YouQGFRa7a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Henry Cejudo (@HenryCejudo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HenryCejudo\/status\/1541964752716308480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/awesome-fight-ufc-president-dana-white-leaves-door-marginally-open-to-a-rematch-between-glover-teixeira-and-jiri-prochazka\/\">\u2018Awesome Fight\u2019- UFC President Dana White Leaves Door Marginally Open to a Rematch Between Glover Teixeira and Jiri Prochazka<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Mighty Mouse talks about \u2018intelligent\u2019 Henry Cejudo<\/h2>\n<p>Johnson was all praise for Henry Cejudo as he recognized the tact with which he approaches the fight game. He was also exceedingly impressed with the way Cejudo picked up the championship in two weight classes and also defended his belt against some top-tier names in the sport.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe\u2019s intelligent, he\u2019s an athlete \u2013 I mean, he\u2019s done something I haven\u2019t done,\u201d Johnson said of Cejudo in an interview with MMA Fighting. \u201cYou know, he\u2019s won the world championship at flyweight and bantamweight, and he\u2019s defended the flyweight title and the bantamweight title, right?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eX8UXj_ZLN8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Demetrious Johnson also gave an overview of Henry Cejudo\u2019s chances if he faces off against the current bantamweight and featherweight champions, respectively. Johnson gave Cejudo favorable odds as he saw \u2018Triple C\u2019 as a \u2018gamer\u2019, but he was also well aware that the deck will be stacked against him if he faces Alexander \u2018The Great\u2019 Volkanovski.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-394349 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/image01-6-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/image01-6-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/image01-6-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/image01-6-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/image01-6-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/image01-6-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/image01-6-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf he was to fight Aljamain Sterling, I think he poses a lot of problems to Aljamain Sterling because, one, his wrestling is legit, his hands are legit, and Henry Cejudo, he\u2019s a gamer,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cLike, he\u2019ll go out there and he\u2019s gonna push the pace and try to win the fight.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2022\/6\/28\/23178984\/demetrious-johnson-henry-cejudo-dethrone-ufc-champions-aljamain-sterling-alexander-volkanovski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmafighting.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think [fighting for the featherweight title] is gonna be a harder thing to do because Volkanovski is, I think, the bigger guy, and Volkanovski has been more active. And I think the weight discrepancy is going to be there for Volkanovski, right? Do I think Henry Cejudo has the talent and skill set and the mindset to beat Volkanovski? Absolutely, it\u2019s a fight, but Volkanovski has been active, he\u2019s been fighting killers. He\u2019s fought Max Holloway two times.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consensus flyweight GOAT Demetrious Johnson spoke to MMA Fighting and commented about Henry Cejudo\u2019s chances in some potential blockbuster fights. Cejudo was the man to dethrone Johnson after his long run of title defenses that ultimately saw Johnson making a move to ONE Championship in a landmark trade for Ben Askren. Johnson has since settled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":394733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}