“That’s an enormous f*cking dude!”
ONE flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson realized he might have bit off greater than he might chew as he approached the mats.
Michael Sante Medina, a 6-foot-3, 248-pound BJJ heavyweight champion, stood in place ready for “Mighty Mouse’s” arrival for the open-weight match on the 2024 Pan IBJJF Championships. Johnson, who stands at 5-foot-3, weighed in at 155 kilos for the occasion.
“If I don’t make it, inform my story to my spouse, OK?” Johnson stated into the digicam on an all-access video on his YouTube channel.
Whatever the measurement distinction, Johnson took a bow and jogged onto the mat, keen to determine the best way to resolve an enormous puzzle.
It wasn’t simple early on, as Medina swung Johnson round like a small youngster – or, as Johnson would describe it, like a scene from “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze” when Rahzar spun Michelangelo in circles earlier than launching him throughout a warehouse.
Maybe unsurprisingly as among the best combined martial artists to ever do it, Johnson discovered a solution to get the job accomplished, and ended up tapping his a lot bigger opponent.
Try the entire match within the video under, together with these in his weight class, wherein he took gold:
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