Demetrious Johnson showed there are levels to the fight game to a couple of Streetbeefs fighters.
The longtime former UFC flyweight champion filmed a video for his YouTube channel where he trained and mentored Streetbeefs competitors Death Sentence and Winged C. During a sparring session with Winged C, Johnson began to lose his temper, feeling he was being disrespected.
That led to Johnson dropping him with a head kick.
“He kept saying good boy,” Johnson said. “Does he realize I’m f*cking 38 years old and have done this for 20 f*cking years?
“I was about to go to a little f*cking dark place. … They’re always clip farming. It just f*cking pissed me off.”
Watch a clip of the exchange — both verbal and physical — below.
In their actual fights, Winged C earned a TKO win, while Death Sentence was shockingly knocked out by his much smaller opponent after gassing out early in the bout
Johnson transitioned to a successful content creator after announcing his retirement from MMA while holding championship gold for ONE Championship. As UFC flyweight champ, Johnson defended the belt an incredible 11 times before losing it to Henry Cejudo in a controversial split decision at UFC 227 in August 2018. “Mighty” was then traded in a talent exchange to ONE by the UFC for Ben Askren.
Being such a veteran of the game, Johnson hopes that he was able to teach Winged C and Death Sentence a lesson in that moment that they’ll remember as their fighting careers go on.
“This isn’t a proud moment that I’m proud of,” Johnson said. “I get nothing out of [it]. He was asking for it and he was pushing me to that limit, and I don’t usually get to that limit, especially in a very, very long time.
“But I felt it was necessary to do that. And, yeah, hopefully they f*cking learned from that.”
