According to the official IBJJF athlete registration list, MMA legend Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson has signed up to compete at the IBJJF Masters World Championship 2023!
Johnson, a BJJ brown belt, will be representing AMC is in the men’s Master 2 featherweight division.
It’s a division for men between the ages of 36 and 40, now stacked with almost 40 competitors.
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The Mighty Mouse keeps training Jiu-Jitsu for the love of it, but also because he wants to earn the black belt one day.
Here’s what he had to say about it in “The MMA Hour” interview:
Life’s too short not to explore different avenues, and it’s something that I want to do.
And I don’t want to do a lot of things. But that’s something I was like, no, I want to do it.I really want to get my black belt. I’m a brown belt now.
Mikey Musumeci, too, would love a submission grappling match against Johnson:
It would be an honor to grapple with him and that would probably be the biggest match of my life in grappling so far, like with viewership.
I don’t know, just stepping on the mat with the “Mighty Mouse”, to touch a legend, would be so cool.
Johnson had this to say about the difference when competing in No Gi and Gi:
“I’m like, dude, this is like… like, I love the complexity of what the gi brings to the game. When I’m in no-gi, I’m just so athletic. I can just shift things down.”
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