WATCH: Demetrious Johnson details how he’s able to beat larger opponents

Demetrious Johnson recently gave a brief breakdown on how to overcome a massive size disadvantage.

‘Mighty Mouse’ appeared on a YouTube channel called fightTips, which currently has 3.11 million subscribers. In the video, the reigning ONE flyweight world champion was asked to break down his path to victory against Bruce Lee, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, and Adriano Moraes.

While discussing the matchup against ‘The Rock', Johnson stressed the importance of utilizing his grappling against a bigger and inexperienced opponent. ‘Mighty Mouse’ detailed his strategy by saying:

“When you land an airplane on a runway, it’s nice and long, it’s nice and wide. But try to land a runway on a rock, you can’t. It can’t find it’s balance. It can’t be there. So if Dwayne Johnson was on top of me, and he laid on me, if I get small like a rock, I could always be here or rotate him, do what I want, and just tear him up that way.”

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Johnson also believes his grappling would lead to an easy win against Lee, the founder of Jeet Kune Do. Despite his humble responses, ‘Mighty Mouse’ would destroy inexperienced celebrities like ‘The Rock', despite his size disadvantage.

The ONE flyweight world champion has bigger fish to fry, though, especially with his upcoming trilogy fight against Moraes.

Watch Demetrious Johnson on fightTips below:

Demetrious Johnson plans to blow the roof off in his trilogy fight against Adriano Moraes

On May 5, Demetrious Johnson will look to end his series against Adriano Moraes. Moraes got the better of Johnson in their first fight, but ‘Mighty Mouse’ bounced back in August 2022.

During the same YouTube video, the reigning flyweight world champion had this to say about his upcoming trilogy matchup against ‘Mikinho’:

“My main goal for that fight is just blow the f**cking roof off when I fight. That’s it because I want people to keep saying, I want to see you fight, I want to see you fight, I want to see you fight. Whether I’m a champion or not, that’s always my goal.”

Johnson vs. Moraes 3 will headline ONE Fight Night on Prime Video 10. The historic event represents ONE Championship’s U.S. debut, which also currently features Sage Northcutt.

ONE Fight Night 10 can be seen for free via Prime Video on May 5.

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