For Demetrious Johnson, smoking weed has fully modified the sport.
As soon as upon a time, marijuana was a giant no-no in combined martial arts. Nick Diaz was even hit with a large five-year suspension and a $165,000 positive after testing constructive for marijuana metabolites associated to his struggle with Anderson Silva at UFC 183. After all, Diaz appealed the choice and his suspension was dropped to 18 months, however nonetheless.
Diaz’s brother, Nate Diaz, can be well-known for his fondness of the sticky icky.
Nevertheless, these days weed is not thought-about a banned substance by USADA or the UFC, permitting fighters to make the most of its many advantages while coaching.
Throughout an look on the JAXXON Podcast with Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson, ‘Mighty Mouse’ revealed that he just lately began to smoke up and observed instantly the impression it had on his coaching.
“I just started smoking weed recently,” Johnson stated. “Oh, it’s phenomenal, dude. I blazed up one time with the gym, did 15 rounds the next day, and I was like, ‘This sh*t’s a PED.’ I was faster.”
Sean O’Malley discusses his marijuana use with Demetrious Johnson
Curiously, Johnson had an in-depth dialog with avid hashish consumer ‘Sugar’ Sean O’Malley final 12 months. Throughout their dialog, the previous UFC bantamweight champion revealed that he would recurrently use marijuana for low-impact exercises.
“I vaporize it, especially in camp,” O’Malley defined throughout an interview on Johnson’s YouTube channel in 2024. “I’m not going to smoke a joint. I’m not going to smoke out of the bong, smoke out of a pipe or dab. I smoke out of a clear, high quality vaporizer just about as soon as a day. I do loads of my zone 2s, loads of my longer exercises, just like the 60-minute slower exercises, or decrease coronary heart price exercises, I’ll do f*cking simply stoned out of my tits.
“I think if you can use marijuana as a tool you can hyper-focus on whatever task you want to but you have to be able to do that. That’s a skill in itself because you could also get stoned and just completely not do sh*t, just get lost watching YouTube.”
Demetrious Johnson retired from MMA in September whereas nonetheless reigning because the ONE flyweight world champion, however he nonetheless recurrently competes in BJJ tournaments. In 2023, he took residence gold whereas competing as a brown belt on the IBJJF Masters World Championships in Las Vegas. The next 12 months, he competed as a black belt however suffered a submission loss in his fourth match on the tourney.
