{"id":596177,"date":"2026-04-11T03:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596177\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T03:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:28:11","slug":"sergio-pettis-on-much-deserved-demetrious-johnson-ufc-hall-of-fame-induction-one-of-the-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596177\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Pettis on &#8220;much deserved&#8221; Demetrious Johnson UFC Hall of Fame induction: &#8220;One of the GOATs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demetrious Johnson was recently announced as being part of the 2026 UFC Hall of Fame class, and a former Bellator MMA champ has weighed in on the UFC HOF induction for \u2018Mighty Mouse\u2019. This was stated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/aaron-pico\/aaron-picos-ko-loss-going-to-play-with-his-head-in-patricio-pitbull-ufc-327-bout-per-ex-bellator-champ\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sergio Pettis<\/a> ahead of his main event fight with the unbeaten Mitch McKee at PFL Chicago on April 11th.<\/p>\n<p>Pettis had an Instagram post with Demetrious Johnson circa December, where the two posed together inside the cage as part of a show that the former\u2019s older brother Anthony was promoting. When asked for his thoughts on DJ finally becoming interwoven into the UFC Hall of Fame, Pettis said [via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A9PHwHZ670g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bowks Talking Bouts<\/a>],<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuch deserved. Demetrious Johnson is one of the GOATs in MMA in general, but also in the UFC. He had a hell of a reign. He barely lost that last fight against [Henry] Cejudo. So, man, he deserves all of that. I\u2019m very excited for him. I\u2019m very happy for him and see him getting his flowers. It\u2019s much, much [needed and] necessary for him. Especially after being retired and being done with the sport now. To get that love is very powerful. I\u2019m very happy for him. Much deserved.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Demetrious Johnson was tapped out by a reigning UFC champ with a sub-one-minute choke<\/p>\n<p>Demetrious Johnson was regarded as the sport\u2019s top pound-for-pound fighter during his peak, but he recently had a rough go when testing things with one of the sport\u2019s current top P4P combatants. This came against the current UFC middleweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/khamzat-chimaev\/i-dont-think-khamzat-chimaev-is-all-that-good-per-ex-bmf-champ-im-putting-all-my-money-on-sean-strickland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khamzat Chimaev<\/a>, who worked with the former UFC flyweight titleholder in a recent grappling session, whereby video was circulated all throughout social media thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>With a sixty-pound weight difference between the two, it was not long before Chimaev got a front chancery before shortly thereafter securing a D\u2019arce choke that elicited a tap from \u2018Mighty Mouse\u2019 with onlookers shouting that the grappling exchange lasted all over 47 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demetrious Johnson was recently announced as being part of the 2026 UFC Hall of Fame class, and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,72334,641,638,225694,90789,82,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-596177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-demetrious-johnson","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-pfl-chicago","14":"tag-sergio-pettis","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}