Chad Johnson really wants to compete in the octagon.<\/p>\n
A former All-Pro NFL receiver, \u201cOchocinco\u201d was one of the biggest personalities in professional football throughout his 11-year NFL career. Since his exit from the NFL, Johnson has tried his hand at several different things, including soccer and boxing. And now, Ochocino is campaigning for a spot in the UFC.<\/p>\n
Johnson is in attendance for UFC 327, promoting his upcoming show with UFC Fight Pass, and at the weigh-in show on Friday morning, he made his case for a fight in the UFC against a former champion, no less.<\/p>\n
\u201cDC, one fight, what you got?\u201d Johnson asked Daniel Cormier<\/p>\n
\u201cAdesanya! Let\u2019s go you and Izzy!\u201d Cormier responded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like that! \u2026 Izzy, Adesanya, I don\u2019t want any excuses,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cCome get this belt. Come get this belt. Me and you, five minutes, three rounds. Anywhere. Matter of fact, I\u2019ll come to New Zealand. I don\u2019t have a passport. Nevermind. Come to Miami.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adesanya is currently on a four-fight losing streak and has not won a bout since 2023, but following his loss to Joe Pyfer last month, \u201cThe Last Stylebender\u201d insisted that he was not retiring yet. Even still, Adesanya would be an astronomical favorite over the 48-year-old football player, but Johnson insists he can do better than people would expect.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would really like the matchup with Adesanya, though,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI\u2019m serious. To be able to get the best out of me and what I can do, even though it\u2019s not my sport. But I\u2019m good enough to survive and be able to strike. Ground game, eh, shaky.\u201d<\/p>\n
An avid combat sports fan, Johnson has trained in boxing for years, even taking an exhibition bout against Brian Maxwell on the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Logan Paul card in 2021. Johnson also teased an MMA fight against fellow NFL star James Harrison last year, though nothing came of that. And while he knows that any fight against a real MMA fighter doesn\u2019t result in a win for him, Johnson still really wants to give it a shot.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, I probably couldn\u2019t beat any of these individuals that do it for a living, but I\u2019m crazy,\u2018 Johnson said. \u201dI\u2019ll get in there. I don\u2019t care. I\u2019ll get in there. Let\u2019s go!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chad Johnson really wants to compete in the octagon. A former All-Pro NFL receiver, \u201cOchocinco\u201d was one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8943,123,125,124,28025,99418],"class_list":{"0":"post-227174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-latest-news","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-miami-headlines","11":"tag-miami-news","12":"tag-ufc","13":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}