For Demetrious Johnson, smoking weed has utterly modified the sport.
As soon as upon a time, marijuana was an enormous no-no in blended martial arts. Nick Diaz was even hit with an enormous five-year suspension and a $165,000 superb 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.
Nonetheless, these days weed is now not thought of 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 lately began to smoke up and seen immediately the influence it had on his coaching.
“I simply began smoking weed lately,” Johnson stated. “Oh, it’s phenomenal, dude. I blazed up one time with the gymnasium, did 15 rounds the following day, and I used to be like, ‘This sh*t’s a PED.’ I used to be sooner.”
Sean O’Malley discusses his marijuana use with Demetrious Johnson
Apparently, Johnson had an in-depth dialog with avid hashish consumer ‘Sugar’ Sean O’Malley final yr. Throughout their dialog, the previous UFC bantamweight champion revealed that he would usually use marijuana for low-impact exercises.
“I vaporize it, particularly 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 a whole lot of my zone 2s, a whole lot of my longer exercises, just like the 60-minute slower exercises, or decrease coronary heart charge exercises, I’ll do f*cking simply stoned out of my tits.
“I believe if you need to use marijuana as a instrument you possibly can hyper-focus on no matter activity you wish to however you will have to have the ability to try this. That’s a talent in itself since you may additionally get stoned and simply utterly not do sh*t, simply get misplaced watching YouTube.”
Demetrious Johnson retired from MMA in September whereas nonetheless reigning because the ONE flyweight world champion, however he nonetheless usually 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 yr, he competed as a black belt however suffered a submission loss in his fourth match on the tourney.
