It’s not an episode of Scooby-Doo. Former UFC flyweight champ Demetrious Johnson has no idea where most of his UFC belts are. Johnson, one of the most heavily decorated MMA fighters ever, recently captured the ONE flyweight championship, and at one point had an individual belt for each of his title 11 UFC title wins. As he revealed on The MMA Hour, today, Demetrious Johnson has no clue what happened to most of the hardware.
“I don’t have all my UFC belts. I don’t know [where they all are]. I have my three. I have the one I got in 2012, I have the one I tied Anderson Silva’s record — Wilson Reis — then I have the one when I threw Ray Borg up in the air for the armbar.
Demetrious Johnson And the Mysterious Case of The Missing Belt
So I have those three and then I have my [ONE Championship] Grand Prix belt and I have the ONE Championship flyweight belt. The other ones, the story was, I got them all to New York. I had all of them, and imagine, each belt is 12 pounds.
We’re at ESPN, taking a picture, and I was like, alright, I can’t get this all on the flight, so [someone] was like, ‘I’ll take them back to Vegas and I’ll send them up to you.’ So they went back to Vegas in the UFC warehouse, and that’s the only thing I know. I don’t know where they’re at.”
At least “Mighty Mouse” knows exactly where his ONE belts are, if only because they’re twice as heavy as the UFC straps.
“It’s heavy — it’s double the weight [of the UFC belt]. It’s heavy. I think it’s 25 pounds. The UFC is 12, 12.5, I think ONE Championship is 25 pounds.
When they were like, ‘Hey can you bring the belt?’ I’m gonna tell them, ‘You guys need to make a fake one, just for press conferences because it’s so heavy.’”
Overall, Demetrious Johnson isn’t too worried about the missing hardware. “I did [want them], but once again, it was so heavy I couldn’t get them on the plane!
I had a solid plan. I had them sent back to Vegas and the warehouse and I figured they were going to send them back to me, and I dropped the ball. That’s OK. I got the special ones, I got the meaningful ones.
If they come, they come. If they don’t, they don’t. If I got all 11 of my belts, I don’t know what I’d do with them.”
