‘Game Changer’ -Joe Rogan & Demetrious Johnson Weigh In on ONE Championship’s Prime Video Deal

In a piece of exciting news to fight fans, ONE Championship announced earlier this year their multi-year deal with Prime Video. Three blockbuster events have already taken place with the fourth one set for November. Current ONE flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson recently talked to Joe Rogan about the impact of the Prime Video deal for ONE Championship.

‘Mighty Mouse’ was the guest on the latest episode (#131) of the JRE MMA Show. Joe Rogan and the former UFC champion, Johnson, had a fun two-and-a-half-hour conversation on a variety of subjects.

Demetrious Johnson on the ONE Prime Video partnership

During his conversation with Demetrious Johnson, Joe Rogan inquired about ONE airing on Prime Video. Rogan and Johnson both agreed it was a great deal for ONE. ‘Mighty Mouse‘ elaborated further:

“That is amazing. After the TNT deal, I think we did four fights on TNT. I felt like TNT was really focused on AEW. Right? Every single time I used to go on TNT, it was like ‘AEW! AEW!’ Using us as a launcher platform to bring more fans to AEW, from my perspective.”

Talking about the Amazon deal, the 36-year-old said, “But when the deal happened with Amazon, I didn’t know it did, and there was talks about like ‘hey, we just landed a brand new US broadcast deal.’ And I was like ‘okay who could it be?’… And I see it was actually Amazon and I was like ‘oh this is a f*cking game changer.'”

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Rogan asked Johnson if Amazon supported ONE in terms of publicity. ‘Mighty Mouse’ responded that Amazon was 1000% behind ONE Championship in terms of support.

Joe Rogan and Johnson discussed the viral Petrosyan knockout

Rogan mentioned how much of an impact the ONE Amazon deal made in helping talented fighters get exposure. He told Johnson that although he loved the UFC, there were only around 500 fighters there. Rogan used the kickboxing phenom, Giorgio Petrosyan, getting knocked out by ONE Featherweight kickboxing champion Superbon Singha Mawynn, as an example.

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Speaking of the knockout, he said, “To do that to Petrosyan! I mean Petrosyan is recognized as one of the very best kickboxers of all time. And for him to like right kick to be body, right kick to the head like that, holy sh*t!… To see Petrosyan go out like that is wild!”

‘Mighty Mouse’ added that Petrosyan had not fought since. He also told Rogan about the quality of striking in ONE Championship kickboxing.

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Do you agree with Demetrious Johnson’s comments on the ONE Championship-Prime Video deal? And what is your favorite ONE on Prime Video event so far? Let us know in the comments below.