Demetrious 'Mighty Mouse' Johnson wants to be a Twitch streamer once the flyweight champion's UFC career is over.
Where most fighters struggle with life outside of the cage, Johnson is already making waves in the streaming arena by putting in 15 hours' work a week, on top of his vigorous six-day training regime.
"I heard you could watch people play video games, and that's how I discovered Twitch," said Johnson on The Three Amigos podcast (via Bloody Elbow).
"This is when I had Tyren, who is now 2 and a half years old. I would rock him to sleep at night, and he would take a while, so I downloaded the Twitch app to watch.
"I saw guys playing games I grew up with like Mega Man X and Zelda: Ocarina of Time. So after some time I started streaming some games on my PS4. I'd have, like, two viewers in there as I played Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn.
"Next thing you know, my wife was like, 'You should get into it baby, what do you want to do after you're done fighting? Why don't you try streaming?' Then Twitch reached out to me and told me everything I needed to get to be a serious streamer.
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"All of the credit goes to my wife, she's the one who suggested I do it. I decided if I was going to do it, I had to be 100% in. I didn't want to do it half-assed and try to stream from my PS4 or Xbox One, so I bought a computer and she was all in. So I was like, 'Let's do it'."
Sometimes Johnson even takes on Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson, another high-profile UFC fighter, with rounds of Rainbow Six Siege.
While it might seem like a bizarre career switch, there generally aren't too many standard career paths for retired fighters, so Johnson seems to be focusing on doing something he enjoys once he's retired from the fight game. Good for him, we say.
