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Demetrious Johnson On UFC’s Poor Promotion: Nobody Knew I Was Fighting

Demetrious Johnson wasn’t pleased with the promotion for his fight against Wilson Reis to say the least. Johnson’s record tying 10th consecutive title defense against Reis on UFC on FOX 24 this past weekend (Sat. April 15, 2017) did the lowest overnight numbers in the show’s history, with 1.74 million viewers. ‘Mighty Mouse’ (a self-proclaimed white

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Demetrious Johnson wasn’t pleased with the promotion for his fight against Wilson Reis to say the least.

Johnson’s record tying 10th consecutive title defense against Reis on UFC on FOX 24 this past weekend (Sat. April 15, 2017) did the lowest overnight numbers in the show’s history, with 1.74 million viewers. ‘Mighty Mouse’ (a self-proclaimed white belt) submitted Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Wilson Reis in the third round via armbar.

During an appearance on today’s (Mon. April 17, 2017) episode of The MMA Hour, Johnson addressed the numbers and stated that it doesn’t affect him in the least. You either like what he brings to the Octagon, or you don’t (quotes via MMA Fighting):

“If you don’t like what I did Saturday night, if you don’t like a white belt who never did one jiu-jitsu tournament submitting a black belt, that’s your bag. I’m done defending myself,” Johnson said.

Johnson likes to keep busy on Twitch playing video games during his free time to interact with his fans. In the lead-up to his fight with Reis, Johnson decided to ask his followers how many of them had seen any commercials or promotion for the bout – and the numbers weren’t good:

“I went on Twitch and said, ‘I want to ask anyone in the world, have any of you guys seen a commercial for my fight?’” Johnson said. “And everyone was like, ‘no, no no.’ One guy said, ‘I saw one on UFC.com YouTube channel.’ I’m like ‘okay, I haven’t seen one either.’”

“The first time I saw a commercial for my fight was UFC 210,” Johnson said. “The last one, the first time I saw a commercial was one week before my fight. No one here around [his hometown] knew I was fighting, just because they didn’t see a commercial.”

In response Johnson isn’t going to put much energy into worrying about the UFC’s promotion of his fights, much like the promotion doesn’t put much energy into promoting his bouts:

“You have to take into account, how much advertising did they do?” Johnson said. “I put that in the back of my mind and then don’t worry about it and go out there and put it out of my mind.”

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Dominick Cruz Says 135 Pounds Would Be ‘Very Difficult’ For Mighty Mouse

Dominick Cruz doesn’t think Demetrious Johnson would have the same amount of success if he were to move up to 135 pounds. Johnson made history this past weekend (Sat. April 15, 2017) when he defeated Wilson Reis in the main event of UFC on FOX 24 to tie Anderson Silva’s title defense record at 10.

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Dominick Cruz doesn’t think Demetrious Johnson would have the same amount of success if he were to move up to 135 pounds.

Johnson made history this past weekend (Sat. April 15, 2017) when he defeated Wilson Reis in the main event of UFC on FOX 24 to tie Anderson Silva’s title defense record at 10. With one more win ‘Mighty Mouse’ will become the most dominant champion in promotion history, and takes one step closer to becoming the greatest of all time.

The flyweight king has not lost inside the Octagon since making the cut down to 125 pounds to take part in the weight class’ inaugural tournament to determine the first ever champ. His last defeat in mixed martial arts (MMA) competition actually came against Cruz in 2011 when he challenged for the 135-pound title.

During the UFC on FOX 24 post-fight show, Cruz explained why it would be difficult for Johnson to move back up to bantamweight following his tremendous run at 125 (quotes via FOX Sports):

“At 125 [pounds], I can’t see too many people [challenging him],” Cruz said. “At featherweight, everybody at the top five is hard, everybody at 135 [pounds] in the top five is hard to beat, especially for somebody that small. I mean I fought him and the size difference is a problem. If I move up to 145 or 155, size is a problem.

“So that is a big deal in these fights, especially when you’re our size from 145 and down, weight matters. I think it’d be very difficult.”

While Cruz does admit that ‘Mighty Mouse’ would ‘absolutely’ be great competition in a return to 135 pounds, he believes that it will be too tall a task for the flyweight king to challenge the likes of himself, TJ Dillashaw, and the heavy-handed champion Cody Garbrandt. A move up to bantamweight seems unlikely in the near future, however, as Johnson seems to be completely focused on achieving history with his next title defense.

Johnson has said that he will move up to 135 pounds if the UFC comes at him with the right offer – that offer being $1 million.

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Five Reasons Demetrious Johnson Still Isn’t The GOAT

Last night (Sat. April 15, 2017) at UFC on FOX 24 from Kansas City, Missouri, UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson furthered his case for being the greatest mixed martial artist of all time, when he defeated Wilson Reis via third-round submission to defend his 125-pound title for a record tenth consecutive time. ‘Mighty Mouse’ tied

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‘Mighty Mouse’ tied the record held by former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva. Although Johnson has looked dominant for the past few years as the undisputed champion at 125 pounds, there are still a few clear reasons why we still can’t consider him the greatest of all time (GOAT) quite yet.

Here are LowKickMMA’s top five reasons that Johnson still is not the greatest MMA fighter of all-time.

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5. Level Of Competition

Racking up 10 consecutive title defenses in no easy task; however, Johnson’s level of competition isn’t exactly up to par with those that he battles with for the moniker of greatest of all time.

Many of the names in the flyweight champ’s list of victims don’t necessarily stick out to anyone; such as John Moraga, Ali Bagautinov, Chris Cariaso, a young Kyoji Horiguchi, Tim Elliott, and Wilson Reis. Moraga is currently on a three-fight losing streak and is now ranked outside of the top ten.

Bagautinov has lost three of his last four Octagon appearances and is no longer with the UFC. He has not participated in MMA competition since November of 2016 when he suffered a unanimous decision loss to Kyoji Horiguchi.

Cariaso always had a very up-and-down career at 125 pounds, and lost two more back-to-back fights following his loss to Johnson before calling it a career in October of 2015. Kyoji Horiguchi was handed a shot at Johnson’s throne after three Octagon wins against lackluster competition, not to mention ‘The Supernova’ was extremely young when he took on ‘Mighty Mouse.’

Horiguchi has since decided not to renew his contract with the promotion and instead does his work for RIZIN nowadays. Elliott suffered a three-fight losing streak before being cut by the UFC in 2015. He went on to lighter competition under the Titan FC banner and returned to an unsuccessful title challenge against Johnson.

And last but not least we have Reis, who Johnson made easy work of yesterday, whose only notable win heading into his title bout on a three-fight win streak was against No. 8-ranked Dustin Ortiz.

This level of competition is just not quite up to the caliber for a fighter that should be considered the GOAT.

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Dana White Reveals If He Thinks Demetrious Johnson Is The GOAT

Demetrious Johnson just made a case for being the greatest mixed martial artist (MMA) of all time. Earlier tonight (Sat. April 15, 2017) ‘Mighty Mouse’ made a record 10th consecutive flyweight title defense, tying former middleweight champion Anderson Silva’s UFC record, when he took home a third round submission win over Wilson Reis in the

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Demetrious Johnson just made a case for being the greatest mixed martial artist (MMA) of all time.

Earlier tonight (Sat. April 15, 2017) ‘Mighty Mouse’ made a record 10th consecutive flyweight title defense, tying former middleweight champion Anderson Silva’s UFC record, when he took home a third round submission win over Wilson Reis in the main event of UFC on FOX 23. Johnson is now on a 12-fight win streak with half of those victories coming via finish.

UFC President Dana White spoke about Johnson’s performance at the post-fight press conference today, and had nothing but praise for his 125-pound champ’s performance inside the Octagon in Kansas City:

“What’s crazy is, he does what he does here tonight, right?” White said at the UFC on FOX 24 post-fight press conference. “And I’m doing an interview with Brazil and I start to walk away and I hear him (Demetrious) ask his coach ‘What did I do wrong?’ I stop and said ‘Hey, Coach, let me answer this for you. Nothing.’ First of all he looked incredible on his feet. The punch stat numbers are ridiculous, right? Then he goes to the ground and is absolutely dominating and goes for the most dangerous move you can try and pull off, an armbar.

“Not only pulling off an armbar when you’re dominating like that, but against a Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion,” White said. “The guys’s an absolute freak of nature – Joe Rogan was blowing me up saying ‘This guy is a wizard, he’s the greatest ever,’ Rogan’s going – you know Rogan is a jiu-jitsu nut so he’s going crazy. So well deserved.”

Johnson hasn’t surpassed Silva’s title defense record quite yet, as one more victory will but the sole flyweight champ in promotion history over the top. White will hold off on calling ‘Mighty Mouse’ the greatest of all time out of respect to ‘The Spider’, but admits it’s hard to deny the 125-pound kingpin the moniker given his dominance in the last five years:

“Listen he’s got one more fight, and he breaks Anderson Silva’s record, and he continues – Listen he’s already the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world, and he strives to be better each time, and he gets better each time,” White said. “Literally destroying people. This kid could be considered the G.O.A.T right now, or to give Anderson Silva the true respect you wait until he actually breaks the record. It’s hard to not call this guy the greatest of all time.”

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After having essentially cleaned out the top contenders at 125 pounds Johnson finds himself in a bit of a predicament as it pertains to who will get the honor to challenge him for what could be a record-setting 11th consecutive title defense. White told MMA fans not to worry, however, as they’ll find a suitable opponent to challenge for Johnson’s throne next:

“Anderson Silva had that problem too,” said White. “When you run through guys as long as these two have run through guys – yeah. But I promise you we’ll find somebody.”

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Demetrious Johnson Will Attempt To Make History In Kansas City

During tonight’s (Sat. March 4, 2017) UFC 209 FS1 prelims it was announced by UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson that he will be attempting to make history against No. 4-ranked Wilson Reis in the main event of UFC on FOX 24 from Kansas City, Missouri on April 15th. Johnson, who won the inaugural UFC 125-pound

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Johnson, who won the inaugural UFC 125-pound title back in 2012, has successfully defended his strap nine times in the midst of an 11 fight win streak. ‘Mighty Mouse’ hasn’t lost a mixed martial arts (MMA) bout since his unanimous decision loss to now-former bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz in 2011.

He will attempt to make history by tying former middleweight champion Anderson Silva’s 10 consecutive title defense record against Reis, who he has already been scheduled to fight before. The pair were initially set to meet at UFC 201 back in July, however, Johnson was forced out of the contest due to an injury.

Reis has been on an impressive three-fight win streak as of late and is extremely confident in his ability to be the one to hand Johnson his first loss at 125 pounds. The Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt is 22-6 in his MMA career with wins over the likes of Ulka Sasaki, Dustin Ortiz, and Scott Jorgensen.

UFC on FOX 24 takes place live from the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri on April 15, 2017. It was also announced that the card will be co-headlined by a massive middleweight contest between No. 3-ranked Ronaldo ‘Jacare’ Souza and No. 6-ranked Robert Whittaker.

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Mighty Mouse Already Has Plans For Tying Anderson Silva’s Record

Coming off of his ninth consecutive successful title defense last night (Saturday December 3, 2016) over Tim Elliott in the main event of The Ultimate Fighter 24 Finale (TUF 24 Finale), UFC flyweight champion Demetrious ‘Mighty Mouse’ Johnson is already making plans for his next possible record-setting title bout. Johnson is just one title defense

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Johnson is just one title defense shy of former middleweight champion Anderson ‘The Spider’ Silva’s ten consecutive title defense record, and is eying a fight in Vegas to attempt to tie the former Brazilian champ’s landmark achievement. Speaking at the TUF 24 Finale post-fight press conference, courtesy of MMA Junkie, ‘DJ’ shows no desire to fight on the East Coast in his next Octagon bout due to the straining time difference:

“Vegas – always Vegas,” Johnson said. “Same time zone (as the West Coast), and stuff’s open. I’m about to get some food, and it’s 11:30 at night.

“I have no desire to fight on the East Coast. I don’t want to fight at 1 o’clock in the morning. I always love fighting in Vegas, and I’ll choose Vegas around any place in the world.”

During his title defense against Elliott, Johnson showed early signs of struggle in the first round but would rebound to soundly take the next four with ease. Elliott’s awkward style of fighting got the The Pearl crowd very amped up, but Johnson was able to maintain his composure and focus at the task at hand:

“I was like, ‘Here’s this bull(expletive),’” Johnson said. “It’s nothing against him, but in my mind, you can’t get caught up in that atmosphere where people are like ‘Yeah, Tim, you’re (expletive) slapping him in the back of the head.’ You’re not doing anything. You’re not crossing distance. You’re turning sideways.

“He’s trying to get me caught up, and at one point, I got away from what I do well, which is to keep my rhythm. But my coach was like, ‘It’s fine. He’s doing that stuff because he can’t cross the distance. He has to do that stuff to get you there.’”

At one point in the fight Johnson found himself in side control while neither him or Elliott were able to advance position, however, referee Herb Dean warned Johnson to improve his position or he’d stand them up, something that didn’t sit too well with the 125-pound champion:

“I was like, ‘Herb, I’m in (expletive) side control, bro,’” Johnson said. “This is not checkers – this is chess. Tim needs to get up. I’m on top, and he’s holding me down, and you’re telling me I need to move? I’m like, no, bro, that’s not how it works.”

‘Mighty Mouse’ has not expressed any interest in moving up to the bantamweight division once again after possibly breaking Silva’s title defense record, and instead figures to continue his dominance in the UFC’s flyweight division.

You can check out he full post-fight press conference here:

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