D. Johnson owns the flyweight belt (Photo: Josh Hedges/UFC)
UFC flyweight champion, Demetrious Johnson faces, this Saturday (15), the Brazilian Wilson reis in the main event of UFC Kansas. Even so, DJ is already planning his next steps and they involve another belt owner, also an American cody garbrandt. Recently, the bantamweight champion said he would like to move down to flyweight to face Johnson, who accepted the challenge.
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“If he wants, he can come down and if the UFC gives him a title shot right away, which is what they do nowadays, ok. If I go up and the negotiations are good, we can fight too. I never turned down any fight for my belt. Never did it. If José Aldo If you say you can lose a few pounds and want to fight me, come on, perfect, let's make this fight happen. But a lot of people say that and nobody ever does anything,” said Johnson in an interview with the North American press this week.
A former bantamweight fighter, DJ moved down to the flyweight division after the division opened in 2012. Johnson participated in a mini-tournament with Ian McCall, Joseph Benavidez and Yasuhiro Urushitani. The current champion beat the first two in the semifinal and final, respectively, becoming the first, and so far, only UFC flyweight champion. Garbrandt, in turn, had a perfect 2016, with four wins in four fights, culminating with the triumph over Dominick Cruz, which gave him the title of roosters. The new champion also recently revealed that he intends to fight for the featherweight belt, currently held by José Aldo.
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