Most of the talk about a proposed superfight between UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw and flyweight titleholder T.J. Dillashaw has centered on the idea that Dillashaw would go down to 125 pounds and challenge the longest-reigning current UFC champ for his title.
Most of the talk about a proposed superfight between UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw and flyweight titleholder T.J. Dillashaw has centered on the idea that Dillashaw would go down to 125 pounds and challenge the longest-reigning current UFC champ for his title.
That goes against the grain of most superfights, in which the smaller competitor tends to step up in weight. Such is the case for the last UFC superfight, when lightweight champion B.J. Penn went up and fought welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre in 2009, or the next one, when light heavyweight champ Daniel Cormier meets Stipe Miocic at UFC 226.
But Johnson, for his part, has a simple explanation for why Dillashaw would come down to his turf: DJ has no interest in defending the bantamweight title, if he was to defeat Dillashaw at 135.
“I’m going to be frank and honest,” Johnson said on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “If I went up there and beat T.J. Dillashaw at 135 pounds, I have no interest whatsoever in staying at 135. People are like ‘why not?’ and I’m like I have no interest in fighting guys who walk around at 160 pounds.”
Demetrious Johnson still interested in T.J. Dillashaw superfight, but not the UFC bantamweight belt
Most of the talk about a proposed superfight between UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw and flyweight titleholder T.J. Dillashaw has centered on the idea that Dillashaw would go down to 125 pounds and challenge the longest-reigning current UFC champ for his title.
That goes against the grain of most superfights, in which the smaller competitor tends to step up in weight. Such is the case for the last UFC superfight, when lightweight champion B.J. Penn went up and fought welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre in 2009, or the next one, when light heavyweight champ Daniel Cormier meets Stipe Miocic at UFC 226.
But Johnson, for his part, has a simple explanation for why Dillashaw would come down to his turf: DJ has no interest in defending the bantamweight title, if he was to defeat Dillashaw at 135.
“I’m going to be frank and honest,” Johnson said on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “If I went up there and beat T.J. Dillashaw at 135 pounds, I have no interest whatsoever in staying at 135. People are like ‘why not?’ and I’m like I have no interest in fighting guys who walk around at 160 pounds.”
Demetrious Johnson still interested in T.J. Dillashaw superfight, but not the UFC bantamweight belt
