Wednesday, 10 August 2011

UFC on Versus 6 – Demetrious Johnson talks about which division he sees his long term future at

UFC bantamweight number one contender, Demetrious Johnson has been giving his thoughts on where his long term future lies ahead of his UFC on Versus 6 clash with Dominick Cruz on October 1st in Washington, D.C., explaining as far as he’s concerned he’s a 135 pounder right now.
Speaking via the SBNation.com, Johnson said:

“You know, people say naturally and like, what’s natural, you know? Women waking up every morning and putting makeup on their face, is that natural? I would say natural is something you… it’s just natural, it just comes natural. Me cutting like 20 pounds to fight somebody, I don’t know that that’s called natural. How often do you see people lose weight to compete? A lot of competitions you see that but it goes back and forth. ‘Oh he’s a natural (flyweight)’ just because I’m small but obviously I’m able to compete with the 135ers and they’re coming down from 160-pounds and I walk around at maybe, heaviest, 144 or 143. So I’m not going to say I am a natural 125er. I could fight at 135, 125 or 145, it’s just I just found my place at 135 as of right now.”

Johnson, AKA “Mighty Mouse”, has been steadily climbing the ranks at 135 pounds since switching to the UFC, defeating Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto and Miguel Torres in impressive style

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