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Demetrious Johnson: Loved by Few, Hated by Fewer

“That ‘Mickey Mouse’ Johnson sure is a cute little feller. You guys ready to leave?”

Sitting on my barstool in an environment full of booze, Buffalo wings and overinflated egos, I immediately turned around to see a large group of people, spearheaded by a lady who looked to be in her 20s, getting up and leaving before the main event.

UFC 174 was a decent fight card on paper, featuring fighters like Rory MacDonald, Tyron Woodley, Ryan Bader, Andrei Arlovski and Brendan Schaub. But the meat and potatoes was the flyweight title bout between Demetrious Johnson and Ali Bagautinov, a top contender from a year ago.