MMA Fighting · Dec 4, 2016
For Demetrious Johnson, complacency is a thing best left to others
Saturday was a flyweight showcase like the original one the UFC did in Sydney back in 2012, back when the division was created to anoint Joseph Benavidez through a four-man tournament. Everything has changed since then. And yet, in some ways nothing has changed at all.
This time Benavidez showed up and put on a Fight of the Year candidate against Henry Cejudo — a classic down to the end horn. He just keeps winning, just like he did back then against Yasuhiro Urushitani. Now he’s in line for (another) title shot, because he and flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson are a two-man terminus where all contenders go to die. Naturally, those two forces are bound to keep bumping into each other.