‘The Ultimate Fighter’ finale live blog: Talk between Johnson, Gaethje stops here

Featherweight Gray Maynard is awarded the win over Teruto Ishihara in The Ultimate Fighter: Redemption Finale at the T-Mobile Arena on Friday, July 7, 2017.The real report cards will be rendered in the next three hours.

UFC veteran Michael Johnson incited a war of words around tonight’s “The Ultimate Fighter: Redemption” finale, which takes place at the T-Mobile Arena and airs live on Fox Sports 1, when he called opponent Justin Gaethje a “C-level” fighter. The undefeated Gaethje, who will make his UFC debut after dominating World Series of Fighting over the last several years, did not take kindly to the slight.

Johnson’s schoolyard bullying-like insults only intensified from there, with…