Many considered when they eventually met in the cage – except he did not Sylvia would do exactly the same to Mir. The development was not entirely unexpected and should not impact his title fight.
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Slow motion replays affirmed what Dean saw in a instant, which was Sylvia’s forearm snapping into bits as Mir locked about the armbar, as well as a fresh victor was crowned. Employee John Dodson was working his regular shift when someone recognized him from his days as a star wrestler at Moriarty High School. “The Magician” won the first two rounds before Johnson took control of the last three for his first successful title defense. For Mir, Arlovski waited for the rest of 2005 to get the green light to return, but it never arrived. “The Pitbull” has defied both expectations and Mother Nature by rampaging his way to a No. 4 ranking, led in large part by his electrifying knockout over perennial contender Travis Browne at UFC 187. The visiting combatant called “The Pitbull” had some of the fastest and most lethal hands in the whole section. “If you ask me if I would rather win a fight by knockout or by submission, I still choose submission”. At the beginning of the fight I was trying to get to him.
Arlovski understood back that Mir was not equally safe whenever the earth was reach by his fights.
It was nearly a decade since Arlovski held the championship belt. This Saturday, the MMA Lab fighter has to prove he still has what it takes to hang with the best and belongs in the biggest mixed martial arts promotion in the world. His eight wins in the division are the most ever. “Once the time comes and I have broken the record and [accomplished] goals that I [set], then I’ll start thinking about going to 135”.
Now Johnson is plotting a broader battle plan, to thoroughly clean out his division before looking to 135 pounds, a weight class in which he was also almost flawless before the UFC instituted the 125-pound division and Johnson became its first and only champion.
Because he was coming off a serious knee injury and was facing a friend and occasional training partner that knew his movements, I’m going to give Dodson the benefit of the doubt for her performance against Makovsky in May. “I want to have the feeling of being the champion and I am ready for it”.
Dodson faces champion Demetrious Johnson this weekend at UFC 191 in Las Vegas. And for either of them to be in that position at this stage of their careers is damn impressive.
“It’s only the fans and uneducated fools out there that say, ‘Oh, you’re boring.’ You can say so, but you just don’t understand what I’m doing”.
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Dodson lost to Johnson in a title challenge in January 2013, his only defeat in the octagon. “Right now both of us are back on the upswing”.
