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Michael Johnson and Andre Fili are making the trip to Lincoln, Nebraska. UFC officials announced that Johnson vs. Fili will take place on the UFC Lincoln card (via Journal Star). The event takes place inside the Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska…
Michael Johnson and Andre Fili are making the trip to Lincoln, Nebraska. UFC officials announced that Johnson vs. Fili will take place on the UFC Lincoln card (via Journal Star). The event takes place inside the Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska on Aug. 25. This will be Johnson’s second bout as a featherweight. “The Menace” has been […]
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UFC lightweight Justin Gaethje has a fan-friendly style that has undoubtedly won him many a fight fan. He battled it out with Michael Johnson in his UFC debut last July, ultimately winning the war of attrition by second-round TKO. His next two outings didn’t go his way, however, and he ended up losing via T/KO […]
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UFC lightweight Justin Gaethje has a fan-friendly style that has undoubtedly won him many a fight fan.
He battled it out with Michael Johnson in his UFC debut last July, ultimately winning the war of attrition by second-round TKO.
His next two outings didn’t go his way, however, and he ended up losing via T/KO to Eddie Alvarez and then Dustin Poirier.
Now, Gaethje admitted he is at least somewhat concerned over the consequences of his risky fighting style while on The MMA Hour this week (via MMA Fighting):
“I’m just telling myself that now because, for one, this is a young man’s game.”
“Three hard fights in a row, all in the last 12 months, people have said to me that it’s something to worry about. There are guys in the UFC now that have been knocked unconscious seven times, five times, completely unconscious. I have never gone completely unconscious yet. I have passed every single one of my impact tests after the fights.
“Of course it’s a concern, but that’s what we do. We fight for a living. If you watched the Edson (Barboza) and Kevin Lee fight, they took punches. Kevin Lee won but he took that huge spinning head kick and that’s not good for your brain, but it is what we do.
“I can’t go to bed every night scared or worried because this is what I signed up for. This is what I get paid to do. I try to fight twice a year so I don’t add up (the damage) too fast.”
The former WSOF lightweight champion was thrown to the wolves right out of the gate, but his losses were competitive until the finish. With CTE at the forefront of discussion when it comes to sports, Gaethje is certainly testing dangerous boundaries of what kind of punishment a human brain can take.
While he’s right he hasn’t been completely knocked out yet, he has instead been accumulating sustained punches to the head for a prolonged period of time.
Do you feel Gaethje’s fighting style is detrimental to his health? how much longer can he last in the UFC fighting his style?
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Michael Johnson is looking to end a slide in his MMA career, so he’s joined the ranks of fighters choosing to cut down a class in an effort to reinvent themselves. Johnson will make his featherweight debut this Sunday in St. Louis against Darren Elkins in what will be the first-ever trip to 145 pounds […]
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Michael Johnson is looking to end a slide in his MMA career, so he’s joined the ranks of fighters choosing to cut down a class in an effort to reinvent themselves.
Johnson will make his featherweight debut this Sunday in St. Louis against Darren Elkins in what will be the first-ever trip to 145 pounds in his UFC career.
”The Menace” went in depth to ESPN about how the weight cut is going and the drawbacks to having to lose so much weight:
”I have nightmares about it every night. You have no idea. My first fight at 155 [pounds], I got stuck trying to lose the last three pounds. I couldn’t get them off.
“That’s what I keep having flashbacks of when thinking about getting down to 145. What if I get stuck?”
Johnson is currently coming off of a two-fight losing streak at 155 pounds, having just lost to Justin Gaethje by TKO in 2017’s Fight of the Year” after getting thoroughly dominated by Khabib Nurmagomedov.
The move to featherweight is uncharted territory for Johnson, who was reportedly always a big lightweight, cutting from between 170 to 180 pounds to make 155 pounds.
But Johnson feels like he’s done at lightweight for now, as a new weight class presents new opportunities in terms of a title shot:
”I’ve spent my time, paid my dues in the lightweight division. I’m not looking to work my way up [slowly]. I want to come in here and beat [Elkins] who is on a nice win streak, make a statement, and then get in there on a No. 1 contender fight.”
Elkins himself is coming off of a decision win over Dennis Bermudez that was preceded by an improbable comeback upset victory over Mirsad Bektic, whom he viciously knocked out after taking a beating for two rounds.
Johnson and Elkins will throw down on Sunday during UFC Fight Night 124 in Saint Louis.
How do you expect Johnson to look and perform at featherweight? Will he have any issues making weight?
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Tucked between two sizable pay-per-view cards is UFC Fight Night 124, going down Sunday from the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
It’s customary to seek the good in a UFC card, particularly those that may otherwise be overlooked. In this instance, this 1…
Tucked between two sizable pay-per-view cards is UFC Fight Night 124, going down Sunday from the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
It’s customary to seek the good in a UFC card, particularly those that may otherwise be overlooked. In this instance, this 13-fight slate is a bit of a slog, particularly the five contests scheduled for UFC Fight Pass.
That said, the main card and much of the televised undercard is pretty spicy, with a real thunderbolt of a main event. Here’s a look at three of the fights you can’t miss on Sunday’s lineup.
Featherweight
Dooho Choi (14-2) vs. Jeremy Stephens (26-14)
Odds courtesy of OddsShark: Choi -160, Stephens +140
Airs on: Fox Sports 1
They can’t all be curveballs, you know. Choi and Stephens make for a terrific main event that seems likely to end violently.
Fans are still recovering from Choi’s 2016 epic with Cub Swanson, but the Korean Superboy has plenty of action-fighting pedigree tracing back to his early days on the Asian circuits. He’s 26 years old but looks 13, adding some delightful cognitive dissonance to those crushing punch combinations.
Stephens has been a staple of the UFC lightweight and featherweight stables for more than a decade. His first UFC opponent? Din Thomas. Sixteen career knockouts speak to how he gets most of his wins.
Both of these guys not only go for knockouts but tend to use their fists. The battleworn 31-year-old Stephens has lost steam of late, struggling for consistency in his last few bouts. His last fight was a win, but it was over an even more worn-looking Gilbert Melendez.
Soak up the Superboy while you can, as he will soon begin the military service that is mandatory in his native South Korea.
Middleweight
Uriah Hall (13-8) vs. Vitor Belfort (26-13)
Odds: Hall -325, Belfort +265
Airs on: Fox Sports 1
Even before Belfort announced his retirement after this fight, the co-main event was still plum MMA viewing.
Hall is inconsistent and enigmatic as a fighter. For every highlight-reel knockout that sends fans to their feet, a basic lapse of grappling or overall fight IQ sends them to the bottle. After three straight losses, though, a bonus-winning knockout of Krzysztof Jotko got him back on the sunny side of the street.
The New Yorker has a winnable fight here against the 40-year-old Belfort. He suffered a serious string of setbacks over the past couple of years, only to rebound last year against Nate Marquardt, who is now retired.
Belfort was a great fighter in his prime, but his game relied on hand speed and preternatural power. Those things fade with age. We’ll see if he can summon the fountain of youth in one last performance.
Featherweight
Darren Elkins (23-5) vs. Michael Johnson (17-12)
Odds: Johnson -155, Elkins +135
Airs on: Fox Sports 1
Elkins was long considered a consummate journeyman. When he won, it was often ugly and involved a split decision. That was not the case last March over Mirsad Bektic in a knockout that can be counted among the greatest comeback wins in UFC history. All he did since then was beat Dennis Bermudez. By split decision, of course. It ran his winning streak to five.
He gets a big step up against Johnson, who has dropped four of five—but did so against the elite of the lightweight division. Here, he tries his luck at 145 pounds. We’ll see if the steeper weight cut made an impact on his power or stamina. Even more so, we’ll see if Elkins’ pressure can punch his ticket to contender status.
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Tucked between two sizable pay-per-view cards is UFC Fight Night 124, going down Sunday from the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
It’s customary to seek the good in a UFC card, particularly those that may otherwise be overlooked. In this instance, this 1…
Tucked between two sizable pay-per-view cards is UFC Fight Night 124, going down Sunday from the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
It’s customary to seek the good in a UFC card, particularly those that may otherwise be overlooked. In this instance, this 13-fight slate is a bit of a slog, particularly the five contests scheduled for UFC Fight Pass.
That said, the main card and much of the televised undercard is pretty spicy, with a real thunderbolt of a main event. Here’s a look at three of the fights you can’t miss on Sunday’s lineup.
Featherweight
Dooho Choi (14-2) vs. Jeremy Stephens (26-14)
Odds courtesy of OddsShark: Choi -160, Stephens +140
Airs on: Fox Sports 1
They can’t all be curveballs, you know. Choi and Stephens make for a terrific main event that seems likely to end violently.
Fans are still recovering from Choi’s 2016 epic with Cub Swanson, but the Korean Superboy has plenty of action-fighting pedigree tracing back to his early days on the Asian circuits. He’s 26 years old but looks 13, adding some delightful cognitive dissonance to those crushing punch combinations.
Stephens has been a staple of the UFC lightweight and featherweight stables for more than a decade. His first UFC opponent? Din Thomas. Sixteen career knockouts speak to how he gets most of his wins.
Both of these guys not only go for knockouts but tend to use their fists. The battleworn 31-year-old Stephens has lost steam of late, struggling for consistency in his last few bouts. His last fight was a win, but it was over an even more worn-looking Gilbert Melendez.
Soak up the Superboy while you can, as he will soon begin the military service that is mandatory in his native South Korea.
Middleweight
Uriah Hall (13-8) vs. Vitor Belfort (26-13)
Odds: Hall -325, Belfort +265
Airs on: Fox Sports 1
Even before Belfort announced his retirement after this fight, the co-main event was still plum MMA viewing.
Hall is inconsistent and enigmatic as a fighter. For every highlight-reel knockout that sends fans to their feet, a basic lapse of grappling or overall fight IQ sends them to the bottle. After three straight losses, though, a bonus-winning knockout of Krzysztof Jotko got him back on the sunny side of the street.
The New Yorker has a winnable fight here against the 40-year-old Belfort. He suffered a serious string of setbacks over the past couple of years, only to rebound last year against Nate Marquardt, who is now retired.
Belfort was a great fighter in his prime, but his game relied on hand speed and preternatural power. Those things fade with age. We’ll see if he can summon the fountain of youth in one last performance.
Featherweight
Darren Elkins (23-5) vs. Michael Johnson (17-12)
Odds: Johnson -155, Elkins +135
Airs on: Fox Sports 1
Elkins was long considered a consummate journeyman. When he won, it was often ugly and involved a split decision. That was not the case last March over Mirsad Bektic in a knockout that can be counted among the greatest comeback wins in UFC history. All he did since then was beat Dennis Bermudez. By split decision, of course. It ran his winning streak to five.
He gets a big step up against Johnson, who has dropped four of five—but did so against the elite of the lightweight division. Here, he tries his luck at 145 pounds. We’ll see if the steeper weight cut made an impact on his power or stamina. Even more so, we’ll see if Elkins’ pressure can punch his ticket to contender status.
Read more MMA news on BleacherReport.com
Michael Johnson isn’t taking his first weight cut down to 145 pounds lightly. Johnson is set to do battle with Darren Elkins this Sunday night (Jan. 14). The action will be held inside the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Johnson vs. Elki…
Michael Johnson isn’t taking his first weight cut down to 145 pounds lightly. Johnson is set to do battle with Darren Elkins this Sunday night (Jan. 14). The action will be held inside the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Johnson vs. Elkins will be the featured bout on the UFC Fight Night 124 prelims. […]