{"id":272155,"date":"2018-03-09T09:25:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T17:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=272155"},"modified":"2018-03-09T09:25:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T17:25:05","slug":"joseph-benavidez-ready-to-complete-demetrious-johnson-trilogy-with-win-over-sergio-pettis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/joseph-benavidez\/joseph-benavidez-ready-to-complete-demetrious-johnson-trilogy-with-win-over-sergio-pettis\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Benavidez Ready to Complete Demetrious Johnson Trilogy With Win Over Sergio Pettis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dealing with a knee injury since Summer of last year, Joseph Benavidez has been out on the sidelines watching the flyweight division move on without him. Only, it hasn&#8217;t really moved on. The unstoppable Demetrious Johnson is still at the top and all the major players have also been beat by Benavidez. That&#8217;s why when he makes his triumphant return against Sergio Pettis at UFC 225, he wants to prove he&#8217;s still number one and get another crack at Mighty Mouse.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;For anyone who says I shouldn&#8217;t [get a shot] or that I&#8217;ve fought him twice or whatever &#8212; I realize when there is money to be made, maybe you&#8217;ll pick the No. 8 guy in the division because it will sell more. But with our division, there&#8217;s not a star. Demetrious [Johnson]is the best fighter ever, and he&#8217;s not a star.\u00a0So what do we really have? All we have is our talent. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s great about the division, you can see things that 125-pound guys can do that some other guys can&#8217;t. All we have is our skill. So if we don&#8217;t have a big fight, why wouldn&#8217;t you have the best fighters fight?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ht\">Joseph Benavidez. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IPBwicn3y1\">pic.twitter.com\/IPBwicn3y1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brett Okamoto (@bokamotoESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bokamotoESPN\/status\/971924281121693701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I think we could fight 10 times and it would be just as exciting as him fighting anyone else. I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s such a thing as a big or small way of asking for this. What am I gonna do? Get an airplane and write it in the sky? The UFC knows I want it. They know I&#8217;m the next best guy.\u00a0I think right now, there&#8217;s a valid point for me to not get a title fight, because of the injury. But if I win seven in a row, I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s an argument against it anymore. [&#8230;]\u00a0No one realizes when fighters are out. They just remember their last fight and how they look now.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/story\/_\/id\/22693470\/now-healthy-joseph-benavidez-sees-ufc-title-shot-next-win\">Joseph Benavidez speaking to ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If Demetrious Johnson truly is the Jon Jones of flyweight, then Joseph Benavidez definitely has to be Daniel Cormier. At flyweight, he&#8217;s only loss to Mighty Mouse twice. At bantamweight, he&#8217;s only loss to Dominick Cruz twice. Back as far as 2006, those are the only four losses he&#8217;s had in his entire career. He&#8217;s the best of the best who has only fallen short against the very rare fighters who are even better that. 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