{"id":281987,"date":"2018-08-01T06:57:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T13:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=281987"},"modified":"2018-08-01T06:57:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T13:57:12","slug":"demetrious-johnson-is-still-open-for-a-super-fight-with-the-bantamweight-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/demetrious-johnson\/demetrious-johnson-is-still-open-for-a-super-fight-with-the-bantamweight-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Demetrious Johnson is still open for a super fight with the bantamweight champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a time, it looked as though Demetrious Johnson&#8217;s next flyweight title challenger would come in the form of a slimmed down bantamweight champion, TJ Dillashaw. Unfortunately, the UFC couldn&#8217;t lock this fight down. Dillashaw was booked to defend his title against Cody Garbrandt, and Johnson was booked to defend his title against Henry Cejudo \u2014 both at UFC 227 this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>While this Johnson vs. Dillashaw fight didn&#8217;t work out on the first try, Johnson says it&#8217;s an opportunity he&#8217;s still up for \u2014 so long as the UFC makes it worth his while.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4zYelx\">\u201cIf the money\u2019s right, I\u2019ve always been up front in talking about these super fights,\u201d Johnson said on the UFC 227 conference call (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/7\/31\/17637386\/demetrious-johnson-still-open-to-superfight-with-bantamweight-champ-if-the-moneys-right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cEveryone keeps talking about these super fights. If the money\u2019s not there, if the compensation\u2019s not there, I\u2019ll keep doing what I\u2019m doing. That\u2019s up to my management if that happens. My management knows what I want, the UFC knows what I want, so for me, I show up to fight the number-one contender in the flyweight division and I\u2019ll continue to do that. So, who knows, if something comes to the table I\u2019ll do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dillashaw then explained that, based on his understanding, it wasn&#8217;t money that nixed this super fight plan the first time around.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4hFaev\">\u201cWhen they offered it to me, I accepted it, I got injured, and I got the surgery,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cAnd then, when it came time again, from my understanding, from my management\u2019s standpoint, is that TJ got an offer to fight Cody with a brand-new deal. So god bless him for taking the new deal to fight Cody. &#8230; Basically, before I got injured, I was going to be fighting him, and then they moved on, and they went to Cody and TJ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll see Demetrious Johnson defend his title against the winner of Dillashaw and Garbrandt&#8217;s rematch?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 8\/1\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a time, it looked as though Demetrious Johnson&#8217;s next flyweight title challenger would come in the form of a slimmed down bantamweight champion, TJ Dillashaw. Unfortunately, the UFC couldn&#8217;t lock this fight down. 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