Demetrious Johnson: Swimming with bricks and preparing to settle a score

Since Demetrious Johnson emerged as a player in the bantamweight division he has always been under-sized while stepping into the octagon with the best at 135-pounds but finally he gets his chance to play with people his own size inside the eight-sided cage. The capacity crowd in Sydney, Australia were handed a treat for the UFC’s third offering to the folk down under pitting the fab four of 125-pounds against one another in two semi-final matches with the two emerging winners battling to crown a champion of the newly forced weight-class down the line. Joseph Benavidez put on a jaw-shattering performance facing top-ranked Japanese star Yasuhiro ********** but tragedy struck the other half of the bracket with the highly competitive bout between Johnson and number-one ranked fighter Ian McCall being declared a draw. When UFC ring announcer Bruce Buffer initially read out the score cards he told the world that Johnson had prevailed but a numerical error on behalf of the New South Wales ...