To be fair he lost that fight against Dominick Cruz then moved to the lowest weight division of UFC
To be fair, Johnson was only training twice a week up until the McCall rematch while working a full time construction job.
- Blatantly DUCKED Dillishaw and opted to fight Ray friggin Borg in a UFC title fight
Firstly, Dillashaw wasn't the champion at the time and had never competed at Flyweight, so there was no guarantee that he could make the weight, and if he didn't then it wouldn't count as a title defense, thereby preventing Johnson from breaking the consecutive defense record. Secondly, Johnson said he'd fight Dillashaw, but that if Dillashaw missed weight then Johnson would get his purse; despite their so-called "guarantee" that Dillashaw would make weight, they weren't willing to put their money where their mouths were and turned down the offer (which shows how empty their guarantee was to begin with).
- Fought the Tim Elliots, Chris Carrioso, John Moragas, etc of the UFC in title fights... embarrassing.
All of the modern UFC champions have those kinds of fights in their defenses, singling out Johnson for three (out of eleven) is nothing more than your bias showing.
- Had a make believe weight class created because he couldn’t cut it at BW
Why are you acting like Johnson himself created Flyweight? And getting to fight for the BW title when training only twice per week while working a full time factory job is astonishing.
- Got beat by Cejudo and sent packing to the minor leagues.
Many thought he won against Cejudo; furthermore, his TKO victory over Cejudo trumps a controversial decision.
most of MM’s wins come via controversial decisions: Torres, Dodson 1, Uncle Creepy, Joe B 1, etc.
Factually that's wrong: 17 of his 30 wins were by KO, TKO, or Submission; which means the majority of his wins didn't even make it to decision.
100% of the media favored Johnson in his first fight against Dodson; 57% of the media favored Johnson in the first McCall fight; 100% of the media favored Johnson in the second McCall fight; 80% of the media favored Johnson in the first Benavidez fight. And even if we ignored all of that and pretend like all those fights were "controversial decisions", that only accounts for 13% of his total wins (which is again, factually not "most of MM's wins").
Also you can’t call him evading the Dillishaw fight anything other than ducking. The dude complained about fighter pay for years and when the UFC tried to book him a “super fight” he turns it down to pad his record with a guy like Ray Borg who doesn’t have any business in the UFC let alone a title fight.
Johnson called out Cruz, Dillashaw, and Garbrandt while they were all champions and his only demand was a $1-2 million TOTAL purse, but the UFC didn't want to pay that small amount in spite of them claiming it was a "super fight"; the fight falling through is on the UFC, not Johnson.
