Demetrious Johnson submits Chris Cariaso at UFC 178
UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson took less than two rounds to finish Chris Cariaso and successfully defend his title Saturday night in Las Vegas, but in his opinion he still took too long to do it. "I was just a little bit too patient for my own good," the champ said in his post fight interview.
The win is Johnson's seventh straight and it also further solifidied his position atop the 125 pound class. As he looks out on a mostly conquered flyweight landscape, Johnson insists that he doesn't want to fight anyone in particular next.
Instead, he'll just be ready to fight whoever the UFC calls and tells him to. "I'm just a man who sits by the phone and answers it, and I go fight," he said.
The one knock on the well-rounded Johnson used to be that most of his top wins came by way of decision after hard-fought and still-impressive bouts. This finish was the third time in his last four outings that he refused to let his opponent hear the final horn, however.
As he adds nasty knockouts and submissions to dominant decision wins, "Mighty Mouse" seems well on his way to achieving his goals of cleaning out his weight class and becoming the best fighter in the world, pound-for-pound. The loss snapped a three-fight win streak for Cariaso.
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