Is it finally going to happen? After 9 months of teasing, hemming, and hawing, it’s starting to sound like Demetrious Johnson and T.J. Dillashaw might actually fight one another.
What started as a knee-jerk title fight idea – when Cody Garbrandt injured his back and T.J. Dillashaw decided to look toward the flyweight division rather than wait around – became something of a public meltdown of Dana White’s relationship with the promotion’s 125 lb champion. DJ wasn’t interested in fighting Dillashaw, who had never taken a bout in his division before, and the UFC’s handling of his desire to fight Ray Borg instead got pretty ugly.