Newly-crowned UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw has made it no secret that he wants to drop down to 125-pounds to take out pound-for-pound number one Demetrious Johnson, and Dillashaw’s coach, Duane Ludwig, thinks the superfight ‘needs to happen’.
“I think it needs to happen,” Ludwig said on a recent episode of The MMA Hour, per MMA Fighting’s Alexander K. Lee. “Demetrious, he’s fighting the top guys - this works out because (Joseph) Benavidez is out right now, he’s still having to wait a couple of months with his knee surgery, so it works out time-wise, so in my eyes I would like to see T.