Deiveson Figueiredo is now 3-0 for the year. That’s two blistering finishes over MMA’s Dan Marino (Joseph Benavidez), and now he just choked out one of the division’s pluckiest contenders in less than two minutes. Demetrious Johnson will go down as one of the greatest MMA champions ever. But his punctuation for the flyweight crown was functionally splitting a series with Ian McCall and just barely getting by Benavidez. This isn’t to trample over DJ’s Reebok grave, but to emphasize how exciting it is to have a champion putting a stamp on the division straight out the gate.
Editorial: How the ‘violence gremlin’ Deiveson Figueiredo beat Alex Perez with everything
