The superlatives have been exhausted.
Demetrious Johnson on Saturday waltzed into the record books, submitted Wilson Reis with a third-round armbar and kept his historic stranglehold on the Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweight title in the UFC on Fox 24 headliner at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Reis tapped 4:49 into Round 3, as “Mighty Mouse” equaled Anderson Silva’s all-time mark of 10 consecutive UFC title defenses, set between July 7, 2007 and July 7, 2012 (online sportsbooks).
Johnson was downright masterful, offensively and defensively. The 30-year-old AMC Pankration lynchpin outlanded Reis by nearly a 7-to-1 margin in the significant strikes department, according to FightMetric data.