Not that long ago, the future of the UFC’s 125-pound division was up in the air. Back in 2017, then-flyweight kingpin and top UFC pound-for-pound fighter Demetrious Johnson began making assertions that the UFC brass had threatened to shutter the entire division over lack of interest. Then after Johnson lost the title and was traded to ONE Championship, the UFC started releasing flyweights in droves, so many in fact that at one point they couldn’t even fill out their 16-man rankings because there were not enough flyweights under contract.
But everything turned around with Henry Cejudo.