While watching the main event of UFC on Fox 24, I was once again staggered by the sheer brilliance of Demetrious Johnson. In the past I have called the flyweight champion a “fighting computer,” but this was something different. Something greater. This was a supercomputer, overclocked but running cool and clean. No glitches, no miscalculations. I watched Johnson take apart Wilson Reis like a mechanic calmly studying the parts of an outmoded car, and I knew I was watching true greatness. The perfect embodiment of everything that mixed martial arts can be, a conglomeration of the many styles and techniques available to fighters in this sport, all contained in the lithe frame of a five-foot-three dynamo who grows more confident and more complete with every fight.
Opinion: Flyweight is a stacked division—Demetrious Johnson is just that good
