John ”The Magician” Dodson fick under januari möta Demetrious ”Mighty Mouse” Johnson vid ”UFC on FOX 6”, i ett möte gällande flugviktstiteln. Mötet slutade i vinst för Demetrious, men Dodson har redan siktet inställt på en returmatch.
Här kan ni läsa vad John har att säga om titelmötet, och hur han ser på vägen tillbaka, via ”MMAFighting”:
I’ve watched it over and over again. There’s things I should’ve capitalized on, that I was yelling at myself for not doing. But also there was some things that I know of, that I’ve practiced a million times, and I don’t know why I [didn’t do them], being held down or controlled in certain situations. I wasn’t pulling the trigger.
I know I’ve done it in practice, why don’t I do it in a fight? So that’s my own fault for doing that, for not following through with it. I should’ve stayed a little bit more focused for the last few rounds. But hey, I gave the champ the fight of his life and everybody in the MMA community believes that I’m his toughest opponent yet.
I understand his fighting style. He’s technical, he just makes sure he holds a single area and he just sits there. He was talking s–t about how I’m just explosive and that’s it. S–t, apparently my explosiveness caught him for three of the rounds and he only won two. Well, in everyone else’s eyes he won three.
But you know what? I’m still a fan of him. I’m a fan of his fighting style because he knows how to recover and actually kind of dictate the pace. It threw me off my game. Fans may not like it, but s–t, he came out to fight.
I thought I won three [rounds], man. In my mind, I thought I had the first three rounds, and then when I watched it, I still thought I had the first three rounds. Because it was the third round where he took me down. I slipped and I fell, and he sat on top of me, and then I stood right back up. I was like, come on, come at me again.
I actually dropped him in that third round, and you guys don’t count that. You guys count him coming and landing on top on me as more impressive than me dropping him.
If you take somebody down and they get right back up, that shouldn’t be counted as anything. That should be counted as getting jabbed or hit with a straight. Like, if you take the man down and don’t do s–t with it, and he pops right back up, that means you wasted all your energy and he’s perfectly fine.
If it were up to me, it’d be right now. Shoot, I was ready to go last week. Or the week after the fight, I was ready to go.
I wanted to go right away, but since [Johnson] already has a fight, I don’t care who I have to fight to lead up to that. I’m going to go back there, I’m going to win every one of my next fights including my next title fight. I will get that rematch, and I will win.
Vem som står på tur för John återstår att se, mästaren Demetrious kommer i alla fall att möta John Moraga vid ”UFC on FOX 8” den 27 juli.
