Dana White var inte på plats för att bevittna Anthony Johnsons (19-4) vinst över Alexander Gustafsson (16-3), men White har själv svårt att tro med vilken lätthet som Johnson avslutade Gustafsson med.
”It’s crazy,” White said Wednesday on The Jim Rome Show. ”If you look at Anthony Johnson, Anthony Johnson started at 170 pounds, right? And this isn’t like boxing where if you move up a weight class, it’s three pounds. You move up a weight class here, it’s 15 pounds. So he goes from 170 to 185. It’s not like he was a world-beater at 170 or a world-beater at 185.”
”If you know anything about fighting, every time you move up, you lose a little bit of knockout power. It’s been the exact opposite for this guy. Him beating Alexander Gustafsson the way he did makes no sense whatsoever. This is a guy (Gustafsson) who went five hard rounds with Jon ‘Bones’. Many people believe he won that fight, and many people believe Jones won the fight. For [Johnson] to come out and knock out the guys in the 205-pound division that he is, it’s unbelievable and I am very excited for the fight with him and Jon Jones.
Johnson har avslutat sex av sina sju vinster och White förväntar sig att Johnson kommer fightas likadant mot Jones som han gjorde mot Gustafsson.
”I think it’s going to be the exact same,” White said. ”If you look at how he went in there and cut off the Octagon and went right after [Gustafsson] and started dropping bombs on him, I think that’s what he’s going to try to do to Jones, too. The difference is, Jones has many, many tools. He’s good at kicking that front leg. He’s got spinning elbows. He’s got the range and the distance.”
