The Bracket: UFC 125-Pound Tournament
Four men entered. Two men remain.
Team Alpha Male’s Joseph Benavidez and AMC Pankration’s Demetrious Johnson have punched their tickets to the Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweight tournament. They will face one another later this year in a bout to crown the promotion’s first-ever champion at 125 pounds.
Benavidez waltzed into the final in March, as he stopped Japanese
veteran Yasuhiro
Urushitani on second-round punches at UFC on FX 2. The
27-year-old has recorded four wins in a row, the second-longest
streak of his career. Wins over former
WEC bantamweight champions Eddie
Wineland and Miguel
Torres, onetime International Fight League featherweight
titleholder Wagnney
Fabiano and 2007 Abu Dhabi Combat Club Submission Wrestling
World Championships gold medalist Rani Yahya
dot a stellar Benavidez resume.
Johnson took a decidedly different route to the final, having endured two three-round battles with the top-ranked Ian McCall. Their first encounter in March ended in a controversial majority draw. “Mighty Mouse” emerged victorious from the rematch at UFC on FX 3 on Friday at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla., earning a unanimous decision over McCall.
Data courtesy: FightMetric.com
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• Featherweights
• Lightweights
• Welterweights
• Middleweights
Team Alpha Male’s Joseph Benavidez and AMC Pankration’s Demetrious Johnson have punched their tickets to the Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweight tournament. They will face one another later this year in a bout to crown the promotion’s first-ever champion at 125 pounds.
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Johnson took a decidedly different route to the final, having endured two three-round battles with the top-ranked Ian McCall. Their first encounter in March ended in a controversial majority draw. “Mighty Mouse” emerged victorious from the rematch at UFC on FX 3 on Friday at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla., earning a unanimous decision over McCall.
Data courtesy: FightMetric.com
More Infographics
• A Linear History: UFC Light Heavyweight Championship
• UFC Champions: By The Numbers
Bellator Season 6 Tournament Brackets
• Bantamweights
• Featherweights
• Lightweights
• Welterweights
• Middleweights
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