Demetrious Johnson: Once I Made My Adjustments, It Was ‘Downhill’ for Tim Elliott

The popular narrative that will emerge from “The Ultimate Fighter 24” finale main event is that Tim Elliott gave Demetrious Johnson the most difficult test of his flyweight reign.Johnson would like to point out that Saturday’s scorecards tell a different tale. While “Mighty Mouse” might have dropped the first stanza, he took the next four frames for yet another clear-cut victory. “When you look at the first round it was tough. But after that I made my adjustments and was able to take him down and outgrapple him,” Johnson said. “He was a bigger guy; I able to take him down. I had him almost in a choke, an armbar, an arm lock. I felt like in the first round he did a good job. You take away that guillotine, but other than that it was just bumps and bruises on my forehead.” Elliott went all out to upset Johnson in the opening round. He escaped an armbar and trapped the champion in a tight guillotine …

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