The best and worst from UFC Fight Night 125

#3 Worst – Timothy Johnson’s wall-and-stall gameplan

Timothy Johnson is one of the most boring fighters to watch in the UFC

I honestly don’t like to dog on fighters as I’m not a pro fighter and realistically I have no idea how much sacrifice they put into an event like last night. But unfortunately, it’s hard to praise some fighters at times and Timothy Johnson is one of them. His wall-and-stall driven victory over Marcelo Golm was the worst fight on last night’s show by a country mile, and it isn’t the first offense from Johnson, who debuted in the UFC in early 2015.

His fights against Jared Rosholt, Marcin Tybura, Alexander Volkov and Daniel Omielanczuk all stunk, and given that at least half of those fighters have shown themselves capable of entertaining fights, it seems like the common denominator is always Johnson, whose favourite gameplan of pressing his opponent into the cage and working dirty boxing is simply never entertaining. Last night’s terrible fight with Golm was like the prototype Timothy Johnson fight and it was awful.

More disappointing was the fact that Golm had some hype around him as a possible prospect coming into the fight and that was totally deflated by Johnson’s smothering win. I understand that the UFC needs tough gatekeepers like Johnson and his UFC record of 4-3 means he belongs on the roster, but can we please keep him on the preliminary fights from now on so he can’t drag down a main card with one of his dull fights?