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UFC President Dana White Provides Update On Flyweight Division



The Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweight division may be on life support, but UFC President Dana White isn't willing to pronounce it dead quite yet.

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After the de facto trade which saw former flyweight king Demetrious Johnson move to One Championship in a swap for the undefeated One welterweight champion Ben Askren, many fans believed the move signaled the end of the UFC’s 125 pound division.

That feeling grew as a number of the UFC’s flyweight division announced their release or their impending move to the heavier bantamweight division in the weeks immediately following the Johnson-Askren move. The rumor of the flyweight division’s demise was further fueled after the UFC announced a superfight at 125 pounds between flyweight champion Henry Ceujdo and bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw. Dillashaw went on record after the announcement saying the UFC had “paid me a f*ck ton of money to kill the [flyweight] division."

The UFC had not officially addressed the future of the flyweight division until UFC President Dana White provided a rather non-committal response to the situation on the latest episode of the UFC Unfiltered podcast.

“T.J. Dillashaw didn’t do sh*t to the flyweight division,” White said. “The flyweight division just never took off, it never caught on. Even with a dominant champion like Demetrious, it just never caught on. People didn’t care. I battled for a long time, I tried to keep it alive and obviously, it’s still going on now. We still have fights going on in that division, but we’ll see what the future holds for it.”
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