than Anderson Silva. He had more finishes than any flyweight in UFC history. He had the record for scoring ten-plus takedowns in three separate fights, which was a personal favorite of mine. That was a lot to part with to acquire a guy Dana didn’t particularly care for. Even if the UFC never learned how to market Johnson properly—and even if the UFC was so disenchanted by his curiously hard-to-market title reign that it was in the process of shuttering the flyweight division altogether—the optics were that they were shipping
