"Dana White if Nate Díaz doesn't want to fight with me, I think fans wouldn't refuse to see my fight with Habib Nurmagomedov", - Johnson addressed to the president of UFC in Twitter.

At the moment Michael Johnson is on a strip from two victories. In August, on UFC Fight Night 26 he won secure style Joe Louzon's unanimous judicial decision, and on UFC 168 in Las Vegas is unexpected for many already in the second round knocked out Gleeson Tibau. Victories over Louzon and Tibau closed two previous defeats in duels with Myles Dzhuri and Reza Madadi, thereby having returned Johnson's career to the successful course. Despite it, holding the 13th place in a rating of easily scales of UFC Michael Johnson hardly can be considered as the acceptable candidate for the Russian easily weight which plans to approach through one-two duels to fight for a title. For Johnson such fight can become good chance to prove, and in case of defeat doesn't become the tragedy, especially taking into account that all top fighters refused to accept this call.