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Demetrious Johnson hopes to be healthy by June

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04:33 PM ET 03.05 | Demetrious Johnson hopes he can bounce back quickly. The UFC flyweight champion will have surgery on his torn labrum in his shoulder Thursday. "You only get one body. It just so happens, Matt told me, 'Your fights are not as hard as your training camps. Your training camps are the hardest things you can do for a fight.' When I'm in training camp, I push my body to where I just get sore, and when I get into a fight, it shows, I never get tired. That's why Matt made me do the surgery. He said, you could probably do this fight against John Moraga and you could possibly win it, or you could possibly lose it. I don't want to take that risk. I want to have a full training camp going into a championship fight. This is not a joke, we take this very seriously. That's why we decided to get the surgery. If things go well, I'm going to push for June 15," Johnson said.

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