I came to work right away. That's the problem with those competitive guys.

All the hard work we've put in the past three years is all paying off right now. We've busted our butts and hung together.

Defensively we're so banged up right now. It seems like we've got more projected starters standing on the sideline than I've ever seen. Nothing major, but they're out right now.

[As for George Khalid Jones, Johnson sees the fight as his first first step back on the right track.] Jones is a good fighter, a legitimate contender with decent power, ... But if that's all he's got, he's in trouble.

I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life.

In hindsight I would have done a lot of things differently.