Garbrandt wants to fight Johnson at flyweight after Dillashaw bout

Ahead of his first bantamweight title defense, Cody Garbrandt is already making plans to fight in another division.

The bantamweight champion told reporters via conference call on Wednesday that he expects to easily handle challenger T.J. Dillashaw at UFC 217 and then move down to face flyweight title holder Demetrious Johnson.

"With a knockout over T.J. I've wiped out the division," Garbrandt said during a conference call for UFC 217, according to Nicole Bosco of FanSided. "There's a big gap between myself, then it goes (Dominik Cruz), and then T.J., and then it falls off from there, so T.J. is my next adversary, my next challenge.

"I know what he brings to the table. I'm focused and prepared on that, to wipe him out and then go on from there. I always like to have a fight ahead of myself, you know, plan ahead, and obviously, I'm focused on T.J., but Mighty Mouse is next at 125 pounds."

Garbrandt has fought at bantamweight in all but two of his 11 career fights - one at featherweight and one at a 142-pound catchweight - though he's confident he'll make the weight cut at 125 pounds.

"I can make 125 on November 4th if I wanted to," Garbrandt said.

While Garbrandt has yet to fight since winning the title from Cruz, Johnson recently set the record for most consecutive successful title defenses at 11 with a win over Ray Borg at UFC 216.