'Worker bee' Dan Henderson wants 'exciting' fight against Jake Shields (Video)

by MMAmania.com on Apr 7, 2010 9:09 AM EDT

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Anyone care to give me an update? Por favor?

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." -Dr. Johnson

by Diceman on Apr 7, 2010 9:23 AM EDT reply actions

They start of with him...

being asked if it is more pressure walking into a new promotion or if it is no different. He says that he is always been unuder pressure and has always had big fights. Then they compare styles and how will they make an exciting fight. Hendo replies anything can happen in mma and that he personally has to make it exciting because a lot of times it gets boring when all a fighter wants to do is take you down, which is probably going to be what Shields wants to do.
They get into talking about the turnout of people and why he signed with SF. Hendo says the partnering of Showtime and CBS was a big reason and he was just another worker bee at the UFC and they don’t take care of the fighters that well and he wanted to make sure he was not the big fish in a little pond and that there is still some good matches after Shields. Lastly he is asked how SF afforded him and he replies with "I am not that exppensive and that the UFC undervalued him…In a nutshell…

"I thought I was getting raped by Freddy Mercury." – Tank after losing a decision to Dan Severn

by Da Monkey on Apr 7, 2010 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah he wanted the same money as Tito

I think the UFC overpaid for Tito though to stay out of SF, I think signing Dan would of been a better idea personaly but honestly Dan vs Frankling PPV sucked for the UFC and Tito vs Forrest almost doubled that event so you can’t 100% blame the UFC for that.

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by Puck Head on Apr 7, 2010 10:35 AM EDT up reply actions

Thanks!

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." -Dr. Johnson

by Diceman on Apr 7, 2010 12:43 PM EDT up reply actions

Exciting fight with Jake, ha! Only if Hendo can replicate the finish with Bisping.

by daftshadow on Apr 7, 2010 2:15 PM EDT reply actions

i was thinking the same thing. same kind of knockout and the guy who does the gifs here would have a field day.

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by wolfmanshowlforever on Apr 7, 2010 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions