(Dan doesn’t usually pick up hitchhikers, but you got such a pretty mouth…)
After months of speculation from the media and a healthy dose of smack talk from Dana White, Dan Henderson has finally signed a multi-fight deal with Strikeforce, reports MMA Fanhouse. There’s no word yet when he’ll make his official debut in the organization, or whether he’ll compete primarily as a middleweight or a light heavyweight, but at least one thing is for certain — that chubby British kid who demanded that DW resign Hendo is going to be pissed.
Now that we know where Henderson is going to compete, it’s time to play matchmaker. Say you’re Strikeforce’s Scott Coker. You’ve just signed one of the best middleweights in the world, so you could toss him in the mix with guys like Jake Shields, Robbie Lawler, "Mayhem" Miller, Cung Le, so on and so forth. Or, you might decide that you’ve got enough talent at 185 pounds, and shuffle him into your light heavyweight class so that Gegard Mousasi finally has someone worthwhile to fight.
There are positives and negatives to either decision, but the pressure’s on. The board members want answers and the Captain is tired of defending your crazy antics to the Comissioner. You’ve gotta make the call and make it soon. So what do you do, hot shot? What do you do!?
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commentsfunniest photo comment i have read on cagepotato ever.
anyway whats with you goons and the god damn short storys you are writing. keep your opinion short i have a short attention span. fuckers
Bah... fine. I'll upgrade you back to small, and leave it at that.
Mon, 12/07/2009 - 12:19
Hey UFC fan, I know we don't normally get along, but I hate Fedor and Strikeforce too! We have something in common!
**Hugs**"
Good for US.
Maybe now you will stop talking about this weird e-penis stuff it turns on the queers like clinch-smash,and 831 son,you need to knock it off.
Yeah, anyone who thinks that this is the beginning of the end for the UFC is high off his ass (I'm not judgin'. I'm just sayin'.) Strikeforce is still far from a threat to the UFC, yet. Sure, they've got some great fighters, but the organization is still just a barely viable fetus in this MMA game. I'm too lazy to look and see who said it already, but let us not forget Affliction... Sure Strikeforce isn't Affliction, but still.
Neeeeeveeeeerrrr foooorgeeeeeeeet....
**Hugs**
In all seriousness, Mousasi needs a challenge and so does Hendo. Coker has nothing to gain from Dan cleaning out his second-class 185 division. And neither do we.
All the people happy about this, no real reason to be other than the fact that Hendo has a job. The only person that would challenge Hendo is Mousasi. Strikeforce has along way to go to get high level fighters to match the 1 good fighter in each division.
The football theory may apply, but Couture and Tito do not support the theory in my humble opinion. I will watch Hendo before Couture(greco sleepo)or Tito(tito's gonna get it again from liddell! then what's he gonna be worth?) How about you?
I like Henderson, he's had a stellar career, never really took off in the UFC but the UFC should not be the bar just yet....I mean knocking out the axe murderer in his prime in any organization is something. He's a good fighter with at least 2 good years left in him from what I saw from his last fight. Hendo's style is not as wearing on the body, his experience has helped him age gracefully in MMA.
I think at the end of the day, the UFC does not want to open up their pocket books to fighters. It's like ruling with an iron fist, look what they do to sponsors now?! They make arbitrary decisions, by not giving Hendo what he wants, it will make the next fighter think about what they will ask for from the UFC.
Henderson is a middling name -- he's not huge, but he's known. He's not a top-tier fighter any longer, but he's still quite good. But it's not like he's suddenly going to learn some new tricks, start submitting guys off his back or anything. He's crossed the barrier of 40 years old, and it's certainly more likely that he'll fall off than stay at the same level.
We'll see, but I think that the UFC made a pretty decent business decision here. It's not like the last few big names they let go have been world-beaters. (Arlovski, Sylvia.)
I always wonder what Dana White pulls in after a PPV event on average??? Operating costs must be high, but his payrolls are often under a million bucks?
Anyone think they could estimate?
I said "LIVE"
...welcome back.
Harry Temple: All right, pop quiz. Airport, gunman with one hostage. He's using her for cover; he's almost to a plane. You're a hundred feet away... Jack?
Jack: Shoot the hostage
No way strikefARCE can afford to pay what he really wants because they are tied up with fedor the unbelievable overpaid jerkoff.
Dan will take less and become a nothing in a nothing organization.
Thanks for knocking Bisping out Dan, you will always be remembered for that but you are a done dada...see ya.
You are absolutely, completely, totally fucking wrong man!
a PPV cost $50.
"Doesn't the UFC have the right to match any SF offer?"
Good point. I believe the average UFC contract does indeed have that clause. Long story short: Hendo's probably pullin' down some good scratch from SF.
"Hendo will be coming crawling back on all four to Dana begging to fight in the UFC"
I dunno. I get the felling that this will probably be Hendo's last stop. The UFC won't give him a nother crack at Silva (though he deserves it), so what is he waiting around for? He'll just be champ somewhere else!
@ Nut Puncher 9000
"The UFC wont be derailed by losing Hendo. THE BEST HW IN THE WORLD HAS NEVER FOUGHT IN THE UFC. And when you people make comments like "This is a sign" or some other dumb shit about why the UFC is doomed you just make yourself sound stupid."
No way is the UFC doomed. And yes, this will certainly not derail them.
But little things like this build up and the UFC giant loses a little more prestige.
And NP 9000, you are right. Let's wait for Strikeforce to get up to PPV speed. But if things keep going the way they are, we may get there sooner than later.
...and I think its sad that we didnt see anderson vs hendo again...cuz he has been the closest to beat the dude....
Who do you match him up with first? He probably won't fight Sokoudjou so that's out, King Mo isn't ready, Babalu is washed up, Randleman isn't deserving, nor is Mike Whitehead. I would pit Hendo against Rafeal Cavalcante. Feijao doesn't have a ton of experience but he's coming up hungry and has good skills. Cavalcante would want that fight because of what he'd have to gain, and if he loses it doesn't hurt his career too bad because if you lose to a legend like Hendo you can scratch it up to lack of experience.
Otherwise, Coker will have to find another worthy free agent to add to the LHW roster for Dan's warm up fight. I honestly can't think of any who might be available. Is Gilbert Yvel signed to anyone now?
All this talk I'm seeing about Strikeforce giving the UFC a 'run for it's money' was the same talk we heard when everyone tried to jump ship and head on over to Affliction.
That didn't work out too well, did it.
I really like Strikeforce and I think Coker is going in the right direction. Mainly, doing the exact opposite of the UFC and embracing cross-promotion. You expand your stable of fighters without taking all of the financial burden.
But its still a little early to start comparing SF and the UFC.
All that being said, I can understand why the UFC let Hendo go (his age and amount of cash he was asking), but letting him go is a bit of a black eye to the organization. The guys one of the best in the world, was one of the featured coaches on TUF, KO'd the other coach in SPECTACULAR fashion
...but Dana couldn't even sign him to a 3 fight deal?
IMO, the UFC cut off it's nose despite it's face.
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