Dan Henderson plans on fighting two or three more years
Posted on March 22, 2012, 06:28 PM by Trent Reinsmith
At 41-years old Dan Henderson has some miles on his body, making his MMA debut in 1997. Since that fight, a TKO victory over Crezio de Souza, he has gone 29-8, with his last fight, a 25 minute battle with Marucio Rua, considered by many to be one of the best main event fights in UFC history.
Henderson is currently laying in wait, hoping to get a shot at the winner of the Jon Jones versus Rashad Evans UFC Light Heavyweight title bout, which will headline UFC 145 on April 21. If you think that Henderson is looking for that to be his final fight in the UFC you would be way off base.
Henderson has three fights remaining on his UFC contract and if he has his way he’ll add an extension to that and keep fighting for the promotion into his mid 40’s, “I've got three more fights on my deal, and I'll probably sign one more deal after that. So two or three more years [left].” Henderson then added, "I definitely won't be as old as Randy [Couture] when I retire!" – for more see ESPN.
Furher reading: Dan Henderson says he's only interested in the UFC Light Heavyweight title
Dan Henderson at UFC Trainer Press Conference at UFC 132 Weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo Credit: Scott Hirano.
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Basically at this point, I think Henderson just wants to Old Man "discipline" up and coming fighters/champions. Gotta love this guy, his killer instinct has never left, if anything it recently got more intense.
His first single KO punch was back in 2001 against Renzo Gracie Rd1 1:40 thats about the time he developed big punch power from a single wrestler to a striker as well. It was the KO over Wandi back in Pride that the world realized his "H-Bomb" well it was Japan and guy were falling by the American. He'll always be a legend whether he stops tomorrow or 5 years from now. Scrap, comes to mind when you think of Dan, stands his ground and digs in. Watch that Fedor fight again, that was quick lethal intent to finish. Fedor didnt know what hit him..
To bad Dan turned down the Shogun 2 fight :-(
I'm actually glad he did, because now shogun can fight Rampage.