Calls for Hendo vs. Fedor superfight
After knocking out Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante on Saturday night, n Henderson now boasts the promotion’s light-heavyweight championship. Aside from that,…
After knocking out Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante on Saturday night, n Henderson now boasts the promotion’s light-heavyweight championship. Aside from that, he’s held PRIDE 183- and 205-pound titles, the PRIDE 2005 welterweight Grand Prix crown, the RINGS King of Kings tournament championship back in 1999, the UFC middleweight tournament championship in 1998, and of course, he was a two-time U.S. wrestling Olympian.
Last year I asked Henderson who he thought about fighting tin the promotion/ “I would love to have that chance to fight Fedor,” he said then. “I think that would be the ultimate challenge, and that’s what excites me.”
Emelianenko is actually an inch shorter than the American, and he usually weighs in around 230 pounds, about 25 pounds heavier than Hendo.
Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker admitted after that loss that Emelianenko could be re-inserted into the field as an alternate if need be, but instead of leaving him waiting, why not match him up against the organization’s other biggest name?
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