Henderson was interested in SF HW tournament
Dan Henderson is not a heavyweight, but he told Strikeforce he’d consider competing in the promotion’s upcoming heavyweight tournament. They…
Dan Henderson is not a heavyweight, but he told Strikeforce he’d consider competing in the promotion’s upcoming heavyweight tournament.
They had kind of approached me about fighting in that heavyweight tournament just to see how I’d feel about it, Henderson revealed recently during a Savage Dog Show interview on the Sherdog Radio Network. I told them I was open to it. It was interesting. Definitely a huge challenge, and that’s one of the reasons why I’m still in the sport, just to challenge myself.
I think there’s a couple of matchups that would have been interesting for me or fun to do. I don’t think I would have won the tournament by any means, but possibly. Of course I said that when I went into that Rings ‘King of Kings’ tournament. I didn’t think I was going to win it, but I was going to do my best.
I would probably have to put money on either Fedor or Overeem. Overeem hasn’t really been tested lately past the first few minutes of a fight. He’s a monster. He’s a beast these days.
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Listen to entire interview... (beginning at 1:19:18) with Henderson, who also discussed his upcoming fight against Rafael Feijao Cavalcante.