Lombard: Hendo never gave a **** about me
Hector Lobard: “He never gave a **** about me. I went there, and he never talked to me, so I was like, OK, no worries. And the week after, I made a move.”
UFC middleweight Hector Lombard appeared recently on MMAjunkie Radio, ahead of his fight with legend Dan Henderson at UFC 199 on June 4, 2016 at The Forum in Inglewood, California.?
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Lombard said when he first moved to the US from Australia for MMA training, it was at Henderson’s Team Quest South, in Temecula, Calif. It was apparently not a good fit, and Lombard ended up training at the famed American Top Team in Coconut Creek, Florida, which was a great fit.
He never gave a **** about me, said Lombard, as transcribed by Steven Marrocco for MMAjunkie. I went there, and he never talked to me, so I was like, OK, no worries. And the week after, I made a move.
I’m very excited about fighting him. He’s one of the guys I look up to. Nevertheless, I’m going to go and knock him out. But it’s going to be an entertaining fight.
The fight will be at middleweight, after a not notably successful four-fight stint at welterweight. Lombard is coming off his first KO loss, to Neil Magny at 171, and had a win overturned for a failed PED test. Lomnard vowed to never return to welterweight.
I’m probably going to go to 205, to be honest, he said. Between 185 and 205.
I’m a guy that never had injuries, throughout my whole career, and I started getting injuries, and I’m like, ‘What the heck is going on?’ And the reason is, your body has very little nutrients, so I was getting injured left and right. The weight cut harms your body a lot. I’m a person that has no fat on me. I’m very muscular. So all these muscles, when you suck all the juice of them, it’s brutal.
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