Opinion: Dan Henderson
Dan Henderson recently signed with Strikeforce after the UFC decided not to re-new his contract due to the fact he was asking for too much money.
First off, I like the idea that Dan Henderson has moved along to Strikeforce. Henderson is a fairly big name in MMA and he will join some also very well known fighters at Strikeforce such as Fedor Emelianenko, Fabricio Werdum, Jake Shields and Gegard Mousassi. Maybe with the amount of exposure and the quality of fighters Strikeforce now has we may soon start to see some decent competition between them and the UFC.
Now onto Dan Henderson himself! Scott Coker already told Fanhouse that he will be fighting at both middleweight and light heavyweight during his time at Strikeforce. Obviously there are a lot of quality fighters in both weight divisions that Dan Henderson could go up against.
If Henderson was to start off at middleweight I would like to see him go up against Cung Le to see who would then go onto face Jake Shields for the title sometime later next year. I realize that this could prose a problem though with timing because Cung Le is scheduled to fight next week and Henderson is not scheduled to fight until Q2 of 2010 which would leave Shields waiting until possibly Q3 of 2010 before he even gets to defend his title for the first time. Of course Henderson vs Shields right off the bat is an option but then Cung Le would be left looking for some promising competition.
The only fight at light heavyweight for Henderson that I see being any good is him and Gegard Mousassi for the title. Another potential bout could be a rematch between Dan Henderson and Reneto “Babalu” Sobral to decide if Henderson is good enough to go for the title.
When it is announced who Henderson will fight in his debut you will be able to find it here on MMA-Live.com.
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