Hendricks: This is so unfair! I deserve the title shot. I EARNED IT! I EARNED IT! IT'S MINE! I'm going to hold my breath till I get a title shot!
Dfw: Listen... it's great you caught Kampmann. It's super great that you caught Fitch. Like... super duper great. But you ain't the 2nd coming of Christ. Some people thought you lost to Kos in the middle. But we'll put you on the card with Jake as a backup because you never know with these diaz's right?
Hendricks: Oh yeah I almost forgot I'm just Johnny Hendricks, not Anderson Silva.
I don't know if guys like Hendricks understand match making. GSP seems to understand it because he mentioned PPV.
Hendricks doesn't have as big of a following as Nick Diaz. People know that Nick Diaz comes to throw down and entertain.
GSP will probably be too strong for him and will do a bunch of wrestling but if you don't have that "it" factor attached to your name... nobody is going to care that much.
It's not like the UFC is the only org people watch, most people have seen Nick's StrikeForce fights and they were some barn burners.
Hendricks has to figure out how to get more fans. Look at Urijah Faber, he's probably always going to be in the big fights because people know who he is.
You have to have a little bit of WWE aura about yourself to make people want to see you get beat up or cheer for you.
Rory MacDonald is turning himself into a great heel. He's going to move up past Koscheck in a few.
I am as excited as fuck for both this fight and seeing Sonnen/Bones do TUF. Say what you want about the integrity of the sport, but at the end of the day this is entertainment too.
I am so grateful these are both going to happen. Thank you Uncle Dana, GSP and Nick Diaz.
LBH_RN - Jake Shields snuggles Kampman for 15 in a very boring fight and gets a shitty decision. His reward? A title shot. Hendricks puts Martin's lights out in the 1st round...told to wait.
LBH_RN - Jake Shields snuggles Kampman for 15 in a very boring fight and gets a shitty decision. His reward? A title shot. Hendricks puts Martin's lights out in the 1st round...told to wait.
Sadly, this. Dana can't see his own hypocrisy.
And before tht Shields dominated Hendo for 25 minutes
LBH_RN - Jake Shields snuggles Kampman for 15 in a very boring fight and gets a shitty decision. His reward? A title shot. Hendricks puts Martin's lights out in the 1st round...told to wait.
Sadly, this. Dana can't see his own hypocrisy.
And before tht Shields dominated Hendo for 25 minutes
well if you wanna get technical about it, Hendricks also put Jon Fitch to sleep prior to his last finish. 2 KO's over 2 top 5 WW's isn't good enough to warrant a title shot, but taking a split decision over the same guy who was KO'd and snuggling a washed-up-at-185 Hendo for 25 minutes is? K.
LBH_RN - Jake Shields snuggles Kampman for 15 in a very boring fight and gets a shitty decision. His reward? A title shot. Hendricks puts Martin's lights out in the 1st round...told to wait.
Sadly, this. Dana can't see his own hypocrisy.
And before tht Shields dominated Hendo for 25 minutes
well if you wanna get technical about it, Hendricks also put Jon Fitch to sleep prior to his last finish. 2 KO's over 2 top 5 WW's isn't good enough to warrant a title shot, but taking a split decision over the same guy who was KO'd and snuggling a washed-up-at-185 Hendo for 25 minutes is? K.
It's definitely good enough for a title shot, he should be next in line after Diaz. If the winner of Diaz-GSP doesn't fight Hendricks, then Hendricks will have a real cause for complaint.
At this point its just a question of sequence; Diaz has been in the queue for awhile, and is a potential big money fight (Diaz has a bigger fan base than Hendricks at this point).
It shouldn't matter to Hendricks whether he fights Diaz or GSP, so long as he gets the next title fight - and by that time, Hendricks fan base will be bigger, so he'll command a bigger purse. Which is why I think he's being so outspoken - he has to get his name out there, or he'll be another challenger only guaranteed $39,000 for the title fight. If he has a big fan base, he'll be guaranteed several hundred thousand. Waiting a few months, if he uses the time to build up his fan base, will pay off very well.
