Hendo Refutes White’s Claim | Has No Desire To Fight Chael Sonnen

[No More Sorrow]

“Chael lives up in Oregon but I know him real well. He was with me and Randy [Couture] when we first started our team. I don’t have any real desire to fight at middleweight. The only guy I’d cut weight for is Anderson Silva, win or lose that could still happen. But it’s not high up on my list at all. Silva’s the only guy I’d cut weight for. I’ve got the light-heavyweight thing in my mind and that’s it. I’d fight Anderson Silva but I’m only interested in the UFC light-heavyweight title right now.â€

Ask UFC president Dana White who Dan Henderson is fighting next and he will tell you that Dan will fight anyone who holds eight the middleweight or light-heavyweight title and that includes Chael Sonnen.

This caught many off guard as Hendo and Sonnen are long-time teammates under the same “Team Quest†banner.

In this interview with ESPN, Dan Henderson denies White’s claim and said there is only one person on his list of potential middleweight opponents and that is Anderson Silva.

Wouldn't want to see this fight anyways. I don't care what he says i don't think he'll cut weight to fight Anderson.

 

[Ryan]

Like I said in the other topic, that's a poor excuse for not fighting someone. I don't care to see Hendo fight Silva though. Let's all be honest here, he'd get destroyed.

 

[No More Sorrow]

Basically.

He'll get his title shot, but he wont be dropping down to MW to fight Anderson. It'll be Light Heavy Weight and J.Jones is gonna mess him up.

 

[Troy]

I don't mind this. Henderson wants to remain at Light Heavyweight but would drop to face Silva who is one of the greatest of all time plus Henderson would want to revenge the loss he had to Silva. If he doesn't want to fight Sonnen that is fine by me, he is in a different division anyway so there is no real reason to put them against each other.

 

[Ryan]

There's no way he can beat Jon Jones. UFC basically has 4 champions right now that appear to be unstoppable. Jones, Silva, GSP and Aldo just dominate their divisions. Jones hasn't had many title defenses, but he pretty much destroyed Shogun then Rampage and then Machida with no trouble at all. Hendo is no where near as good as Shogun, so I don't see him beating Jones. I really think Evans is the only person at LHW that even has a shot right now.