If GSP wants Anderson Silva next, Johny Hendricks will have to wait!

GSP can face Anderson Silva next, if he asks for it though.

The talks for superfights start again, in the video below Dana White says Johny Hendricks will have to wait again if GSP asks for Anderson Silva. That is if Silva wins his next fight against Chris Weidman on July 6, 2013 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

I am literally going to call Georges St-Pierre today and I’m gonna see what he wants to do. If Jones beats Sonnen, then we gotta wait for Anderson. Anderson’s gotta beat Weidman.

If Georges says to me, ‘I want to fight Anderson Silva,’ do you think I’m gonna go, ‘No you’re not, you’re fighting Johny Hendricks?’

If St-Pierre lost that fight, he’d still be 170 lbs champion. He’d go down and fight Hendricks for the title.

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GSP talks about Hollywood, Nick Diaz, Johny Hendricks

While Georges St-Pierre is busy filming his movie, Johny Hendricks will be training already and have a head start. But in the interview below, St-Pierre said he's already training.

UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre is set to face Johny Hendricks for his next title defense, on an event that will be named later. That will give St-Pierre plenty of time to film his movie role as "Baltroc the Leaper" in the upcoming "Captain America" sequel titled "Winter Soldier". Hendricks is under the impression he'll be the only one training hard while his opponent is relaxing in his trailer, sipping cappuccinos.

But GSP has an update for Hendricks:

I'm already training. I train all the time. I heard Hendricks say 'Oh, when he's doing the movie, I'll be training.' Well, I have some news for him, I'm already training now. I trained two, three days after the Nick Diaz fight, I was in the gym training. The movie has nothing to to with the end of my career. I love what I do right now.

Source: MMA Mania

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Johny Hendricks wants GSP title fight in August 2013

Ariel Helwani gave an update on Tuesday (March 19, 2013) on the condition of Johny Hendricks' hand following his fight with Carlos Condit at UFC 158.

Following his UFC 158 win with Carlos Condit last Saturday night (March 16, 2013), Hendricks was worried that he might broke his left hand during the fight.

However, three days after the event, he revealed his hand is injury free and he will be ready for a title shot. That will be when George St-Pierre is ready though, because he decided to take a short vacation. Hendricks himself prefers the fight to take place in August 2013. He says he'll take the fight anywhere, anyplace, anytime. Ariel Helwani provided the following update on Hendricks' hand at "UFC Tonight" on FUEL TV:

"Of course he had the big win on Saturday night, and after the win over Carlos Condit, he told us that he was afraid he may have broken his dangerous left hand. Well, that does not appear to be the case. I spoke to him today and he said he thinks what happened was he dislocated a couple of fingers early in the fight and then as the fight went on --of course it went the full 15-minutes-- it popped back into place. That's why he was feeling so much pain after the fight but right now he doesn't think he broke his hand and he's going to have an x-ray just to make sure everything's okay, but he's pretty confident there was no break. He's hoping that he'll get the title shot against GSP in August. He says he'll take it anywhere, anyplace, anytime. He's really still on cloud nine after getting the shot, he's in such a good mood right now."

Let's hope nothing comes in between Hendricks and his title shot, because nothing is certain when you work for Dana White. The only thing they have to do is set up a date for the event to take place.

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Who should be next for the UFC 158 winners

With UFC 158 behind us, one of the most fun things to do for the fans is to make match-ups for future events. These are the fights to make for the winners/losers of UFC 158's main card.

Nate Marquardt:
With 2 losses over Jake Ellenberger and Tarec Saffiedine, Marquardt dropped out of the top 10 welterweights. Maybe a match with Rick Story would be a good match to make. Story defeated Quinn Mulhern in the first round by TKO and would matchup good with Marquardt.

Carlos Condit:
Even though a lot of people thought Carlos Condit won his fight with Johny Hendricks, the judges decided in the favor of "Bigg Rigg". Now, even with 2 straight losses Condit still has lot of opponents which he could fight. A rematch with Nick Diaz is what a lot of fans want to see, but I see Condit fighting Tarec Saffiedine next. It would be a good test for the Belgian fighter to see what he's made of.

Nick Diaz:
After his fight with GSP, he said he was going to retire. But we've heard this talk before. If he chooses not to retire I would match him up with Robbie Lawler. Robbie Lawler won his last fight with Josh Koscheck in spectacular fashion delivering serious punches which knocked him out. It would be interesting for Diaz because Lawler and Diaz both like to brawl.

Jake Ellenberger:
A great matchup would be Demian Maia. I would like to see Maia prove himself against a dangerous striker, and that's what Ellenberger is. One interesting thing to see aswell is if Ellenberger can handle a superb BJJ artist in Demian Maia.

Georges St-Pierre vs. Johny Hendricks:
Obviously this is the matchup to make. Hendricks has four straight win against top guys now, and he is the legit number one contender. Georges St-Pierre told everyone in the post press conference that he wants to fight the best guy, and Hendricks is the best for now. It would be interesting to see what gameplan St-Pierre will come up with to fight against a powerfull strike with great wrestling.

What do you guys think about these potential matchups? Let me know in the comment section below.

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UFC 158: Condit says that Hendricks is 'more dangerous version' of Dan Henderson

Photo by: Bleacher Report


Carlos Condit believes that UFC 158 opponent Johny Hendricks and Dan Henderson have a lot in common, but Hendricks brings more to the table.

Carlos Condit had risen through the ranks of the WEC and UFC without many setbacks until he was defeated by UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre at UFC 154. The 28-year-old was expected to rematch GSP's teammate Rory MacDonald at this weekend's UFC 158 card but MacDonald pulled out. Immediately, Johny Hendricks called up the UFC and asked to fight Condit and was granted the opportunity. Condit spoke to Damon Martin of Bleacher Report about how much he'd get out of a win over Hendricks:

"The reward could be pretty sweet. He's real high profile, he's pretty much cleared out the division, and he's definitely the No. 1 contender. A win over him would put me right back in the No. 1 contender's spot."

He was also asked to make the comparison between Hendricks and MMA legend Dan Henderson, who is also a wrestler with devastating power in his hands:

"There are some similarities there but I think the difference is Hendo is towards the end of his career, he's not as versatile as he used to be. Ultimately he kind of is a one-trick pony. Hendricks, he does have that in his arsenal, but he has a lot of other things. He's still athletic, he still moves really well. He's a more dangerous version of the one-punch, KO wrestler that Hendo is."

That's a pretty solid assessment to me. While Hendricks hasn't proven to have elite MMA wrestling yet either, Henderson's MMA wrestling has always been pretty overrated. Nonetheless, a win for Condit might not get him another immediate shot at the UFC welterweight title, but at least he understands what he's up against on Saturday night.

Source: Bloody Elbow

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