While it isn’t one of the most anticipated fights on the UFC 141 card, there are bound to be some very strong ramifications in the welterweight division should Johny Hendricks manage to pull off the upset against Jon Fitch.
For Johny Hendricks, he would take a big leap in notoriety and make a substantial gain in the welterweight rankings.
When you take a look at the division, there are easily 15 fighters who are better than Hendricks at this point. A convincing win would push him into the top ten and add yet another up-and-coming contender to this stacked division.
With regard to Jon Fitch, a loss to Hendricks would be devastating.
Fitch is already known as a fighter who will do just enough to win without any regard for how he does it. If he can win by getting an opponent down, and then barely improving his position throughout each round to avoid the stand up, that is what he’ll do.
Fitch does not care about those who say he is a boring fighter, he just cares about winning. Should Fitch lose to Hendricks, it would remove him from any kind of serious title-shot talk for quite some time.
Will a Hendricks win dramatically shake up the welterweight division as a whole? No, but it will thrust him into another PPV card and give him the chance to progress his UFC career.
There is too much talent ahead of him to begin speaking about a possible title run should he beat Fitch.
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