After a successful victory over “Ruthless” Robbie Lawler at the June 16 Strikeforce: “Los Angeles” event Babalu wasted no time in calling out former Pride champion Dan Henderson. Renato “Babalu” Sobral spoke recently with MMA Weekly:
“I won’t never punch and try to hurt my friends, but I would like to ask for a fight, and all the respect that I have, in the beginning of my career I fought Dan Henderson in Japan and lost to him. I don’t want to disrespect, but I would like to fight him”
The match Sobral is speaking of occured under the RINGS promotion and happened 10 years ago, so really it seems that a rematch would be more than overdue. Expect Strikeforce to make this happen, and expect Henderson to look much better than his previous fight against Jake Shields.