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If you’re wondering why it’s taken Dan Henderson so long to return to action, the former PRIDE champion has a perfectly good reason for his absence from the Strikeforce scene.
“It wasn’t [up to] me,” Henderson said on Thursday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “I was wanting to get back in there pretty quickly, but I think part of the problem was CBS kind of a little bit faltering on their commitment to mixed martial arts, especially after the little escapade in the cage after my last fight on CBS.
“You know, I don’t quite understand that and they’re definitely still wanting to be involved in mixed martial arts and with Strikeforce, but I think they’re just gonna take their time on it a little bit more.”
Henderson admitted that one of the main reasons why he signed with Strikeforce late last year was due to the fact that the organization had a broadcast deal in place with CBS, and he was a little upset that his next fight, now scheduled for Dec. 4 against Renato “Babalu” Sobral on Showtime, won’t be airing on the network.