Rick Story just essentially handled Johnny Hendricks wrestling quite well. That was an amazing fight between two guys who canceled out a lot of their strengths. My read was that Story’s striking would be the difference. It was.
I had Story winning that fight. The third round stalled a little bit, but that was attributed to Hendricks amazing front headlock control then followed up with on the cage work. Story was able to hold different switches and hand on wrist control to stall takedowns. Even when taken down, Hendricks was not able to fully control it. To be able to stifle a Hendricks takedown is a really impressive accomplishment imo.
This was a very good technical fight and shows Hendricks improvement over his last 5 fights have led to a more complete fighter, but it also shows how good Rick Story is right now.