Filed under: Strikeforce
Put away the rocking chair, Dan Henderson is not ready for the retirement home just yet. Writing Henderson off was the instinct of some fans and media after Henderson’s last fight, saying he’d gotten old fast and that his days as an elite fighter were gone for good.
Even in this sport where we’re usually forced to come to conclusions based on 15 minutes of observation — and often less — it was a severe overreaction.
As long as Henderson brings his thunderous right hand, his granite chin and wrestling pedigree, he’ll have the opportunity to be in any fight. Just ask Renato “Babalu” Sobral, who tried and failed on a takedown try, and paid for it by eating a series of hellacious right hands that turned his lights out in less than two minutes in the main event of last night’s Strikeforce show.