Johny Hendricks Plans To Return In February Or March
Former UFC welterweight champion Johny Hendricks recently appeared on MMAJunkie Radio and revealed that he is leaving his longtime management firm, Team Takedown.
“(Team Takedown) has done a great job with me for the last eight years,” Hendricks today told MMAjunkie Radio. “We just couldn’t come to an agreement on certain things, and it was time for me to pull away.”
When asked about when he’ll fight again, Hendricks has a date.
“I would like to do Feb. 6,” said Hendricks, referencing UFC 196 in Las Vegas. “I don’t know if they’ve got a main event yet, but as of right now, that’s where my head’s at.”
“I’ve got to wait until I get cleared out of my management,” he said. “As soon as we break clean, that’s whenever it will give me a better understanding. As of right now, that’s what I’m shooting for. But if they say no, we want to keep you until February, I’ll probably have to fight early March.”
Hendricks was supposed to fight at UFC 192 against Tyron Woodley and had to pull out of the scheduled fight after having weight cutting issues. Even though UFC president Dana White said that he considered the former champion to be a middleweight now, but Hendricks continued to say that he would like to stay at welterweight.
