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Dan Henderson speaks to the MMA Hour to discuss many of the topics surrounding all the UFC 151 hoopla. He said his knee felt like it was just dangling there after he injured it. Obviously Henderson expresses the point of view that he would not pass up the fight like Jon Jones did. When questioned about knowing his injury, Hendo responded:
“I was very optimistic, I was told the MCL heals real fast. I had just under a month before the fight. Yeah, I was pretty optimistic it would get better. I could do even

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Jon Jones’ striking coach Mike Winkeljohn, is the latest to weigh-in on Jones’ decision to turn down a UFC 151 bout with Chael Sonnen after Dan Henderson was injured and withdrawn from the fight. Winkeljohn spoke with our good friends at Bloodyelbow.com and offered his defense of the champ.Coach Winkeljohn said: “Enough’s enough. I can’t sit back on the sidelines any longer. All I can say to everybody, don’t put this on Jon. There are others to blame. This UFC 151 problem should have been resolved weeks

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News surrounding the cancellation of UFC 151 continues to surface as time passes, and recently it came out that Dan Henderson did indeed injure his knee in training some time ago. According to his Muay Thai and striking coach Daniel Woirin, Henderson partially tore his MCL while defending a takedown in practice, but continued to push on in hopes of being able to fight. Woirin recently spoke to FightersOnlyMag.com about the precarious situation, stating the following:
“Dan Henderson got hurt three

With Dan Henderson out of the now cancelled UFC 151, the promotion had sought to replace him with former Middleweight contender Chael Sonnen. According to Dana White, UFC employees worked feverishly into Wednesday night and Thursday morning and as we all know, Jones turned down the fight. White broke the news on a special media call: “I was going to do this call, and this was obviously going to be a much different call this morning, but the one thing that I never thought in a million years would

The fallout of UFC 151 being cancelled is coming down on the MMA world with a quickness, and current UFC Lightweight contender Joe Lauzon has quickly stepped up to voice his opinion. Many fighters, fans, coaches, and journalists will run to heap negative criticism upon Jon Jones and his camp, and Lauzon is no different. Speaking to MixedMartialArts.com, Lauzon expressed his opinion immediately, with strong conviction:
“Not only has this screwed over all the fans that bought tickets, non refundable

The fallout of UFC 151 being cancelled is coming down on the MMA world with a quickness, and current UFC Lightweight contender Joe Lauzon has quickly stepped up to voice his opinion. Many fighters, fans, coaches, and journalists will run to heap negative criticism upon Jon Jones and his camp, and Lauzon is no different. Speaking to MixedMartialArts.com, Lauzon expressed his opinion immediately, with strong conviction:
“Not only has this screwed over all the fans that bought tickets, non refundable

This week’s edition of “UFC Tonight” has confirmed something that has speculated upon for quite some time. Former UFC Lightweight champion Frankie Edgar will indeed make the drop to fight in the 145 lb. division. After spending almost two-and-a-half years fully entrenched in the 155 lb. title scene due to six fights with three rematches, Edgar will now cut weight to make Featherweight.
Recent weeks have shown a ton of controversy surrounding Edgar, as many thought that he had won his