At UFC 161 light heavyweight’s Rashad Evans and Dan Henderson will square off in the main event.
Henderson has a decorated wrestling career, but his bread and butter is the “H-Bomb.” Evans wants nothing to do with the stand-up game, in fact he’s making a big goal for himself – 50 takedowns.
“I had a chance to compete against some of the best mixed martial artists of all-time:Chuck Liddell, Forrest Griffin, Machida, Rampage Jackson, Tito Ortiz, Jon Jones, now Dan Henderson. I’m excited about the opportunity to fight Dan Henderson. He’s definitely on the top of that list of some of the best and some of the hall-of-famers I’ve competed against. I know what I want to do to get the results that I want to get: Trust in myself and gettin’ it done. Takedown, ground and pound, roll up our sleeves and get dirty and go to work. I’m gonna try to get 50 takedowns this fight. 50. If get him down on the ground, I want to ground and pound him until he’s done. Dan’s right hand is very dangerous. He knocks everybody out with it, hard. He just knocks them the hell out and they sleep for a long time. I don’t think it’ll be a mistake to trade with him, I’ve got some power too. Let’s not confuse this whole situation. I’m not going to go in there and stand in front of him and try to bang it out and hope to God I don’t get hit with that big right hand. I’m going to be smart. He’s gonna want to knock me out. It’s not gonna happen. He’s not knocking me out. I’m not going anywhere. I may have stumbled a little bit, fell down, but I get myself back up, dust myself off. I’m a top competitor. I deserve a chance to fight for the belt.”
