Dan Henderson to Get Next Crack at Jones?

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UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones hopes to fight four times in 2012 and Dan Henderson could be his first opponent of the year before a potential showdown with rival Rashad Evans, UFC President Dana White said in a recent appearance on ESPN Radio in Las Vegas (via Cagewriter).

“[Jones] said he wanted to take all this time off and then they were calling me…saying he wanted to fight as soon as possible. He’s ready to go,” White said. ”What could end up happening is Dan Henderson fights Jon Jones first, then [Jones next fight] would be close to the time that Rashad fights. Or we could see how things go with Rashad [against Phil Davis] and Rashad fights him first.”

Jones (15-1) is less than a month removed from capping off a four-win 2011 with a second-round submission of Lyoto Machida in the “Fight of the Night” at UFC 140. Henderson (29-8 ) left Strikeforce, where he was the light heavyweight title-holder, and returned to the UFC with a unanimous decision over Mauricio “Shogun” Rua in a “Fight of the Year” front-runner at UFC 139.

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Rashad Who?!

Why even wait for Rashad? Hendo is ready and willin and so is Jones... MAKE THE FIGHT AND MAKE THE $$$ DANA!

Rashad is gonna cry about this on Twitter in 3.......2.......1........

Chrom wrote:

Why even wait for Rashad? Hendo is ready and willin and so is Jones... MAKE THE FIGHT AND MAKE THE $$$ DANA!

This! Besides Rashad has his hands full with Phil Davis... Once Jones is done with Dan and Rashad and Phil have danced..... it will be time ... finally for Jones vs. Evans!

As long as Jones is allowed to take the same amount of "supplemental" testosterone that Hendo is then I say go for it.

^^^

Yut.

hmmmm...what other pre-champion past their prime fighter can they give to Jones next for a title defense?

Shamrock?

nooooooooo, that fucker is gonna run through every one of my favorite fighter. machida, shogun, rampage, and now hendo? lol if he fights fedor then ill personally go and hit him with a crowbar

Damn we need a drooling emoticon. I would love to see Jones beat Henderson to a bloody, crying, blubbering heap...... omg I'm envisioning blackened eyes, broken nose, several lacerations possibly a chest contusion? YES Dana please please

Fedor would like to fight Jones ... he really would.... but Fedor's already got a fight scheduled with Kyle Maynard.

Jones is going to tool Hendo, but it will be interesting to see if Hendo can land the H-bomb. I still say Jones wins, but hell if Rampage and Shogun couldn't tag Jones I don't see how Hendo will do it.

As much as I love Hendo, hell never land the H bomb on Bones, hes too fast and that reach advantage will be insane.

I can see Hendo bullrushing him and swingly wild like he did when Andersen had him in trouble in the 2nd round and ALMOST landed. Hes dangerous when hes hurt. But I dont like this matchup at all for Dan.

Krieger wrote:

Damn we need a drooling emoticon. I would love to see Jones beat Henderson to a bloody, crying, blubbering heap...... omg I'm envisioning blackened eyes, broken nose, several lacerations possibly a chest contusion? YES Dana please please

YES,Yes,yes!!!!!! 100% agree. Kill him jones!!!!!!!

THE UFC is getting so predictable it is absurd.
Looking forward to see Bones face a new challenge in Henderson,
I don;t care what anyone says any veteran fighter poses big threats
to any young buck imo.

Any fighter poses threats to any other fighter for that matter. But you put an older guy that's done his time that has telegraphed strikes, has slowed down over the years and has ONE facet that he relies on scaring people with and it's only natural for one to say the blatant winner of this fight will be the younger, faster, far more multi faceted current champion...by a large margin.

Henderson doesnt telegraph his strikes..... oh yeah he does
Henderson hasnt slowed down.... oh yeah he has
Henderson CAN scare Jones.... oh yeah he cant

OOOOoooo there is gonna be an ass kicking in this fight.... and Jones dont have no ass!

Yep...fo sho. Gonna be a Rampage/Rua/Machida style beatdown.

What the hell...then let's give him Ken, Chuck and Randy for his next 3 opponents...in that order....just for good measure.