That’s the question on everyone’s mind following a dominating performance over 15 fight UFC veteran, Clay Guida.
Henderson dominated from the get go, dropping Guida within the first 30 seconds after the two traded wild shots. He used a successful strategy of stuffing Guida’s takedowns and making him strike with him. In the 3rd round Guida managed to muster his most successful offense of the fight. During a scramble Guida found himself latching onto a very tight guillotine choke that, seemingly, had Henderson in quite a bit of trouble. Henderson weathered the storm and finished the fight on top of Guida throwing bombs. The judges gave Henderson the win (30-27,29-28 and 30-27) after three rounds of incredible action.
Leading up to the fight, Dana White stated that the winner would be in line to face Frankie Edgar for the Lightweight title in Japan. He stayed true to that promise by announcing the fight at the post fight press conference.
Edgar is coming off of, perhaps, the be...
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