MMA ODDS AND ENDS FOR TUESDAY: DC VS. HENDO RUMORED FOR UFC 175

Posted August 13, 2019

A matchup between two of the top-10 light heavyweights in the world is rumored to occur at UFC 175. According to a report from MMAFighting.com, Daniel Cormier is Very Likely to face legend Dan Henderson in UFC 175 this July in Las Vegas. Previously, Cormier had been linked to a struggle against Rafael Feijao, but the UFC has apparently thought twice about that matchup and will perform Cormier/Hendo instead. Even though the report was said to be false by UFC president Dana White through Twitter, all of us know that White likes to keep these kind of items in house until they are 100 percent official, and undoubtedly as the old expression goes,”Where there’s smoke there is fire.” I really do think this matchup between Cormier and Henderson occurs because it is the struggle that makes most sense in the 205lb division at the moment. There are a lot of people out there talking about how bad Henderson looked in the first two rounds of his fight with Shogun Rua at UFC Fight Night 38 a few weeks past, and he absolutely did not look as the Hendo of old for the first 10 minutes. But what people forget is that the fight was scheduled for 25 minutes, and Henderson got the work done in the 16th minute of the struggle. I feel like fans and press have been way overly critical of Henderson believing that, you knowthat he won the fight with Shogun. As far as Cormier goes, he’s been unbeaten in his mixed martial arts career and essentially untested for the most part as he’s been pretty much perfect in all his struggles, including his three at the UFC against Roy Nelson, Frank Mir, and Pat Cummins. But I genuinely believe Henderson is a more dangerous fighter compared to all three of those men, and this struggle between DC and Hendo isn’t a walk in the park for DC, despite what some people are saying. That being said, clearly Henderson would enter the fight with Cormier has a large favorite, if it really goes down. My guess is that DC opens roughly -400 for the fight, one which is likely to serve as the co-main occasion of UFC 175 when that event happens. I think that is a neutral place for DC, but I wouldn’t surprised at all if the betting public bets him up to a crazy number, either. Hopefully we get confirmation of this bout soon, because I think Hendo is the right test for DC and if Cormier can finish him in remarkable fashion, he will have really got his title taken against Jon Jones.
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