{"id":219540,"date":"2017-01-26T09:53:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=219540"},"modified":"2017-01-26T09:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:53:36","slug":"johny-hendricks-seriously-considering-retirement-if-move-to-185-is-unsuccessful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/johny-hendricks\/johny-hendricks-seriously-considering-retirement-if-move-to-185-is-unsuccessful\/","title":{"rendered":"Johny Hendricks seriously considering retirement if move to 185 is unsuccessful"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of Johny Hendricks UFC 207 scrap with Neil Magny at the end of 2016,<\/a> the former welterweight champion revealed that he could very well be on his way to retirement depending on how the fight played out. Unfortunately for Hendricks, not only did he miss weight by three and a half pounds<\/a>, he then dropped a unanimous decision to Magny.<\/p>\n

The loss made it three straight for Johny Hendricks, who is now just 1-4 since losing the title to Robbie Lawler at UFC 181 in 2014.<\/a> In addition, Hendricks missed weight for his two most recent bouts, and was forced out of a fight with Tyron Woodley due to an emergency from a weight-cut complication. This has led to UFC President Dana White forcing Hendricks to make the jump to middleweight, where he will fight Hector Lombard on February 19th. Ahead of that fight, Hendricks has revealed that he could very well retire depending on how his move to middleweight goes.<\/p>\n

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He spoke to Submission Radio:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 Yes, I said if I lost I would (retire). \u2026 (But) if I fight good at \u201985, well then I\u2019m gonna stay there. But if I don\u2019t do good, then guess what? It\u2019s time. I had my fun, I had my time. It\u2019s not worth going out there and training for 12 weeks and then being done, or going out there and just losing. And that\u2019s really what it\u2019s about. Here\u2019s one thing that really leads me to believe that fight was mine \u2013 did you hear the boos after that? The whole crowd thought I won that fight. So I don\u2019t want to leave whenever the fans think I\u2019ve won. That\u2019s really where my head\u2019s at: They believe I won that fight, so I\u2019m gonna do one more. I don\u2019t care about retirement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a time to listen to your body and there\u2019s a time not to, and I\u2019ve decided not to listen to it for the last year,\u201d Hendricks said. \u201cI\u2019ve wanted to move up to \u201985 for over a year now. But I still know that I could compete, I know that welterweight was a great division for me, but now it\u2019s not. If I can\u2019t go out to perform, if I\u2019m performing at my worst, and I keep losing, what does that do for me? That\u2019s just a waste of camp and a waste of time and a waste of money.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 Now it\u2019s really time for me to listen to my body and say, \u2018Hey, something\u2019s got to give.\u2019 I\u2019ve either got to retire or I\u2019ve got to move up. And why not? I\u2019ve got one fight left on my contract, why not see what happens at 185?\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Johny<\/p>\n

Only time will tell if the former champ is able to experience a career resurgence at middleweight.<\/p>\n