{"id":64357,"date":"2013-07-15T10:24:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T17:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=64357"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:57:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:57:13","slug":"anthony-pettis-comments-on-title-shot-against-henderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/anthony-pettis-comments-on-title-shot-against-henderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Pettis Comments on Title Shot Against Henderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/anthony-pettis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/anthony-pettis.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"anthony pettis\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/anthony-pettis.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/anthony-pettis-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/anthony-pettis-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t like nothing happened. I tore my LCL, it&#8217;s still a serious injury, but it isn&#8217;t as bad as an ACL or meniscus tear. Minimum is supposed to be six weeks out, but I&#8217;ve got a good therapist here, and I feel confident enough that I can take this fight,&#8221; Pettis stated. &#8220;You can&#8217;t say no when the UFC calls, especially for a title shot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I actually went back (to training) last week which is the crazy thing. I went back, sparred for the first time, felt good and I was thinking October for Josh Thomson. That&#8217;s what I was getting ready for, trying to get back in the gym. The UFC called with the best news of my life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m even thinking like &#8216;damn, could TJ Grant be really hurt?&#8217;, is this part of some bigger plan? It&#8217;s just crazy. The way it happened and the way it&#8217;s playing out. It&#8217;s one of those storybook fairytales,&#8221; Pettis said. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t supposed to happen, but it worked out perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was thinking the same thing, like TJ Grant can&#8217;t get hurt, this isn&#8217;t true. Two guys can&#8217;t get hurt in two divisions in back-to-back title fights. I don&#8217;t know, it just turned out in my favor. I don&#8217;t want to think about it more. This is the biggest fight of my life in my hometown. I just want that contract to come so I can sign it and it can be 100 percent.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/1702898-anthony-pettis-this-is-the-biggest-fight-of-my-life-in-my-hometown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bleacher Report<\/a>, Anthony Pettis explained his excitement to fight Benson Henderson in front of his hometown crowd. <\/p>\n<p>Can he pull the upset and beat Benson for a second time? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t like nothing happened. I tore my LCL, it&#8217;s still a serious injury, but it isn&#8217;t as bad as an ACL or meniscus tear. 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