{"id":89390,"date":"2014-03-13T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=89390"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:58:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T19:58:27","slug":"hendricks-says-middleweight-division-may-be-in-his-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/hendricks-says-middleweight-division-may-be-in-his-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Hendricks Says Middleweight Division May Be In His Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufc-1167-results-gsp-retains-title-defeats-hendricks-by-way-of-split-decision\/johny-hendricks-wins\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74894\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74894\" title=\"JOHNY HENDRICKS WINS\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JOHNY-HENDRICKS-WINS-300x207.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JOHNY-HENDRICKS-WINS-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JOHNY-HENDRICKS-WINS-361x250.png 361w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JOHNY-HENDRICKS-WINS.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u201cI\u2019d love to fight at 185. Not having to cut down to 170? Are you kidding me? I walk around at 215, 220. That\u2019s an average cut for a 185-pounder. That\u2019s probably what the 185ers are walking around at. So the only thing that hurts me is that I\u2019m 5-foot-9. I still thought about it, and I talked to my coaches, too. It doesn\u2019t hurt me because everybody that I fight is 6-, 6-foot-2 with a 75-, 76-inch reach. They\u2019re all tall guys, and I have to get inside of them. Then you start thinking of some of the great fighters. Mike Tyson, he\u2019s one of them. He fought everybody that was way bigger than him. The only thing I would have to do is get some strength. I\u2019m very strong at 215, but I have to lose some muscle in camp to get down to 170.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/03\/ufc-171-headliner-johny-hendricks-not-ruling-out-future-move-to-middleweight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>, this weekend&#8217;s UFC 171 headliner, Johny Hendricks, discussed the future and possibly a second division to test himself in.<\/p>\n<p>Think he could make an impact at middleweight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019d love to fight at 185. Not having to cut down to 170? Are you kidding me? I walk around at 215, 220. That\u2019s an average cut for a 185-pounder. That\u2019s probably what the 185ers are walking around at. So the only thing that hurts me is that I\u2019m 5-foot-9. I still thought about it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":74894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[189,7593,7747,7748,7009,480,7010,777,937,6691],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hendricks Says Middleweight Division May Be In His Future | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/hendricks-says-middleweight-division-may-be-in-his-future\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hendricks Says Middleweight Division May Be In His Future | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cI\u2019d love to fight at 185. 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