Dan Hendo went from being the next guy in line to bang against Anderson Silva to leaving UFC and potentially signing with Strikeforce (MMAscrapsradio is going to accuse me of taking that line but he's just bitter because I'm far nicer than him in Tekken). Earlier this month Dan Henderson said his contract negotiations for UFC didn't look so bright and that if Dana White couldn't come to terms, Henderson said he would be interested in fighting for Strikeforce.

Tonight, Kevin Iole from Yahoo! Sports spoke with Dana White and Iole reported that "White confirmed he was unable to come to terms with Henderson". After Hendo's ridunkulous knockout of Bisping at UFC 100, dude thought that leaving the crowd at the MGM arena in a pile of drool would be enough for him to get a title shot at Anderson Silva. Well Silva's camp just didn't feel Henderson earned a title shot at the champ and after UFC 103, Vitor Belfort was next in line to partake in an altercation with Anderson Silva. Hendo threw his 'WTF dude?' face on and jumped in the 'contract negotiation' cage with Dana...and it ended with this:

“We have a good relationship with Henderson, and there are no hard feelings...He had a figure he believed he was worth, and we had our own figure, and we weren’t able to get together.”

So it looks like Dan is headed to Strikeforce which means that he will fight in Japan once again. Henderson pretty much has a Japanese passport. 21 of his 32 fights have been in Japan and Hendo (which is Japanese for Henderson...just made that up but I'm probably right anyway) went through a 5 year span in which every fight was on Japanese soil (damn we miss Pride). [Source]

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0 # ChromeOnly 2009-10-16 10:34

Lets all hope Scott Coker wont do what Tom Atencio did with Affliction and pick up good talent and not have the money to fund the company a year later.

Dan Henderson should really go to Dream since all of his old Pride bosses own that shit. Good look.

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0 # Guest 2009-10-16 11:13

Dana is an idiot....I would understand if dan was just some new guy with a couple lucky punches but he's a veteran badass. Just hope he finds some good competition over there.

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0 # Jonesy 2009-10-16 11:54

I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand it sucks cause Hendo was my favorite middleweight, but thats also cool cause now I don't have to shell out 45 bucks or put up with drunk assholes at Bdubs to watch him fight now.

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0 # Guest 2009-10-16 14:11

DREAM and Strikeforce are uniting titles so if Strikeforce goes under it's off to DREAM. K1 should have bought PRIDE.

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0 # Guest 2009-10-18 01:31

Man what the fuck.

Who is there that can possibly challenge him in Strikeforce? He's going to end up going on a Tomato picking spree just KO'ing cans left and right.

The only possibly entertaining fight we could see from this venture is Mousasi Vs. Henderson, if he moved up in weight.

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