Dan Henderson campaign to fight for the middleweight belt against Michael Bisping, current champion of the division, worked. The duel, which still has no defined location, however, must take place in October, is agreed verbally, as it was found the Combate.com, on Friday. The official announcement will come out in the coming weeks, as well as the signing of contracts. If Hendo is confirmed as the next challenger, he will leave behind Ronaldo Jacare - the third in the ranking category - and Anderson Silva, former owner of the belt and defeated the English in February, who longed for the chance.
In 13th place in the middleweight rankings, Dan Henderson has uneven performance in his recent retrospect. In the last nine fights that did, was defeated in six of them. On the other hand, applied devastating knockout of Hector Lombard the last time he worked, later this month. The veteran has faced Bisping in 2009 when he knocked out impressively. Hendo was the opponent asked for "The Count" in the weeks after winning the belt.
Bisping is eight years younger and surprised to win middleweight belt when he knocked out Luke Rockhold this month. Before that won Anderson Silva, Thales Leites and CB Dollaway
