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“I know I can’t make 170 anymore,” Hendricks said to BJPENN.com. “I had my body shut down too many times. Right now, I’ve been lifting weights and staying in shape and training my guys. But if they introduced a 175-pound division, I’d be there and fight again. I’m too short to be a middleweight. I can do okay at middleweight, but it would have to be good matchups for me. At 170 I can’t make it.

“I’m only 36 years old. I still run two miles, and I walk around at 220. I’m not far off where I was when I was fighting. At 170, I think I was 210-215, but 170 was never in the realm. The body mass got too high. If they came out with a 175-pound division, give me three months and I’d make it and fight again.
“The bare-knuckle thing... I thought I would be fighting a good striker, but I went through six opponents.... If you look at those guys, they are getting cut a lot and they break their hands a lot. I don’t want to break my hands every fight. I don’t want to get cut. There are easier ways to make a living. The likelihood of that happening in the UFC, all those cuts and broken hands [is] slim. . . . The UFC is a lot safer than bare-knuckle.”

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