One thing I noticed about Johny

[Luger]

He can't fight well against an incoming attack.
He just froze up.
He threw no counter strikes.
His head-movement stopped, as soon as Kelvin went in.
It was weird watching it.

 

[ortizgnp]

 

[Ruthless_RL]

USADA + Robbie + Wonderboy = No Hendricks

 

[Luger]

Haha
He still could use some basic technique

 

[Rico]

Johnny actually actually got worse as he became more technically proficient (if that makes any sense).

He's become predictable and only effective in the pocket. Also, lost his explosion in his punches and TDs.....

 

[Reach4theSky]

Kelvin was eating his shots no prob...which broke Johny mentally..

 

[Koro_11]

Ya hard to believe that guy gave GSP his toughest fight.

 

[vigneshm1995]

Wonderboy took his soul, that was a pretty embarrassing beatdown
Kind of like Joanna vs Esparza

When the grappler freezes after he can't take the striker down

 

[HwoarangStyle]

Kelvin was eating his shots no prob...which broke Johny mentally..

kelvins a tough bastard. it was awesome watching him win TUF. probably my favorite tuf winner.

 

[DOMMA]

Ya hard to believe that guy gave GSP his toughest fight.

The Hendricks who fought GSP was a different beast than the guy who showed up for Wonderboy and Gastelum. He was considerably stronger, carried more mass and had better cardio in earlier fights. Post USADA Johny is a shell of his former self.

 

[DOMMA]

Don't want to discredit Gastelum, he is very tough and talented and will be a hard out for anyone including the champ or Wonderboy

 

[Moezao]

Blame USADA or the IV ban. Or both. Just a shadow of his former self, such a shame.

 

[chinarice]

GSP knew all along.

 

[FrontNakedChoke]

Kelvin outclassed Hendricks as I knew he would.

 

[SG123]

Arguably hit harder than anyone by USADA/IV changes.

GSP was a prescient mofo.

 

[Namek]

Wonderboy took his soul, that was a pretty embarrassing beatdown

I think we saw today, that that beatdown wasn't all due to Wonderboy. Hendricks has been on a slide. His body probably is wrecked from years of weight cutting.

 

[Fatback96]

I've noticed this too. Whenever Robbie would push the pace, or move forward, Jonny would just stand and cover up, just freezing up.

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

Hendricks just fights with the weight cut all the time, rather than actually trying to focus on skill improvement

 

[TrainInVain]

Hendricks had a deer in headlights look in some of those early exchanges.

 

[Benoitthegr8]

Johnny has the most effective full crotch press in the sport, he can stifle fighters by jamming his head in an opponents crotch while pressing them against the cage and attacking the legs. He should be respected and revered for this skill set, Sherdog needs to recognize the difficulty of holding another fighter against the fence and crotch blocking them into zero offense... This is the Bigg Rigg specialty, well this and botched weight cuts missing 170 that is.