What is your general opinion on Johnny Hendricks ?

Versez said:
Without any doubts. The before and after is clearly visible.
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Everyone who says this is a ding dong.

Dude had a pretty normal prime as an athlete and especially for one who got fat as fuck in between fights lmao.

Everybody loves to ignore him getting split decisions in between a few great finishes.

And even pig rig was on the sauce, so was everybody else. But I'd contend that usada sucked ass anyway and they were still cheating after was put into place.
 
Skilled gay pornstars are a kryptonite to many fighters.
They are outdicked from the start and gay people make them uncomfortable in the octaring thing.
Is it fair? Probably not. But neither is having Jon Jones reach.
But with this we can at least adapt somewhat.
 
He's hypocritical, he shitted on GSP for being boring and not finishinh fights, when he got to be champion he suddenly turned into a decision fighter. Not too intelligent with his money and honestly believe he was on sometyoe of PED. I have him and anx Woodley in the sane boat, forgettable champions.
 
I don't think Hendricks was using PEDs for a "strength and speed" type of advantage. I think he was talented, a physical beast, and very well trained wrestler.

I think It was to make weight comfortably. I suspect he was cheating his weight cutting since high school. His lack of discipline was notorious.

I think the USADA rules made it tougher for him, and he's not a 185er. People like him is why the unified rules recognizes a 175 weight class. He didn't have a weight class after USADA

imho. I dunno anyone.
 
He was probably the scariest WW of all time coming into the GSP fight. I've always thought GSP showed the heart of a champion in that one. Johny had the Dim Mak until USADA.
 
Bobby Boulders said:
He is from the OKC area, graduated high school the same year I did, and is among the greatest wrestling talents my state ever produced (Danny Hodge is by far the greatest, but Hendricks is definitely up there in the same class). He won three state high school championships (which is no small feat, high school wrestling here is as competitive as high school football in Texas), three Big 12 wrestling championships, two NCAA wrestling championships, and was a four time NCAA All-American.

His rise in the sport of MMA was kinda meteoric, he had the one loss to Rick Story, and didn't lose again until the GSP fight, a fight the majority felt he won. Then after losing the rematch to Robbie, he fell off a cliff. Based on what I know of Oklahoma HS wrestling, I have no doubts that he'd been using PEDs since at least that point, all of the wrestlers at my own high school used them, you almost had to if you wanted to be competitive in wrestling here. My school's team was successful in 6A, the same class that Hendricks' school competed in, in which Hendricks was the best the state produced at the time. His decline in MMA coincided with the advent of USADA in the UFC, so the many on this site through the years that had noted as much were probably correct about his nosedive. Wouldn't doubt if it was a combo of no longer being able to have a competitive advantage mixed with fatigue from cutting weight since at least junior high, and maybe elementary school.
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Comments like this based on actual experience/first-hand/local knowledge are pure gold (at least to me). I wish all threads were filled with those instead of armchair speculation. Thanks for sharing 🙏
 
Versez said:
now that we know how his career went, what is your general opinion on Hendricks ? We know that it’s was 50/50 against George , up to this day a lot of people think that Hendricks should had won. We also know that he finished is career terribly against an ex porn star in a bare knuckle fight. Overall , was winning against an all time great like gsp and ending is career badly like he did is kind of unique ?
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IV recovery cheat/abuser and weight bully with an okay skill set...

He did nothing remarkably well except for cutting weight with the help of IVs and likely PEDS which is why when that was taken away his career disintegrated....
 
I liked him a lot as a fighter. His fights were fun. The way he KO'd guys like Fitch and Kampmann was freakish.

Definitely 100% think he beat GSP.

Sad how he fell off a cliff towards the end. Ridiculous that he was fighting guys like Costa, just because he couldn't lay off the cheeseburgers.
 
Fedor>Cain said:
Everyone who says this is a ding dong.

Dude had a pretty normal prime as an athlete and especially for one who got fat as fuck in between fights lmao.

Everybody loves to ignore him getting split decisions in between a few great finishes.

And even pig rig was on the sauce, so was everybody else. But I'd contend that usada sucked ass anyway and they were still cheating after was put into place.
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You don't have to be shredded to be on roids. I believe Johnny was juicing with something, as his rapid slide happened immediately with USADA entering the scene, but of course it's simple speculation without test failures.

If Hendricks was on anything, my best guess would be EPO or something similar, as his cardio and power really just fell off a cliff overnight. Went from being able to go all 5 against GSP and Lawler twice, then couldn't manage to reach the third round without huffing, couldn't throw more than a few power shots a round. I don't think he even wobbled anyone with punches after the Lawler fights? I don't think it was only him aging out of his prime, he was only 33 when he fell off, but I agree his lack of discipline was the primary factor in his overall downfall, juicing or not.

IVs being banned killed his cuts which didn't help. Matt Brown was his last fight before USADA, then he fell off a steep cliff going 1-5, winning only against the ghost of Hector Lombard in the midst of his own slide, getting knocked out left and right, and Hendricks barely took the fight on the cards 29-28.

Johnny had a great start to his career and a terrible ending, all of his own accord. His corner telling him to coast round 5 vs GSP will go down as some of the worst corner advice ever given to a fighter, deservedly costing him a win against the GOAT.

Rationality said:
He was probably the scariest WW of all time coming into the GSP fight. I've always thought GSP showed the heart of a champion in that one. Johny had the Dim Mak until USADA.
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IMO, the moniker of "scariest WW fighter of all time" was RePrime Lawler. Guy is screaming his own face literally off at you, what more are you supposed to do without a tire iron?
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WoozyFailGuy said:
You don't have to be shredded to be on roids. I believe Johnny was juicing with something, as his rapid slide happened immediately with USADA entering the scene, but of course it's simple speculation without test failures.

If Hendricks was on anything, my best guess would be EPO or something similar, as his cardio and power really just fell off a cliff overnight. Went from being able to go all 5 against GSP and Lawler twice, then couldn't manage to reach the third round without huffing, couldn't throw more than a few power shots a round. I don't think he even wobbled anyone with punches after the Lawler fights? I don't think it was only him aging out of his prime, he was only 33 when he fell off, but I agree his lack of discipline was the primary factor in his overall downfall, juicing or not.

IVs being banned killed his cuts which didn't help. Matt Brown was his last fight before USADA, then he fell off a steep cliff going 1-5, winning only against the ghost of Hector Lombard in the midst of his own slide, getting knocked out left and right, and Hendricks barely took the fight on the cards 29-28.

Johnny had a great start to his career and a terrible ending, all of his own accord. His corner telling him to coast round 5 vs GSP will go down as some of the worst corner advice ever given to a fighter, deservedly costing him a win against the GOAT.


IMO, the moniker of "scariest WW fighter of all time" was RePrime Lawler. Guy is screaming his own face literally off at you, what more are you supposed to do without a tire iron?
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Didn't say you had to be shredded on roids. I've power lifted off and on my whole life. I've used myself and been around more people who have used than I will ever remember.

Steroids are so cheap and easy to get that I believe they were all using, Hendricks included. What I don't believe is that his downfall had anything to do with usada and had more to do with him being in his 30's and not taking good care of his body. Nobody on this forum could ever convince me that GSP, Lawler, Rory, and whoever else wasn't using during that pre usada period. Quite frankly, they would have been supremely dumb to not be using lol.

Pig Rig was pig rig for a reason. Dude gave no fucks about his diet and one can only assume that shit discipline extended to other parts of his training. Pig Rig definitely wasn't a genetic freak either. Dude was a pretty damn good wrestler with decent boxing and good power. His career came and went like plenty of others who didn't have the motivation to stay on top.

Idk if he was on epo or not. That's pretty much impossible to tell. What I will say is that cardio left because he didn't train hard. He could have still gotten by with epo and whatever else. It's not like guys weren't still using it and getting by with it after usada. The reason his cardio left was because he ate like shit, didn't keep his weight down, and I will guarantee that fat fuck hated to run like most normal people lol.
 
I mean, I'd train with him without question.

But I wouldn't eat at his restaurant.
 
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