Dan Henderson vs. Mauricio Rua (Your Predictions)

Want to win=
Will win=

Want to win= Mauricio Rua
Will win= Mauricio Rua

Want win: Shogun
Will win: Shogun

Want push
Will shogun

Want Hendo
Will Shogun due to the Fedor curse

will win? Hendo
want to win? Hendo

Hendo in both categories! Hendo's chin is not Forrest or Machida's chin. He can take the hits and hit back harder. TKO 1st round.

An extremely motivated and in shape Shogun , will come up short vs Hendo.

This is a great fight I'm all excited about this shit, I love both fighters man and whatever happens I'm sure we'll all be happy. I could def see this fight going either way so picking who WILL win is really tough for me.

I want Shogun to win. I want to see Shogun at his best get a rematch at Jon Jones whether Jon wins this weekend or not. But the H-Bomb feels nothing and doesn't give a fuck what I want ala the Fedor fight

Iron Chin = Hendo
Will Win = Hendo

want to win= dont care, will win= hendo by h-bomb. Only way i see rua winning is if he comes in with the same game plan and shape he did against machida in their first fight and picks hendo apart in the later rounds securing a decision.

They need to let them where the blue Pride gloves. They can have a sell at UFC.com and at the event for Pride shirts and whatever else they want to slap the logo on.

Hendo is getting finished here. Fedor and Feijao combined have 18 KOs, Shogun has 18. Both of those fighters rocked him. He is going to get finisheded inside a round looking for the KO against the best finisher in division history who has never even been knocked down besides the Jones fight.


The knee jerk reaction is to think Hendo hits harder or has the better chin. Neither are true. Not at 41. Not at 31.

Rolling with Hendo, he'll weather the storm and will produce an H bomb once Shogun begins to fade.

Wolfgangsta wrote:

Hendo is getting finished here. Fedor and Feijao combined have 18 KOs, Shogun has 18. Both of those fighters rocked him. He is going to get finisheded inside a round looking for the KO against the best finisher in division history who has never even been knocked down besides the Jones fight.


The knee jerk reaction is to think Hendo hits harder or has the better chin. Neither are true. Not at 41. Not at 31.

Is this some kind of MMAth saying Shogun hits harder then those guys? So because Hendo was "rocked" in those fights that means he will be more then rocked by Shogun? That's how I'm suppose to connect those dots? Naw, I won't make any such assumption about Hendo's chin until I see him eating the canvas for the first time in his historic career. Call me crazy.

Want to win - Hendo
Will win - Hendo

Shogun is one of the best finishers in the history of the game. In fairness though, Hendo has been rocked all through his career and has managed to avoid being KO'd. He was dropped a couple times at UFC 17, in the first Wandy fight badly, by Rampage etc and has never gone out. Shogun is the wrong guy to be facing at 41 though. He will finish him. Fatality.

want to win - any man is fine by me, Henderson is a great story and Shogun is a great fighter, both true warriors of the sport.

Who will win- Henderson, he is on a roll, and I wouldn't say destroying a Forrest who had other things on his mind, means Shogun is back to the form he was, Henderson is not afraid to go right after him, can take a punch and can deal a mean one back, plus he has his wrestling background that I'm sure will come into play at some point in the fight

want to win? - don't really care, just want to see a good fight.

who will win? - hmmmm, my first thought was that rua would control the range of the fight and pick henderson apart on the feet......... but i thought henderson was winding down a couple of years ago and he seems to have found a second wind from somewhere and raised his game again.

i think rua should win but theres a nagging voice in the back of my mind telling me otherwise. henderson to pull one out of the bag but i won't be betting on this one

Hendos only way to win imo is by H-Bomb, if he takes it to the ground I think Shogun could tap him out or atleast have enough control to stay out of harms way and get back to his feet. Unless it goes to the ground via Shogun getting clipped then he's fucked.

I think Hendo will do fine on the ground against Shogun, as long as he doesn't get rocked before going to the ground as against Silva. Hendo was able to avoid submissions from Palhares, so I dont think Shogun will be the one to sub him.

Why in your opinion does Palhares not subbing Hendo mean that Shogun couldn't?

I was not aware some thought that Palhares has better bjj than Shogun. He may but I certainly don't think it's a given or anything

MMAEYES wrote:

I was not aware some thought that Palhares has better bjj than Shogun. He may but I certainly don't think it's a given or anything

Just my opinion...but Palhares has some of the best bjj in the entire game. He is an absolute beast on the ground, in terms of grappling. Now, mma bjj is a little different, but I don't see Shogun being able to sub Hendo. Shogun is good on the ground, but imo, not near Palhares. I think if Shogun wins this fight, its in the striking department.

Rua has two submission wins his whole career. He isn't subbing Dan Henderson dude. He will finish him via KO though.