Filed under: Featured , News , UFC The conventional wisdom on Stephen Thompson before his main event fight with Johny Hendricks at UFC Fight Night 82 in Las Vegas was that he was a fun striker, an entertaining presence, and a doomed man walking. It wasn’t necessarily that we worried for the health and safety of Thompson (12-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) against the former UFC welterweight champ Hendricks (17-4 MMA, 12-4 UFC). It was more that, while “Wonderboy” had managed to tool up a series of mostly unranked welterweights with kicks that looked like something you’d see at a shopping mall karate demo, he was about to be put back in his place by a truly high-level opponent. Because, come on, Hendricks? He’s a former NCAA Division I national champion wrestler, not to mention a former UFC champ who, prior to Saturday FOX Sports 1-televised bout, had never lost a fight in which he couldn’t have made a semi-plausible claim that the judges had robbed him. If you were going to build a fighter to beat a wide open, creative kicker like Thompson, you could do a lot worse than a seasoned wrestler with a heavy left hand like Hendricks
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A Stephen Thompson title shot? No, that’d be crazy … right? – MMA Junkie