Dan in the early days was sort of a lay and pray guy. Then all of a sudden he unlocked a new weapon, the H bomb and became the most exciting fighter in the world. When did he unlock this and how did he get it.
Is it possible for Bo Nickal to get this kind of power?
Suspect he always had it, just never thought to use it. Even in the early days of RAW I remember many teammates remarking how crazy strong he was both for his size and compared to the other guys. I guess he eventually applied that strength to striking in addition to his grappling….
He used to be known as Decision Dan.
UFC 100 after absorbing bispings soul. He had some knockouts before that but I believe this was when he became a legitimate KO threat. I think going from a straight right to a looping right worked wonders for him.
When he got the good TRT abnormal levels
Gee will trt give me an H bomb too?
Wanderlei fight.
To me it really became his signature move when he knocked Bisping into an alternative universe AFTER he had already KO’d him. Bisping talked a lot of shit on TUF and Dan wanted to light his ass up….and he did.
Yes. It will also give you an iron chin
100%! He “won” quite a few fights in Pride where he clearly lost!
Yes he always had it. Never really knew how to throw/land it. When he bingo’d Renzo he knew what he had and trained everything around it.
I think Vitor was decisionating in the same way as Henderson did before they both got jacked on TRT and started finishing fights.
Yeah that was in Vitor’s PRIDE days after Saku sort of embarassed him and Vitor broke his hand. He had some boring fights up until he fought Chuck.
Word is , as soon as hendo didn’t have to register his hands with the police, he could finally fully unleash.
Juice or not Vitor was always a mental midget and his Pride fights were the pinnacle of inconsistent performances. Sakuraba clowns him, he wrestle fucks Yvel, Matsui etc. then goes back to the UFC and damn near beats Chuck at 37.5 (at least I remember thinking that?)
I think his Akiyama→Hendo II run was his juiced out of his mind run.
i read his book, he played baseball, had a good throw
he said during his pride run he realized he had great hand power
san alvey was explaining how the inside leg kick he throws before his h-bomb is making it a bit like a baseball pitcher motion
i was thinkin the kick was to keep the opponent from gettin out of the way of the punch
Yes. I didn’t think he beat Chuck but it was close. He ran out of steam in the third.
Cade Anderson trained Randy Couture for his Sylvia fight. Maybe Henderson picked it up from him. It’s a great set up for a rigjt hand.
I’m thinking it was Pride 33 when he knocked the ever living fuck out of Wand when people started considering him a threat on the feet.
He had lots of brutal KOs before that famous one. His H Bomb was a very well known weapon by that bout.
