From the moment news broke on Monday that Dan Henderson had signed with Strikeforce, all eyes pointed to a potential title match against light heavyweight champion Gegard Mousasi. But when reached via e-mail by FanHouse, the 24-year-old Dutch fighter said that the organization had yet to approach him about a fight against Henderson."That would be an exciting fight for the fans," he wrote. "For me, it's just another fight. But I understand that a win over a caliber fighter like Dan Henderson is very interesting."
Mousasi informed FanHouse that his next fight will be contested under K-1 rules at the Dynamite!! show on New Year's Eve in Japan, although his opponent has yet to be made official. The former DREAM middleweight champion is 1-0 in his kickboxing career, defeating Musashi via first-round TKO at last year's Dynamite!! show.
When asked when he expects to fight in MMA again, Mousasi noted that his contract states he can only compete on the same Strikeforce shows that feature his fellow M-1 Global fighter, Fedor Emelianenko.
"So when he fights, I will fight too. But sooner would be also be fine by me," he wrote.
Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker told FanHouse on Monday that he expects Henderson to make his debut for the organization in "March or April or May," and given the injuries Emelianenko sustained in his recent fight against Brett Rogers, he is only expected to fight again for Strikeforce late first quarter 2010 or early second quarter. In other words, the timing for everyone involved should work out in favor of a Mousasi-Henderson sometime early next year.
Regardless, even though a high-profile victory over a veteran like Henderson would help his stock rise in the MMA world, Mousasi, a winner in his last 14 straight MMA fights, said he won't specifically ask for a fight against the former Olympian.
"[It's] not up to me," he wrote. "I fight what they put in front of me. So if they say fight Dan, then that's it."
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Yeah he mentioned that in this interview on M-1Global last week
Great! I guess none of the fighters who fought this weekend at the GP will fight so soon, so some of the most known fighters I can think of are Samedov, Sawayashki, Ray Sefo?, Feitosa, Pavel zu..., Leko, Melvin Manhoef...Tyrone Spong, who had an easy fight with kyotaro OR a rematch with Hunt, this time under k-1 rules :)
You will most def see some GP fighters on the Dynamite card, just like every other year(Last year was Hari v Reem after Badr blew the final). I hear he could be fighting Ghita though.
Haris decision to take that fight was a big mistake, he admitted it. after being knocked down in every fight of the GP that year and after the bonjasky "incident" he wasnt prepared to fight just a few days later. The only fighters i see are Ghita of course and Spong. hadnt seen the Aerts fight yet but itd be a mistake for him to take this one, nothing to gain, a lot to lose. Kyotaro would be a terrible matchup for Mousasi so itd be an easy win coming off 2 losses. What is for sure is that k-1 wont feed them (mma guys) washed up fighters like Musashi and Takeda last year. A Hunt rematch makes the most sense to me since Ghita is not the very best boxer in k-1 and uses to eat some hard punches (has a good chin though), that plus Mousasi's quickness could be an upset, however Mousasi has nothing on Hunt in the standup. Spong would outclass him, he could get KOed though, and Kyotaro would be too much for Mousasi.