Dan Henderson has great accomplishments in MMA. He is a former PRIDE welterweight and middleweight champion. Former Strikeforce lightheavyweight champion. He's also the only man who stopped Fedor Emelianenko with strikes. Now he is 44, his record is 30-13. His next opponent is Tim Boetsch on June 6 in the UFC. But how it all started?
His first fight was at event called "Brazil Open - '97" against Crezio de Souza. At the beginning of a fight Henderson landed nice hook and after that took Souza down. Dan was controlling Crezio from the top while being in the full guard. After some time "Hendo" landed couple of shots to the head and it made Brazilian stand on his feet. After getting back to his feet he was able to control Dan against the cage. But it didn't last long and after few seconds of stand-up they went to the ground. Although referee had to stand them back because of the lack of action. Then we could see some fast blows while standing and crowd really liked it but Crezio to Henderson down. Sozua had even full mount for a while but Dan rolled him over. After that Henderson was on top. He landed few punches and fight was stopped. Henderson won at time 5:25 of round 1. There is fight video:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1q772_dan-henderson-vs-crezio-de-souza_sport
For me it was pre-mature stoppage. There was a rule that after five straight punches fight should be stopped. There was even more punches, but many of them were blocked. What do you think about the stoppage? Write what you think and see you soon. :)
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