Eric Reinert has been writing about MMA since 2010. Prior to joining Combat Press, his work appeared on The MMA Corner. Outside the world of caged combat, Eric has spent time as a news reporter, speechwriter, campaign strategist, tech support manager, landscaper and janitor. He lives in Portland, Ore.
It’s been said at least a hundred times since Saturday night and it’ll be said about a hundred more before UFC 188 fully takes over the collective consciousness of MMA fans this week, but in a perfect world, Dan Henderson would have left his gloves in the cage following his win over Tim Boetsch this weekend.
At 44 years old and heading into the 44th fight of a career that’s lasted over a decade, Henderson walked into the cage and delivered a trademark “H-Bomb” to the chin of Boetsch to set up a fight-ending uppercut just 28 seconds into the fight. For Henderson to have walked away at that particular moment would have been about as close to a storybook ending as the legendary fighter could get at this point in his career. However, we knew before the fight that Henderson had no intention of hanging up his gloves after Saturday night. Now that the future Hall of Famer is coming off an emphatic knockout win, you have to wonder what’s next for him.