Johny Hendricks may have retired from mixed martial arts competition last June, but his combat sports venture has not ended just yet. In mid-September, it was announced that the 35-year-old ex-UFC champion will be headlining the debut event of the World Bare-Knuckle Fighting Federation this November.
And according to Hendricks, this transition into another realm of fighting is not a one-off venture.
“Man, you know what? I have a feeling I could do it for a while,” Hendricks said on this past week’s episode of The MMA Hour (via MMA Fighting). “My first coach ever in MMA, he was a bare-knuckle world champ in Thailand.