Top TNA star Joe Hendry spoke with Fightful on a number of topics including calling out Robert Whittaker for a freestyle wrestling match when they were both competing in the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Hendry said, “Not in the UFC. Hell no. I was calling him out for amateur wrestling. I ended up facing Australia in the first round. If Robert Whittaker hadn’t pulled out, I would have faced the active UFC champion. I already made my mind up about what I was going to do because he’s just better than me. He’s going to run through me.”
“So what I was going to do is literally give him the Goldberg spear to the single leg, shoot wildly for this takedown, and do something mad right off the bat, and do something crazy. That was my strategy. In my head, I was like, ‘there is no shame in getting beat by the UFC champion.’”
You can check out Hendry’s comments in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
