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06/11/09 - Dan Hornbuckle wants UFC fights with Koscheck and Fitch
Dan ‘The Handler’ Hornbuckle hit international MMA headlines when he knocked out Akihirio Gono at Sengoku 9 in August. The head kick KO was so heavy that Gono had to be stretchered from the ring.
Since then, Hornbuckle has gone on to beat Nick Thompson by TKO at Sengoku 10, taking his record to 19-2. He is sure he will arrive in the UFC at some point in the near future.
“Eventually I’ll have to go to the UFC to take on the top contenders. Most of the best fighters are in the UFC and that’s who I see myself competing against; especially now, when I’m at the point that I’m so high on the ladder that I just have to keep on climbing,” he says in this month’s print issue of Fighters Only.
“So yeah, we’ll be fighting in the UFC soon. What’s holding me back right now is that I need to get a few more fights in against top-level opposition. “
Native American Horn buckle - he is an Eastern Band Cherokee member - is also not shy about calling out the big names of the UFC right away, if the opportunity presents itself.
“I’d say a guy like Koscheck or Fitch, one of those two,“ he says when asked who he would like to face as his first UFC opponent. “When I go into the UFC, I just don’t want to be that little pebble that gets thrown in even though it makes a ripple. I want to be that boulder that goes’boom.’”
The full interview with Hornbuckle is available in this month’s issue of Fighters Only, available at all good news stands now.
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