Johny Hendricks LAS VEGAS – Former UFC welterweight champion Johny Hendricks has no excuses for his performance at Saturday’s UFC 181 event. Instead, he has a simple evaluation: “I didn’t fight.” In the pay-per-view headliner at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Events Center, Hendricks(16-3 MMA, 11-3 UFC) faced the man he beat in March to win the then-vacant UFC welterweight title, Robbie Lawler (25-10 MMA, 10-4 UFC). While it wasn’t the “Fight of the Year” candidate the first bout was, the rematch was closely contested throughout the 25-minute affair. And though Hendricks weathered an early storm and took clear control of the fight in the second and third rounds, he began to fade in the championship frames, which allowed Lawler to score much-needed points over the final 10 minutes and claim a razor-thin split-decision win . Hendricks didn’t necessarily speculate as to what caused him to shut down but admitted he fell apart as the fight wore on. “I thought I did pretty good the first three (rounds),” Lawler told MMAjunkie after the fight (watch the post-UFC 181 press conference )
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Ex-champ Johny Hendricks on UFC 181 title loss: ‘I didn’t fight’ – MMA Junkie