Scott Coker would be okay if Benson Henderson fights at 170 again, but ‘a lot of his better fights are at 155’

UNCASVILLE, Conn. – Benson Henderson’s debut with Bellator was a rough on Friday night, as he was dominated from gate-to-gate by the bigger, stronger Andrey Koreshkov at the Mohegan Sun.

Henderson wasn’t able to get take Koreshkov to the canvas, and he was punished regularly each time he made an effort to do so. He also could never solve the range discrepancy between him and the Russian. Koreshkov kept him at the end of his punches, and Henderson was left swinging wildly at an unhittable target.

And in the aftermath, Bellator president Scott Coker said he saw the same thing that everybody who tuned in on Spike TV saw. That is, a man who was overmatched with a much larger opponent.

“It was a tough fight man,” Coker said in a post-fight media scrum. “Benson took a lot of shots. Even from the very beginning he looked like he was a foot shorter than Koreshkov. Koreshkov is no joke, man. He’s got a lot of power, and everything is hard. He hits hard with every shot. You saw the fight, it was clearly …

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