Scott Coker: Benson Henderson ‘really had a lot of his better fights’ at lightweight

Benson Henderson’s Bellator MMA debut did not go as planned. The former UFC lightweight champion stepped into the Bellator cage for the very first time favored against welterweight titleholder Andrey Koreshkov in the main event of Bellator 153 this past Friday. Henderson was battered from start to finish, visibly the smaller fighter. Henderson was not able to land takedowns consistently on Koreshkov, allowing the Russian to pick him apart on the feet. Koreshkov defended his belt successfully for the first time with a decision win.

Bellator president Scott Coker agrees with everyone else’s analysis of the fight.

“It was a tough fight man,” Coker said in a post-fight media scrum (via MMAFighting.com). “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, …

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