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Johny Hendricks Leaving Team Takedown

November 24, 2015 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas

Johny Hendricks spoke with MMAjunkie about leaving his longtime management firm Team Takedown and more. Check out the highlights:

On leaving Team Takedown: “(Team Takedown) has done a great job with me for the last eight years. We just couldn’t come to an agreement on certain things, and it was time for me to pull away.”

On wanting his next fight at UFC 196: “I would like to do Feb. 6. I don’t know if they’ve got a main event yet, but as of right now, that’s where my head’s at.”

On his next step: “I’ve got to wait until I get cleared out of my management. As soon as we break clean, that’s whenever it will give me a better understanding. As of right now, that’s what I’m shooting for. But if they say no, we want to keep you until February, I’ll probably have to fight early March.”

On his coaching staff: “The ones who have contacted me, if they want to work with me and be the best we can be, then that’s what it is. But at that point, they’ll probably have to choose if they want to stay with Team Takedown or follow me, and I don’t like putting those kind of stipulations on people. I want them to be happy and do the best thing for them…I still have (Oklahoma State University). As long as I can still go to OSU and (work with) my boxing coach … now all I have to do is find a place where I can roll and do some ground work.”

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