Benson Henderson Sees Only a Couple Years Left in His Career

Benson Henderson spoke with MMAjunkie about his status post-knee surgery, his future in the sport and more ahead of his fight with Patricky Freire at Bellator 183. Highlights are below:

On fighting for the first time since undergoing knee surgery: “It feels great to know in the back of my head that there’s nothing wrong. There’s no ailments, no ‘knee doesn’t feel quite right, but that’s OK, I’ll get it taken care of after I’m done fighting.’ But to know truly that everything is good to go.”

On planning to join the military reserves: “I have more time to do it now. That being said, I have a limited amount of time left – one year, two years. I know I don’t want to be fighting when I’m 40. I don’t want to be fighting when I’m 37. And I don’t want to be fighting when I’m 36. But in that time, for most of my fights, I don’t take a lot of damage. I want however long I have (left), I want those to be as action-packed as possible. I want to get 15 fights in those three years. Hopefully, they’re all title fights.”