'Hendo' will do his talking in UFC 100

Posted at 07/09/2009 12:19 AM | Updated as of 07/09/2009 12:20 AM

Middleweight mix martial artist Dan "Hendo" Henderson doesn’t mind all the thrash talk dished out by Michael "The Count" Bisping during their recent "The Ultimate Fighter 9" (TUF 9) reality show.

“Bisping talks a lot... I guess he works to get me riled up and it's almost impossible to get me riled up. I can roll with it,” Henderson said in a UFC promotional video.

Henderson coached budding MMA fighters from the American side opposite Bisping, who coached the United Kingdom half.

Their TUF stint will culminate to a middleweight match up in UFC 100, slated on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Henderson said all the taunting from Bisping will turn out different when they meet in Las Vegas.

“I don’t think he has an edge over me in anything, and my experience is going to be too much for him,” said the 38-year-old MMA veteran.

Henderson, a former middleweight and junior heavyweight champion in the defunct PRIDE fighting Championships, holds an MMA record of 24-7-0.

For his part, Bisping said he just wanted to get the fight on.

Bisping said he thought Henderson was pretty harmless with his silent demeanor in TUF 9.

“It was only when I watched the show back that I started to get annoyed by some of his comments. Now I just want to get in there and fight him,” he said.

Instead of getting Henderson riled up, Bisping said he was the who ended up annoyed after seeing the show. Now he's pretty much anxious to get inside the OCtagon with Hendo.

“It’s got a little personal now, to be honest… It has been a long time coming and I’m now glad that it’s just around the corner. I just can’t wait to get in there and do the job,” said Bisping.

The England-based fighter has a record of 18-1-0.

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