Dan Hornbuckle to call out Jon Fitch or Josh Koscheck upon Potential UFC Arrival

Published on: 6th November, 2009

Dan Hornbuckle to call out Jon Fitch or Josh Koscheck upon Potential UFC Arrival  | read this item

One welterweight fighter that has been making some waves is Dan Hornbuckle who fights under the Sengoku promotion overseas in Japan and in his two appearances has finished off the likes of former PRIDE and UFC veteran Akihiro Gono and Nick ‘The Goat’ Thompson in devastating fashion. However, Hornbuckle admits that the best fighters in the world are in the UFC, but also says that he would like to make an immediate impact by calling out other top welterweights such as Josh Koscheck or Jon Fitch.

In an article out of Fighters Only Magazine Hornbuckle states that he would very much like to be in the UFC, but is looking to get in a few more fights before making a move to compete in the best MMA organization in the world today.

“Eventually I’ll have to go to the UFC to take on the top contenders. Most of the best fighters are in the UFC and that’s who I see myself competing against; especially now, when I’m at the point that I’m so high on the ladder that I just have to keep on climbing,” he says in this month’s print issue of Fighters Only.

“So yeah, we’ll be fighting in the UFC soon. What’s holding me back right now is that I need to get a few more fights in against top-level opposition. “

Hornbuckle says that once he is UFC bound in the near future, he would like to face a top ten ranked welterweight fighter right away for his debut fight and would like to face either Josh Koscheck or his American Kickboxing Academy teammate Jon Fitch in order to let the promotion know that he is the real deal.

“I’d say a guy like Koscheck or Fitch, one of those two,“ he says when asked who he would like to face as his first UFC opponent. “When I go into the UFC, I just don’t want to be that little pebble that gets thrown in even though it makes a ripple. I want to be that boulder that goes’boom.’”

Well, as long as Hornbuckle continues to open eyes as he has been doing recently for Sengoku out in Japan then it will definitely be a priority for UFC President Dana White and matchmaker Joe Silva making sure that they pick up the Native American born fighter  to compete inside the Octagon sometime within the next year or so.

What do you think?

 Nelson Rodriguez AKA: Nelo2.0 is the Co - Owner of URDirt.com who is also an Editor and Author on the site. Read more from this author

Readers Comments