UFC Fight Night Broomfield: Benson Henderson Never Stops Moving Forward

There is a kinetic element to the way Benson Henderson operates.

Inside the Octagon, the former lightweight titleholder is all go no slow, moving with a seamless matter of fact conviction that validates the “Smooth” precursor to his name. Yet, where most fighters leave that aggressive push on the canvas following the scrap on fight night, the 31-year-old MMA Lab leader keeps his energetic mindset flowing into the business side of the fight game.

Some compete with money, glory and fame as incentives, but Henderson is a different breed on the current landscape of combat sports. He’s driven to test the skill set his hard work and passion crafted, and he’ll go to extreme measures to do so. It’s an ideology directly linked to the martial arts his talents initially sprung from, and one he’s kept completely intact on his rise to become one of the best lightweight fighters on the planet.