The songs fighters chose to trumpet their arrival at UFC Fight Night “Hendricks vs. Thompson” on Saturday in Las Vegas were again part of the story. No tune was as electrifying as Stephen Thompson’s first-round destruction of former Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight titleholder Johny Hendricks, but some of the tracks were attention-getters.
Thompson strolled to the cage for the most significant fight of his career to the comedic anthem that parallels his nickname, as “Wonderboy” went with Tenacious D’s “Wonderboy.” While many people inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena were chuckling at the humorous ditty Jack Black & Co.