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Watch: Boetsch puts Hendricks away with 2nd-round head-kick TKO

Sean Pokorny / USA TODAY Sports

Coming in overweight was just the beginning of a terrible weekend for Johny Hendricks.

The former 170-lb champion came in two pounds over the middleweight limit for his co-main event bout with Tim Boetsch at UFC Fight Night 112 in Oklahoma City on Sunday, and "The Barbarian" made him pay with a head-kick TKO at the 46-second mark of Round 2.

Boetsch never let Hendricks get comfortable, using his size and reach advantage to pepper Hendricks with straight punches and kicks to the body. That work set Boetsch up to unleash a kick to the dome that sent Hendricks to his fifth loss in his last seven contests.

After making a move to 185 pounds in February and defeating Hector Lombard, it looked like Hendricks could be rejuvenated in a new division. But after missing weight for the fourth time in his UFC career and failing to deliver a convincing performance against Boetsch, the future is murky for "Big Rigg."

Boetsch improves to 3-1 in his second stint at middleweight and 12-10 overall in the UFC.

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