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A couple weeks ago, Benson Henderson’s phone blew up after a press conference by UFC President Dana White. During the conference, White announced that the only fight that was going to be broadcast on the UFC’s first-ever network television broadcast would be the heavyweight championship fight between Cain Velasquez and Junior dos Santos and not his highly-anticipated fight with Clay Guida.

Initially, Henderson admits that he was a little upset at not being a part of the historic network TV broadcast. The UFC is anticipating well over 20 million viewers will watch the Velasquez-dos Santos fight. But Henderson got over it pretty quickly.

“I didn’t hear about it, but my phone kind of blew up because of messages, tweets, and some of my friends all texted me, asking me what I thought about that, Fox only airing Cain and Dos Santos, doesn’t matter even if it goes 10 seconds,” Henderson said.

“When I first heard about it, I will admit I was a little peeved, a little bit upset to be honest. Not that my opinion matters at all if I am upset or not, but when I first found out about it I was a little bit upset, kind of sad,” he later told MMA Weekly.

“You want to be on TV, I want to be on TV, I want to be a part of 20 million viewers, new fans. I’d love to have that opportunity, that chance. That’s not the case, but after I thought about it a little bit more, it doesn’t really matter.”

The Henderson-Guida battle, along with the other nine fights on the undercard, will stream live on Facebook and FOX.com.

“It is what it is. I know I’m not always going to get what I want. I just want to take care of business.”