Most Saturdays, you can find Johny Hendricks spending time with his wife and three young daughters, playing golf or hunting. But once every few months, he steps into a steel cage with an unlucky opponent and becomes “Bigg Rigg” Hendricks, one of the top fighters in the world.

Hendricks trains full time, often two or three times a day. Strength and conditioning circuits at a local high school, striking and jujitsu training at the gym, and trips to Oklahoma State to wrestle with his former coach at his alma mater are staples of his routine.

Last November, Hendricks lost a controversial title fight by a decision against the longtime Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre. Afterward, Hendricks went straight back to the gym and began training for a rematch, but St-Pierre retired.

That gave Hendricks a second title chance against the veteran Robbie Lawler on March 15 in Dallas.

The fighters split the first four rounds, leaving everything hinging on the fifth, just as in Hendricks’s fight with St-Pierre.