Some would say we've heard it all before, but Johny Hendricks appears to be of a totally different mindset heading into UFC 207.

Having suffered back-to-back losses for the first time in his career, Hendricks is approaching his Dec. 30 fight with Neil Magny with a "win or quit" mentality. Following his last loss to Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 200 where he also missed weight, the former UFC welterweight champion has been given an ultimatum from his wife, who has said he either needs to prove he's the fighter he once was or he must quit the sport he was once dominating.

"My wife said after my last fight that I'm not fighting anymore if I fight like that," Hendricks told UFC Unfiltered. "Then we sat down and we talked about it, and she was like, 'I know you still want to fight so become the athlete that you were and we will move forward from this.'

"That's really the biggest thing I could have--having my wife back me the way that she did."

Hendricks then spoke about his missed weight cut that occurred at UFC 200, where he came in just over the welterweight limit at 171.25 pounds.

"My mood wasn't down--it went straight to anger," Hendricks said. "I'm training harder now and I'm doing things like I used to. I'm putting in the effort and I'm working twice a day that I can and that's just the gist of it.

"I wasn't doing those things, and now that I'm doing those things, that's what I've used that anger for. Those two losses are driving me right now, even at this point they are still pushing me, [making me want] to work harder and harder so I can have a great performance."

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Unlike he had in the past, Hendricks held his hands up and admitted that things were his fault and only his fault.

"It's always my fault if I miss weight," Hendricks said. "Whenever you miss weight you got to let it go--you still got to compete. But, more than anything, I just wasn't firing. Still today I watch that fight and I'm like, 'Man, why can't I fire?' Things were open, but I just wasn't doing them.

"The deal was that I wasn't mentally ready--mentally ready. I have to be that and that's what I'm doing being up here getting mentally ready."

"Being up here" related to Hendricks moving his camp back to Stillwater. Having spent the last weeks there preparing for UFC 207, Hendricks now feels like he's going to come back firing and be back to his old self.

"I'm up here in Stillwater, I've taken the full trip up here," Hendricks said. "These guys get you ready for a fight. With [Oklahoma State University wrestling] Coach [John] Smith and the guys up here, I don't know why I didn't come back sooner, but, you know what, everything has a time and a place and it's my time to start really focusing on what I need to do.

"My two striking coaches came with me, and now I have my nutritionist Lou [Giordano]. This is our third fight together, but more than anything it's the fight that I'm actually trying for. When you fight, sometimes you get into a lag where you're just running through the motions. I don't like to lose and running through the motions and losing are not my two things, so now I've come back to Oklahoma State.

"I made my career here and Coach Smith knows how to get me mentally and physically ready."