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WEC 53 Henderson vs. Pettis: Teh Gifs

Greatest fight gif I've seen. Well, I can't think of a better one right now.

Only a matter of time until the cage is used as a weapon (aside from cutting someone). The UFC's future is bright. Ring is done.

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i was compelled to sig that gif

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Greatest fight gif I've seen. Well, I can't think of a better one right now.

Only a matter of time until the cage is used as a weapon (aside from cutting someone). The UFC's future is bright. Ring is done.

its been used a couple of times before. Alan Belcher (also trained by Duke Roufus) used the cage as a springboard against Akiyama and Charles Oliveira used it like a slingshot to takedown Escudero

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ESPN has this story at the bottom of their front page this morning (awesome video of it in the story):

http://sports.espn.go.com/extra/mma/news/story?id=5928632

Memorable kick crowns Anthony Pettis

Anthony Pettis had the guts to throw a kick for the ages in what can only be described as a leap of faith.

In the closing minute of a memorable five-round affair, with the outcome still very much in doubt, Pettis ran up the side of the cage, sprang forward in one fluid motion and delivered a clean kick to the head of WEC lightweight king Benson Henderson. The blow dropped the champion flat, and though it did not finish the fight, it paved the way to a unanimous decision for Pettis in the WEC 53 headliner on Thursday at the Jobing.com Arena in Glendale, Ariz.

All three judges scored it for Pettis, 48-47, 48-47 and 49-46. He will meet the winner of the upcoming UFC 125 matchup between champion Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard in a unification bout sometime in 2011.

Afterward, with many jaw still ajar, talked turned to the Pettis kick. The new titleholder credited his longtime trainer, former world kickboxing champion Duke Roufus.

"We practice that all the time," Pettis said. "I've got 10 more of those kicks coming when I get to the UFC. How do you like that to end the WEC?"

A seesaw affair brought forth one momentum shift after another, some subtle, some dramatic. Henderson moved in front early, as he scored with a pair of first-round takedowns. Pettis answered in round two and made his move in the third, as he secured a takedown of his own. Henderson surrendered his back and successfully defended the rear-naked choke, ultimately returning to a standing position -- with Pettis still firmly attached. In fact, the challenger spent much of the round riding Henderson, supplying punches to the head and body in a clear attempt to soften him for the choke. His efforts went unrewarded.

"I just couldn't get my tempo going," Pettis said. "I got it going in the third round. It felt good. Ben Henderson is a tough dude."

Round 4 was a barnburner. Henderson fought off an attempted guillotine choke and transitioned to Pettis' back during a wild scramble. In an instant, Pettis found himself trapped in a body triangle with Henderson snaking his arms around his neck. The submission seemed almost inevitable, but the Milwaukee-based tae kwon do black belt escaped and reached Round 5 in a dead heat with the defending titleholder.

There, they traded barbs, Pettis with a nice counter straight right, Henderson with a double-leg takedown. The fight was there for the taking, and Pettis took it in the final minute. His kick sent a dazed Henderson to the canvas, where a series of hammerfists from Pettis sealed his fate on the scorecards.

"Pettis did a good job," said Henderson, who entered the cage on a 10-fight winning streak. "The judges gave it to him. He did a good job."

Cruz shuts out Jorgensen, eyes Faber

Bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz unleashed an array of strikes from various angles, bobbed, weaved and mixed in takedowns as he defeated the world-ranked Scott Jorgensen by unanimous decision in the co-main event. Scores were 50-45 across the board for Cruz, who will carry his mantle as the world's top 135-pound mixed martial artist into the UFC.

Digging leg and body kicks, multipunch combinations and flying knees were all part of the Cruz onslaught. Utilizing the baffling movement for which he has become known, he weaved a web of mastery around the highly regarded Jorgensen, who appeared off balance and out of sorts for much of the 25-minute encounter.

"My conditioning was top-notch," said Cruz, who has rattled off eight wins in a row. "I trained 10 straight rounds in practice, with a different guy every round. Scott was tough. He took everything I had."

In the second round, Cruz supplemented his attack with takedowns, and his aggression never wavered. He rocked and briefly dropped Jorgensen with a short right hand inside the first 30 seconds of Round 3, later delivering a head kick, a series of grinding leg kicks and another takedown. Cruz took down Jorgensen, a three-time conference wrestling champion at Boise State, three times in the fourth. The challenger's situation only deteriorated from there, as Cruz beat him to the punch again in Round 5, scored with yet another takedown and punctuated his victory.

"I felt I had a chip on my shoulder because a lot of people didn't believe in me," Cruz said. "This is my fourth title fight altogether, and I've won three in a row for a title now. I think you can believe it."

Afterward, Cruz took aim at Urijah Faber, the only man to defeat him. The two could conceivably meet in the first bantamweight title bout in UFC history sometime in early 2011.

"The future holds a lot of title defenses," Cruz said. "Every time I'm in here, I'm fighting for a new belt, and I'm going to keep that mindset from beginning to end. I'm ready to fight Urijah. Let's do it."

Cerrone triangle submits Horodecki

Former WEC lightweight title contender Donald Cerrone submitted Chris Horodecki with a second-round triangle choke in a featured duel at 155 pounds. Having spent more than a minute and a half inside the choke, Horodecki finally succumbed to the hold 2:43 into Round 2.

Cerrone worked his jab and kicks from the outset, scored with a takedown and nearly mounted Horodecki in the first period. The Canadian freed himself and later scored with a spinning back kick. However, his offense was limited, and his need to move inside the gangly Cerrone's reach left the Shawn Tompkins protégé in constant peril. Cerrone delivered another takedown with 20 seconds to go and secured back control as the round ended.

In the second, Cerrone again turned to his superiority on the ground. The Jackson's Mixed Martial Arts standout put Horodecki on his back inside the first 30 seconds and went to work. An omoplata-neck crank combination led into the triangle choke. Horodecki fought valiantly to keep himself in the fight, but Cerrone slowly tightened and adjusted the submission, soliciting a reluctant tapout from the 2007 International Fight League lightweight grand prix finalist.

Shalorus earns split nod over Palaszewski

Kamal Shalorus kept his undefeated record intact, as he earned a split decision against IFL veteran Bart Palaszewski. Two of the three cage-side judges scored it for Shalorus, 30-27 and 29-28; a third saw it 29-28 for Palaszewski.

Shalorus stormed out to a commanding lead with a one-sided first round. The Iranian-born lightweight took down Palaszewski and attacked with heavy ground-and-pound: hammerfists, elbows, thudding right hands to the body and standing-to-ground punches. Palaszewski weathered them all, and the two men traded wicked leg kicks to close out the stanza.

A Jeff Curran protégé, Palaszewski succumbed to a single-leg takedown in the second round but battled his way back to his feet, eating punches as he stood. Palasewski's combinations began finding a home on the winded Shalorus, and by the end of the round, he was motioning for his foe to come forward. Shalorus obliged.

After backing up Palaszewski with heavy punches, Shalorus returned to his wrestling roots in round three. He scored with a pair of takedowns, passed to half guard after the second and dropped elbows. Palaszewski scrambled to his feet and attacked with crisp combinations, a stout head kick and a knee up the middle. Still, it was not enough to sway the verdict.

Brian Knapp is a contributor to Sherdog.com.

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For the record, i'm not giving either of these fighters much of a chance when they face the winner of Edgar/Maynard II.

Really? Did the fight change your mind at all? I'll be betting on Pettis when that fight comes up. I think Henderson is going to do just fine in the UFC too.

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Really? Did the fight change your mind at all? I'll be betting on Pettis when that fight comes up. I think Henderson is going to do just fine in the UFC too.

that fight did change my mind a little. i think Pettis has a much better shot against Edgar. i think Maynard will lay on him for 5 rounds

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that fight did change my mind a little. i think Pettis has a much better shot against Edgar. i think Maynard will lay on him for 5 rounds

Totally agree. I wanna see Maynard lose so badly. Both Pettis & Henderson would give Edgar & Maynard great fights. I'd love to see Pettis kick Maynard's ass.

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this fight is greatness, right up there with Zambidis/Chalid that Patrick posted awhile back

Agreed. The good thing about It's Showtime is they already have a lot of the top kickboxers signed and offer more weight classes than K-1 so it's not the end of the world if K-1 goes under after next year.

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I just saw this on sherdog and thought I had to share it.

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Genki Sudo apparently retired from MMA to become a Japanese pop music sensation and recently shot a video in NYC.

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So Wand and Chael Sonnen are apparently in a war of words right now..apparently there were rumors of them coaching the next TUF but it doesn't look like that's going to happen but I'm pretty sure Dana will make this fight for sometime in the near future...assuming Sonnen is allowed to fight.

Wand said he killed Sonnen in training in this vid:

http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/news/288159/Wanderlei-I-killed-Sonnen-in-the-gym/

And Sonnen is going crazy with his **** talking on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/sonnench

Wand, you might as well fill out your own toe tag. Where is says "Cause of death," just write, "I pissed off a Gangster
All broken pieces of Wand will be half off on Greenlightdaily.com. Where ya at little guy, worried that I'll understand you this time?
Take your comebacks, write them down on a sheet of paper. Roll it up tight, soak it in water, freeze it overnight, then jam it up your ass.
I got that TWEET of yours, it took awhile to decipher. Maybe you spelled better before Coleman stepped on your head.

After news that they would not be hosting the next TUF season:

It's for the best. I would have embarrassed you from the opening take to the final wrap. Take 2 weeks off, evaluate your career, then quit.
Submit your e-mail at greenlightdaily.com to be entered in contest to be my corneman. Not you Wand, if requires an ability to type.

You killed who? I was taking it easy on you. Ya looked like Tammy Faye Baker. I went easy so that new face of yours wouldn't fall off.

More guys have worked on your face than it took to build the Pyramids. You look like Lisa Rinna w/a Leprechaun beard, you fool.

You are a walking punchline. Go fight what's left of Sakuraba in an alley behind a sushi place in Tokyo for 10 Yen apiece.

If it wasn't for me, you would be thrashing around the jungle w/a blowgun trying' to catch breakfast.
So a word to the UNWISE. DON'T TALK ABOUT ME. You don't have the words, I DO. You just got burried. Now run along or I'll do worse tomorrow.
Wanna talk some more about killing me in the gym, y'idiot?
You're lucky your brother Joe's the matchmaker or you'd be sellin' barbecued monkey on the street in Manaus.
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Some of that is actually pretty funny. I laughed at the line about Coleman stepping on his head. But, some of it might go a little too far and while Sonnen is a tough talker behind a keyboard, he was talking as much when he was in that van with Wandy a few months ago.

I think it is a bad matchup for Wandy, and that is probably why ol Chael is pushing for it. But being an Axe Murderer fan for a long time, I Wandy mauls him. Something like this...

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Oh, and...

Dana White pays for infant's life-saving surgery

UFC president Dana White has a brash exterior. He's known for being a tough negotiator, saying what he thinks, and dropping f-bombs at will. It turns out that he also has a heart of gold. White stepped up to pay for a life-saving surgery for the 7-month-old daughter of a popular Thai MMA trainer at Tiger Muay Thai in Phuket.

UFC fighters like Mike Swick and Jon Fitch have relied on Tiger Muay Thai to improve their striking game, and instructor Kru Nai has helped several top fighters. His daughter Tuptim was diagnosed with bilary obstruction, a serious liver condition. A surgery could save her life, but it cost $50,000. Without it, she was given just weeks to live.

The MMA community came together to try to raise money for her surgery. To bring attention to the issue, a poster on the Underground, a popular MMA message board, asked White to give the cash:

Mr. DANA WHITE, If you are a true ambassador for the sport.....PAY FOR THIS SURGERY!!!

Please help, no donation to small........the clock is ticking

That's exactly what White is doing. He confirmed to Yahoo! Sports on Monday that he will pay for Tuptim's surgery.

"I was reading the Underground and saw it and clicked on it and I don't know, I just did. She needs it fast, so I did it," White said via text.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/Dana-White-pays-for-infant-s-life-saving-surgery?urn=mma-298359

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That's awesome on Dana White's part. He does come across as brash but most people in the UFC say that he's really a good dude when it comes down to it.

**Cain Video**

:( to the Nog KO. I had almost forgotten about that.

unseen KO from the last WEC card:

Was that the dirty bird or the Hulk Hogan flex?

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