#2 Anthony Pettis breaks out the moves when it’s showtime
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There are a few superlatives that could top Stephan Bonnar and Todd Harris’s description of Anthony Pettis’ off-the-cage kick that Benson Henderson miraculously survived. Gravity-defying is one of the few worthy ones.
WEC 53 was a fitting curtain call for the promotion, the last under its own title before it took the UFC’s name.
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A bevy of spectacular fights was crowned by the Lightweight title tie between the incumbent – the dignified, traditional Benson Henderson and the swaggering, neo-fighter Anthony Pettis. The audience’s eyes were trained on the “Showtime” tattoo on Pettis’ back as he walked to the centre of the cage for his coronation.
His clinical fluidity would be on full display again, when he broke Henderson’s arm in the UFC and became the Lightweight Champion.
