WHITT'S END: 2.24.14

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Wait, UFC's Next Big Thing Works at a Topless Club in Fort Worth?

                     

   Highlight of UFC's Fight Night 26 was undoubtedly Chael Sonnen's standing guillotine submission on Shogun Rua.
   But another fighter caught the eye of the MMA world with his own guillotine, and he hails from Fort Worth. And, get this, works at a topless club.
   James Vick, a wiry, 155-pound badass who's worked as a floor manager at Bucks Cabaret since 2011, stole the early show at Boston's TD Garden Saturday night with a deft submission of Ramsey Nijem. It was Vick's first UFC fight. And it took all of 58 seconds.
   For his effort, Vick - who earned his way into the UFC octagon via Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter - earned $18,000 and a victory party Tuesday night at Bucks. I don't understand a lick of Spanish in the video play-by-play, but I do know one thing:
   Vick's nickname - "The Texecutioner" - is awesome.

Fixed? Or Simply Fantastic? Anderson Silva Loses UFC Title

   He taunted.
   He clowned.
   He dared.
   And in the end, Anderson Silva played with fire - and got torched.
   With a left hook that shattered the shenanigans of the greatest fighter in the history of mixed martial arts, Chris Weidman instantly became the Buster Douglas of UFC. He knocked out the unbeatable champion. In boxing it was Mike Tyson. For seven years in UFC, it was Silva.
   In a fight weirder than Jack in the Box's new hamburger that's inexplicably topped with onion rings - and cucumbers? - Silva was his usual, disrespectful self. His excessive showboating to the monumental underdog Weidman included dropping his hands and even pointing to his chin as to say, "Hit me here. Right here."
   Pow! Just like that, Weidman's 2nd-round hook floored Silva, immortalized UFC 162 and raised questions about the whole thing's credibility and legitimacy.

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   Before the fight at Las Vegas' MGM Grand Garden Arena, Silva told a TV interviewer that the perfect ending would be ...

   Chris Weidman! Chris Weidman is the best in the world! Chris Weidman is the new champion of UFC!

   As UFC President Dana White likes to point out, Silva often screws with the media. And I don't think this fight was fixed.
   The betting lines didn't reflect a looming upset. And the result somewhat spoiled a highly anticipated superfight between Silva and Bones Jones.
   What happened was a case of Silva getting too comfy and, for once, getting caught. But given his 17 consecutive wins, 10 title defenses and flamboyant finishes to fights, Silva will be looked back upon much like Tyson:
   The sport's greatest fighter who, on a wacky night and a weird fight, fell to a one-hit wonder.

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