Sickest Kick For Last The last card in WEC history ended with the sickest kick in MMA history. Yeah, I said it. It went down in the fifth round of the main event; Anthony Pettis v. Ben Henderson’ Check out Pettis’ taking flight, kicking off the cage and articulating Henderson’s face with his foot! Incredible! Normally, to see a kick like that, you have to be playing Street Fighter 2…or watching Neo Wax an agent in the matrix… or you scored a ticket to the Koomatay and you’re witnessing Frank Dux jump kick Chong Li. A bout 12 straight times. But not anymore. Not after seeing Pettis paint some Van Dammage right across Henderson’s chin. And best of all, was seeing Pettis give it the old 45 shoulder shrug afterwards saying it’s no big thing at all; “We practice it all the time. Just having fun in the cage…I’ve got ten more of those kicks coming. I’ll do them in the UFC.” Oh yeah. Most dudes can’t execute a kick like that without wires, CGI or a stunt double, much less in a fight. And now that he has JCVD down, he should expand his repertoire; work up a Chuck Norris round house kick…then a Jackie Chan goofy dive between the legs, and blast you in the groin move. And a Jet Li double kick. Or a Steven Seagal double double, grilled onions, add ketchup.
Either way memo to the guy who thinks MMA is nothing but a couple of dudes rolling around on a mat for 5 rounds; there’s a new action star coming to the UFC and his name is Anthony Pettis.
