WEC 53: Anthony Pettis reflects on landing the ‘Showtime Kick’ on Ben Henderson
“The gigantic thing going through my mind was ‘go for it.’ I kept thinking like, ‘man, I gotta do something to land.’ He was checking all my low kicks & I couldn’t get off. He kept stopping me, one or two punches, so I’m like, ‘I gotta do something out the box & see what happens.’ Luckily for me, it landed. We practice it in camp … to do it in a title fight in the last round is something different.” — At the post-fight press conference , freshly crowned WEC Lightweight champ Anthony Pettis looks back on what his team calls the “Showtime Kick” & how he was able to seal his win over Ben Henderson with it at WEC 53 . As the fight, which was extremely close up to that point, was coming to a close, the Duke Roufus trained fighter went for broke & executed one of the greatest head kicks in mixed martial arts history. In his last four fights, the “World of Jenks” star has won the trifecta of bonus awards — “Knockout of the Night” over Danny Castillo, “Submission of the Night” over Shane Roller & “Fight of the Night” against Ben Henderson. Now he awaits the winner of Frankie Edgar vs Gray Maynard to unify the WEC & UFC lightweight titles. Anybody think he can repeat this performance?
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WEC 53: Anthony Pettis reflects on landing the ‘Showtime Kick’ on Ben Henderson
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