Photos: Gruesome Loss of Anderson Silva. UFC 168.

LAS VEGAS – Anderson Silva's remarkable mixed martial arts career likely came to an end on Saturday in a rematch with Chris Weidman when he gruesomely broke his left leg throwing a kick.

The former champion, Silva was throwing a kick at Weidman in the early stages of the second round. The kick landed and it appeared as Silva's left leg snapped just above the ankle.

Weidman won by technical knockout at 1:16 of the second round in the main event of UFC 168 at the sold-out MGM Grand Garden.

The injury was reminiscent of a gruesome broken leg suffered by Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann in a game against the New York Giants.

Weidman dominated Silva in the first round, nearly knocking Silva out with a right hand that sent Silva's eyes rolling back in his head. Weidman landed a series of elbows from the top and controlled the round, but was not able to finish Silva.

When the second round began, Silva began whipping hard kicks at Weidman. The final one, though, almost certainly ended the career of the man who held the middleweight title for nearly seven years and who holds a significant number of UFC records.

As soon as the kick landed, Silva's shin snapped and it was dangling. Weidman back off and referee Herb Dean jumped in to stop the fight and get the doctors to Silva.

Silva was removed from the cage on a stretcher with a splint on his left leg.

Weidman was interviewed in the cage as Silva lay writhing in pain on the mat and didn't take much joy in how the fight played out.

“We knew that in the last fight he hurt me most with the leg kicks so we trained checking them a lot," Weidman said in the Octagon after the fight. "The goal is to get your knee up and allow them to make contact with their shin right there. As soon as he hit me with that kick and moved backwards I knew right away. There’s no real excitement in a fight finishing like that because you never want to see anyone get hurt like that."

All attention was focused on Silva, who had lost the title via second-round knockout to Weidman at UFC 162 in July. That one, though, came under much different circumstances. Silva stuck his chin out at Weidman and Weidman cracked him with a powerful left hand, stopping him.

This time, Weidman nearly finished it in the first but was no less dominant than he was the last time.

 

Source Article: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ufc-168--anderson-silva-breaks-leg-kicking-chris-weidman--likely-ending-his-legendary-career-054136393-mma.html 

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Health: Exercises for the Computer-Tired Eyes

 Staring and straining are the worse things you can do to your eyes. After a long day at work, the eyes are tired and need to relax and renew to improve vision. The constant strain day in and day out does nothing but damage the eyes. Below are three exercises design to remove the eye strain.

1. The first exercise is the Dot exercise. To do this find a period or comma on the page and focus on making it as clear as possible. Stare at the period until it comes into focus. Chances are after a few seconds the period will actually became less clear and blurry.

           

Try relaxing your eyes. Close them for a minute and let them relax. Now look at the period without straining. Don’t stare; instead, let your eyes slowly move around the page, over and around the period. Don’t focus only on the period, the eyes need movement. Make sure to blink a bit. Try closing your eyes and picturing the dot and then look at it again. Once the eyes are relaxed it should be easier to see the period.

           

2. The second exercise is the Word exercise. Find a word on the page that is five or more letters long. Stare at the word so that all the letters are in view, but don’t move the eyes. Focus entirely on the whole word trying to get the best image in your head. Again, staring and concentrating hard is going to cause the word to blur.

           

Now, relax your eyes and allow them to move slowly over, around, and across each letter of the word. Blink. Allow the eyes to lead you; don’t force them to look at what you want. The word should be clearer when you look at it again. Letter the eyes move around is what will help them work best without the strain.

           

3. The third exercise is the Double Vision exercise. This exercise is meant to get your eyes to work together as a team. Most people use one eye to look at an object, while the other eye does its own thing. Squinting can help bring an object into focus with both eyes, but this causes unnecessary stress.  The trick is to relax the eyes, focus on the object in a calm way, and allow both eyes to focus together. 

Learning exercises to relax the eyes is a great way to develop lasting habits and ensure great eyesight for years to come.

           

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