In this week’s Trading Shots, MMAjunkie columnist Ben Fowlkes and retired UFC/WEC fighter Danny Downes look at the decline and fall of Wanderlei Silva , and wonder how his stock plummeted so far, so fast. * * * * Fowlkes: Danny, I assume you’re struggling with a vicious UFC hangover, as I am after a full day of fights and Fram cams and featured prelims leading up to the grand finale of a heavyweight knocking out a small-ish 205-pounder, but what I’d like us to do this afternoon is step back and look at one specific moment from the TUF Brazil 3 Finale. I refer now, of course, to the unbridled booing of one Wanderlei Silva. There we were in Brazil, of all places, where “The Axe Murderer” used to be something akin to really scary royalty, and yet the mere mention of his name in a post-fight interview was enough to make the crowd act like one of the local boys had started singing the “Star-Spangled Banner.” How did this happen?
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