(This story first appeared in Thursday’s USA TODAY .) The UFC middleweight champion was bored. That’s how it started. Two months out from his title defense against Lyoto Machida in the main event of Saturday night’s UFC 175 event in Las Vegas (10 p.m. ET, pay-per-view), Chris Weidman was at home recovering from knee surgery, doing what any world champion would do to pass the time: checking Facebook. What Weidman saw there was a local news story a friend had posted about a 6-year-old boy on a local youth wrestling team who was living with his mother and younger brother in a homeless shelter in Freeport, N.Y
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