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Justin Gaethje needed only 87 seconds to turn the he-may-be-washed-up narrative on its head, knock a criminally overlooked James Vick back to the lightweight netherworld and reassert himself as a contender in the deepest, most dramatic and most dangerous weight class in all of MMA.
One minute and a half -- plus a few more seconds to accommodate his trademark backflip, off the wall his back was just up against.