Sherdog’s 2018 Knockout of the Year

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— FOX Sports: UFC (@UFCONFOX) November 11, 2018The past 12 months presented a field crowded with worthy contenders for “Knockout of the Year.” Justin Gaethje felling James Vick like a redwood with a giant overhand right, sending him sprawling facedown at the base of the fence. Brian Ortega launching an uppercut that seemed to originate from somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere to detonate on Frankie Edgar’s jaw, leaving “The Answer” senseless on the canvas and accomplishing what nobody else had managed to do in over a decade of fighting the best in the world. That says nothing of this being an…