{"id":268663,"date":"2018-01-25T11:36:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T19:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=268663"},"modified":"2018-01-25T11:36:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T19:36:59","slug":"jimmy-smith-announces-first-color-commentary-gig-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jimmy-smith\/jimmy-smith-announces-first-color-commentary-gig-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Smith announces first color commentary gig for the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, we learned that long-time Bellator color commentator Jimmy Smith had signed with the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>Smith made his debut with the promotion during UFC 220 last weekend, working the broadcast desk on Fs1. Now, he&#8217;s announced that he&#8217;ll return to his bread and butter \u2013 commentating on live fights \u2013 at UFC 221 on February 4 in Perth, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Smith made this announcement on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First color gig for the UFC!! See you there at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC221?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC221<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7N88jibLRm\">pic.twitter.com\/7N88jibLRm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jimmy Smith (@jimmysmithmma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimmysmithmma\/status\/956377639240966144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First color gig for the UFC!&#8221; Smith said in a Tweet that included the UFC 221 poster. &#8220;See you there at UFC 221.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Smith <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/longtime-color-commentator-jimmy-smith-no-longer-bellator\/\">parted ways<\/a> with Bellator earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"W3soec\">\u201cIt\u2019s not a Bellator thing,\u201d He <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/broadcaster-jimmy-smith-tells-joe-rogan-left-bellator\/\">explained<\/a> of this move on a recent episode of the JRE MMA Show.\u00a0\u201cThey were great to work with. They were great about the whole break up thing. What happened was, I had a deal with an option year and 2018 was my option year and when I was in Verona, New York doing the Verona show, my boss sat me down and said, \u2018We\u2019re not gonna renew 2018, we want a different deal.\u2019<\/p>\n<p id=\"EfYM4H\">\u201cWhen they come to you and say they want a different deal, it\u2019s never\u2026 when you\u2019re girlfriend comes to you and says she wants to talk it\u2019s never, \u2018I don\u2019t give enough bl**jobs.\u2019 They never say that. It\u2019s always bad. It\u2019s always bad.<\/p>\n<p id=\"dyX0OG\">\u201cSo that was it. When they were like, \u2018We want to change the deal around,\u2019 I was like, \u2018Okay,\u2019 and they did make an honest effort to keep me. They really tried, but they just didn\u2019t make an offer that was worth me coming back. That was pretty much the deal so it\u2019s kind of comparatively amicable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How do you think Jimmy Smith will do as a color commentator in the UFC?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 1\/25\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, we learned that long-time Bellator color commentator Jimmy Smith had signed with the UFC. Smith made his debut with the promotion during UFC 220 last weekend, working the broadcast desk on Fs1. 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