{"id":289487,"date":"2018-10-28T05:56:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T12:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=289487"},"modified":"2018-10-28T05:56:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T12:56:52","slug":"anthony-smith-responds-to-jon-jones-saying-his-ufc-moncton-win-was-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/anthony-smith-responds-to-jon-jones-saying-his-ufc-moncton-win-was-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Smith responds to Jon Jones saying his UFC Moncton win was &#8216;OK&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, in the main event of UFC Moncton, streaking light heavyweight contender Anthony Smith picked up arguably the biggest win of his career so far, submitting former UFC light heavyweight title challenger Volkan Oezdemir in the third round of a fun scrap.<\/p>\n<p>With this victory, Smith established himself as one of the very top contenders in the UFC light heavyweight division, and a frontrunner for the winner of Jon Jones and Alexander Gustafsson&#8217;s UFC 232 title fight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jon-jones-reacts-to-tonights-ufc-moncton-main-event\/\">Even if his win didn&#8217;t impress Jones.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It was OK <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lxGvqC5Pf0\">https:\/\/t.co\/lxGvqC5Pf0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BONY (@JonnyBones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonnyBones\/status\/1056414540152197120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was OK,&#8221; Jones said of Smith&#8217;s big win in Moncton.<\/p>\n<p>While Jon Jones turned his nose up at the UFC Moncton main event event, Anthony Smith\u00a0 isn&#8217;t buying it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he ain\u2019t worried about it, what\u2019s he watching for?\u201d Smith told reporters shortly after his win (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/10\/ufc-fight-night-138-anthony-smith-prefers-jon-jones-next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAjunkie<\/a>). \u201cJon Jones should worry about Alexander Gustafsson first. I think that performance was exactly one Jon Jones would hate to see. You\u2019re not going to get me out of there with a little bit of flash and some hard punches. That ain\u2019t going to happen. But if I was Jon Jones, I would probably be a little bit more worried about Alexander Gustafsson than Anthony Smith right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(He\u2019s not going to win) if he\u2019s more focused about what me and Volkan Oezdemir are doing, that\u2019s for damn sure,\u201d Smith added. \u201cThe best Jon Jones has to show up to win that fight. I\u2019d imagine with all the time off that Jon is going to train his ass off. He claims that he didn\u2019t train at all for the first one, so the real Jon Jones shows up, I\u2019d imagine he gets it done. I hope he does because that\u2019s who I want. That\u2019s no disrespect to Gustafsson. I want to be the man to take out Jon Jones, but he\u2019s got to get through Gus first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll see Anthony Smith and Jon Jones fight in the near future?<\/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 10\/26\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, in the main event of UFC Moncton, streaking light heavyweight contender Anthony Smith picked up arguably the biggest win of his career so far, submitting former UFC light heavyweight title challenger Volkan Oezdemir in the third round of a fun scrap. 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