{"id":303696,"date":"2019-02-27T07:39:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T15:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=303696"},"modified":"2019-02-27T07:39:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T15:39:43","slug":"ufc-235-anthony-smith-feels-he-has-jon-jones-beat-in-one-crucial-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-235-anthony-smith-feels-he-has-jon-jones-beat-in-one-crucial-area\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 235 | Anthony Smith feels he has Jon Jones beat in one crucial area"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This Saturday, in the main event of UFC 235, Anthony Smith will attempt to wrest the UFC light heavyweight title from the waist of seemingly unbeatable champion Jon Jones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heading into this fight, Smith has been discounted by a wide portion of the MMA community \u2014 most notably the oddsmakers, who have him labelled as a massive underdog. And really, it&#8217;s understandable why. Jon Jones has shown himself to be one of the most versatile and dangerous fighters in MMA history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That being said, Anthony Smith feels he is Jones&#8217; better in one crucial department: Brazilian jiu jitsu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m okay with that,&#8221; Smith said on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"UFC Unfiltered (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/player.fm\/series\/ufc-unfiltered-with-jim-norton-and-matt-serra\/uf273-anthony-smith-and-kamaru-usman-in-studio-jeremy-stephens-and-ufc-prague-recap\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Unfiltered<\/a> podcast (transcript via <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMA News (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/anthony-smith-jon-jones-jiu-jitsu\/\" target=\"_blank\">MMA News<\/a>). &#8220;I love jiu jitsu and we talked about it before, I started out as a jiu jitsu guy. I never claimed that I\u2019m some world-class striker, that\u2019s everybody else. I\u2019ve always said I\u2019m a jiu jitsu guy at heart, that\u2019s how I started. And I\u2019m more than happy to get into a grappling battle with Jon. I think that Jon puts everything together really really well. He\u2019s really smart, he makes really good decisions especially on the fly. But in a jiu jitsu match, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a world that exists that Jon Jones beats me in jiu jitsu. It just doesn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthony Smith flaunted his jiu jitsu chops in his last fight, when he braved some early adversity to submit former title challenger Volkan Oezdemir. He&#8217;s also defeated 10 other men by submission. 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