{"id":304244,"date":"2019-03-03T07:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T15:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=304244"},"modified":"2019-03-03T07:22:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T15:22:16","slug":"ufc-235-anthony-smith-still-very-confident-he-can-defeat-jon-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-235-anthony-smith-still-very-confident-he-can-defeat-jon-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 235 | Anthony Smith still very confident he can defeat Jon Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Anthony Smith survived five rounds with UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones, but was ultimately soundly outclassed in his first bid at UFC gold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite his unanimous decision loss to Jon Jones, however, Anthony Smith is still extremely confident that he can dethrone the legendary champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a beatable man,\u201d Smith said at the UFC 235 post-fight press conference (transcript via MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cI didn\u2019t walk out of there thinking, \u2018Wow, he\u2019s a lot better than I thought.\u2019 Like when\u00a0(Quinton) \u2018Rampage\u2019 (Jackson)\u00a0lost to Jon and he stood there and said. like, \u2018This kid\u2019s for real, this guy\u2019s good,\u2019 like almost laying out to Jon. I don\u2019t feel like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m not gonna take anything away from him because he did a phenomenal job of doing what he had to do tonight, but I don\u2019t have the feeling that\u2019s a guy that I can\u2019t beat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever the case, Anthony Smith believes he proved his standing as a truly elite light heavyweight by going the distance with Jones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI absolutely belong here and I think that the fight alone proves that,\u201d Smith said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what other 205ers are gonna f*ck with me, I just don\u2019t see that happening. I was in there, you know what I mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd I don\u2019t feel like I got ran through, I just kind of got shut down. I don\u2019t feel like Jon Jones just went in there and beat the shit out of me, I just couldn\u2019t get going. That\u2019s Jon Jones though. I said I needed to force Jon Jones to fight me and I didn\u2019t do that. He didn\u2019t fight me, he nullified me. It\u2019s going to haunt me for a long time and I\u2019m gonna have to get back to the drawing board and sit down with (coaches) Marc (Montoya) and Scott (Morton) and figure out what the f*ck happened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From here, Anthony Smith plans to return to the drawing board and work his way back to a rematch with Jon Jones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be back,\u201d Smith said confidently. \u201cJon Jones and I will see each other again, that\u2019s for sure. Because there\u2019s no one else in the entire f*cking division that\u2019s gonna do anything about that. I don\u2019t care who it is. There\u2019s no one else that\u2019s gonna stop me from getting back to Jon Jones.\u201d
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This article first appeared on <\/em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a> on 3\/3\/2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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