{"id":304363,"date":"2019-03-04T10:26:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T18:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=304363"},"modified":"2019-03-04T10:26:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T18:26:50","slug":"jon-jones-praises-anthony-smith-for-not-taking-dq-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jon-jones-praises-anthony-smith-for-not-taking-dq-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones praises Anthony Smith for not taking DQ victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Toward the end of his UFC 235 title fight with Anthony Smith, UFC light heavyweight champ Jon Jones clobbered his grounded foe with an illegal knee. The referee paused the action, the cage-side physician entered the cage to examine Smith, and Jon Jones had a &#8220;nerve-wracking&#8221; flashback to his infamous disqualification loss to Matt Hamill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201dIt was nerve wracking. It was nerve wracking, really,\u201d Jones said at the UFC 235 post-fight press conference (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/3\/3\/18248618\/jon-jones-flashbacks-matt-hamill-fight-illegal-knee-anthony-smith-ufc-235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMA Fighting (opens in a new tab)\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cI just started to pray. I was just hoping that it wouldn\u2019t go down like that. I had flashbacks of the Matt Hamill fight and I was just thinking, oh my goodness, please, tell me this isn\u2019t going down like this. I was just looking at Anthony and I felt like we locked eyes at one moment and I kind of gave him one of these, like, \u2018you\u2019re alright, get your a** up\u2019 [laughs]. Sure enough, he showed the heart of a lion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201dHats off to Anthony, man. He could\u2019ve done the easy way and took that option out, but instead he stayed in there. I owe him. I owe him a beer. At least a beer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jon Jones went on to assure that the illegal knee was entirely unintentional. He also praised Anthony Smith for not taking the easy way out with a DQ knee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201dThe illegal knee was totally unintentional,\u201d he explained. \u201cIn the moment I felt his body language rising, and I thought I was gonna time a great head shot right after he got off of his palm. To my understanding, on his finger tips he\u2019s considered standing. His body came up, I threw the kick, I guess his palm was still down. Totally unintentional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201dHats off to Anthony Smith for having a lion heart,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I mean, I think the average person would have used that as a way out and became a world champion. He was tired, he had been hit with a kitchen sink, and, I mean, I did an illegal blow. 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