{"id":307155,"date":"2019-03-25T17:44:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T00:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=307155"},"modified":"2019-03-25T17:53:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T00:53:16","slug":"stephen-thompson-knows-he-has-been-hit-harder-than-anthony-pettis-ko-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/stephen-thompson\/stephen-thompson-knows-he-has-been-hit-harder-than-anthony-pettis-ko-punch\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Thompson knows he has been hit harder than Anthony Pettis’ KO punch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stephen Thompson suffered the first knockout loss of his MMA career to Anthony Pettis on Saturday night in Nashville. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After seemingly dominating the opening few mintues of the fight, \u2018Wonderboy\u2019 was caught with a superman punch from Anthony Pettis with just five seconds left<\/a> in the second round. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a clean punch that knocked Thompson out cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With that said, \u2018Wonderboy\u2019 knows he has been hit harder than that in the past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know I\u2019ve been hit harder than that, I know Tyron has hit me harder that,\u201d Thompson said on The MMA Hour (transcript MMAFighting<\/a>). \u201cWhy did this punch affect me like it did? The only thing I can think of is it just being right on the money. Sometimes, that\u2019s all it takes. I threw a sidekick that kind of glanced off him and put me in a bad position where my right foot was trailing to the outside of him, which put me closer to him. I know his back was to the cage, so all he had to do was lunge forward and, of course, when you\u2019re throwing your punch with your whole body behind it, it makes it that much more powerful and the last three or four inches is where the power comes from. So, throwing that straight right down the pipe, that\u2019s what did it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt took me a while to figure it out and go back and watch it. It didn\u2019t look like it was that much. Especially after Tyron put me down and didn\u2019t put me away. I\u2019m sitting there thinking \u2018Why was that?\u2019 But, you know, it doesn\u2019t have to take a gorilla of a punch to put you away. You put it right on the spot and that\u2019s all it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, Thompson is recovering from the loss and assures his fans he is doing fine. Now, the question remains of what is next for Thompson? Well, he has his eyes on one card, but after his recent loss the timing might not be right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know there\u2019s a fight in my hometown in three months,” he said. “So, we\u2019re going to see how we feel in two weeks. I\u2019m not going to push it at all, especially after a knock down like that. I don\u2019t want to jump back too soon. So, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article first appeared on <\/em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a> on 3\/25\/2019. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Thompson suffered the first knockout loss of his MMA career to Anthony Pettis on Saturday night in Nashville. After seemingly dominating the opening few mintues of the fight, \u2018Wonderboy\u2019 was caught with a superman punch from Anthony Pettis with just five seconds left in the second round. It was a clean punch that knocked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54463,"featured_media":306983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10206,10132,39610,24347],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nStephen Thompson knows he has been hit harder than Anthony Pettis' KO punch | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It was a clean punch by Anthony Pettis that knocked Stephen Thompson out. 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