{"id":311520,"date":"2019-04-28T06:09:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T13:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=311520"},"modified":"2022-02-06T15:20:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T23:20:12","slug":"jimmy-smith-explains-why-he-turned-down-offer-from-one-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/jimmy-smith-explains-why-he-turned-down-offer-from-one-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Smith explains why he turned down offer from ONE Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After his UFC contract expired, popular cage-side commentator Jimmy Smith was offered a gig with Singapore-based martial arts powerhouse ONE Championship. In the end, however, he accepted a job with North American promotion Invicta Fighting Championship instead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy Smith explained why he made this decision in a recent post to his YouTube channel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently, ONE Championship required him to move to Singapore. While Smith wasn&#8217;t opposed to this idea in theory, the plan hit a snag when he learned that pitbulls are illegal in the Asian country. The former UFC and Bellator commentator is a proud pitbull owner and couldn&#8217;t bring himself to part with his canine family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Me and ONE FC\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pkFldyAxQUc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was in talks with ONE FC right after I left the UFC, (and it\u2019s) not easy to just pick up and move my life to Southeast Asia,\u201d Smith said in his video (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2019\/04\/jimmy-smith-declined-one-championship-dogs-pit-bulls-singapore?utm_source=outbrain_mmajunkie&amp;utm_medium=recirc&amp;utm_campaign=rail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMA Junkie (opens in a new tab)\">MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cI\u2019m doing my research and low and behold pit bulls are illegal in Singapore. They\u2019re illegal to own, illegal to import.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy Smith says he considered handing his dogs off to somebody else, but didn&#8217;t trust anyone enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have a really small family, and I have only two people I trust to take care of my dogs, and they were unable to do it,\u201d Smith said. \u201cSo that was it. My dogs are family. I don\u2019t give them up for anyone or anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t regret that at all,\u201d Smith added. \u201cAt all. \u2026 It was just a choice I had to make about keeping my family together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a><em> on 4\/28\/2019. <\/em><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his UFC contract expired, popular cage-side commentator Jimmy Smith was offered a gig with Singapore-based martial arts powerhouse ONE Championship. In the end, however, he accepted a job with North American promotion Invicta Fighting Championship instead. Jimmy Smith explained why he made this decision in a recent post to his YouTube channel. 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