{"id":317623,"date":"2019-06-28T06:15:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=317623"},"modified":"2019-06-28T06:15:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:15:26","slug":"luke-rockhold-downplays-anthony-smiths-win-over-alexander-gustafsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/luke-rockhold-downplays-anthony-smiths-win-over-alexander-gustafsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Rockhold downplays Anthony Smith&#8217;s win over Alexander Gustafsson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, in the main event of UFC Stockholm, Anthony Smith picked up arguably the biggest win of his MMA career, submitting three-time light heavyweight title challenger Alexander Gustafsson. In the moments after this loss, Gustafsson announced his plan to retire from MMA \u2014 which is why Luke Rockhold didn&#8217;t find Smith&#8217;s win very impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Rockhold has previously been very critical of Smith&#8217;s ability, and saw nothing special in his defeat of Gustafsson, who had seemingly lost his will to fight.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Luke Rockhold: Jon Jones Is &quot;Scared to Fight DC at Heavyweight&quot;, Talks UFC 239, Jan Blachowicz\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0UVrZ_2ax_c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"5otW4q\">\u201cIt looked like he retired before that fight started, a long time before,\u201d Luke Rockhold told Submission Radio, speaking of Alexander Gustafsson (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/6\/28\/18761338\/luke-rockhold-comments-anthony-smiths-recent-win-says-jon-jones-is-scared-to-fight-dc-at-heavyweight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201c. . . So, I don\u2019t know where his head\u2019s at. His head wasn\u2019t there, he had a family and he just\u2026 he found an easy exit in Stockholm and found a way out in the fight obviously.<\/p>\n<p id=\"FXHS2z\">\u201cHe had a great career, put up some amazing fights, pushed DC to a split decision and Jon Jones to a split decision. The guy made his mark. Good for him, good for him. But he didn\u2019t come to fight that night, I\u2019ll tell you that.<\/p>\n<p id=\"T0HEI5\">\u201cMy feelings have not changed whatsoever. Gus didn\u2019t come to fight. Anybody who has any time for the sport could see that he didn\u2019t do a damn thing in that fight and he found a way out when the opportunity presented itself. It was an easy exit for him. So, that\u2019s that. Obviously, the guy can fight. He could fight, but he just doesn\u2019t want it anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comment is particularly relevant at present, as Luke Rockhold is gearing up for his debut in the light heavyweight division. He&#8217;ll make this debut against Poland&#8217;s Jan Blachowicz at UFC 239 on July 6, and could well fight himself scheduled for a grudge match with Anthony Smith down the road if he&#8217;s victorious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 6\/27\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, in the main event of UFC Stockholm, Anthony Smith picked up arguably the biggest win of his MMA career, submitting three-time light heavyweight title challenger Alexander Gustafsson. In the moments after this loss, Gustafsson announced his plan to retire from MMA \u2014 which is why Luke Rockhold didn&#8217;t find Smith&#8217;s win very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":283088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10129,39522,10150,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Luke Rockhold downplays Anthony Smith&#039;s win over Alexander Gustafsson | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Luke Rockhold explains why he didn&#039;t find Anthony Smith&#039;s recent defeat of the retiring Alexander Gustafsson particularly impressive.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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