{"id":328235,"date":"2019-10-13T20:39:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T03:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=328235"},"modified":"2019-10-13T20:39:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T03:39:58","slug":"cub-swanson-takes-one-last-shot-at-kron-gracie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/cub-swanson-takes-one-last-shot-at-kron-gracie\/","title":{"rendered":"Cub Swanson takes one last shot at Kron Gracie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cub Swanson got the victory he sought at UFC Tampa, defeating BJJ specialist Kron Gracie by unanimous decision. Yet the long-time featherweight contender decided to take one post-fight shot at his rival \u2014 and it was a funny one.<\/p>\n<p>Gracie, for those who don&#8217;t know, is a known Flat-Earther \u2014 part of a group of conspiracists who believe the earth is flat, not a sphere.<\/p>\n<p>In victory, Swanson decided to reaffirm what science has shown us: that the earth is indeed round.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/CubSwanson\/status\/1183560510794620928<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">And the earth is round,&#8221; Swanson wrote on his official <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CubSwanson\/status\/1183560510794620928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> account.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With his win over Gracie, a clean-sweep on the judges&#8217; scorecards, Swanson rebounds from a four-fight skid \u2014 consecutive losses to Brian Ortega, Frankie Edgar, Renato Moicano and Shane Burgos. The veteran, who has long stood out as one of the world\u2019s premier featherweights, is 26\u201311 overall.<\/p>\n<p>This loss to Swanson marks Gracie\u2019s first defeat as a professional mixed martial artist. Prior to this first taste of defeat, he won five straight fights, all by submission. His most notable wins came against veterans Alex Caceres in his UFC debut, and Tatsuya Kawajiri in the RIZIN Fighting Federation ring.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kron-gracie\/kron-gracie-protests-cub-swanson-loss-gets-roasted-by-ben-askren\/\">he believes the judges got it wrong<\/a> and that he deserved the win over Swanson.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this comment from Cub Swanson? Do you think Kron Gracie will respond?<\/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 10\/14\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cub Swanson got the victory he sought at UFC Tampa, defeating BJJ specialist Kron Gracie by unanimous decision. Yet the long-time featherweight contender decided to take one post-fight shot at his rival \u2014 and it was a funny one. Gracie, for those who don&#8217;t know, is a known Flat-Earther \u2014 part of a group of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":277063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10448,39664,39610],"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>Cub Swanson takes one last shot at Kron Gracie | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Long-time UFC featherweight contender Cub Swanson takes one last shot at his recent opponent, known Flat Earth conspiracist Kron Gracie.\" \/>\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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