{"id":339663,"date":"2020-01-30T09:40:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T17:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=339663"},"modified":"2020-01-30T09:40:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T17:40:01","slug":"anthony-smith-jon-jones-is-definitely-beatable-at-light-heavyweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/anthony-smith-jon-jones-is-definitely-beatable-at-light-heavyweight\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Smith: Jon Jones is &#8216;definitely beatable&#8217; at light heavyweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Cormier recently claimed that Jon Jones, who has ruled over the light heavyweight division for years, is unbeatable in his native weight class. By Cormier&#8217;s estimation, Jones will only be toppled at heavyweight. Anthony Smith, who lost a decision to Jones in early 2019, disagrees.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAonSiriusXM\/status\/1222339987678617602<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a heavyweight would have a much easier time,\u201d Smith said on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAonSiriusXM\/status\/1222339987678617602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sirius XM\u2019s Fight Nation<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2020\/01\/anthony-smith-jon-jones-is-beatable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cI like Daniel, I work with Daniel, I disagree with Daniel. Like. I hear him talk about Jon Jones like that all the time; I didn\u2019t see that. Like, I didn\u2019t feel like that when I was in there with Jon Jones. Obviously I had my own issues \u2026 but I don\u2019t feel like that. I didn\u2019t feel like I was in there with a dude that was unbeatable, and when I hear \u2018DC\u2019 talk sometimes, I get the feeling as if he\u2019s talking about someone who\u2019s unbeatable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Smith continued, sharing his belief that Cormier of all people should recognize that Jones can be beaten. He reminds that Cormier was performing well in his second fight with Jones until he got clipped with a head kick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially a man who was winning the second fight and just got clipped and put down,\u201d Smith said of Cormier. \u201cI think all judges had \u2018DC\u2019 up. He was winning every minute of every round up to the point he got kicked, so I always feel really uncomfortable when I hear \u2018DC\u2019 talk like that. One, because I don\u2019t see that when I seen him fight him the second time. I seen a guy that was definitely beatable, and I didn\u2019t feel like that when I was in there with Jon Jones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Smith believes Jones can be beaten at 205, he does acknowledge the champion will be much more beatable at heavyweight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould some more size absolutely help? For sure. If I was bigger and a couple inches taller and had a few more inches of reach on me, absolutely that\u2019s easier to do for sure. Also, if you\u2019re a heavyweight and a big power striker, maybe you can get away with putting Jon Jones out without having to be better than him for an entire fight. That\u2019s how I look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Are you with Anthony Smith on this? Can Jon Jones be beaten at 205 pounds?<\/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 1\/30\/2020.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Cormier recently claimed that Jon Jones, who has ruled over the light heavyweight division for years, is unbeatable in his native weight class. By Cormier&#8217;s estimation, Jones will only be toppled at heavyweight. Anthony Smith, who lost a decision to Jones in early 2019, disagrees. https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAonSiriusXM\/status\/1222339987678617602 \u201cI think a heavyweight would have a much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":303856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39522,10091,39610],"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>Anthony Smith: Jon Jones is &#039;definitely beatable&#039; at light heavyweight | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Anthony Smith refutes a recent comment from Daniel Cormier, assuring that Jon Jones is absolutely beatable at light heavyweight.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/anthony-smith-jon-jones-is-definitely-beatable-at-light-heavyweight\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anthony Smith: Jon Jones is &#039;definitely beatable&#039; 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