{"id":340016,"date":"2020-02-03T09:48:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T17:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=340016"},"modified":"2020-02-03T09:48:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T17:48:55","slug":"stephen-a-smith-will-not-apologize-to-rogan-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/stephen-a-smith-will-not-apologize-to-rogan-mcgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen A. Smith &#8216;will not apologize&#8217; to Rogan, McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen A. Smith found himself in hot water for the comments he made about Donald &#8220;Cowboy&#8221; Cerrone after UFC 246. Among his most vocal critics were UFC commentator Joe Rogan, and the man who knocked Cowboy out in 40 seconds on the card, Conor McGregor.<\/p>\n<p>Both Rogan and McGregor suggested Smith should walk his comments back, with the latter even demanding an apology on behalf of his vanquished foe.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, however, will not be backtracking or apologizing to McGregor, Rogan, or anybody else who took issue with his comments about Cerrone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re telling me to apologize for using the word \u2018quit\u2019 or whatever, fine that\u2019s no problem but don\u2019t tell me that the guy wasn\u2019t in over his head, don\u2019t tell me the guy didn\u2019t look like the bright light was just too big or too great for him,&#8221; Smith told ESPN (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/stephen-a-smith-wont-apologize-to-conor-mcgregor-or-joe-rogan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA News<\/a>). &#8220;Don\u2019t tell me that it didn\u2019t illuminate on him so much that he didn\u2019t seem to be able to handle the pressure of the moment. I\u2019m not apologizing for that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConor McGregor as far as I\u2019m concerned, despite four losses on his resume is elite,&#8221; Smith continued. &#8220;And one of the biggest reasons he is elite even though he\u2019s tapped out a couple of times or so is this reality, he shows up. He shows up for the big events and the big events never seem to be too much for him. Conor McGregor\u2019s not gonna be somebody that goes out there and beats himself. You wanna beat him you\u2019re gonna have to literally do that, beat him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not apologize and I will not backtrack from my position. I don\u2019t care what Conor McGregor or Joe Rogan says, although I profoundly respect both. We will just have to respectfully disagree on what we saw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this rebuttal from Stephen A. Smith?<\/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 2\/3\/2020.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen A. Smith found himself in hot water for the comments he made about Donald &#8220;Cowboy&#8221; Cerrone after UFC 246. Among his most vocal critics were UFC commentator Joe Rogan, and the man who knocked Cowboy out in 40 seconds on the card, Conor McGregor. Both Rogan and McGregor suggested Smith should walk his comments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":340017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10089,10151,65232,39610],"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>Stephen A. Smith &#039;will not apologize&#039; to Rogan, McGregor | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stepohen A. 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