{"id":399910,"date":"2021-11-19T06:39:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T14:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=399910"},"modified":"2021-11-19T06:39:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T14:39:14","slug":"anthony-smith-explains-why-conor-mcgregor-has-become-the-outsider-among-mma-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/anthony-smith-explains-why-conor-mcgregor-has-become-the-outsider-among-mma-fighters\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Smith explains why Conor McGregor has become &#8220;the outsider&#8221; among MMA fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC light heavyweight contender Anthony Smith explained why Conor McGregor has become &#8220;the outsider&#8221; amongst his fellow MMA fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Smith and McGregor have taken some shots at each other over the past several months, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/belal-muhammad-responds-after-conor-mcgregor-scoffs-at-his-and-anthony-smiths-ufc-analysis\/\">including McGregor recently criticizing Smith&#8217;s analysis on the UFC post-fight desk<\/a>. If you ask Smith, though, McGregor isn&#8217;t actually trying to take shots at his fellow fighters to try and get under their skin. Instead, Smith thinks McGregor is just trying to fit in with his fellow fighters, but his peers have no interest in letting him back into their world.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on SiriusXM Radio&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAonSiriusXM\/status\/1460759029169405965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight Nation<\/a> podcast, Smith shared his honest thoughts on what is going on with McGregor, and why his fellow fighters can resent him.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAonSiriusXM\/status\/1460759029169405965<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think sometimes, it\u2019s less about him trying to get a headline, it\u2019s less about him wanting to take shots at people and be that guy. I think that it eats him alive that he\u2019s never going to be one of the guys again. He\u2019ll never fit in in our group. He\u2019s not one of our peers anymore. It\u2019s not because we kicked him out and didn\u2019t want him \u2013 it\u2019s the total opposite,&#8221; Smith said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2021\/11\/anthony-smith-opinion-analysis-conor-mcgregor-alienated-himself-outsider-not-getting-back-in-ufc-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAjunkie.com<\/a>). \u201cWe wanted Conor to be one of us. He alienated all of us and now he wants back in and we\u2019re not going to let him in because he sh*t on every single one of us. It\u2019s the comments he makes. That\u2019s just his opportunity to try to \u2013 he wants the whole world to think that he\u2019s the cool guy and we\u2019re not, when in all reality, in our private situations and in our small world, he\u2019s the outsider. He\u2019s the one that no one\u2019s letting back in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with what Anthony Smith said about Conor McGregor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC light heavyweight contender Anthony Smith explained why Conor McGregor has become &#8220;the outsider&#8221; amongst his fellow MMA fighters. Smith and McGregor have taken some shots at each other over the past several months, including McGregor recently criticizing Smith&#8217;s analysis on the UFC post-fight desk. If you ask Smith, though, McGregor isn&#8217;t actually trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":315731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39522,10089,39610],"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 explains why Conor McGregor has become &quot;the outsider&quot; among MMA fighters | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC light heavyweight contender Anthony Smith explained why Conor McGregor has become &quot;the outsider&quot; amongst his fellow MMA fighters.\" \/>\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-explains-why-conor-mcgregor-has-become-the-outsider-among-mma-fighters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anthony Smith explains why Conor McGregor has become &quot;the outsider&quot; 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