81: Oral Sessions - Anthony Smith
The Sessions with Renée Paquette
Renée Paquette
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Is “Lionheart” Anthony Smith the most interesting man in UFC? He just might be. The ascendant light heavyweight joins Oral Sessions to discuss a path to UFC that includes gambling and Chinese gangsters, pass along some parenting advice to Renee and his relationship with Internet fans. Plus, what’s the one thing that keeps him up at night? (It’s not his salary.)
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| 0:00.0 | Oral Sessions is brought to you by FanDuel. |
| 0:07.4 | It's never been easier to play fantasy on FanDuel. |
| 0:10.7 | Whether you love basketball, golf, soccer, or any other fantasy sport, there's a contest |
| 0:15.4 | for every fan. |
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| 0:19.6 | Hey guys, welcome to Oral Sessions. |
| 0:24.0 | What a fun week we've had and we've already had on WWE Champion Big E, my dude. |
| 0:28.7 | And now, following that, I've been moving things on over to the world of mixed martial |
| 0:33.2 | arts, the UFC, to Anthony Smith. |
| 0:36.4 | This man fresh off of a victory at first round submission over Ryan Span, and things got |
| 0:41.7 | a little heated in the octagon afterwards, and I wanted to pick his brain, I wanted to |
| 0:45.8 | talk to him about what was going on with him. |
| 0:48.2 | Also, I host a show on Sirius X, I'm on Fight Nation with Misha Take, called Throwing |
| 0:53.0 | Down with Renee Amisha, and we had Anthony on, but you know, those are way more abbreviated |
| 0:59.0 | versions of interviews. |
| 1:01.2 | We only get like, you know, 10 minutes or so with somebody, so I was like, damn, I want |
| 1:04.3 | to have Anthony Smith on my show to have him on Oral Sessions, like, really get to pick |
| 1:08.0 | his brain. |
| 1:09.0 | Because it seemed like he had a lot to talk about, and I really wanted to know more about |
| 1:13.5 | his story and about his journey, and you know, I think that was a big thing that happened |
| 1:17.0 | between him and Ryan Span was feeling disrespected on his way into that match with him, you know, |
| 1:22.6 | not feeling like his journey mattered or that Ryan Span was not paying attention to that. |
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