Anthony Smith Reacts to Aljamain Sterling's DQ Win at UFC 259 and the State of the Light Heavyweight Division

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🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Anthony Smith reacts to the fallout from UFC 259 where Aljamain Sterling became bantamweight champion after being unable to continue following an illegal strike from Petr Yan, which somewhat mirrored his own experience against Jon Jones in 2019. Smith also discusses his upcoming fight against Jimmy Crute, the recent fight between Jan Blachowicz and Israel Adesanya as well as the state of the light heavyweight division. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Vox Media podcast network.
0:04.8	Damon Martin, MMA fighting here with one of my favorite guys to speak to.
0:08.2	He is one of the top light heavyweights in the world, but he's becoming one of the best
0:11.2	analysts in the world, which is why I like talking to him about everything going on
0:14.4	in the sport today.
0:15.4	Anthony Smith, Anthony, what's going on, man?
0:18.1	How are you?
0:19.1	I'm good, man.
0:20.1	I just got out of practice.
0:21.1	I finished up strength conditioning.
0:22.1	I'm done for the day and yeah, just hanging out here in beautiful Denver, Colorado.
0:28.1	Very nice.
0:29.1	So obviously deep into into training camp already.
0:32.1	Yeah.
0:33.1	Yeah, yeah.
0:34.1	I mean, we're rolling, man.
0:35.1	It's going really well on the side.
0:37.1	Yeah, absolutely.
0:38.1	So Anthony, before you get to anything else, man, let's talk about the fight.
0:42.0	You actually, you obviously stepped in, got to fight with Jimmy Krueh.
0:46.1	You're going to fight him in April.
0:47.1	I know when we spoke after your last fight, you were looking for to take a little bit of time
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