Anthony Smith says he asked Hunter Campbell and the UFC if he could compete in Power Slap.
Smith has been a professional fighter since 2008 and has had 59 professional fights. He has said he will retire after his next fight, but he also had some interest in going to Power Slap, but the UFC told him no.
âI tried, they told me no. Straight up. I asked Hunter and he told me no. He wouldnât even bring it to Dana, I donât know, he said no,â Smith said to Ariel Helwani.
Helwani then asked Smith if he would commentate it then, but he said he wouldnât fit that role. He believes heâs more analytical and breaking down styles which Power Slap doesnât need. But, he was interested in competing in Power Slap, but Campbell wasnât interested in that happening at all.
Anthony Smith plans to have one more fight
Anthony Smith says he will have one more fight before he retires as a pro fighter.
Smith thought about retiring after his last fight, but he says he wants to have one more fight and go out how he wants.
âMy first thought was, âI canât go out like that,â like, crying on my walkout and then getting into the octagon, and Iâm bawling, and I canât look at my kids because Iâm too upset,â Smith said on his âOn Paper with Anthony Smithâ podcast. âThen letting a guy punch me in the face because I just want to feel something other than grief.
âYou canât retire like that. Iâm not even saying I need a win. I just need some circumstances that are a little bit favorable would be nice. If I can just get a training camp where no one dies, that would be cool,â Smith added. âThat would be a positive. Go in and just give it my all for seven, eight weeks, get into the best shape I can, and go have a fun fight, see what happens, and then we get the hell out of here.â
Anthony Smith is 38-21 as a pro and coming off a TKO loss to Dominick Reyes. Heâs 13-11 in the UFC and has notable wins over Alexander Gustafsson, Volkan Oezdemir, Shogun Rua, and Rashad Evans among others.
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Full CTE/retardation at this point. What other decent enough MMA fighter would ever entertain going to Slapfight?
Smith would get destroyed by the PowerSlap slapletesâŚdoesnât have the chin or the neck
You just validated my first sentence.
Thanks for playing
Phunny
Believe you me has a new introâŚwith felder.
Wtf are you doing ant
Felder is funnier anyway
Lion Cheek.
Maybe Dana will start power kick. You take turns eating leg kicks.
Are you allowed to get in the fetal position in power slap? Cause he likes to fight from there.
