Following Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone’s rebuttal of Anthony Smith’s claim that Cerrone and Dan Bilzerian kicked his family out of their seats when Smith fought Jon Jones, Anthony Smith is sticking by his word. Particularly, he doesn’t want to “sh*t on” Cerrone. Dan Bilzerian, however, is another story, as Smith revealed to The Schmo.
“Honesty, I haven’t said anything about it because I wasn’t intentionally trying to s*** on ‘Cowboy.’ That wasn’t the purpose. I think it was collateral damage. I was really trying to s*** on Dan Bilzerian. So, I stand by everything that I said, but I wasn’t trying to s*** on ‘Cowboy.’
Anthony Smith Stands By His Cowboy Cerrone Story
Initially, I wasn’t even going to say his name. So I’m fairly confident that ‘Cowboy’ and I could sit down and have a five-minute conversation or less, and we could hash it out. It’s on the record. You can find it anywhere, how much I’ve looked up to ‘Cowboy,’ and I’ve said most of those things like less than three years ago.
So how many times have you heard me say I want to be the light heavyweight ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone? I look up to that guy. So I don’t have any beef with ‘Cowboy.’ When I told the story, I didn’t have any beef with ‘Cowboy,’ it wasn’t meant for ‘Cowboy.’”
Dan Bilzerian called the story “complete bulls***” but Anthony Smith is more concerned that he’s offside with a fighter he openly admires.
“I am guilty of maybe being on a podcast with a good friend of mine and telling a story. I don’t know, to be very honest, my mom had just passed away like two weeks before that, maybe I was in my feelings a little bit.
And I had never told the story because my mom was still alive, she was just embarrassed by it. So, I think maybe I was in my feelings and just got wrapped up in a conversation with a friend, and maybe didn’t realize how many people might be listening. So on that end of it, I probably should’ve just said something to ‘Cowboy,’ but I didn’t really have any beef with him. We were cool, that’s why I never said anything.
So I hope that this blows over, because I don’t like feeling like ‘Cowboy’ and I have beef, because I do look up to ‘Cowboy’ and the things he’s done. And I’ve seen him interact with people — ‘Cowboy’s’ a good dude. And I don’t want anyone to think any different, and that wasn’t the purpose of me telling that story.”
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