UFC light heavyweight Anthony Smith has never missed weight in his career, until this weekend. Smith was scheduled as the backup for UFC 283’s main event this past weekend, but missed the 205-pound Light Heavyweight limit by four pounds. Smith revealed the issue in a recent episode of Michael Bisping’s Believe You Me podcast.
“It wasn’t for a lack of effort. I spent 48 straight hours cutting weight. It wasn’t a lack of effort. No one saw me on the scale looking like I had an additional 20 pounds to lose. I got close, but it wasn’t close enough, and that’s my fault – it’ll never happen again.
Anthony Smith Misses Weight For The First Time in Career
I’ll be the first one on the scale for my next fight. And I’m not a serial weight-misser. It happens, and it wasn’t on purpose. I apologized to everyone that it mattered to.” Smith continued, refusing to make excuses for the weight miss.
“They weren’t super happy about it, but once the fights went through and everything was fine, everybody was good. They know that I’m a professional and things happen. I offered no excuses, and that’s on me.”
I can’t even tell you what happened, because no matter what I say, there’s a reason, there’s a lot of s*** that goes on behind the scenes that nobody sees.
I was in shape, I was really low a couple weeks ago, and s*** happens, and I have no excuses.” Smith also admitted that, as a UFC analyst, he’s come down hard on fighters missing weight in the past.
“I’ve been an absolute a***** about people missing weight. You’ve got one job: You’ve got to show up on weight. That’s the easiest part of the job, right? So I stand by everything I’ve ever said about everyone else, that you have to make weight, that it’s not an option, and I’ll accept whatever sh*t’s coming my way. It doesn’t change my perspective on anything.
I’m still going to do it. The next person that misses weight, I’m going to say something about it. Because everyone else is coming at me, they’re in the comments, they’re on Twitter, they’re talking s***. You know what? I’ll eat it. Some s*** happened, I f***** up, I missed weight, I’ll eat that s***. I’ll take that L. It is what it is.”
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