Why UFC Let Jimmy Smith Go | Luke Thomas

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Jimmy Smith announced on social media the UFC let him go after just a year of commentator and analyst work. This baffled many inside the sport who (like me) regard as the very best the sport has to offer. He is a black belt, former fighter, Bellator and M-1 commentator and more. So, why are they doing it? Because the UFC is prioritizing the use of former and current UFC fighters to fill those rolls, e.g. Daniel Cormier, Dominick Cruz, Paul Felder, Michael Bisping and more. As I argue in this video, that’s a policy that carries good and bad, so it’s worth explaining.

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33 Comments

  1. They already have a Joe Rogan. If you had a choice of frosted flakes or generic sweet flakes which would you choose?

  2. Agreed they still could have used him and sure can afford him. Def an MMA talent that should have been kept around. I guess he can do one championship

  3. I had noticed that Jimmy Smith hadn't been used as much recently. Kind of surprising though.

  5. Ufc is so desperate to find something after Conor…they have nothing with him not fighting..shame….

  6. I don't watch much MMA any more as Red Pill and MGTOW videos are much higher priority to a man's life and interactions with women while protecting his finances from Divorce Rape (hint: all women are one or more of: liars, cheaters, sluts, parasites, Divorce Rapists) so if you want to play you need to understand true female nature including Hypergamy and the Feminazi legal system enabling Divorce Rape (most people seem to get divorced and ruined for life financially these days). My ex-colleague in his 50s got divorced and his ex-wife took his whole house, he's back to renting! God knows what he's going to do in a few more years when he can't earn any more.

  7. Jimmy Smith – tough dude, been around years, but on merit you'd have to go with giving commentary jobs to UFC fighters – not just for recognizability but also that they need the money more since most UFC fighters are so badly underpaid. Of course it helps to keep more ex-fighters on payroll and away from lobbying against UFC…

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