{"id":392354,"date":"2022-06-14T12:47:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T12:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=392354"},"modified":"2022-06-14T12:47:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T12:47:43","slug":"anthony-smith-bashes-jiri-prochazkas-war-against-glover-teixeira-at-ufc-275-worst-performances-of-their-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/anthony-smith-bashes-jiri-prochazkas-war-against-glover-teixeira-at-ufc-275-worst-performances-of-their-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Smith Bashes Jiri Prochazka&#8217;s War Against Glover Teixeira at UFC 275: &#8216;Worst Performances of Their Life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC title challenger Anthony Smith spoke to MMA Fighting in the wake of UFC 275\u2019s main event bout. \u2018Lionheart\u2019 wasn\u2019t impressed with Jiri Prochazka\u2019s submission win over Glover Teixeria, which made him the first champion from the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Primarily, Smith believed Prochazka received an older, more compromised version of Glover Teixeira on Fight Night. Anthony Smith believes he\u2019s qualified to make such a statement since he received a hellacious beating at the hands of Teixeira back in May 2020.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One of the greatest fights we have ever seen had to be tonight&#39;s FOTN \ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gloverteixeira?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GloverTeixeira<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jiri_bjp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jiri_BJP<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC275?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC275<\/a> | B2YB <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ToyoTires?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ToyoTires<\/a> ] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sNdinPZ3Ql\">pic.twitter.com\/sNdinPZ3Ql<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1535862654559916033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTo be honest, I think both of those guys had the worst performances of their life at the same time. I really do. For the first time, Glover looked a little old. For the first time in a while, because that\u2019s not the Glover I got. That\u2019s not the one Thiago Santos\u00a0got.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/former-ufc-champion-miesha-tate-slams-valentina-shevchenko-for-her-ufc-275-performance-everybody-thought-she-was-so-unbeatable\/\">Former UFC Champion Miesha Tate Slams Valentina Shevchenko for Her UFC 275 Performance: \u2018Everybody Thought She Was So Unbeatable\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, \u2018Lionheart\u2019 Smith went on record saying that the fight IQ displayed by both men simply wasn\u2019t up to scratch. Both fighters made several questionable tactical decisions that led to the fight being a competitive war with several reversals taking place on both sides.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/14qR0rg_jJc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t know who that guy was, but fortunately for him, I think Prochazka had one of the worst performances he could have possibly had too. They just made terrible decisions. Like the fight IQ, if you would have put it together, it wouldn\u2019t have been in the double digits during the fight. They both just didn\u2019t fight smart at all.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M7d3a11lJ74\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGlover was mounted several times,\u201d Smith said. \u201cHe had [Prochazka\u2019s] back several times, he had him deep in submissions a couple times. He lost position. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever seen Glover lose positions like that before. I know the deficit between those two guys in the grappling department is huge.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2022\/6\/13\/23166423\/anthony-smith-criticizes-jiri-prochazka-vs-glover-teixeira-i-think-both-of-those-guys-had-the-worst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmafighting.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite Anthony Smith\u2019s overall criticisms about the fight, Teixeira vs Prochazka was one of the most entertaining light heavyweight fights in UFC history. The scrap is already being compared to the instant classic that was Jon Jones vs Alexander Gustafsson 1. It remains to be seen if Teixeira vs Prochazka stands the test of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC title challenger Anthony Smith spoke to MMA Fighting in the wake of UFC 275\u2019s main event bout. \u2018Lionheart\u2019 wasn\u2019t impressed with Jiri Prochazka\u2019s submission win over Glover Teixeria, which made him the first champion from the Czech Republic. Primarily, Smith believed Prochazka received an older, more compromised version of Glover Teixeira on Fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":392099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}