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I hate to agree with Smith but I can't deny he is right. I LOVE Cerrone but what happened in there, to the casual fan, one could assume like he didn't want to be in there. All touching gloves and smiling and shit, no aggression and gets finished that quick. But, what they simply cannot fathom is being hit very hard, rocked, and unable to gather yourself. Cerrone got rocked hard from hitting his head on Conor's thigh, the subsequent shoulder strikes left him hurt and dazed with a busted nose and orbital, and the finish was there.
It's worse since Cerrone came out later saying nothing was actually broken at all in the fight.
I couldn't care less about Smith. I don't follow basketball anymore and don't follow him on ESPN. He didn't say anything that hasn't been said about Cowboy in these very forums many times over the years. People were saying it about Cerrone after he fought RDA and Pettis and Bendo.
After Pettis and RDA, many said all you had to do was touch Cowboy to the body and he'd fold. Cowboy has lost 6 times in a single round in the biggest fights of his career. He also mentally folded against Diaz though that at least went to a decision. When he fought Nate, a lot of people on Sherdog were claiming Cowboy was the uncrowned champ. He's a better fighter than that but there's no doubt he tends to choke in his biggest fights. That's often what separates the greatest athletes from the merely good. The greats raise their game in the biggest situations. Others shrink.