Just moments after Anthony Smith scored the biggest win of his career by knocking out Mauricio Rua at UFC Hamburg on Sunday afternoon, the newly minted light heavyweight contender offered to step and replace the injured Volkan Oezdemir next month against Alexander Gustafsson at UFC 227.
Unfortunately for Smith, Gustafsson quickly announced that he, too, was pulling out of the event due to a minor injury — a coincidence that Smith seems skeptical of.
“That’s ironic, isn’t it?” Smith said at the UFC Hamburg post-fight press conference.