For the regular team on ESPN’s MMA broadcast desk, Conor McGregor’s inventive and devastating performance was a thing of beauty. But for veteran sports broadcaster Stephen A. Smith, it was cause to berate Donald Cerrone.
Alongside Jon Anik, Chael Sonnen and Michael Bisping on the UFC 246 post-fight show, Smith unloaded on Cerrone, announcing himself “quite disgusted” with the tactics on display in Saturday’s headliner.
Nearly apoplectic, Smith implied Cerrone had one again choked under pressure. He said Cerrone should have pulled away before taking the shoulder strikes that stunned him early.