Jimmy Smith figured something was amiss when his announcing assignment suddenly got shifted from Madison Square Garden to Moncton.
The longtime Bellator MMA commentator had moved to the UFC on a risky one-year deal, and in the last two months of that deal, he went from a pay-per-view assignment at the building New Yorkers love to call “The World’s Most Famous Arena” to a Fight Night at a town that is no doubt a fine place, but not often name-checked as an A-list destination.
“My first inkling was Nov. 3,” Smith said on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour with Luke Thomas.