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Jacobe Smith’s quick work in the cage gave him plenty of time to play afterwards.
At Fury FC 86 in Dallas on Saturday, Smith scored a thudding 18-second knockout of Jared McLoughlin and then unleashed one of the most insane celebrations of 2024.
Watch the fight in its entirety below.
Y’all want the entire Jacobe Smith Fury FC fight??? We’ll give it to ya cuz ya might not ever see another. WOW!!#FuryFC86 pic.twitter.com/g3hRybPc3H
— UFC FIGHT PASS (@UFCFightPass) February 24, 2024
To summarize:
Smith cracked McLoughlin with a right hand and then nailed him with a follow-up punch to finish the fight
Smith then proceeds to get some air and do a full-force flop onto his back
Smith continues to tumble, doing a full 360 roll on the ground before exploding into a cartwheel that nearly takes out a Fury FC staff member
back flip
chest bump the cage
jog to the other side and hop onto the cage for more theatrics
Incredible.
In a follow-up interview, Smith explained his unhinged post-fight antics.
For those wanting some clarity on the celebration pic.twitter.com/CU8I5UQUMT
— UFC FIGHT PASS (@UFCFightPass) February 25, 2024
“First off, I threw two punches and literally both landed, so I didn’t do nothing else the whole fight,” Smith said. “I’m like, ‘It’s over?’ So I stand up and I’m like, ‘This can’t be it. That s*** was wack.’ So I jump up to do a back flip and I didn’t have my grips under me, so I got the push off but I didn’t get the grip to get the rotation going. So I was just like, ‘F*** it, you’ve done this before, just make sure you don’t land on your neck’ and went all back into it.
“Once I hit, I started moving. I just kept moving. I was like, just keep it going, just put on some kind of a show, get the audience tuned in and give them more than 18 seconds because I know they’re going to be pissed off about that a little bit.”
If Smith is worried about quick finishes putting people off, he may want to slow down his current pace. The 8-0 welterweight was coming off of a 61-second knockout win this past September and he already has six first-round KOs on his résumé.
The UFC will head back to the road again for more shows in 2024, with the upcoming UFC Fight Night card on May 11 targeted for a return to St. Louis.
Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed St. Louis as the destination for the May event, although the UFC hasn’t made anything official just yet. Marcell Dorff first reported the location for the card on Twitter.
If the card is finalized for St. Louis, it would be the first time that the UFC has taken a card to the Missouri city since 2018, when Jeremy Stephens knocked out Doo-ho Choi in the main event. The event would most likely take place at the Enterprise Center, previously known as the Scottrade Center, the home of the St. Louis Blues in the NHL.
Since end of the global pandemic, the UFC has started traveling to more and more locations for Fight Night cards while still promoting a number of events each year at the UFC APEX. So far in 2024, outside of pay-per-view events, the UFC has traveled to Mexico City for a Fight Night card, and the promotion will land in Atlantic City, N.J. on March 30.
There’s also a planned card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on June 22, as well as the UFC taking a card to The Sphere in Las Vegas for Mexican Independence Day in September.
There are several rumored fights expected for the May 11 card, including Terrance McKinney returning for a matchup against Esteban Ribovics, and Carlos Ulberg taking on Alonzo Menifield, although no main event has been confirmed yet.
Khabib Nurmagomedov made a ridiculous amount of money when he came face-to-face with Conor McGregor back in 2018. Though, according to Dana White, Vladimir Putin gave Khabib an extra incentive to beat the Irishman.
Being two of the biggest names in the sport, Khabib and McGregor understandably combined for the highest pay-per-view buys in UFC history. Headlining UFC 229, the lightweights allegedly sold 2.4 million PPV buys, which trumps the 1.6 million of the second-highest MMA event.
During an appearance on the Games with Names podcast, Dana White opened up on the past feud between Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov.
“That was a big one for us,” White said. “A ton of animosity between those two going in. A ton of animosity between Khabib and Conor’s cornermen. It was crazy”
“Their rise, it was at the same time. The problem that you’re talking about when you say they were boys, they were never really boys. You’re dealing with two hardcore alpha males.”
“These guys are both killers. They both want to be the best, they both want to win, and they’re both willing to fight anybody and do anything to be the best. When you get those two types of guys, there is no being buddies. Those two were on a collision course before they even knew they were.”
Related: Conor McGregor calls out Nurmagomedov family for steroid use
Dana White continued, insisting that Khabib Nurmagomedov received a handsome reward from Vladimir Putin after his win over Conor McGregor.
“He became this huge mega-star in the Muslim world. So, after he beat Conor McGregor, he went on this tour of all the Muslim countries.”
“He didn’t even make it back to his dressing room after the fight and Putin was on the phone. And Putin gave him and his father like $ 20 million worth of property in Russia.”
Listen to everything Dana White had to say in the podcast below.
Ortega went through a two year struggle to make it back into the cage on Saturday night. He credits his strong comeback to finding God.
No one knew what to expect from Brian Ortega coming into UFC Mexico City. “T-City” had been out of the cage for two years due to injuries and surgeries. He was frank about the questions he was asking himself about his future in the sport, and the depression he’d fought through.
How would it all affect him in a fight with the very dangerous Yair Rodriguez?
In the end, Ortega came back from a very rough round one to submit Rodriguez in the third (watch the highlights here). The perseverance he showed in life came in handy in the cage. He overcame those early difficulties to emerge victorious. It was a beautiful thing to witness, and he discussed his emotional journey in an interview with Full Send MMA.
“I’ll be honest with you right here, it’s been rough,” he said. “I lost one of my best friends, I lost two friends after that. I got betrayed by people that were close to me. I had 4 surgeries back to back. It’s just a lot of things in my personal life, and it looked dark.”
“I know a lot of people think its cheesy but when I went to church, I found god, and a year ago I was a broken man. And now today I’m married, I got my kids with me, God gave me my family back. And look at us, we’re doing good.”
“I probably hit every brick wall you can imagine,” he admitted. “Like, I’ve messed up my life so much. But we’re still here, man.
“I spent months alone, man,” Ortega said. “Months alone. I didn’t answer the door, no one came to see me. I was by myself, bro. And it wasn’t like a ‘Boo-hoo me,’ it was more like … I’m working on myself.”
“I had to quit some things that I thought I was never going to quit, I had to change my life in a way that I didn’t want to,” he continued. “I didn’t want to, but I know that if I want a better life and I want to really continue and grow and succeed and be a real example for my kids, I got to knock it off. So I went to war with myself, and here we are, look.”
With this win, Ortega stands on the verge of a potential featherweight title shot against new champ Ilia Topuria. The division is wide open, and “T-City” could definitely get the call depending on how things come together with other 145 pound contenders over the coming months.
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