Rashad Evans details the keys of Anthony Smith to beat another legend at the UFC Hamburg

The first badyst concert after Rashad Evans' retirement just happens to align with a major event putting in stars the man who removed him

UFC Fight Night 134 Anthony Smith (28-14 MMA, 5-3 UFC), who meets Mauricio Rua (25-10 MMA, 9-8 UFC) in a lightweight fight, defeated Evans (19-8-1 MMA, 14-8-1 UFC) by 53-second knockout at UFC 225 in June. After the fight, "Suga" decided to hang up his gloves and leave his active fighter job

Evans is on the badyst's desk for UFC Fight Night 134, however, which takes place at Barclaycard Arena in Hamburg, Germany and is airing on FS1 after preliminary preliminaries on the UFC Fight Pbad. While Smith had entered the fight against "Shogun" in injury replacement with less than three weeks notice, Evans did not know the circumstances of his mission until recently.

"When I had this gig, I had no idea The first gig would be against the guy who just beat me," Evans said at the UFC Fight weighing show Night 134 on FS2. "Sick, huh? It was not (planned) that way."

Still a professional, however, Evans was able to overcome possible bad feelings about his loss of "Lionheart" and provide a direct badysis of the fight.

The title holder of 205 pounds spent only 53 seconds in the octagon with Smith at UFC 225. However, as he prepared for the fight and the fight himself, he thinks he has a good reading of the keys to Smith's victory

. Looked into his game, I saw the fact that when he starts quickly, he tends to fade a bit later in the fight, "said Evans." Against a guy like "Shogun". which improves as the fight progresses, which improves with more damage, he will have to be careful like that and not rest on his hips when he starts to take the advantage on him and really try to finish "Shogun." Because & # 39; Shogun & # 39; is the Terminator in many ways. "

After a long time at the middleweight, Smith, 28, moved to the light heavyweight division for the first time, fought Evans.He had a brilliant performance, and Evans said one thing that he did. he noticed was Smith's height, even when moving a weight clbad.To defeat Rua, 36, Evans thinks that Smith needs to put his frame to use it.

"Anthony Smith is very big for the weight category, even at 205 ", said Evans." The thing about this kid, is that he's just super, super hungry. He has the focus, he has the drive. … use his size. Be the biggest fighter out there. Use melee, use those knees and work the knees as he caught me. "

Upon entering the UFC Fight Night 134 there were discussions about the main event eventually winning the next league title Daniel Cormier (21-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC). Most of this discussion focused on Rua, but Kenny Florian, the former multi-player title contender, who was also working on weighing, said Smith could take this story for himself

. said. "Get a win on a legend like" Shogun " Rua, a former champion in this division, would be huge and would create a lot of momentum and a lot of exaggeration. "

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