Longtime MMA commentator Jimmy Smith is returning to Bellator.
The Donn Davis period of Bellator has been a blended bag for many combat followers across the globe. The PFL purchased out the corporate late final 12 months, and plenty of longtime faces similar to Scott Coker left the model. Nevertheless, their roster of fighters similar to Douglas Lima, Patricio Pitbull and extra have largely caught round.
Nevertheless, Bellator has not too long ago made an enormous non-fighter signing. As first reported by MMA Combating, longtime coloration commentator Jimmy Smith has rejoined the model. A former fighter himself, the broadcaster famously left the then-Viacom-owned model to go to the UFC in 2018. Nevertheless, he was let go after only one 12 months.
Since then, Jimmy Smith has hung out with the WWE, Invicta FC, and extra. Nevertheless, seven years after leaving Bellator, the commentator will likely be returning to the corporate. Talking with MMA Combating concerning the information, Smith revealed that he was already cordial with many of the employees regardless of his exit from the MMA firm years in the past.
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Colour commentator Jimmy Smith rejoins Bellator years after leaving the corporate
“I obtained a telephone name,” Jimmy Smith acknowledged when requested about rejoining Bellator. “‘Hey, do you need to come do some reveals for us?’ I went, ‘Certain, yeah, nice, no drawback.’ Individuals have this concept that I rekindled issues, it’s not like I haven’t seen Scott Coker since then. It’s not like I haven’t been in contact with Bellator folks since then. I referred to as the administrators and producers, we’re associates. So every so often I’ll catch up, ‘How’s it going?’ It’s not like there was some titanic, horrible burned bridges incident that we needed to overcome.” (h/t MMA Combating)
He continued, “It was nothing like that in any respect. It was merely, ‘Hey, would you want to return do some reveals for us?’ I stated, ‘Yeah, certain, I’d like to’… I’m thrilled that there’s sufficient guys, Patricky Pitbull, Patricio [Pitbull] and all these those that I knew some time in the past, and now there’s this new crop that I didn’t get an opportunity to essentially name their fights, however I’ve been them, and God, they’re wonderful. It’s actually an unbelievable crop.”
Jimmy Smith’s first card again with the corporate will likely be Bellator Champions Sequence 3 taking place later this month in Dublin. That card will likely be headlined by a welterweight title bout between Jason Jackson and Ramazan Kuramagomedov.
What do you make of this Bellator information? Are you cheerful to see Jimmy Smith rejoin the corporate?