Building Future Champions - Frank Smith

It's funny you should say that.

Uh, Johnny Fisher fought on the weekend, and also Craig Richards.

Yeah.

Craig Richards went over to Zuffa.

It...

I spoke to him.

He was like, "Yeah, potential deal." He was asked...

Dana White was asked at the press conference, "Oh, yeah, what's gonna happen with Craig Richards?"

No, but that's a-

And he dismissed it like-

That's a perfect example

... and it's like, what's a loss-

So I said it in an interview

... right.

I said it...

I was actually disappointed with Craig Richards, 'cause he did an interview before where he said about Matchroom, he was like, you know, this, that, the other.

I actually said to his manager, I said, "Look, if the opportunities aren't there with us, you should...

We'll release you.

We'll release him to go." But I felt we did a great job with Craig Richards, always delivered him fights off the back of losses, like...

And I'm not saying you shouldn't get fights off the back of losses.

What I mean is, like, it's never like we went, "Oh", you know.

Throughout his career, delivered him great fights, big fights, right?

But then he just went stagnant.

Yeah, and then, but then when I said to him at certain times about taking certain fights, he's like, "No, it's not the right fight." Just being complete...

But this isn't me.