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UFC contender Anthony Smith sidelined for rest of 2019 following another surgery

Anthony Smith notched arguably the best win of his career just two months ago, but the UFC light heavyweight contender will have to wait for a lengthy period of time before he can return to competition.

“Lionheart” told MMA Fighting that he recently underwent another surgery on the broken hand he suffered in his submission victory over Alexander Gustafsson in June.

“[The first surgery] went well initially but a week and a half ago I had another [surgery]. The first one wasn’t successful so we had to do another one about 10 days ago. I’m back on the horse starting over again and trying to stay positive,” Smith said.