Bloody Elbow · Aug 30, 2020
UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Rakic results and post-fight analysis
Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC UFC VEGAS 8: ‘SMITH VS. RAKIC’ is in the books and so is the UFC’s August schedule. The card started out red-hot with four submissions in four fights, then the decisions went from entertaining to unremarkable as the night progressed, making it kind of a “meh” card on aggregate.
In the main event, Aleksandar Rakic and Anthony Smith traded vicious kicks early but it was Rakic who chopped Smith down to the mat with calf kicks. Rakic was able to control Smith from top position and basically repeat the process in the final two rounds. Outside of one right hand in round two, Smith had no meaningful offense and Rakic was just too fast and too strong for him.