Joe Rogan - Jimmy Smith on Leaving Bellator

But the past is up for discussion. The past is up for discussion. The present is good. I would be thrilled if somehow or another they were able to work it out where Jimmy Smith was at the UFC. We shall see. That would be what I would like to see. We shall see how that goes. I would like to see that. We will. That's a big fuck up. Yeah man, it was, let me say like just a little background. A lot of people have been asking me, I haven't made any real public statements other than- I'm not a Bellator hater, someone say. Yeah, no. I'm a Bellator, never been a Bellator hater. Respect. I enjoy watching it, I like the fighters. And I've always told everybody that you were the best out there. Thank you so much. You're doing an amazing job. I really appreciate that. Number one, yeah, it's not a Bellator thing. They were great to work with, they were great about the whole breakup thing. Say fucked up. Just say it. Someone say it. Yeah, so what happened was I had a deal with an option year and 2018 was my option year. And when I was in Verona, New York during the Verona show, my boss sat me down and said, we're not going to renew 2018, we want a different deal. And when they come to you and say we want a different deal- They want to downgrade. It's never- When your girlfriend comes to you and says I want to talk, it's never- I don't give enough blow jobs. That's never what they- they never say that. It's always- I'm going to be a better girlfriend. Exactly. Yeah, it's always bad. It's always bad. So yeah, that was it. They were like, we want to change the deal around. I was like, okay. They did make an honest effort to keep me. They really tried, but they just- they didn't make an offer that was worth me coming back. That was pretty much a deal. So it was kind of amicable. Comparatively amicable. It's fascinating to me that in the world of mixed martial arts, professional mixed martial arts, there haven't been that many people that have done what you and I both do. This is a small handful of people. You know what the weird thing is about our job, really, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, everybody thinks they got a guy. It's one of those jobs that everybody thinks they can do. They really go, we'll just throw a fight in and then he'll be able to do it. I've seen- I don't know how many that they want to do. Even locker room interviews are when you get an ex-fighter to do that. It's a job. It's a skill. It's really- I mean, it's one of those things where everybody thinks they can throw somebody in and do it. And I've seen, I don't know how many try. And it's tough. You really have to work at it or have a knack for it. It's not the kind of thing that- it's almost like coaching. How many times you've heard- I've heard of great, great jiu-jitsu guys. He's just not a great coach. He's naturally really good. He's not that good at teaching him because to him it just works. And then you try and it doesn't work. It's one of those things where a great fighter isn't a great coach. Right. Sometimes. Yeah, a great fighter isn't necessarily a great broadcaster. It just doesn't work that way.