Captain Comeback does it again: Le loses his first fight

[Clark Kent]

12-20-2009 01:08 AM:There's no way Scott Smith could top his comeback performances against Benji Radach and Pete Sell. Don't ever count out "Hands of Steel" because he's turning out to be the most dramatic fighter in the sport. For two and a half rounds, Cung Le landed every kick he tried and bounced Smith around the cage. He floored Smith three different times on body kicks. Smith showed incredible toughness and when Le got tired later in the fight, he took advantage of his opening. In the third, Smith faked a right and changed the fight with a left hook that buckled Le. Le trying to hold on, lerched forward and got caught with another right down the pipe. Le fell to his knees and then his back on the ground, he took two more shots before McCarthy stopped it at 3;25 of the third.

A Smith win was unimagineable just two minutes into the fight when Le dropped him and got off 50-plus unanswered punches on the ground. In one stretch, Le got off 38 shots and yet referee John McCarthy didn't freak out and stop it. The bevy of hammerfists seemed to tire Le, who breathed deeply through his mouth for the rest of the fight. His hands gradually dropped leaving the door open for Smith in the third.

It was the first career loss for Le, 37. Smith is now 17-6 and rebounded from an awful beating at the hands of Nick Diaz in August.



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