Smith believes in Chimayev

"I have a lot of faith in Hamzat Chimaev, I think the guy is unbelievable and he can beat anybody in any weight class in the UFC in the first round - it doesn't matter who it is," MMAnews quoted the American as saying. "Anybody in the world he can beat in the first round. Second, third, fourth, fifth rounds - Gilbert Burns is a perfect example. If that fight had gone two more rounds..... An even better example is the Kamaru Usman fight. You've never seen people do to Kamaru what Hamzat did. Usman built his career by being a great fighter and he was tossed around like a rag doll in that fight, but he had the toughness, resilience, stamina, and all his experience that allowed him to take the fight to the second round where he closed the gap, and he won the fight in the third round."