Stephen A. Smith recently voiced his opinion about the presence of women in combat sports and the MMA community has not taken kindly to his comments.Stephen A. Smith was on the 'Black on the Air' podcast hosted by comedian Larry Wilmore when the two landed on the topic of women earning executive roles in sports. Larry highlighted the recent appointment of Kim Ng as the general manager of Miami Marlin, citing the increase in management roles given to women in men's sports leagues.However, Stephen A. Smith's say about the matter was not restricted to the topic of the conversation. About the topic Larry brought up, Smith said:"I love it. I think that there’s an awful lot of women that are incredibly qualified to do the jobs that they’re doing."Carrying on, Stephen A. Smith added: "Where I jump off the bandwagon is when they try to engage physically. For example, I don’t ever want to see a woman boxing a man. I don’t want to see that. I don’t want to see a woman in the UFC fighting a man even though there are some women out there that’ll kick a dude’s butt. We get all that."While the UFC has not seen a 'male vs female' contest yet, that was not the only thing that Stephen A. Smith was worried about. "When I think about pugilistic sports, I don’t like seeing women involved in that at all. I just don’t like it. I wouldn’t promote legislating laws to prohibit them from doing so, but I don’t want to see women punching each other in the face. I don’t want to see women fighting in the Octagon and stuff like that, but that’s just me," said Smith. "What I would adamantly be against is them fighting men. I don’t think that’s cool. Plus, you don’t ever want to give men license to believe that it’s all right to be physical with a woman, to be quite honest with you. You don’t want to do that," Smith added. Here's how the MMA community reacted to Stephen A. Smith's commentsThere was a largely unilateral response to Stephen A. Smith's comments about not wanting women to fight. The MMA community does not want Stephen A. Smith talking about the sport. I personally don’t want to hear Stephen A. Smith’s opinion on mma. This sport wouldn’t be nearly as great without the women’s division. https://t.co/JasBeEbTnY— Tuong Lu Kim (@whitechocraz89) February 3, 2021Lmao not Stephen A. smith ONCE AGAIN giving his clown ass opinion on matters he should most definitely stfu about. "wOmEn ShOulDnT bE fIghTing"- Bru, how hard is it to stick to what lil basketball you know? Nobody cares about your input on MMA outta of all things.— William 'El Jibaro' Torres (@machete_amolao) February 2, 2021Being a basketball and mma fan hard cus i love Stephen a smith but Jesus Christ he needs to stop talking about Mma— Chael Sonnen’s Intern (@yvngthik) February 3, 2021Women MMA fighters are amazing. But this Stephen A Smith guy has got to stick with the basketball & cricket & such. MMA is not his thing to talk about. We still remember how badly he botched up the commentary on Cerrone vs McGregor after the fight & the resulting backlash.— Kat Becks (@KatBecks2) February 3, 2021MMA doesn't want Stephen A. Smith so there must be a solution here.— Nicholas Eedy (@705nce) February 2, 2021That's funny. Pretty sure no one wants Stephen A. Smith's opinion on MMA either.— Jack Strider (EmptyBrewsky) (@Jack_Strider) February 2, 2021I dont want to see Stephen A. Smith commentating on MMA.— Mauro Santos 🇵🇹 (@MauroLuisSantos) February 2, 2021I don’t want Stephen A. Smith talking about MMA at any capacity. But we don’t always get what we want. https://t.co/7Jk2DwJexu— Dylan White (@Dylslice) February 2, 2021MMA doesn't want Stephen A Smith, so at least we've found a neutral ground. https://t.co/DbhWXQalzN— JSR 🇳🇴 (@JSR_53) February 2, 2021MMA doesn’t like Stephen A. Smith, so we have a very simple solution https://t.co/a1pRH9NsDm— 🃏 (@IxerTV) February 3, 2021I don't understand why Stephen A. Smith tries to talk about mma 💀— Dylan (@DylShizzle) February 3, 2021When will Stephen A Smith be asked to no longer MMA (in any & all capacities)??? When he speaks on any MMA related topics, I feel the sport being verbally dragged back to 1991.— simon norman (@stoltz_co_uk) February 3, 2021Stephen A Smith has the worst takes when it comes to MMA my goodness— WassupNile 𓅽 (@WassupNile) February 3, 2021And the MMA community doesn’t want to hear Stephen A. Smith’s biased opinion on world class athletes that could literally wipe the floor with him 🤷🏻‍♂️— Jacob Jones (@JonesJacob46) February 2, 2021I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, Stephen A. Smith should NOT be talking MMA. https://t.co/HS21OEG5tK— ⚡️⚡️Brando⚡️⚡️ (@BrandonDuzIt) February 2, 2021This is not the first time that Stephen A. Smith's take on the sport has received backlash. When Conor McGregor returned to UFC in January 2020 to face Donald Cerrone, Smith had some interesting takes on the fight. His post-fight comments did not sit well with the MMA community.In fact, color commentator Joe Rogan, too, strongly expressed that Stephen A. Smith should not be allowed to talk about fighting.