Colby Covington noticed his third try at changing into an undisputed UFC champion fall flat at Saturday’s UFC 296.
Many believed ‘Chaos’ was undeservingly given a shot on the welterweight throne as quite a few hungry 170lbers had been compelled to attend on the sidelines. His cardio and pressure-wrestling had been thought-about his predominant strengths heading into his conflict with Leon Edwards however that did not cease the champion from placing on a professional performance and retaining his gold.
Earlier than the occasion, the controversial Sean Strickland attacked Colby Covington with a barrage of insults and Covington has now lastly responded to the feedback. Whereas attending the post-fight press convention, the NCAA Division I wrestler aired his ideas concerning the UFC middleweight champion.
“He is been operating his mouth and nothing he says is smart. ‘Oh, Colby goes to the cops.’ Bro, you referred to as the cops simply a few weeks in the past, dude, when there was somebody at your entrance door and you then pistol-whipped him in the midst of the road.”
“I feel he wants to fret about what he is received to get via with the justice system first earlier than he even talks about preventing. That man’s a trainwreck, dude. That man’s for certain going to do one thing silly within the subsequent couple of years and we’re all going to be speaking within the media about this and that, about how dangerous selections he makes.”
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Covington confirmed his curiosity in a possible struggle with Sean Strickland down the road and insisted there is a cause he could not succeed within the welterweight division.
“After all, I would like to shut his mouth, . There is a cause he could not lower it at 170. That is the hardest division within the UFC, all people is aware of that. Most individuals on planet Earth stroll round [at] this weight. So, if Sean needs to go, let’s do it, . That is a straightforward struggle for me.”
“That man doesn’t make superb selections,” Covington stated after listening to of Strickland’s run-in with Dricus du Plessis. “He is a legal responsibility to the corporate, . It is unhappy what he is completed. I really feel dangerous that the UFC has to cope with him because the champion. You simply do not know what he’ll say subsequent or what he’ll do and whose lives he’ll put at hurt and danger.”
