Leon Edwards says Colby Covington is not getting the next title shot

UFC welterweight champion Leon Edwards has no intentions of combating Colby Covington subsequent regardless of UFC president Dana White saying Covington will get the subsequent shot.

Covington formally weighed in in the course of the UFC 286 weigh-in as a backup for the primary occasion between Edwards and Kamaru Usman. Throughout the occasion’s post-fight press convention UFC president Dana White mentioned that Covington would get the subsequent title shot. Edwards disagrees.

“Pay attention, he ain’t getting a title shot subsequent, proper. Have a look at the street I needed to take to get there,” Edwards mentioned on The MMA Hour. There’s no manner you’re getting beat twice by the man that I simply beat twice, went out and beat [Jorge] Masvidal, after which sit out for a 12 months and a half. Not even tweeting or nothing, simply go lacking for a 12 months after which randomly pops up on the weigh-ins and it’s like, ‘OK, he’s combating for the title subsequent.’ It is unnecessary in any respect. So let’s see the way it performs out, he has to go on the market and earn his manner like I needed to do.”

“Khamzat [Chimaev] and me had been calling one another out for years,” continued Edwards. “It is a man that I obtained matched up with thrice in a row. I took the [Chimaev] battle and [Covington] didn’t take the battle and he’s getting rewarded for not taking the battle. When it was me, I obtained faraway from the rankings. So ‘Dana White privilege’ is certainly actual.”