#1 lightweight contender Colby Covington returned to the Manscaped-sponsored Submission Radio and discussed – in full heel mode – what’s going on in the welterweight division.
UFC president Dana White said recently that #3 ranked Leon Edwards, after seeing a fight vs. #15 Khamzat Chimaev fall through three times due to COVID-19, could be next for Covington.
That’s just him talking, said Covington. Let’s talk about facts, man. … First off, it’s Leon Scott. And Leon Scott hasn’t earned anything, boys. I’m in the Colby Covington Incorporated championship business, I’m not in the Leon Scott charity business. This isn’t charity hour, man. I’m fighting at the top of the mountain, I’m fighting the best in the world. Did Marty Fakenewsman get a call from the president after his last fight? Oh geez, I wonder why? Because he sucks, he’s irrelevant. So, I’ve done things no one has ever done in this sport. … It’s not my fault this kid hasn’t fought in two years. … This isn’t charity hour, this is f***in’ championship f***in pay-per-view hour.
The UFC has apparently not formally offered him the Edwards fight, and if they do, Colby says this is the reply they will get:
I would say, who’s fighting Marty Fakenewsman? You’re gonna give ‘Street Judas’ Masvidal, the same guy that you were talking on the phone with me and saying he’s the hardest guy in the world to deal with, he’s the next Diaz, he only wants to fight once every two or three years, you’re gonna reward that guy? … That fight goes the same way every single time,” said Covington. “You want to do that same exact outcome again? For what? What’s the point? Six days, six months, six years, that fight’s the same every single time. The people want to see one fight, they want to see the rematch, Marty Fakenewsman, Colby Chaos Covington part two. Are you f***ing kidding me? It’s a joke. It was the biggest corruption in the history of the sport. Are you kidding me?
I just destroyed the former champion [Tyron Woodley], finished him like nobody’s finished him before in the UFC. I came back and won a fight, what has Jorge Masvidal done besides sit on the sidelines and fake f***in’ pull out of fights? He’s scared to fight. He knows he’s washed up, he’s a journeyman. He’s looking for one more payday. No one wants to see that guy fight for the title, they know what’s gonna happen.
Objectively, Covington and Masvidal as opposing coaches on TUF would be compelling television. However, Chaos says Gamebred turned it down, and a seven-figure payout.
[Msvidal] knows how this match up goes. He’d be willing to lose to anybody else but me,” said Covington. “So, the UFC offered him a seven-figure payday, an Ultimate Fighter gig, this heated rivalry. After I fought Woodley, Dana White, Hunter Campbell called me, they wanted to get the fight done in December/January. I was on board, I agreed, I put the pen to paper. But Jorge Masvidal was nowhere to be found. He was hiding. Him and [manager Malki Kawa] were hiding. They want nothing to do this me. They know what happens when they fight me, it doesn’t end well for them. So, they’ve been ducking me, and [the UFC] wanted that fight then. And then after he turned down January, they were like, ok, well let’s do the Ultimate Fighter. You know, we can start taping in May, you guys fight as the pay-per-view main event at the end of it in June. And it would have been perfect because I am Jorge Masvidal’s father and I know Father’s Day is in June, so it would have been a two-for-one special. I would have beat his ass, spanked my little son and I would have got a happy Father’s Day.
It’s really hard to swallow, the way that I’ve been treated my whole entire career. I was stripped of a title unlawfully. I was supposed to unify my title with Woodley and get pay-per-view points. They took it away from me blatantly for no season. I showed up and fought Robbie Lawler with half my face hanging off on two weeks to save their show on ESPN, to make them money. I got the president of the United States, during the most crazy and biggest election of all time, calling you on TV on the ESPN platform, giving them more buys and clicks and views than they’ve ever had. The things I’ve done for this company. I show up and I show out. I talk the talk, I walk the walk. My numbers speak for themselves, and my accomplishments speak for themselves. I’ve earned to be at the top of the mountain and fight the best guys in the world and prove I’m the best in the world, because that’s how I feel right now.
You know what I’ve done since my last fight and since the night I fought Marty Fakenewsman 15 months go? I’ve gotten new coaches, I’ve gotten better. I’ve gotten Daniel Valverde, unbelievable Jiu Jitsu coach. We’re getting better every single day. My striking coach, my kickboxing coach, Cesar Carneiro, we’re evolving at a rate I’ve never seen before in my entire career. I feel more confident now in my skills than I ever have in my life, and I just know I’m unbeatable right now. All I need is the opportunity. So, I hope that I can get the opportunity and they stop passing me up and they take me serious. All Dana has to do is to give me the ball, and I guarantee I’m scoring the touchdown.
Usman called out Masvidal after beating Gilbert Burns at UFC 258, and UFC president Dana White was amendable to the idea. Covington, not so much.
“It’s hilarious. Marty Fakenewsman is a complete coward, began Covington. If I had a win over him the way he has a win over me, I would want to run that back right away. You know you didn’t beat me, and the fans know that night in that arena, and everybody around the world knew that that was a bulls*** stoppage, a bulls*** fight, and there’s still a lot of stones that are unturned, there’s a lot of unfinished business.
He just knows what presents him the hardest challenge, and that’s me. He’s looking for an easy payday, he’s looking for the Street Judas Masvidal cause he knows he’s washed up. That fight goes the same way every single time, guys. Let’s not make no mistakes, Malki and Street Judas Masvidal are saying, ‘Oh, if we had a full camp‘ – what are you talking about, dude?
You were putting pictures all over Instagram and social media that you were with Bo Nickal, this good wrestler and you were spooning with him for three or four months before the fight. And then Dustin Poirier says before he fights Hooker that you were in his training camp and you were training hard for that fight. So, you got no excuse that you had six days’ notice, man. Stop making excuses, man. The people see right through you, man. You’re everything you said you would never be, Jorge, and it’s sad to see, man. But I’m glad that me and the people have something in common, that we can see right through you. You’re a fake coward.
Covington was also not impressed with Usman’s win over Burns.
I think that looks like a guy really primed to get knocked out his next fight, and I want to be the one to deliver it, he said. He looks a little chinny. Dilbert, he’s an oversized midget, man, he’s a 155-er getting knocked out by 155-ers. The guy’s nothing, and that guy came out and dropped you and almost finished you in the first round? You got lucky to get out of that that he fell on his back and just sat there for five minutes and let you recover. Besides that, I didn’t see anything special. I see a guy that’s gotten worse. He changed camps and he looks like a different fighter in the worst way. He looks like he’s declined in his progression. So, he looks like a guy I’m ready to expose to the world, and I want to show them Colby Chaos Covington 2.0.
