Då Khamzat Chimaev inte kommer kunna att möta Leon Edwards i mars så letar UFC efter en ny motståndare till Edwards. Dana White skall vilja matcha Edwards mot före detta interimästaren Colby Covington i en fight där vinnaren får möta mästaren Kamaru Usman.
Sysslar inte med välgörenhet
En fight mot Edwards ska dock inte intressera Covington det minsta. Denne berättade för submission radio att han inte är intresserad av göra någon slags ”välgörenhet för engelsmannen”. Covington är endast är intresserad utav en titelmatch mot Usman eller en fight mot sin före detta vän Jorge Masvidal.
“‘Leon Scott’ hasn’t earned anything, 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 (Donald Trump) 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.
“I’m not doing charity business no more. It’s not my fault this kid hasn’t fought in two years. It’s not my fault this kid – there’s people from England fighting all the time in the pandemic, they’re not scared to fight. So, I’m not doing charity for this guy who hasn’t fought in two years. He’s irrelevant, he’s beat a bunch of bums, and I’m not doing charity. This isn’t charity hour, this is (expletive) championship (expletive) pay-per-view hour.”
Förstår sig inte på mästaren
Mästaren Kamaru Usman besegrade under helgen Gilbert Burns i sitt tredje titelförsvar. Hans första var mot Covington och hans andra mot Masvidal. Efter segern över Burns så uttryckte Usman att ett returmöte mot Masvidal intresserar honom. Covington berättar att han inte förstår sig på mästaren då Masvidal var chanslös mot denne. Han menar på hans egen fight mot mästaren var ett mästerverk och att Usman bara hade tur som vann.
“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? He hasn’t fought since that fight, a year. And that fight goes the same way every single time. 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 2. Are you (expletive) kidding me? It’s a joke. It was the biggest corruption in the history of the sport. Are you kidding me? I was destroying him. He got lucky, and he knows that. He got life rafts thrown to him multiple times. Why doesn’t he want to run it back with me? Oh, because I’m the toughest dog in the pack. If I was the easy dog in the pack he’d be coming after me, but he’s not.”
Förtjänar en titelmatch
Covington besegrade i sin senaste fight den före detta mästaren Tyron Woodley genom TKO i den femte ronden. Detta gör att han förtjänar ett returmöte med Usman menar han på och påpekar att Masvidal inte fightats sedan förlusten mot mästaren.
“Let’s talk about real business, let’s not talk about charity business no more, I deserve and I earned a fight for the world title. I just destroyed the former champion, 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 (expletive) 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 pay day. No one wants to see that guy fight for the title, they know what’s gonna happen. It’s gonna be the same exact outcome. And why reward a coward like that? A guy that’s blatantly scared to fight?”
