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“That fight won’t sell 10,000 pay-per-views, let alone 1000 pay-per-views.”
Colby Covington thinks Kamaru Usman vs. Gilbert Burns could be the biggest pay-per-view flop of all-time.
The fight hasn’t been booked yet, but UFC president Dana White says it’s ‘highly likely’ that Burns will get the next title shot following his five-round thrashing of Tyron Woodley at UFC on ESPN 9.
Covington, though, thinks the UFC will struggle to sell 10,000 PPV buys because ‘nobody knows’ who Usman and Burns are.
“Yup, still don’t care,” Covington said of Burns on a recent episode of Submission Radio. “Just like all the people, the people don’t care about the fight. That fight won’t sell 10,000 pay-per-views, let alone 1000 pay-per-views. So, I could care less if they want to make some fight with some guy who was just getting knocked out by lightweights and nobody knows who they are. So, I’m not interested in that fight, the people aren’t interested in that fight.”
Covington believes a grudge match with ‘Street Judas’ Jorge Masvidal — his ex-teammate at American Top Team — would be a much bigger matchup than Usman-Burns.
“I could care less [about an Usman vs. Burns fight],” Covington said. “Nobody knows who that guy is. Let them fight. If they fight, that just means the biggest fight in the welterweight division is open door, and that’s me versus street Judas Masvidal. Everybody knows that’s a real beef, and that score needs to be settled. So, Judas Masvidal, he’s got nowhere to go. We know he ducked Marty Fakenewsman, but he’s got no other fights to be made. So, the biggest fight that could happen in the welterweight division, is the man, me, versus the loser, street Judas Masvidal.”
Covington last fought at UFC 245, where he came up short in a welterweight title bout against Usman. Covington was finished via strikes in the fifth round but accused referee Marc Goddard of issuing a ‘fake stoppage’.