Covington Blames ‘DEI Doctor’ For Latest Loss

Covington admits to not training at all and getting off to a slow start, but it was really the ‘DEI doctor’ that cost him a win in Tampa last month.

Colby Covington is still rattling off excuses as to why he lost so badly to Joaquin Buckley at UFC Tampa last month.

Buckley landed nearly twice as many significant strikes as Covington over the three rounds their fight lasted. A punch split Covington’s eyelid open in the 1st round, and by the end of the 3rd Colby was getting absolutely battered. The ref paused the action to let the doctor look at the cut, and she waved the fight off saying she was worried the eyelid would come right off.

“It was a close competitive fight,” Covington claimed in a new YouTube video entitled ‘My Honest Reaction to UFC Fight Night in Tampa.’ “He didn’t outclass me. He didn’t drop me. He didn’t really hurt me.”

As for the cut, which turned the fight into a literal bloodbath?

“There was a little cut that happened,” Covington said. “I rewatched the film, it was like minute two, it was like a headbutt … It wasn’t from a punch. So, you know, that that’s the only thing that really limited my potential to to be at a 100% was the fact that I had blood draining in my eye. I couldn’t see. I’m seeing three, four different people. It’s hard to keep fighting through that, but that’s what I signed up for. I’m a gladiator. This is what I love to do.”

“In adversity moments like that, that’s where I show my real character,” he continued. “To push through and be able to rise up stronger. So it’s unfortunate that DEI doctor stopped the fight early. I feel like the fight was just getting started, and there was a lot more that needed to be settled in there.”

So according to Covington, it was a close competitive fight. But even if you disagree, it’s also because he wasn’t training at all.

“I showed up for the company on two and a half weeks notice,” he said. “I wasn’t even training. Didn’t have any training partners, didn’t get a proper training camp like this guy. He was in training camp for twelve weeks. He was preparing for the best version of someone. I’m coming off the couch. This guy got me at 30%, and I still should have beat him on no notice.”

“It sucks. They robbed the fans of two more rounds, championship rounds, to see what this guy was gonna be like.”

There’s a lot of MMA fans celebrating this loss as the beginning of the end of Covington as a contender at welterweight. “Chaos” says he won’t go out so easy.

“People, they’re gonna be surprised for what’s in store in the future and how motivating I’m gonna be,” Covington said. “I’m gonna get back in a training camp and I’m gonna grind like I’ve never grinded. I wanna go out on top and I wanna finish my career the right way and leave a great legacy where people remember me as one of the greatest welterweights of all time.”

If he continues his pace of just one fight a year like he has for the past five years, that’s gonna be hard to accomplish. Let’s see how it plays out.