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“I was fighting against two people that night. Against ‘Marc Not So Goodard’ and against ‘Marty Fakenewsman.’”
Colby Covington wants to return to the Octagon much sooner than expected.
Although ‘Chaos’ was thought to be a nursing a broken jaw following his fifth-round TKO loss to Kamaru Usman at UFC 245, the former interim welterweight champion has assured us he’s in good shape and ready to go.
Speaking to MMA Fighting in a recent interview, Covington demanded an immediate rematch with Usman and blamed referee ‘Marc Not So Goodard’ for issuing a ‘fake stoppage’ in the fifth round.
“I went out there and I beat up ‘Marty Fakenewsman’ for 24 minutes until the ref had to stop the fight on a fake stoppage – a bullsh*t stoppage,” Covington said on Monday. “[A stoppage] where I was completely coherent and still in the fight, and he just blatantly stopped the fight, after there was a foul, too. He’s hitting me in the back of the head four times and he blatantly calls the fight, because he knows he doesn’t want it to go to the judges’ scorecards cause I could win.
“I was fighting against two people that night. Against ‘Marc Not So Goodard’ and against ‘Marty Fakenewsman.’ Why would I hang my head about that? I went out there and fought my ass off. I went through the championship rounds and people saw how tough I was, and they know who the best welterweight in the world is, and that’s Colby “Chaos” Covington.”
Although Covington is adamant he deserves a rematch, UFC president Dana White seems more interested in booking a welterweight title fight between Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal.
“Were going to bring him to Vegas. So him and Usman will fight in Vegas, probably International Fight Week. And then if he [Masvidal] wins, maybe we’ll do his first title defense down here in Miami.”
Covington, 31, is expected to return to the Octagon in July.