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With two fights left in his UFC contract, Colby Covington is ready to negotiate a prolonged stint with the company.
More than a year ago, Colby Covington wasn’t in the best terms with the UFC. After being passed over for a title shot as the interim welterweight champion, “Chaos” went as far as issuing threats towards Dana White and demanding to be released from his contract, twice.
These days, the ex-American Top Team fighter looks ready to mend fences with the company he’s been with for the last six years. Now down to the last two fights in his contract, Covington is looking at a longer-term stint with the organization.
“I want to be a UFC fighter. I love being a UFC fighter. Everybody knows this is the pinnacle of the sport, this is the mecca, the UFC,” Covington told Submission Radio. “And being in the UFC, I can prove truly I’m the greatest welterweight in the world. If I go somewhere else and win a title, people aren’t gonna give me the credit. I mean, I don’t get the credit as it is anyways.
“Everybody wants to downplay everything I’ve done and act like I’ve never done anything because they’re just all so in their feelings and these are just liberal cucks, but at the end of the day, I’m here to be the greatest in the world and I’m gonna fight the greatest in the world.
“And I’m not scared like Judas Masvidal. I’m not running from the hard fights, I’m looking for the hardest fights,” he added. “I’m looking for the challenges of the people that think they can beat me.”
The 32-year-old fighter says he wants to be affiliated with the UFC until the time he walks away from the sport. So much so that he is willing to do whatever it takes to make a new deal happen.
“So, I wanna be in the UFC forever,” Covington said. “I would love to retire in the UFC, be in the hall of fame, do the whole spiel. Yeah, of course me and UFC have had a tumultuous relationship, but it can be fixed easily.
“I’m ready to play ball. All they have to do is give me the ball and all I’m gonna do is go in and score a touchdown.”
Covington hasn’t fought since December, when he was beaten by champion Kamaru Usman. A bout against Tyron Woodley was supposedly in the pipeline, but “The Chosen One” ended up facing Gilbert Burns instead.