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Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) interim welterweight champion, Colby Covington, has been teased by his fellow 170-pound contenders for being “dumb enough” to trust promotion president, Dana White, to deliver on his promises.
Not this time.
While White told reporters last weekend that Covington (14-1) would earn the first crack at reigning welterweight champion, Kamaru Usman, with a victory over Robbie Lawler, “Chaos” won’t be popping any bubbly until he has it in writing.
Or until he’s locked inside the cage.
“I want to see something in writing,” Covington told MMA Junkie. “I’m not going to believe anything until I’m locked in that cage with somebody. Until then, we know what’s happened. I’ve been down this road before. I’ve been promised many times. I’m all about promises made, promises kept. But I can’t say the same for everyone else in this business.”
I think the words he’s looking for are “wishy washy.”
Covington is scheduled to face former welterweight champion, Robbie Lawler, in the UFC on ESPN 5 five-round main event, scheduled for this Sat. night (Aug. 3, 2019) inside Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
If “Chaos” prevails, there’s an outside chance he’ll draw Usman for the UFC 244 pay-per-view (PPV) headliner this November in New York City, assuming the “Nigerian Nightmare” can adhere to his self-imposed injury timeline.