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Colby Covington will be making some changes at American Top Team.
Colby Covington has made an enemy of just about everybody on the UFC roster, including his own teammates.
With tensions growing between Covington and American Top Team (ATT) teammate Jorge Masvidal, ‘Chaos’ isn’t sure what’s going to happen going forward and admits there’s a ‘very real possibility’ he could be forced to leave the team.
“That’s a very real possibility,” Colby Covington said on a recent edition of BJPENN.com Radio. “It’s a very real possibility. I don’t know. I think Dan Lambert is a little bit nervous about it. We’ve been having talks the last couple of days and he’s very nervous about it. He doesn’t know what’s going to happen.”
American Top Team owner Dan Lambert, however, who also serves as Covington’s manager, assured BJPenn.com that the former interim welterweight champion will always have a home at ATT.
“[He’s] 100% ATT,” Lambert said via text message.
With that said, Covington will be partially changing his management team and moving over to Ballengee Group, a company that manages top fighters such as Tony Ferguson, Eddie Alvarez and Curtis Blaydes.
He left Dan for Ballengee
— Michael Chiesa (@MikeMav22) September 18, 2019
“He’s working with them [Ballengee] as well as me on some things,” Lambert later confirmed.
Covington, 31, was expected to challenge Kamaru Usman for the official welterweight title at UFC 244 but the bout fell through after Covington reportedly rejected the UFC’s offer due to ‘slave labor negotiations’.