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Joanna Jedrzejczyk is demanding an apology from teammate Colby Covington.
Colby Covington’s persona has ruffled some feathers, to say the least. A few of those he stepped on are his own training partners at the famed American Top Team.
Joanna Jedrzejczyk, for one, has taken things personally. Prior to UFC 245, the former strawweight champion called on Kamaru Usman to lay a beating on “Chaos.”
“I shouldn’t say this because you always should support your people, but Colby is not a friend, he’s just acting weird,” she said in an October 2019 interview. “He’s an ugly guy. You never talk bad about your teammates, doesn’t matter if you like them or not.”
On Monday’s episode of Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show, Jedrzejczyk demanded an apology.
“He has to bow down to the queen and say sorry,” she said (via MMA Mania). “Colby should be more respectful to his teammates and women in general. He should learn how to say ‘Hi, I’m sorry,’ ‘I apologize.’ He’s getting there.”
Covington’s silence after his fifth-round TKO loss to Usman didn’t last too long. He has since claimed that his jaw wasn’t broken despite medical reports, and that the pre-fight food poisoning he went through hampered his performance.
Jedrzejczyk is set to face strawweight champion Weili Zhang in the co-main event of UFC 248 on March 7th in Las Vegas.