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Jon Jones’ old college roommate, Colby Covington, has been doing his best to get ahead by making as many enemies as possible. That includes Jon Jones himself, who Colby claimed had been juicing since his college days. Jones responded with several vicious social media attacks, complimenting Covington on being a ‘special type of liar’ and calling him ‘disgusting’.
Now that Covington is the interim welterweight champion, he is looking at an upcoming title fight with the real champion, Tyron Woodley. Woodley said that Jon Jones doesn’t talk to him all that much, but he made a special case for this fight, offering to help Woodley any way he needed. From MMAFighting.com:
“It funny because Jon doesn’t reach out to me very much,” Woodley explained recently on The MMA Hour. “Jon said, ‘Hey, whatever you need, brother. I want to help you.’ I told Jon, I said, ‘Man, you work so hard for your platform, from actually kicking ass and beating legends in their prime, and being one of the greatest fighters we’ve ever seen. Don’t give him your platform.’ Because he put a post up about him.
“I said, ‘I am going to kick his ass so bad, he’s gonna wish he was dead instead,’” Woodley continued. “‘He’s going to try to find a way out.’ I said, ‘So don’t worry about it.’ The dude was like, ‘It can’t happen soon enough.’”
Woodley went on to say that while Covington has been talking, he’s been working, and now he’s at 100% after his labrum tear.
“You notice how I didn’t make a fuss about the interim belt? I called it the boo-boo belt because that’s what it is, it’s kind of a joke, but I didn’t go up and make a stink about it. I didn’t go and have a fit. I stayed busy. I kept working, I kept rehabbing, I kept training. And now, at five or six months, I’m 100 percent, which is a fast turnover for anybody who’s ever had a labrum tear. And now that [UFC 225 is] done, [I’ll do the fight] whenever they want to do the fight, if they want us to fight in July, they want us to fight in August, September, November. He ain’t the champion.
“Take a nice warm glass of sit your ass down and shut the f*ck up, because you ain’t the champion, you don’t make the calls. Nobody cares where you want to fight at. You fight when the champ wants to fight. And if you wear that belt around at the press conference, I will make fun of you, I will embarrass you. If you wear a terrible looking suit again, that you got off the f*cking clearance rack and had somebody put two staples in the back, you will get made fun of. So he has no say-so on when we fight. You’re lucky and blessed you get to take this ass-whooping. When I’m ready to fight and the UFC deems it the best time where I can make the most money, then we’ll fight.”
Woodley went on to recount a story that, in his reckoning, shows how Covington lacks a certain humility and work ethic.
“Colby Covington, you are a b*tch, and I’m going to whoop your ass up and down the Octagon,” Woodley said. ”You are an embarrassment to the sport, and I hope after this fight you never fight again. And as I told you in my gym a long time ago, when I told you to get a job when you were complaining about not having money, and you said, ‘Oh, I’ll never be a grocery bagger. I’m a pro fighter.’ I told you I’m a world champion and I’ll bag groceries right now.
“Hopefully you won’t end up taking that job bagging groceries.”
Insomnia
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Tai Tuivasa… what a gimmick
Let’s go singapouuurrree pic.twitter.com/rzmzL6R2VL
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Joanne Calderwood working the bag
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TJ Dillashaw working with Duane Ludwig on the pads
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Junior Dos Santos working his strength and conditioning at American Top Team
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Carla Esparza got to get her dream car, which is good to see. I remember when she had to sell her TUF motorcycle to pay bills.
Sage Northcutt is back
Colby Covington claimed he could beat Garry Tonon in a grappling competition (he couldn’t) and Tonon has been roasting him relentlessly on Instagram ever since. Guess where Colby is tagged in this photo…
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Slips, Rips, and Chokeout Clips
‘Fluffy’ is an amazing nickname for a professional fighter.
Anthony “Fluffy” Hernandez smokes Jordan Wright, knocking out the “Beverly Hills Ninja” in less than 40 seconds! The undefeated LFA Middleweight Champion pushes his record to 7-0. #DWTNCS pic.twitter.com/0zsYR2kTso
— Kyle Johnson (@Maldobabo) June 20, 2018
Tenshin went to war with Rodtang a few days ago and it was pretty awesome
The full fight:
Peaceful sleep. I envy it wherever I see it.
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Random Land
Add Australia to my long, long list of travel destinations
As a former soccer player, this level of skill with a soccer ball never ceases to amaze me.
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