Former UFC lightweight contender Paul Felder, who transitioned to cageside commentator after hanging up the gloves back in 2021, suggested that welterweight troublemaker, Colby Covington, was losing some of his edge in the second half of his combat sports career.
Covington is here to prove him wrong.
“He was talking sh*t about me, ‘Oh, he’s done this and that and some other sh*t, I want you to go ask him next time you see him in person,” Covington told Submission Radio. “Ask him about the time he was at Joint Base Langley-Eustis. The Army and Air Force base. And he got tied in handcuffs by military police to a toilet in his bathroom because he was drunk on the base. Like that’s embarrassing, you self-loathing drunk a**hole. He must be drunk half the time. He’s in that commentary booth for the UFC. Man, I feel bad for the UFC. They need to get some new commentators. And what better man I could be. I could be the UFC commentator. I don’t have any stories like that.”
Covington’s stories may actually be worse, all things considered.
“We’re definitely going to have a word,” Covington added. “I kept that story close to my heart for a long time, and I was never going to share it. But when you start trying to trash my name in the media and say things about me, what the f*ck has Paul Felder done? I make more money outside the UFC than that guy’s made in his whole entire life. The guy is an absolute bum. He’s never done anything in the sport. He has no reason to talk sh*t, especially when he’s never been in a main event in his life. The guy’s a bum. He’s gotten beaten up by everybody. He’s literally been a punching bag in the UFC and he’s a self-loathing drunk a**hole. So who gets tied to a freaking porcelain toilet on a military base? You’re supposed to be there respecting the troops, respecting the military. But no, you’re there being a drunk a**hole. Ask Paul Felder about that story. That’s a true story.”
Felder’s final two appearances for UFC were both main events.
“So he drank like a bottle of Jack Daniels to himself,” Covington said. “He started talking sh*t to his manager, Brian Butler. I had to step in like Paul, stop talking sh*t to him. Like you’re not going to beat up your manager. He was blacked out and he just lost it. How do you not have more control? You’re supposed to show respect to the troops. You’re there to boost morale for the military. Here you are trying to fight with your manager. I’m the one that had to intervene and make sure he didn’t beat up his manager, Brian Butler, with Sucker Punch. And then he goes into his hotel room, he starts throwing sh*t around in his hotel room on a military installation base. And then the military police got called. They had to handcuff him to the toilet.”
Felder, 39, has yet to respond to Covington’s allegations.
The 37 year-old Covington has not competed since losing Joaquin Buckley by way of technical knockout atop the UFC Tampa card last December. “Chaos” is currently ranked No. 9 at 170 pounds and is expected to make his Octagon return at some point later this year.
