Former interim UFC welterweight champion, Colby Covington has as soon as extra hit out at basketball celebrity, LeBron James amid his look on the 2024 Summer season Olympic Video games in Paris, @labelling the Los Angeles Laker participant “Captain I hate America”.
Covington, a former interim welterweight titleholder and the present quantity quantity 4 ranked divisional contender, has been out of motion since he headlined UFC 296 again in December, struggling his third loss in an undisputed title combat, in a choice loss to Leon Edwards.
Colby Covington as soon as extra hits out at LeBron James
And anticipated to make his return later this 12 months amid hyperlinks to a showdown with the unbeaten, Ian Garry, in addition to a grudge combat with former interim light-weight champion, Dustin Poirier – Covington has as soon as extra stoked the flames on his rivalry with NBA megastar, James on social media.
“You will have ‘Captain I Hate America’ LeBron James bestowed the respect of carrying the celebrities and stripes? Colby Covington stated in a video. “After I heard that he was going to be the one carrying his nation’s flag, I assumed it was going to be for China. What occurred LeBron? Did you lastly give equality and justice to all these kids and girls sowing your footwear?”
“Did you deliver these jobs again to the States?” Colby Covington continued. “Or would that mess along with your revenue margin?”
Incomes himself one other gold medal at this summer season’s Olympic Video games in Paris, James alongside, Stephen Curry, Anthony Edwards, Kevin Durant, Derrick White, Tyrese Haliburton, Jayson Tatum, Joel Embiid, Jrue Vacation, Bam Adebayo, Anthony Davis, and Devin Hooker – workforce USA defeated France with a 98-87 rating within the males’s last gold medal match.
Covington’s run-in with the beforehand talked about James comes as not the one UFC star to hit out on the polarizing basketball participant, with King Inexperienced claiming he would “wax” the veteran in the event that they ever fought one another.
