Colby Covington remains to be rattling off excuses as to why he misplaced so badly to Joaquin Buckley at UFC Tampa final month.
Buckley landed almost twice as many vital strikes as Covington over the three rounds their combat lasted. A punch cut up Covington’s eyelid open within the 1st spherical, and by the tip of the third Colby was getting completely battered. The ref paused the motion to let the physician take a look at the reduce, and he or she waved the combat off saying she was frightened the eyelid would come proper off.
“It was a detailed aggressive combat,” Covington claimed in a brand new YouTube video entitled ‘My Sincere Response to UFC Combat Evening in Tampa.’ “He didn’t outclass me. He didn’t drop me. He didn’t actually harm me.”
As for the reduce, which turned the combat right into a literal massacre?
“There was a bit reduce that occurred,” Covington mentioned. “I rewatched the movie, it was like minute two, it was like a headbutt … It wasn’t from a punch. So, , that that’s the one factor that basically restricted my potential to to be at a 100% was the truth that I had blood draining in my eye. I couldn’t see. I’m seeing three, 4 completely different individuals. It’s laborious to maintain combating via that, however that’s what I signed up for. I’m a gladiator. That is what I like to do.”
“In adversity moments like that, that’s the place I present my actual character,” he continued. “To push via and have the ability to stand up stronger. So it’s unlucky that DEI physician stopped the combat early. I really feel just like the combat was simply getting began, and there was much more that wanted to be settled in there.”
So in keeping with Covington, it was a detailed aggressive combat. However even should you disagree, it’s additionally as a result of he wasn’t coaching in any respect.
“I confirmed up for the corporate on two and a half weeks discover,” he mentioned. “I wasn’t even coaching. Didn’t have any coaching companions, didn’t get a correct coaching camp like this man. He was in coaching camp for twelve weeks. He was making ready for one of the best model of somebody. I’m coming off the sofa. This man received me at 30%, and I nonetheless ought to have beat him on no discover.”
“It sucks. They robbed the followers of two extra rounds, championship rounds, to see what this man was gonna be like.”
There’s numerous MMA followers celebrating this loss as the start of the tip of Covington as a contender at welterweight. “Chaos” says he gained’t exit really easy.
“Individuals, they’re gonna be stunned for what’s in retailer sooner or later and the way motivating I’m gonna be,” Covington mentioned. “I’m gonna get again in a coaching camp and I’m gonna grind like I’ve by no means grinded. I wanna exit on high and I wanna end my profession the fitting approach and go away a terrific legacy the place individuals bear in mind me as one of many biggest welterweights of all time.”
If he continues his tempo of only one combat a yr like he has for the previous 5 years, that’s gonna be laborious to perform. Let’s see the way it performs out.
