Colby Covington stays assured that he’ll flip issues round in his profession with ambitions to turn out to be the UFC welterweight champion. The previous interim champion has fought for the title on three events prior to now, developing brief twice towards Kamaru Usman and as soon as towards Leon Edwards.
At 36-years outdated, he’s presently coming off of back-to-back defeats for the primary time in his professional profession after having his return in Tampa towards Joaquin Buckley stopped through a health care provider stoppage as a result of a reduce above his eye. Covington has closely protested the loss ever since by stating that it was the physician who beat him on December 14 moderately than his opponent.
“Chaos” has not been deterred after falling to the #9-position within the welterweight rankings as he spoke about on a current stay stream on his Twitch channel. Covington is seemingly up towards it for a number of causes, one being his age and one other being his lack of a win over a present prime 15 contender.
Nonetheless, one factor that he believes is on his facet is how he matches up with the present champion at 170-pounds. Covington mentioned that he thinks he may beat Belal Muhammad because of the conflict of types and given his observe report for promoting fights and making a whole lot of noise, it could not take him too lengthy to get to that place if he’s capable of flip his fortunes round.
“We’re going to do the unthinkable. We’re going to shock the world. DC (Cormier) was a champion at 41. I’m solely 36 years younger. No cause I can’t be champion.
“Belal Muhammad, ‘Bear in mind the Racist,’ I can simply beat him. He’s an excellent matchup. He’s not going to take me down. He’s not going to outwrestle me. F*ck that. I’ll smack that dude foolish. I do know nobody is aware of who he’s, however they’re going to know when he’s on my spotlight reel after I’m carried out with him.”