Former interim welterweight champion Colby Covington remains to be stewing over his TKO loss to Joaquin Buckley weeks after the Dec. 14 occasion.
Covington stepped in to face Joaquin Buckley within the UFC on ESPN 63 fundamental occasion when the combat promotion opted to position Buckley’ authentic opponent, Ian Machado Garry, in opposition to Shavkat Rakhmonov as an alternative. It had been a yr since Covington had fought, dropping to Leon Edwards at UFC 296 in December 2023.
The combat did not go Covington’s approach. Buckley fended off takedown makes an attempt and battered Covington with punches. The combat was stopped late within the third spherical on account of a nasty laceration above Covington’s proper eye. “Chaos” believes the combat was stopped early and that he would have completed Buckley had the combat gone on.
“The combat, , we had been simply getting warmed up.” Colby Covington mentioned on his YouTube channel. “Everybody is aware of I’m a fourth and fifth-round fighter, I’m simply getting began entering into these championship rounds. I might’ve completed him in that fourth and fifth spherical, he was respiratory heavy. He didn’t have way more to supply, he wasn’t going to have a lot quantity in these final rounds.”
“It was a detailed aggressive combat, he didn’t outclass me, he didn’t drop me, he didn’t actually damage me,” Covington continued. “There was a bit of minimize that occurred, and I rewatched it again. It was like minute two, and it was like a headbutt proper off his hip or one thing. However, it wasn’t a punch… It’s unlucky that DEI physician stopped the combat early. I assumed it was simply getting began, and there was much more that wanted to be settled in there.”
