Colby Covington lastly returns to motion later this month to tackle Joaquin Buckley within the UFC Tampa important occasion and he has been bizarrely focused by light-weight champion, Islam Makhachev.
After dropping in extraordinarily disappointing trend to Leon Edwards final December, Colby Covington has not fought for the whole lot of 2024 as he has been nursing a foot harm and ready for the right time to return.
Fittingly, ‘Caos’ return comes only a week after present welterweight champion Belal Muhammad was scheduled to make the primary protection of his title at UFC 310, however he withdrew due to an harm.
Shavkat Rakhmonov went on to assert that regardless of Covington claiming that he would step in to battle him, he rejected the battle supply together with a number of different 170lbers.
Colby Covington slams Islam Makhachev for being a ‘weight bully’
After all, the previous interim welterweight champion has been extraordinarily outspoken all through his UFC profession and has focused a number of fighters each above him and beneath him in weight.
Within the lead-up to his battle in opposition to Edwards, Covington claimed that he fights at his pure weight as a result of he is aware of he’s ‘the very best fighter on the earth’, taking intention at Islam Makhachev for being a ‘weight bully’.
“Let me know who’s gonna be consuming like this seven days out from a battle, nobody. I don’t reduce weight although, I’m an actual fighter… I’m not a weight bully like Islam Makhachev who has to chop all that weight to have a bonus over midgets and beat these guys up in order that’s why I’m primary pound-for-pound fighter on earth,” Covington stated in an episode of UFC 296 embedded.
This isn’t the primary time Covington has gone in on the group from Dagestan, as he has beforehand stated the identical factor about Khabib Nurmagomedov, claiming that he and Makhachev have been ‘squeezing chromosomes out of their physique throughout their weight reduce’.
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Islam Makhachev goes off on Colby Covington for his ‘weight bully’ claims
Nevertheless, only a few weeks out from his long-awaited return to motion, the light-weight champion has clapped again at Covington, slamming him for his feedback.
“First, let’s describe who Colby is. A person who can’t show something along with his fights, however tries to be well-known along with his mouth. That is what he does. He doesn’t speak about fighters who should not within the high 15,” Makhachev informed Match TV.
“He talks about fighters who’ve already achieved rather a lot to be well-known. I believe he’s one of many masters of trash discuss, however it’s not true that he doesn’t reduce weight. Everybody cuts weight.
“For instance, Kamaru Usman weighs greater than 90kg, he’s big. I don’t weigh 86kg. My most weight after I prepare is 82-83kg. (His feedback don’t trouble me), why ought to it trouble me? It will be comprehensible if it was somebody (who is an efficient fighter) however when an individual can’t battle usually, however nonetheless talks about me, it doesn’t trouble me,” Makhachev added.
The light-weight champion has constantly acknowledged his need to ultimately transfer as much as welterweight to problem for an additional belt and he’s in all probability hoping that Covington hits a profession resurgence to allow them to probably battle one another sooner or later.
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