Colby Covington lastly responded to some jabs from Jon Jones after the UFC heavyweight champion mocked him following a lopsided loss to Joaquin Buckley within the UFC Tampa foremost occasion.
Jones’ feedback stem from Covington insulting his former faculty wrestling roommate throughout a media session forward of his combat, which in the end ended because of a ugly lower he suffered over his eye. After the loss, Jones wrote “Massive shoutout to Colby Covington for skipping coaching to get President Trump ‘prepared’—all of us admire the sacrifice. At the least he received to see me win.”
Covington fired again with a considerably weird diatribe that concerned Jones apparently being jealous of his attractiveness.
“After all he’s speaking about me,” Covington mentioned on his Twitch channel. “He needs he seemed like me. He needs he had these sorts of seems to be and was this lovely and had this a lot respect. He has no respect.”
After mentioning a few of Jones’ previous transgressions, which included an notorious hit-and-run accident again in 2015 that ultimately led to Jones relinquishing the UFC mild heavyweight title, Covington painted himself as the image of advantage by comparability.
“There’s nothing to respect about Jon,” Covington mentioned. “He’s cheated his entire profession. He’s cheated on his spouse. He’s cheated on his taxes. So he’s a horrible particular person.
“After all he’d speak about a saint and somebody who’s a law-abiding citizen like myself. Somebody that stands for legislation and order. Somebody that stands for the army, the troops, the Trumps. So f*ck Jon Jones.”
Whereas touting himself as a “law-abiding citizen,” Covington failed to mention his arrest in 2010 the place he was cited for fourth-degree assault after he allegedly shouted at a few of his fellow college students at Oregon State College and referred to as them names. When the alleged sufferer turned to confront Covington, the previous NCAA All-American wrestler “punched him twice within the face.”
That incident got here after Covington returned house to Oregon following a two-year stint on the College of Iowa the place he was arrested for driving underneath the affect and eluding police. Following the DUI, Covington was suspended from the Iowa wrestling crew earlier than successfully turning into a non-starter in his second yr after which ultimately transferring to Oregon State the place he discovered his most success as a wrestler.
As for his combat at UFC Tampa, Covington continued to lash out on the stoppage after the ringside doctor stopped the bout within the third spherical because of the gash that saved pouring blood into his eye.
“That was a bullshit stoppage,” Covington mentioned. “Let’s be sincere. I used to be nonetheless within the combat. I used to be getting takedowns. He was getting slower. None of his punches did any vital harm, like drop me or harm me.
“I really feel like there was a watch poke or one thing, not a direct eye poke however an inadvertent one. I couldn’t see. I used to be out of 1 eye. Who’s going to combat on one eye?”
