Daniel Cormier (Photograph by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)
Daniel Cormier doesn’t pull punches on his YouTube channel. In the event you ever need to hear a rawer model of DC than the one you hear on UFC broadcasts and on DC and The Dangerous Man, tune into a few of his movies.
Cormier’s most recent video addresses Colby Covington, the growing older and fading UFC welterweight veteran who misplaced to Joaquin Buckley by way of third-round TKO on Saturday within the UFC Tampa essential occasion.
Covington has change into generally known as a lot for his brash, obnoxious and antagonistic habits as he has for his Octagon abilities. Now that Covington’s profession is on the downturn and his behavior remains despicable, Cormier and others have requested the place does he go in his profession from right here when the gimmick is now working extra towards him than for him.
Cormier took issues a step additional as he referred to as Covington out for switching his tune on UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones. Cormier uncovered Covington for switching up on Jones and he introduced receipts.
“That is Colby Covington when he first began,” Cormier mentioned in his video. “He was on the undercard of a Jon Jones struggle. He is talking of Jon Jones as in the event that they had been finest mates in school. Colby—or no less than it’s perceived to be his emotions in direction of Jon Jones as a result of he is very vocal about it—he hates Jones. At the very least he would have you ever consider that. However while you watch this proper right here, you possibly can see what his true emotions had been earlier than the gimmick. This was earlier than Colby grew to become that man, the dangerous man: the man that talks and the man that is very vocal and brash and harsh. Take a hear.”
Cormier then performs a clip from a post-fight media session following one among Covington’s wins early in his profession.
“He was a very good good friend in school,” Covington says within the clip. “We spent two years sharing a bunk mattress collectively. So I hoped he was going to be right here. I assumed we had been going to get to have slightly, you understand, coming collectively once more, you understand, like in school after we had been successful wrestling matches collectively.”
“Now, that does not appear to be the man that continues to crap on Jones,” Cormier interjects. “That is Colby right this moment,” Cormier mentioned introducing the Covington clip from UFC Tampa struggle week on December 12.
“Jon Jones is an absolute shame to this earth,” Covington mentioned. “He is a joke. I believe Jon must cease ducking Tom Aspinall identical to he ducked Ngannou. He ducked Ngannou for years. Now he is ducking Aspinall. He does not need to struggle the fellows he is aware of he is getting his ass whooped towards. I do not suppose there’s something particular to Jon Jones. He is a coward. He is a cheat, and he is a woman-beater.”
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to note the seismic shift in tone from Covington when talking about Jones. Cormier doesn’t hammer Covington too arduous for being extra two-faced than Harvey Dent. As a substitute, Cormier focuses extra on Covington’s incapability to take care of the extent of efficiency excellence essential to maintain the sharks at bay while you’ve spent the higher a part of your rise as a politically incorrect predator who’s out for blood.
“Now you possibly can see how he has modified, proper,” Cormier asks. “From that child to start with that revered Jones to now the man that hates Jones. Guys, that’s all advantageous and dandy—it truly is. It is all advantageous and dandy till you begin to lose. Till you begin to lose, your gimmick could be as huge as something you need on the earth. Your concept of the way you need individuals to see you could be huge; it may be brash. However finally, you gotta win, proper?”
Shedding is one thing Covington has performed numerous in his profession since 2019. The previous UFC interim welterweight champion is on a two-fight shedding streak and he’s misplaced 4 of his final six fights. He’ll be 37 in February and the heavy-wrestling, super-cardio machine strategy simply hasn’t been as efficient because it was when he was on the rise from 2016 into 2019.
“He [Covington] took photographs on the prime when it comes to [Kamaru] Usman, [Leon] Edwards, Jon Jones, even in a distinct weight class,” Cormier mentioned. “However now these guys are nonetheless on the prime as his time begins to go him by. What do you suppose occurs? I do not know, man. I believe that is very fascinating as a result of I really do love wrestling, and I do love having a character that is greater than your individual. You realize what they inform me at The Quantity? After we did this deal, they mentioned, ‘We wish Daniel Cormier. We wish you to show that quantity up slightly bit.’ Colby turned the amount all the best way to max. However by doing that, whilst you get extra eyes on you in a optimistic method, you additionally construct an entire bunch of enemies that watch for the downfall. And proper now, it looks like we’re proper in the course of a downfall. How does Covington deal with that?”
The identical method he’s dished it out. He might not have another alternative.
