“Come up to 170 and see daddy,” Colby Covington issues a challenge to Dustin Poirier
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Colby Covington vs Dustin Poirier
Colby Covington is next in line for the title shot against the welterweight champion Kamaru Usman, but it looks like he wants all the heat, as he showed interest in fighting Dustin Poirier.
Poirier was declared as the winner at the main event of UFC 264 after Conor McGregor broke his foot and the referee stopped the fight, although Dustin was dominating the fight prior to that Covington believes that it was a fluke victory and he did nothing that night.
According to Covington, he has a long rivalry going on with Poirier, these two used to train together at ATT, and the beef started when Covington picked Khabib to win the fight against Dustin. Dustin was not happy with his comment but Covington parted ways with the gym, and nothing significant happened at that time.
Now Covington is calling out Poirier, and he said, “His best money opportunity if he wants to do good business is to come up to 170 and see daddy. This is a personal rivalry. This isn’t like I’m trying to pick on someone and there’s no narrative to the fight.”
He continued, “This guy, we go back 10 years training together and he said some things to me in the gym, I’ve said some things to him. There’s deep, deep, deep personal issues with this drama and this beef, and I just hope they get settled in the octagon someday. But if they don’t, then the fans get to know who daddy is.”
“Dude, Dustin weighs more than me,” Colby Covington says Dustin Poirier weighs more than him at his natural weight
Covington says that at their natural weights Poirier weighs heavier than him, and he won’t have an unfair advantage against him, “People were giving me a lot of stuff this week. They were like, ‘Why are you picking on Dustin?’ Dude, Dustin weighs more than me,” Covington said. “We used to weigh in at American Top Team all the time. The guy would weigh 188, 190. I’m like 185. I just don’t want to cut a bunch of weight because I know I’m the best in the world at the weight class that I fight in.
“I don’t have to look for a weight advantage and cut all this weight to feel like I’m the bigger guy. So, all the people saying ‘Stop picking on lightweights’ – I’m picking on a guy that’s bigger than me. It’s not my fault Dustin was saying to the media, ‘It’s on sight when I see Colby.’ But I’ve seen the guy 40 or 50 times since he said it’s on sight, so who’s the man of their word? Who’s not a man of their word?”
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Suryansh Thakur
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