“Just so salty,” Colby Covington talks beginning of Jorge Masvidal rivalry, desperately wants the fight to happen
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Colby Covington-Jorge Masvidal
By general consensus of fans and pro-fighters around the world, the grudge between UFC Welterweights Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal is one of the saltiest ones in fighting history. Both the former 2-time Welterweight title challengers had enough of each other to such an extent that they are willing to spill as much blood as possible out of each other for the same.
This beginning of this irony is quite ironic, as detailed by Covington below, was rather ironic, both the fighters were the best of friends even in public attention since they used to go train at the same gym every day in the American Top Team (ATT). Until one day, Masvidal decided to Tweet on Covington’s loss at UFC 245 and kind of told his side of the story as to why both the fighters are tearing apart.
And thereafter, Covington was exposed by a lot of the fighters training in ATT like Dustin Poirier for being a ‘sellout,’ and causing upset in the training centre. With all the hostility he felt, Covington had nothing but to leave the American Top Team and pursuit training at a different centre, he then chose MMA Masters after which he improved in his overall skill set as was evident from his recent title bout even in a loss at UFC 268 against reigning defending welterweight champion Kamaru Usman.
WATCH! Colby Covington details the origins of Jorge Masvidal feud, claimed to be once inseparable
In an interview with an MMA News correspondent, Colby Covington first described what was it like before his rivalry with Jorge Masvidal as transcribed by MMA Mania. “We were best friends, inseparable, lived together for a couple of years, just friends for almost a decade,” Covington said.
Covington then moves on to discuss when things actually started getting hostile for him that led to an explicit feud. “It was right when I came back from Brazil and I’d fought Demian Maia,” he said. “And he had just fought Maia I don’t know like eight months, six months ago. And he’d lost to Demian Maia and it was his big fight, Maia was on an eight-fight win streak or whatever crushing everybody and it was a title eliminator fight.”
“And he got beat up in that fight by Demian Maia, and when I fought Maia two fights later, six months later, I go out there and just leave him in a pool of his own blood in his own city. Tell the Brazilians they were filthy animals because they were being filthy animals that night and the place is a dump,” Covington continued.
“I remember coming back from that trip from Brazil and he was just so salty, just acting like a diva—acting like he’s famous, having a big ego. I’ve never had an ego, man. I came from blue-collar Oregon from a blue-collar family, and I’m thankful for every little thing. I was thankful when I was riding the bike to the gym every day because I was broke and had no money to go train. But I was still thankful. And it was never a jealousy or envy thing about anybody. I didn’t care.”
“But as soon as I passed him up, started getting more success than him, he got jealous. He started saying comments in the media for no reason, like, ‘Oh, that crotch sniffer.’ Like, bro, what are you talking about? He’s like, ‘Oh, I’d fight my mother.’ It’s not about that. Like, dude, we could go about this so much better than this, man. He could’ve been a better person. But it just showed his true colours, James. It showed the little thug that he is, the little criminal,” said Covington concluding the origins of the beef.
In conclusion, this is how Covington feels about Masvidal now: “You think we would really be saying these things about each other in the media? Like, if I see him in the streets, he’s for sure getting dropped on his head and he’s going to the hospital. He’s not going to be able to afford his hospital bills. I want the UFC to pay for them when I beat him in the Octagon. So I don’t want to have to do it in the streets.”
Where do you put this rivalry between Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal in the all-time list of MMA or UFC History? This has to be right up there in the top 5, it’s purely a grudge match, not for the show, just like it was back in the early 2000s between Ken Shamrock and Tito Ortiz, or Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva, maybe like the one between Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov.
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