Eliminate Colby Covington from the list of potential opponents for Leon Edwards at UFC Fight Night 187.
Covington was reportedly selected as a potential replacement for Khamzat Chimaev after ‘Borz’ was removed from the UFC Fight Night 187 main event, where he was scheduled to meet with ‘Rocky’, but ‘Chaos’ is not interested in doing work for charity.
“Leon Scott won nothing, boys. I’m in the championship business at Colby Covington Incorporated, I’m not in the Leon Scott charity business, ”Covington told Submission Radio in a recent interview, essentially ruling out a short-term fight with Edwards (h / t Jordan Ellis of Low Kick MMA) .
“I’m fighting at the top of the mountain, I’m fighting the best in the world. Did Marty Fakenewsman get a call from the president after his last fight? Oh gosh, I wonder why? Because he sucks, he’s irrelevant. So, I did things that no one has ever done in this sport. “
“I am no longer doing charity business. It is not my fault that this boy hasn’t fought in two years. This boy is not my fault – there are people from England fighting all the time in the pandemic, they are not afraid to fight. So, I’m not doing charity for this guy who hasn’t fought in two years. He’s irrelevant, he hits a lot of bums, and I’m not doing charity. This is not a charity hour, this is the fucking pay-per-view time for the championship. “
Covington, instead, aims for a championship rematch with Kamaru Usman and claims that Jorge Masvidal is trying to steal his thunder.
“We are going to talk about real business, we are not going to talk about charity business anymore,” he said. “I deserve and won the fight for the world title. I just destroyed the former champion, I finished like nobody else had finished him in the UFC ”, said Covington. “I came back and won a fight, what has Jorge Masvidal been doing besides being left out and pretending to leave the fights? He’s afraid to fight. He knows it’s over, he’s a newsboy. He’s looking for another payday. Nobody wants to see that guy fight for the title, they know what will happen. It will be exactly the same result. And why reward such a coward? A guy who’s afraid to fight? “
Covington lost to Usman by technical knockout in the fifth round in December 2019, but recovered with a win against Tyron Woodley at UFC Vegas 11. The highlight of 32-year-old wrestling is currently at # 1 in the UFC welterweight ranking.
UFC Fight Night 187, which currently has no main event, is scheduled to take place on March 13, at UFC Apex, in Las Vegas.