Jorge Masvidal knows his star power far outstrips that of his arch-enemy Colby Covington. With the pair set to headline UFC 272 next month, Masvidal pointed out that Colby couldn’t headline a pay-per-view fight on his own, and that most of the eyes on the Octagon will be there for “Street Jesus”.
Masvidal told MMAJunkie that their pay-per-view numbers simply do not compare. ““He hasn’t broke — in all his pay-per-views combined — 500,000 pay-per-views, you know? I don’t have to say what I’ve sold, everybody knows. So it’s definitely solely because of my star power, nothing to do with his.”
Masvidal Knows He’s The UFC 272 Main Event: “Nothing to do with Colby Covington”
Jorge Masvidal will be looking to return to winning ways following his second consecutive defeat at the hands of Kamaru Usman. Usman delivered Masvidal’s first loss via knockout, dropping “Gamebred” to the floor in the second round of their last fight. Considering that Colby’s latest fight was also a loss at the hands of the welterweight champ, this is an even footing for the pair to air out their past grievances.
Of all the opponents Jorge Masvidal has faced, he says, Colby “Chaos” Covington and his MAGA-loving heel persona is by far his most disliked. “Definitely [my most] disliked.
It’s nothing personal, it’s business. Since I got into it, I knew the type of people I’d be getting myself involved with, options that could happen, so forth and so forth. It’s somebody I firmly don’t like at all whatsoever.”
He hates Colby, a man Masvidal once described as his “best friend”, so much that he wants to “change his life” – for the worse.
“I’m hoping that the referee on the way to pulling me off of him slips on a banana peel and I get some extra shots in, really change his life and his face structure. Colby’s in critical condition on Monday.
It’s bad. He’s gonna have a couple eye orbital fractures, a couple breaks here and there. But the main thing is I want to change his life, man. I want to change his life in a very drastic way and I’m gonna do everything I have in me to do that.”
Jorge Masvidal is most famous for his phenomenal knockout power, with his most famous victory a knockout win via flying knee over Ben Askren. He will be looking to do the same against Colby Covington, but only time will tell if “Street Jesus” can pull it off against such elite competition.
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