Jorge Masvidal cut a miserable figure as Bruce Buffer announced his loss to Colby Covington at the main event of UFC 272. After years of animosity, Masvidal, a headhunting knockout artist, endured twenty-five minutes of Colby’s dominant, exhausting wrestling.
At the post-fight press conference, it was clear that no bad blood had really settled, even if “Gamebred” had to give Colby Covington credit where credit was due.
Masvidal on UFC 272 Loss: “The B*tch Can Wrestle”
“He’s a b*tch. That’s it. The b*tch can wrestle, though. I wrestled like sh*t. I lost a lot of exchanges that if I’d won ‘em, on a technical level, things could have gone a little different, you know?
If I would have made him spend more energy in different takedowns. That first takedown I gave up, he took my back and he rode me pretty good. And that got me a little flat going into the next and next round.
I felt like I won a lot of the exchanges. I felt like on the feet I definitely did more damage, but it’s a fight and, I mean, sh*t, man.
If I could have done it all over again, I would have gone to college and wrestled my ass off and got my grades up and be able to stuff all these guys up and just keep it on the feet. But, I was just flat on the wrestling, brother.”
Masvidal was particularly irked by the fact that Colby won after months, and years, of trash talk targeting his family and children.
“It just sucks because this idiot talked about my kids. He’s still somebody that if I see him out in the streets, I’m going to give him everything I’ve got to break his f*cking jaw, you know? It doesn’t matter if I lost wrestling scrambles tonight, I still think he’s a f*cking p*ssy, you know?
To lose to a b*tch like that, all he does is talk about people’s kids, religions, nations, obviously no one wants to lose to a coward like that. So, I felt like I lost the wrestling exchanges. The fight fight, you know? Whatever. I know I did damage, I think I dropped him twice. So it just sucks man. F*cking flat on the wrestling and he was able to jump on me and take me down.”
What’s next for Jorge Masvidal is unclear. He’s lost three fights in a row, including two title challenges against Kamaru Usman. Who do you want to see “Street Jesus” fight next?
