Colby “Chaos” Covington is already looking beyond UFC 272 to another very “personal beef”. His rivalry with Jorge Masvidal notwithstanding, Covington wants a piece of Dustin “Diamond” Poirier before the year is out.
A typically mouthy Covington was immediately on the offensive at the UFC 272 media day when it came to his former friend and the welterweight title.
Covington Wants to Settle “Personal Beef” With Dustin Poirier After UFC 272
“I could care less who wins [between Kamaru Usman and Leon Edwards]. I’m just worried about my business on Saturday night and handling another personal beef with Dustin Poirier next. That fight needs to happen. He’s talked too reckless in the media.”
Covington continued, blasting Dustin Poirier’s comments to the media regarding a potential future bout. “Now he said, ‘It’s on sight.’
The last time he was talking to you clickbait merchants, he was saying, ‘Oh, I’m not going to fight Colby in the octagon, where there’s finances on the line. I’m going to fight him in the streets and we’re both going to go to jail.’
It’s funny. It’s very ironic because he talks about being a family guy, a good guy, but he wants to fight me in the streets and potentially go away from his family.
Dustin Poirier has all these stipulations to fight me. I just have one stipulation. My one stipulation is he lets the world watch and enjoy themselves.”
The backdrop to many of Colby’s issues with his fellow fighters in the UFC is his controversial removal from American Top Team. Once upon a time, Covington trained under the same roof as Jorge Masvidal and Dustin Poirier, but due to a few issues including non-payment and talking trash about his teammates in the media, Colby was kicked out. Predictably, “Chaos” calls fake news on the entire affair.
“I didn’t take Dan Lambert for a liar but I still respect the guy, but he’s definitely lying.It had nothing to do with Dan Lambert. I decided to make that decision on my own.
After Singapore, he never told me going into my fight with Demian Maia that I needed to do something or change something because the UFC was going to cut me. They said no matter what — they told Dan behind closed doors, ‘We have no use for Colby, he’s not entertaining, he doesn’t draw tickets, so no matter what he does in the fight with Demian Maia, we’re not going to re-sign him.’
Dan never told me that. He didn’t tell me until after the fight, but I went out there and took my destiny in my own hands and created something bigger than life.” Do you see Poirier vs Covington in the future? Let us know in the comments.
