Colby Covington is already disputing the judges’ decision at UFC 268. Covington lost a unanimous decision to reigning welterweight champ Kamaru Usman on Saturday night, and despite shaking hands with Usman and seemingly burying the hatchet, he has gone on record claiming that Usman cheated, the result is invalid, and he’s the real champ.
Colby Calls Usman “Cheating Coward”, Declares that he Actually Won UFC 268
He told the media: “I’m definitely not proud of my performance. I should have won that. It was laser thin again. I honestly thought I had it 3-2. It was very close. He clipped me, I clipped him a couple times. Whatever media reporter in here said I went for 11 takedowns and had unsuccessful attempts, fake news.
Do real journalism. That’s why you guys are journalists. You don’t have journalism degrees cause you put this fake news out. I obviously took him down so I broke that stat so you can’t hype him up anymore and say he’s never been taken down cause I took him down.
I think we have unfinished business. I’ll give five more rounds out in the parking lot right now. I’m serious about that. I will see him again. I’m not done with him.”
Judges scored the fight 49-46, 48-47 and 48-47, all giving Usman the win. Colby took particular umbrage with the 49-46 score awarded by judge Derek Cleary. “I still think I was right there.
I didn’t think he clearly won [rounds] one and two. Maybe [round] two cause he clipped me but [round] one was very close. I don’t know how you can just outright give it to him. It was a very close fight. Whatever judge put it 49-46 is out of their f*cking mind.”
Colby also continued his main line of argument against Usman, in which he called the “Nigerian Nightmare” a “cheating coward”. “He’s a cheating coward.
I have no respect for that guy. He’s obviously a cheater. He’s cheated in multiple fights. He was holding my glove tonight against the cage. In the first round I went for a takedown and he went bam, bam, twice to the back of the head.
I think Dan Miragliotta’s one of the top three best refs in the game, I told him before the fight, do not let this guy hit me in the back of the head and he did. If you go back and look at the footage, clearly in the back of the head.
When you hit somebody in the back of the head, it definitely dazes you real quick. That caught me off guard and just more tactics of him cheating. You’ll never see me cheating or trying to cheat. That unfair shake again. I still think I got the job done but I promise you haven’t seen the last of me.”
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