👀Colby Covington nearly ran into former
teammate Themba Gorimbo at UFC PI🎥 @ColbyCovMMA
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March 4, 2025
Colby
Covington recently went out of his way to avoid crossing paths
with former teammate Themba
Gorimbo.
Gorimbo and Covington were once teammates at the
MMA Masters gym in Florida. Gorimbo previously defended
Covington, saying that the outspoken fighter was often
misunderstood. Gorimbo admittedly had $6 left in his bank account
leading up to his second UFC outing. The Zimbabwean later revealed
that Covington used to bring him food when he was broke.
However, the two have since fallen out, allegedly due to a misconduct by
Covington. According to Gorimbo, Covington threw him out of the UFC
Performance Institute while “Chaos” was cutting weight for a title
fight against Leon
Edwards in 2023. What hurt “The Answer” even more was that
Covington sent someone to tell him to leave the area instead of
approaching by himself. That was last straw for Gorimbo to leave
the gym and join Eric Nicksick’s
Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas.
Gorimbo and Covington recently almost ran into each other again at
the UFC PI. However, Covington changed paths to avoid encountering
his former teammate. Covington also called Gorimbo an “ungrateful
motherf—-r.”
You saw who’s down there? That ungrateful motherf—er who we used
to feed,” Covington said. “I think we should just go f—ing train
around him, actually.”
Covington has dropped four out of six outings since 2019. “Chaos”
most recently suffered a stoppage loss against Joaquin
Buckley this past December, which marked his return to action
after a year.
Meanwhile, Gorimbo is coming off a submission loss against Vicente
Luque in December that snapped a four-fight winning streak.