Former American Top Team training partners Colby
Covington and Jorge
Masvidal will finally get to settle their differences in the
cage in the
UFC 272 headliner this Saturday.
“I feel like a little kid the night before Christmas,” Covington
said in an interview with TMZ Sports. “I’m super excited to hold
this kid accountable for all the reckless words he’s said to the
media. He’s been lying this whole time and I can’t wait to expose
him in front of the world.”
Covington is coming off a five-round unanimous decision loss to
Kamaru
Usman in a 170-pound championship rematch at UFC 268 in Madison
Square Garden this past November. Despite falling to 0-2 against
Usman, Covington isn’t lacking for confidence.
“I’m the best fighter in the world right now, I don’t care what
anybody says,” he said. “I won three rounds out of my last
undisputed title fight withUsman. The people saw at Madison Square
Garden, just because three stooges sitting cageside awarded him
three rounds to two, one measly round he won by. I know truly, deep
down inside, who is the best fighter in the world and that’s me and
next weekend you’re gonna see him on display.”
There has been plenty of animosity between Covington and Masvidal
leading up to UFC 272, and “Chaos” claims that the rivalry is far
more intense than the feud he had with Usman. Much of that stems
from their past interactions at ATT, Covington says.
“This is way more personal, this is a blood feud,” Covington said.
“This goes back to a brotherhood. We were eight years together,
every single day, side by side, couldn’t leave each other, like
best friends. And now we’re the biggest bitter enemies. Like, he’s
the one person on Earth that I don’t give a s—t. Anytime I see him,
I want to send him straight to hell, and luckily I get to do it in
the UFC Octagon next Saturday night on pay-per-view. It’s gonna be
bad. I’m gonna make him pay, I’m gonna make him suffer for
backstabbing me and turning his back and trying to run this fake
narrative to the media.”
Masvidal is coming off back-to-back losses in title bouts against
Usman, the most recent of which occurred at UFC 261 last April.
Covington plans on a lopsided beating when he is finally able to
lock horns with “Gamebred” in the Octagon at the T-Mobile Arena in
Las Vegas on Saturday.
“I see a lot of pain. I’m gonna inflict so much pain on Jorge
Masvidal,” Covington said. “He’s not gonna be the same person
ever again. He keeps talking about a baptism. It’s not gonna be a
baptism, it’s gonna be a funeral. Jorge
Masvidal’s career-ending funeral. It’s gonna be violent. And
it’s not gonna be quick. I could easily finish it quick — I used to
do it all the time behind closed doors when we used to train — but
this one I’m gonna drag it out, I’m gonna make him suffer, and it’s
probably gonna be the first time in UFC history you see a guy in a
main event verbally tap out and say he can’t take no more of a
beating.”