Colby Covington takes aim at 'DEI | MMA News
Former interim welterweight champion Colby Covington remains to be stewing over his TKO loss to Joaquin Buckley weeks after the Dec. 14 occasion.
Covington stepped in to face Joaquin Buckley within the UFC on ESPN 63 primary occasion when the struggle promotion opted to put Buckley’ unique opponent, Ian Machado Garry, in opposition to Shavkat Rakhmonov as a substitute. It had been a yr since Covington had fought, dropping to Leon Edwards at UFC 296 in December 2023.
The struggle did not go Covington’s method. Buckley fended off takedown makes an attempt and battered Covington with punches. The struggle was stopped late within the third spherical resulting from a nasty laceration above Covington’s proper eye. “Chaos” believes the struggle was stopped early and that he would have completed Buckley had the struggle gone on.
“The fight, you know, we were just getting warmed up.” Colby Covington stated on his YouTube channel. “Everyone knows I’m a fourth and fifth-round fighter, I’m just getting started getting into those championship rounds. I could’ve finished him in that fourth and fifth round, he was breathing heavy. He didn’t have much more to offer, he wasn’t going to have much volume in those last rounds.”
“It was a close competitive fight, he didn’t outclass me, he didn’t drop me, he didn’t really hurt me,” Covington continued. “There was a little cut that occurred, and I rewatched it back. It was like minute two, and it was like a headbutt proper off his hip or one thing. But, it wasn’t a punch… It’s unlucky that DEI physician stopped the struggle early. I assumed it was simply getting began, and there was a lot more that needed to be settled in there.”
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