Colby Covington attacks LeBron James, Jon Jones, Khamzat Chimaev, and more in wild rant ahead of UFC Tampa
This coming weekend at UFC Tampa, Colby Covington returns to action for the first time in just under a year when he takes on the soaring Joaquin Buckley in the main event.
Last time out, Colby Covington once again came up short in an undisputed title fight, losing to Leon Edwards at UFC 296.
Following his disappointing loss, ‘Chaos’ revealed that he broke his foot in round one, and he has since been recovering from the injury, biding his time for the right time to return.
Colby Covington goes off on LeBron James and Jon Jones ahead of comeback fight
The 36-year-old is one of the more outspoken fighters on the entire roster and ahead of his fight against ‘Rocky’ Edwards, he caused a lot of controversy when he spoke ill of Edwards’ late father.
Despite the criticism he received for his distasteful comments, he has come into UFC Tampa fight week once again firing shots at many different athletes, with basketball star, LeBron James, even catching strays.
“I’m gonna start this off since I’m the man of the hour and the man of the show, I wanna ask LeBron (James), what does he mean by ‘There no party like a Diddy party’, I truly wanna know,” Covington began at the UFC Tampa media day this past Wednesday.
Covington went on to continuously slam LeBron, stating that he’s a ‘scumbag’ and he hopes he gets locked up.
The former UFC interim welterweight champion then turned his attention to UFC heavyweight champion, Jon Jones. Covington and Jones have a long historic feud, spanning all the way back to their days in college.
Covington has always claimed that ‘Bones’ refuses to be on any of the same events as him and they continue to be separated.
“Jon has some fruity tendencies… This is not a joke, he knows deep down inside I know his dark hidden secrets… Jon Jones is a disgrace to this earth, he’s a f*cking joke, yeah he beat Stipe (Miocic). Respect to Stipe first off, he’s a first responder… Shoutout to Stipe, he’s the greatest heavyweight of all time.
“I don’t think anything special of (Jones’) performance, I think Jon needs to stop ducking Tom Aspinall, just liked he ducked (Francis) Ngannou for years, he doesn’t want to fight the guys he knows he’s gonna get ass whooped against,” he continued.
Covington turns his attention to Khamzat Chimaev in explicit rant
Next up on Covington’s list of victims, was middleweight title contender, Khamzat Chimaev. ‘Chaos’ and ‘Borz’ have been linked to potentially fight each other several times since Chimaev’s debut in 2020, but the fight never came to fruition.
The Chechen recently missed out on the 185lb title shot when the promotion opted for a rematch between Dricus Du Plessis and Sean Strickland instead.
“Dude, he’s an absolute scumbag, the fact he rug-pulled all of his fans is the most disgusting act I’ve seen in MMA, ever. He and Khabib are just absolute scammers.
“As an MMA fighter I don’t think he’s anything special, he got exposed in that Gilbert Burns fight that he doesn’t have good cardio, I thought (Kamaru) Usman beat him when they fought, I thought Usman beat him 2-1,” he stated.
Turning his attention to the task at hand, Covington believes with a win over Joaquin Buckley he will put himself in the conversation for another welterweight title fight, despite being 2-3 in his last five fights.
“My name’s always in title contention. I’m the biggest name in the sport, there are no stars in the division. It’s a bunch of bums… I think after Saturday night, I’m next in line for the title,” he claimed.
