{"id":237869,"date":"2017-05-18T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T19:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=237869"},"modified":"2017-05-18T12:58:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T19:58:38","slug":"colby-covington-losing-questionable-decisions-story-masvidals-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/colby-covington-losing-questionable-decisions-story-masvidals-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington on Maia vs. Masvidal: Losing questionable decisions is the story of Masvidal&#8217;s career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, on the main card of UFC 211, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/jorge-masvidal\/\">Jorge Masvidal<\/a> gave up a close decision to Demian Maia in a clash of top-ranked welterweights. On Wednesday evening, Masvidal&#8217;s main training partner Colby Covington appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/podcasts\/bjpenn-com-radio-ep-33-volkan-oezdemir-james-vick-colby-covington\/\">BJ Penn Radio<\/a> to discuss the fight. He explained that he believes <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nick-diaz\/nick-diaz-not-impressed-demian-maia-defeat-jorge-masvidal\/\">Masvidal should have received the nod<\/a>, but that losing questionable decisions is nothing new for the veteran.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I thought my boy &#8216;Gamebred&#8217; Jorge Masvidal was way more effective,&#8221; Covington said. &#8220;He did a lot more damage. He wobbled and hurt Demian Maia at the end of the first round. I thought he won the fight, you know, but he never gets the judges calls. That&#8217;s been his whole career, the story of his whole career. He&#8217;s dominated guys, beaten up guys in the fight aspect, but they&#8217;ve won on points or won by the judges&#8217; score, like against Al Iaquinta. But it is what it is. It&#8217;s disappointing, you know. It&#8217;s his time to get his title shot, and I really wish that he was going to get that, but he&#8217;s still one fight away. He beats a guy like Stephen Thompson and he&#8217;s right back there. But it is what it is, you&#8217;ve gotta move on. The judges didn&#8217;t pick him that night, but I think Demian Maia knew who the better fighter was that night.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Covington then explained that he plans on getting his team back on when <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/colby-covington\/colby-covington-plans-embarrass-dong-hyun-kim\/\">he takes on Dong Hyun Kim<\/a> in Singapore this June.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;[Masvidal] will be in my corner for the fight,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I want to put on a really good performance for him. Right now his spirits are a little low because that wasn&#8217;t how planned and envisioned things, but he made a couple little mistakes that I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s regretting. This [fight with Kim] is a chance to put us right back up, cause we&#8217;re a team.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When one of us wins, we both win. When one of us loses, we both lose. So I&#8217;m going to get this team back on track.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think of Colby Covington&#8217;s take on Maia vs. Masvidal?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 5\/18\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, on the main card of UFC 211, Jorge Masvidal gave up a close decision to Demian Maia in a clash of top-ranked welterweights. On Wednesday evening, Masvidal&#8217;s main training partner Colby Covington appeared on BJ Penn Radio to discuss the fight. 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