{"id":250659,"date":"2017-10-03T08:44:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T15:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=250659"},"modified":"2017-10-03T08:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T15:44:42","slug":"colby-covington-wild-prediction-upcoming-fight-demian-maia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/colby-covington\/colby-covington-wild-prediction-upcoming-fight-demian-maia\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington has a wild prediction for his upcoming fight with Demian Maia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 28, the UFC will return to Brazil with UFC Fight Night 119. In the evening&#8217;s co-headliner, rising UFC welterweight contender Colby Covington will face the biggest test of his career thus far as he battles recent UFC welterweight title challenger Demian Maia.<\/p>\n<p>In advance of this fight, Covington is starting to embrace his role as something of a heel in the welterweight division. In fact, he&#8217;s starting consider himself the &#8220;supervillain&#8221; of the division.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI am the supervillain, and this is my division now,\u201d he told <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2017\/10\/colby-covington-respects-demian-maia-wants-finish-in-round-1-ufc-fight-night-119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAjunkie<\/a>. \u201cI own this division. I\u2019m a heel \u2013 it\u2019s OK. I expect the fans to hate me, anyway. I don\u2019t care about the fans. This isn\u2019t about the fans anymore. This is about me being the best fighter in the world \u2013 and that\u2019s what I am.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m the No. 1 fighter in the welterweight division right now.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/colby-covington\/colby-covington-challenges-demian-maia-throwing-shade-tyron-woodley\/\">Tyron Woodley<\/a>, he\u2019s a fake paper champ. Demian Maia, he\u2019s a thing of the past. I\u2019m going to put him to rest and the Brazilian crowd is going to be silent.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So just how does Colby Covington expect his fight with Maia to go?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI do respect the guy,\u201d Covington said of Maia. \u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m going to put him to sleep in the first round.\u00a0It won\u2019t be pretty. I know Halloween is coming up, so it\u2019s going to be a nightmare in Sao Paulo for him.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m coming to take out Demian Maia in impressive fashion,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/colby-covington\/colby-covington-explains-sided-dana-white-tyron-woodley\/\">Tyron Woodley<\/a> is next. Mark my words, you heard it here first in this interview: I will be welterweight champion early beginning of next year.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think Colby Covington can deliver on these lofty predictions? 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