{"id":275812,"date":"2018-05-07T07:16:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T14:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=275812"},"modified":"2019-02-21T13:27:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T21:27:37","slug":"exclusive-colby-covington-isnt-mimicking-coked-out-leprechaun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-colby-covington-isnt-mimicking-coked-out-leprechaun\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE | Colby Covington assures he isn&#8217;t mimicking &#8220;coked-up little leprechaun&#8221; Conor McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BJPENN.COM Radio Ep. 79 \/\/ Theodorou | Lovato Jr | Reyes | Burns | Oezdemir | Covington\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1G0NjyNllaU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the span of a year, Colby Covington has become known as one of the UFC&#8217;s biggest trash talkers. The American, who battles Rafael dos Anjos for interim welterweight gold at UFC 225 this June 9, is constantly generating headlines with his words.<\/p>\n<p>Covington&#8217;s propensity for venomous trash talk has caused several members of the MMA community to suggest he&#8217;s mimicking <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\">Conor McGregor<\/a>&#8216;s schtick.<\/p>\n<p>Take these comments from former UFC middleweight champ Michael Bisping, for example:<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-content\" class=\"content \">\n<p>\u201c[Covington] hasn\u2019t got anywhere yet,&#8221; Bisping said on a recent episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/hwcdn.libsyn.com\/p\/0\/7\/2\/0728d53cc3e23bd4\/Michael_Bisping_Colby_Covington_Sharon_Jacboson_CB_Gold.mp3?c_id=20365425&amp;destination_id=457573&amp;expiration=1525709337&amp;hwt=91fb23fdc88abce00a1590954763314f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Roasted<\/a>. &#8220;He\u2019s siting at that press conference trying to talk shit and he\u2019s just trying to be Conor McGregor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the latest episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bjpenn-com-radio-ep-79-elias-theodorou-rafael-lovato-jr-dominick-reyes-gilbert-burns-volkan-oezdemir-colby-covington\/\">BJ Penn Radio<\/a>, however, Covington assured that he&#8217;s not borrowing McGregor&#8217;s persona. He&#8217;s not copying <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-chael-sonnen-trashes-cowardly-fabricio-werdum-throwing-boomerang-colby-covington\/\">Chael Sonnen<\/a>, either.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People, they wanna say I&#8217;m mimicking McGregor, I&#8217;m mimicking Chael Sonnen,&#8221; Covington told host Jason Kindschy. &#8220;I&#8217;m not trying to be anything like them. Does it look like I&#8217;m trying to get followers or I&#8217;m trying to get fans? I don&#8217;t care. I&#8217;m not trying to make people happy. I don&#8217;t care. You&#8217;re gonna be mad, but you will tune in to see me fight &#8217;cause you wanna see me lose. At the end of the day, all these people that wanna say I&#8217;m trying to mimic another person, no. I&#8217;m unique in my own way. No one&#8217;s ever done and went the route I&#8217;ve went, full super villain here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shortly thereafter, Covington gave his thoughts on Conor McGregor&#8217;s infamous April rampage in Brooklyn. To remind, Covington offered to track the Irishman down, during the brief period that he was on the lamb in New York.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If that fugitive <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheNotoriousMMA<\/a> is still on the lam when wheels touchdown in JFK I&#39;ll bring in that coked up leprechaun myself! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KingColbyTheBountyHunter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KingColbyTheBountyHunter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ufc223?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ufc223<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nerdbash2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nerdbash2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colby Covington (@ColbyCovMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColbyCovMMA\/status\/982057329494560768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a coked-up little Leprechaun,&#8221; Covington said. &#8220;He&#8217;s making stupid mistakes, but the thing is, Jason, is that he noticed that King Colby was in the media a lot and in the headlines, and he was losing attention, so he was just trying to steal the headlines back. But at the end of the day, as soon as I put out my tweet that King Colby the bounty hunter was looking for him, he turned himself in. He knows he didn&#8217;t wanna get his hands dirty with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the comparisons between Colby Covington and Conor McGregor?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>&nbsp;on 5\/7\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the span of a year, Colby Covington has become known as one of the UFC&#8217;s biggest trash talkers. The American, who battles Rafael dos Anjos for interim welterweight gold at UFC 225 this June 9, is constantly generating headlines with his words. 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