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Colby Covington, who will battle Rafael dos Anjos for the interim welterweight title at UFC 225 this Saturday, lived with former light heavyweight champ Jon Jones while they were both competing as college wrestlers. That, however, does not mean the two are friends.<\/p>\n

In fact, Covington pulls no punches whatsoever when speaking about his former roommate. See his latest comments on Jones below:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just started doing steroids and always freaking had roid rage,\u201d Covington said on the Jim and Sam Show (transcribed by\u00a0MMANYTT<\/a>). \u201cHe\u2019d come home and he\u2019d yell at me \u2018oh what the f\u2014k are you doing Colby, do the dishes\u2019 and he would just like freak out. I would see this roid rage in his eyes and I would just be like \u2018what\u2019s your deal, man?\u2019. Cause he was wrestling at 197 [pounds], he was a national champ in junior college and he was trying to move up and go to heavyweight. So he thought he had to do a cycle of roids and I just lost a lot of respect for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe started partying a lot. Doing ecstasy, doing all these drugs and the rest [is] history. He\u2019s been doing them since college.\u201d<\/p>\n

Covington then suggested that, more recently, Jones relied on performance-enhancing drugs to counterbalance the effects of the party drugs he used outside the cage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a lot of people knew,” Covington said. “He was wrecking Bentley\u2019s that the UFC gave him, he [had] hookers in the back of his car partying, cocaine bingers all night and then he was fighting the next day five-rounders.”<\/p>\n

\u201cMake no mistake about it, it\u2019s just not possible to do that at that level without putting some chemical, performance-enhancing drug in your body.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think of these rather incendiary accusations from Colby Covington?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 6\/7\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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