{"id":282960,"date":"2018-08-15T07:21:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=282960"},"modified":"2018-08-15T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T14:22:19","slug":"kamaru-usman-has-malicious-intent-to-hurt-colby-covington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kamaru-usman\/kamaru-usman-has-malicious-intent-to-hurt-colby-covington\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamaru Usman has “malicious intent to hurt” Colby Covington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kamaru Usman has been angling for a fight with Colby Covington for some time. Unfortunately for him, the fight has not yet come to fruition.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour<\/a>, Usman explained that, with UFC welterweight champ Tyron Woodley occupied with a UFC 228 title fight with Darren Till, he was hoping he might finally get to fight Covington on November 30.<\/p>\n

\u201cFour times I\u2019ve been offered that fight and he said no,” Kamaru Usman said (transcribed by Peter Carroll for MMA Fighting<\/a>). “They tried to make that fight again for Nov. 30th<\/sup>. They offered me the fight and I said, \u2018Absolutely, I will wait for that fight\u2019. They actually offered me RDA for that main event in Brazil that Glover [Teixeira]<\/a> and\u00a0Jimi Manuwa\u00a0just got announced on. I said, \u2018Yes, I\u2019m ready, I\u2019ll take the fight\u2019, but he said he was dealing with something\u2026he turned it down or he wasn\u2019t ready to fight.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they had have offered me Covington on Nov. 30th<\/sup>, I would\u2019ve said, \u2018Absolutely\u2019. That\u2019s the one guy that I really have malicious intent to hurt inside that cage. Of course, they did offer me that and I did jump on that, but then [Covington] went to the White House and came back and was like, \u2018I don\u2019t want that fight\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

From there, Kamaru Usman went on to criticize Colby Covington for turning down a UFC 228 with Woodley \u2014 a decision he feels could come back to haunt him.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Covington] talked for a long time about how he wanted a title fight. But then they give him a title fight \u2014 Sept. 8 that\u2019s your event \u2014 but he comes out and says he\u2019s not ready. You\u2019re not the champ, you\u2019re the interim guy. You\u2019re just a placeholder. The champ is ready to go. He gave you an opportunity and you turned it down, so they went with the next guy, they went with Darren Till.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow you have to sit and wait. God forbid, if something happens to the guys that have to fight on Sept. 8 and they have to be out for a while. What does that mean? You\u2019re not going to fight forever until they\u2019re ready? You said you\u2019d be ready in November, [the UFC] offered me the fight in November. I accepted and he says no \u2014 once again for the fourth time.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think of Kamaru Usman’s comments on Colby Covington?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 8\/14\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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