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The second half of 2018 and beginning of 2019 isn’t looking to be going the way that top UFC welterweight Colby Covington was hoping it would.<\/p>\n

In June 2018 at UFC 225, Covington won the interim welterweight title by defeating Rafael Dos Anjos via unanimous decision<\/a>. Thus, presumably, setting him up for a guaranteed clash with the undisputed champion Tyron Woodley. You know… As interim titles generally do.<\/p>\n

Instead, Covington won’t be getting the next shot at Woodley. It will be going to Kamaru Usman as he challenges Woodley at UFC 235<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n

Since Woodley’s last title defense at UFC 228 against Darren Till, a fight that also was believed to be Covington’s, Woodley and the outspoken American Top Team product have gone back and forth trying to get a fight date set with nothing ever coming to fruition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was ready to fight in January in California [at UFC 233] and fight Woodley then,\u201d Covington told MMAFighting<\/a>. \u201cI was ready to fight in November. The only time I couldn\u2019t fight is back in September in Dallas [at UFC 228], but I couldn\u2019t fight because they offered me the fight on six weeks\u2019 [notice] and I was already getting nose surgery. I couldn\u2019t breathe out of my nose. I had mucus and blood draining down my nose into my lungs. I mean, I was at literally 30 percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo all I did was ask for an extra two months instead of six weeks because they backed themselves into a corner in a matchmaking hole, and now they\u2019re trying to hold this against me. But I find it funny because Dana White\u2019s tone, he changes tone real quick. He heard from the UFC doctors, \u2018Colby\u2019s not cleared, he can\u2019t fight in September in Dallas,\u2019 and then he changed his tone. After the Woodley-Till fight, he was like, \u2018Okay, Colby\u2019s 100 percent fighting Woodley next, that\u2019s the next fight to make,\u2019 then all of a sudden everything\u2019s changed \u2014 now they\u2019re trying to hold it against me, \u2018Oh, Colby\u2019s not taking fights. That doesn\u2019t fly in the UFC. Blah, blah, blah.\u2019”<\/p>\n

Seemingly due to the UFC’s impatience, they just couldn’t wait for Covington to make the walk in September as they would have liked. Therefore, in came Till to replace him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in no shape to fight in September in Dallas,\u201d Covington said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t gonna happen, no chance. So if you want to punish me for not fighting in Dallas and [not] turning around on six weeks\u2019 notice when I had surgery and was on every antibiotic and [drug] cocktail underneath the sun, then that\u2019s cool. That\u2019s your business decision. If you want to keep f*cking up your brand and moving shows from one city to another because a guy failed his third steroid test and he\u2019s hitting pregnant ladies [in a] hit-and-run, so be it. I\u2019m the ultimate professional. Show up on time, make weight, do everything they ask of me.<\/p>\n

Covington is referencing Jon Jones who just recently got the entire UFC 232 event relocated due to his ‘atypical finding<\/a>‘ in a drug test.<\/p>\n

In light of all that has happened atop the welterweight division and with Covington, Woodley, and Usman, the recent interim champ is now challenging the UFC to part ways with him. Something he believes they won’t be willing to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s be honest… Dana, you don\u2019t got the balls to release me,” Covington claimed. “If you\u2019re saying all of this stuff to the media, then release me. But you ain\u2019t got the balls. You know I\u2019m too valuable.<\/p>\n

“They\u2019re not going to do it. They realize my value now. They realize how valuable I am. They know that I sell. They know that every single fighter in the welterweight division wants to fight me. They know that I\u2019m the draw right now at welterweight. I made this division relevant. The only reason people care about Woodley and care about Usman is because they say my name. I\u2019m the relevant one in the division. No one cares about anybody else. They just want to see me fight anybody, it doesn\u2019t matter who it is. So they\u2019re screwing the fans over, they\u2019re screwing the people, and the people are who make their business run. So it\u2019s a big f*ck you to the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Covington also claims that he’s tried to work with the UFC too, but despite everyone else getting face-to-face meetings, he has had no luck himself.<\/p>\n

In the end, even though he may say what’s on his mind more often than people prefer him to, Covington let it be known that he still just wants to be the very best.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time the UFC offers something, I just take it,\u201d Covington added. \u201cI\u2019ve never asked for more money, not one time in my career. I fought Demian Maia for $30,000. The No. 2 guy in the world, I was fighting for $30,000. So I don\u2019t care about money. It\u2019s not about money. I\u2019m in this to be the best fighter in the world, to put on entertaining shows, and to please the fans. That\u2019s what it\u2019s all about is the fans, and they\u2019re shitting on all of their fans. So it\u2019s sad. They want to fool the people and think that they can pull this fast one on the people, but really they\u2019re pulling a fast one on themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m standing [by] my guns,” Covington stated. “I\u2019m not fighting for anything less than what I was promised and what I deserve… And that\u2019s a title shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on BJPenn.com<\/a> on 1\/7\/2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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