{"id":303394,"date":"2019-02-25T05:55:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T13:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=303394"},"modified":"2019-02-25T05:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T13:56:00","slug":"colby-covington-claps-back-at-anthony-smith-in-classic-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/colby-covington-claps-back-at-anthony-smith-in-classic-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington claps back at Anthony Smith in classic fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former UFC interim welterweight champ Colby Covington has recently been engaged in a war of words with upcoming UFC light heavyweight title challenger Anthony Smith. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the latest salvos in this verbal conflict came from Smith, who claimed he encountered Covington at a Chicago gym, and that Covington said nothing to him. More specifically, he referred to the welterweight as a &#8220;scared cat.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on a recent episode of Submission Radio, Colby Covington responded to this comment from Anthony Smith in classic fashion, deriding Smith&#8217;s accomplishments and simultaneously reminding the world of his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Colby Covington Rips &quot;Little Child&quot; Dana White, Corrupt UFC: &quot;They Need to Let Me Go&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KC7zZpWwrFs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s a total mark,\u201d Covington said of Smith (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2019\/02\/ufc-colby-covington-fires-back-anthony-smith-jon-jones-title-fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMAjunkie (opens in a new tab)\">MMAjunkie<\/a>). \u201cYou know, the guy, he hasn\u2019t beat anybody that wasn\u2019t 10 years past their prime coming off the steroids. He\u2019s on, what, a three-fight win streak, and he was just getting knocked out by (middleweights). So, the guy\u2019s a complete joke. Everything he\u2019s saying, \u2018Oh, we were in the gym.\u2019 Dude, you never came up to me in the gym. You trained on the opposite side of the gym. Who\u2019s the (expletive)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLike, the guy\u2019s irrelevant. He shouldn\u2019t even be fighting for a title. But hats off to him: He\u2019s getting a title shot. But I\u2019m gonna stick to winning belts. He\u2019s never going to be winning a belt, so that\u2019s something we ain\u2019t going to have to worry about. I\u2019m going to stick to winning belts and go to the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colby Covington continued, assuring that Anthony Smith will lose his UFC 235 title fight with Jon Jones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI could give a (expletive) less about the guy,\u201d Covington said. \u201cHe\u2019s a junior. He\u2019s not on my level. He shouldn\u2019t even be talking to a king. He\u2019s never going to win a belt. He\u2019s never going to the White House. The guy\u2019s an amateur, and he shouldn\u2019t even be fighting for a title, but he\u2019s in one of the weakest divisions in the UFC, so hats off to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe gets his show-up money to take a loss, and that\u2019s the end of him. We\u2019re focusing on me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think of this ongoing beef between Anthony Smith and Colby Covington?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article first appeared on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;on 2\/25\/2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC interim welterweight champ Colby Covington has recently been engaged in a war of words with upcoming UFC light heavyweight title challenger Anthony Smith. One of the latest salvos in this verbal conflict came from Smith, who claimed he encountered Covington at a Chicago gym, and that Covington said nothing to him. 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