{"id":304601,"date":"2019-03-06T07:08:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T15:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=304601"},"modified":"2019-03-06T07:08:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T15:08:48","slug":"colby-covington-recounts-heated-encounter-with-nate-diaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/colby-covington-recounts-heated-encounter-with-nate-diaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington recounts heated encounter with Nate Diaz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the short period of time he was in Las Vegas to watch UFC 235, it seems that Colby Covington had some kind of altercation or run-in with everybody else in the city. He <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/video-colby-covington-crashes-kamaru-usmans-ufc-235-open-workout\/\">crashed<\/a> Kamaru Usman&#8217;s open workout. He <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/video-colby-covington-ambushes-dana-white-at-casino-demands-answers-about-promised-title-shot\/\">ambushed UFC President Dana White <\/a>at the blackjack table. He got into it with Tyron Woodley&#8217;s mother and NFL player <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/colby-covington\/colby-covington-details-tense-run-in-with-nfl-player-todd-gurley\/\">Todd Gurley in the crowd&#8230;. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And apparently, he had words with fan favorite lightweight Nate Diaz too&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colby Covington detailed his run-in with Nate Diaz on Ariel Helwani&#8217;s MMA Show on Monday (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/3\/5\/18251643\/ufc-colby-covington-slams-nate-diaz-rips-todd-gurley-heckling-ufc-235-mma\">MMA Mania<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur skill level is way apart from each other. He\u2019s a bottom feeder,\u201d Covington said of Diaz. \u201cIt was funny because he walked by me and he said, \u2018Fuck you Colby.\u2019 And he flipped me off when I was sitting front row and he walked by cage-side. It\u2019s just funny. Keep that energy Nate. If you\u2019re so tough, let\u2019s see it inside the cage, bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nate Diaz has not fought since a 2016 decision loss to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/video-colby-covington-crashes-kamaru-usmans-ufc-235-open-workout\/\">Conor McGregor<\/a>. That being said, he was expected to return to the cage in the co-main event of UFC 230 in April, where he was scheduled to fight Dustin Poirier. Unfortunately, this fight failed to come to fruition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colby Covington, on the other hand, hasn&#8217;t fought since June of 2018, when he defeated Rafael dos Anjos to win the UFC interim welterweight strap. With this victory, he was expected to get a shot at undisputed champ Tyron Woodley. Yet ultimately, after a lengthy dispute between Covington and the UFC, Woodley was matched up with Usman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would you be interested in a fight between Colby Covington and Nate Diaz? <\/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 3\/6\/2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the short period of time he was in Las Vegas to watch UFC 235, it seems that Colby Covington had some kind of altercation or run-in with everybody else in the city. He crashed Kamaru Usman&#8217;s open workout. He ambushed UFC President Dana White at the blackjack table. 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