{"id":323365,"date":"2019-08-23T12:07:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T19:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=323365"},"modified":"2019-08-23T12:07:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T19:07:27","slug":"colby-covington-discusses-crowd-drama-at-ufc-241","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/colby-covington-discusses-crowd-drama-at-ufc-241\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington discusses crowd drama at UFC 241"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Covington was one of the stars in attendance for last weekend&#8217;s UFC 241 card in Anaheim, California, and apparently, his presence at the event caused a bit of a stir.<\/p>\n<p class=\" IL_IC_MIN\">In fact, several of the other fighters in attendance allegedly tried to start fights with the trash-talking welterweight star, according to UFC President Dana White.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody in that section kept fighting with Colby,\u201d White said at the post-event news conference (via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/08\/dana-white-colby-covington-crowd-issues-with-fighters-ufc-241-kamaru-usman-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMAJunkie.com (opens in a new tab)\">MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cSo security kept coming over to me 50 times to get him out of there. And I said, \u2018No, everybody needs to start acting like (expletive) professionals because I don\u2019t have another seat in this entire building.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 That (expletive) game you play in kindergarten was going on over there when I went over there. So I asked those guys (to) listen to me: \u2018We\u2019ve got a big night going on here. We have a big fight. I don\u2019t need a fight breaking out with you knuckleheads. Stop it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to MMA Fighting this week, Colby Covington gave his take on what happened in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Colby Covington Talks &#039;Amazing&#039; UFC 241 Fan Reaction, Sends Message to Kamaru Usman - MMA Fighting\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VXz5SEpL7FY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s embarrassing, man,&#8221; he said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/colby-covington-responds-to-ufc-241-crowd-ruckus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA News<\/a>). &#8220;We\u2019re supposed to be professionals and these guys wanna act like street thugs. They want to fight in the crowd, but they don\u2019t want to fight in the Octagon and makes millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s pathetic. Like Dana White said, they\u2019re little kindergarten kids. Own up, be a professional, man. Don\u2019t get so salty, don\u2019t get in your feelings just \u2018cause I\u2019m making more money than you. Just \u2018cause your jealous I win every fight and you can\u2019t stop me. Don\u2019t be jealous of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Masvidal, one of Covington&#8217;s best friends and a fellow welterweight contender, was also in attendance for UFC 241. Covington says Masvidal had his back when drama arose, though they were not seated in the same section \u2014 and there&#8217;s a reason for that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s not really much to clarify. My boy Jorge Masvidal had my back. He was like three or fours rows back. I was front row, you know, because they put the champ front row, obviously. I was trying to get my boy Jorge to the front row, but he\u2019s gotta earn his way up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you make of these comments from Colby Covington?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 8\/23\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Covington was one of the stars in attendance for last weekend&#8217;s UFC 241 card in Anaheim, California, and apparently, his presence at the event caused a bit of a stir. In fact, several of the other fighters in attendance allegedly tried to start fights with the trash-talking welterweight star, according to UFC President Dana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":280573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[22188,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Colby Covington discusses crowd drama at UFC 241 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Colby Covington was one of the stars in attendance for last weekend&#039;s UFC 241 card in Anaheim, California, and his presence at the event caused some drama.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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