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Colby Covington came up short in his bid to capture the UFC welterweight title at UFC 245, succumbing to fifth-round punches from the champion Kamaru Usman. Yet according to Dan Lambert, the owner of American Top Team, where Covington trains, the recent welterweight title challenger is still as confident as ever.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a 10 out of 10 as far as what I would hope his mindset would be after a fight like that,\u201d Lambert told MMA Fighting<\/a> of Covington. \u201cHe wants to get right back in. He wants to get right back into training. He wants to get back into training as soon as he\u2019s ready health wise. He wants to get back and prove that he\u2019s the best.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never know how a fighter\u2019s going to respond to something like that. When I first talked to him, I had my concerns cause you just never know. I could not have scripted his response any better than what I heard from him. He\u2019s 1,000 percent positive, 1,000 percent motivated. He\u2019s ready to go. He didn\u2019t lose one piece of confidence in himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lambert also provided an update on the jaw injury Covington sustained in the fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe came back to Florida to go see an oral surgeon here to figure out what he wanted to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not real familiar with what the different statuses are with the jaw but I know one thing, he\u2019s a tough motherf*cker to fight with it for three rounds in that kind of stand-up war.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Covington failed to capture the UFC welterweight belt as he planned, Lambert believes the fighter earned himself the respect of the fight community with his gutsy performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a hell of a fight,\u201d Lambert said. \u201cBoth those guys, I think both their stock went up after a fight like that, which is typically something you don\u2019t say after a fight. Both guys proved they had balls of steel and cardio for days. I give credit to both of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can hate the guy, you can want to see him get merked but after putting on a performance like that and going to war the way he went to war and knowing he broke his jaw early in the fight, how can you not have respect for that?\u201d Lambert added later.<\/p>\n

What do you think is next for Colby Covington?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 12\/17\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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