{"id":335911,"date":"2019-12-19T09:26:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T17:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=335911"},"modified":"2019-12-19T09:33:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T17:33:18","slug":"brendan-schaub-tells-colby-covington-haters-to-grow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/brendan-schaub-tells-colby-covington-haters-to-grow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Schaub tells Colby Covington haters to &#8216;grow up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Covington is arguably the most polarizing fighter in MMA today. While he&#8217;s certainly got his fair share of fans, he&#8217;s also got legions of haters, and those haters have been very vocal since he lost to Kamaru Usman at UFC 245.<\/p>\n<p>Former UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub, who now makes his living as an analyst and podcaster, believes Covington&#8217;s haters need to give it a rest. He feels that, because Covington&#8217;s persona is manufactured, fans should go a little easier on him.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RECAP UFC 245 Usman vs Covington | UFC Busan Zombie vs Edgar | Ep. 163 Podcast | BELOW THE BELT\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eE2ysEHmszo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a lot of times too because of Colby\u2019s antics, and he did it to attract fans and he did it for this exact reason he wants you to hate him so you tune in to see him lose,&#8221; Schaub said of Covington (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/brendan-schaub-colby-covington-backlash-its-a-character-grow-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA News<\/a>). But that being said, you realize he\u2019s just playing a character. That\u2019s like getting mad at Robert De Niro for playing <em>The Irishman<\/em>\u00a0when you see him on the street. Like, \u2018what the f*ck dude?!\u2019 He\u2019s like, \u2018what? That\u2019s a character.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Covington, an outspoken supporter of Donald Trump, sustained a broken jaw in his loss to Usman, which prompted Twitter users to start using the hashtag #MAGAJaw. Schaub was not impressed by this display.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Colby it\u2019s a character, he just happens to be the most hated character and rides with Trump,&#8221; Schaub said. &#8220;Obviously there\u2019s the issue with Trump being the president and the moves he makes. But if you ask Colby like, \u2018hey man what do you think of the stuff going on with Trump right now with impeachment?\u2019 Or you ask him on his immigration laws, he doesn\u2019t know. It\u2019s just a bit, man. It\u2019s just a bit. So when you can take that out, which for a lot of people is hard to do, and look at Colby as an athlete as a fighter he\u2019s f*cking good man. He is damn good. He\u2019s very, very, very good and he showed it. To me the narrative isn\u2019t that Colby lost, the Trump kid lost, the big-mouth kid got his jaw broke. And I hate the f*cking #MAGAJaw. Grow up. But the thing to me, the narrative of this is how good is Kamaru Usman? He is so god damn good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Brendan Schaub&#8217;s comments on Colby Covington? Is it time for fans to &#8220;grow up?&#8221;<\/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 12\/19\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Covington is arguably the most polarizing fighter in MMA today. While he&#8217;s certainly got his fair share of fans, he&#8217;s also got legions of haters, and those haters have been very vocal since he lost to Kamaru Usman at UFC 245. Former UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub, who now makes his living as an analyst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":335913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10607,39610],"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>Brendan Schaub tells Colby Covington haters to &#039;grow up&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub jumps to the defense of vanquished UFC welterweight title challenger Colby Covington.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/brendan-schaub-tells-colby-covington-haters-to-grow-up\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brendan Schaub tells Colby Covington haters to &#039;grow up&#039; 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