{"id":341426,"date":"2020-02-17T09:50:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T17:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=341426"},"modified":"2020-02-17T09:50:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T17:50:42","slug":"colby-covington-claims-he-nearly-pulled-out-of-ufc-245-with-food-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/colby-covington-claims-he-nearly-pulled-out-of-ufc-245-with-food-poisoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington claims he nearly pulled out of Usman fight with food poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back at UFC 245 in December, Colby Covington came up short in a bid to wrest the UFC welterweight title from Kamaru Usman, losing by fifth-round TKO after four competitive rounds. If Covington is to be believed, however, he was not at his best on the night of the fight \u2014 far from it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Christian Robertson on the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_H9FjepIzbU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It&#8217;s All About Who You Know<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>podcast, Covington divulged that he was dealing with a serious bout of food poisoning right before the fight \u2014 and he&#8217;s blaming the UFC&#8217;s chefs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Colby Covington talks UFC 245 food poisoning, street fights, and his next fight.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_H9FjepIzbU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not making excuses,&#8221; Covington began. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t really told anybody, but the UFC was preparing meals for me all fight week, and I ended up getting really sick of one of their meals. I think they didn&#8217;t cook the chicken very good, and I got food poisoning two nights before the fight. I puked like 30 times, literally like 30 times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Covington continued, explaining that he very nearly pulled out of his fight with Usman, but was convinced to follow through on the matchup by his manager Dan Lambert.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told my manager Dan Lambert &#8216;I&#8217;m going to have to pull out of the fight, man,'&#8221; Covington said. &#8220;He&#8217;s like &#8216;no, you can&#8217;t pull out man, you&#8217;re the main event. You can&#8217;t do this to the UFC, you just need to go through with it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I ended up going through with it, but I didn&#8217;t feel my best,&#8221; Covington added. &#8220;That kind of played into the decision not to wrestle [in the fight] because I didn&#8217;t feel strong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like I was holding back a little bit because I knew I was puking, my liver and intestines were all messed up and I wasn&#8217;t at full strength. So what I&#8217;m trying to say is I was on my worst day and &#8216;Marty Fake Newsman&#8217; was on his best day and I still beat him. So you can imagine what&#8217;s going to happen in the rematch when I&#8217;m at my best and he&#8217;s at whatever level he&#8217;s at.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a completely different outcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this claim 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 2\/17\/2020.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back at UFC 245 in December, Colby Covington came up short in a bid to wrest the UFC welterweight title from Kamaru Usman, losing by fifth-round TKO after four competitive rounds. If Covington is to be believed, however, he was not at his best on the night of the fight \u2014 far from it. 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