{"id":384362,"date":"2021-05-04T11:34:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T18:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=384362"},"modified":"2021-05-04T11:34:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T18:34:03","slug":"colby-covington-blasts-conor-mcgregor-for-wanting-welterweight-title-shot-hes-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/colby-covington-blasts-conor-mcgregor-for-wanting-welterweight-title-shot-hes-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington blasts Conor McGregor for wanting welterweight title shot: &#8220;He&#8217;s a joke&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight contender Colby Covington blasted Conor McGregor for wanting a title shot at 170lbs, calling the MMA superstar &#8220;a joke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Covington is one of the top-ranked contenders at 170lbs right now and is likely next in line to fight UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman following his big KO win over Jorge Masvidal at UFC 261. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/conor-mcgregor-vows-to-return-to-welterweight-after-reclaiming-155lbs-title-then-ill-go-up-again-after-green-fungus-panties\/\">that hasn&#8217;t stopped McGregor from taking to social media recently and suggesting that he will be coming for the welterweight strap soon<\/a>, despite the fact he is coming off of a TKO loss to a lightweight in Dustin Poirier in his last outing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2021\/5\/4\/22406639\/colby-covington-conor-mcgregor-the-laughingstock-in-the-mma-community-kamaru-usman-challenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Heck of MMAFighting.com<\/a>, Covington was asked about McGregor&#8217;s welterweight title aspirations, to which &#8220;Chaos&#8221; absolutely trashed the Irishman.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Kuykg1\">\u201cI haven\u2019t seen it, but I\u2019ve heard about it and that\u2019s obviously just Conor trying to get some hype, get some headlines. Come on, dude, the guy just got knocked out by \u2018Dustin Sorry-ier.\u2019 Come on, are you serious? You want a title shot at 170? You\u2019re getting beat up by gatekeeper lightweights and now you want to come to the top of the 170 welterweight division? Everybody knows what Conor\u2019s doing. He\u2019s not really gonna do that. He\u2019s not gonna come up and fight welterweight,\u201d Covington said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"SczFOg\">\u201cHe\u2019s just doing that to grab attention, to grab headlines, make people think he\u2019s being taken seriously because honestly, he\u2019s a joke. He\u2019s the laughingstock in the MMA community and even to casual fans because they\u2019re just like, \u2018Conor\u2019s washed up. He\u2019s done.\u2019 He made all that money with his whiskey, he made all that money for the Mayweather fight, he has no motivation. Nothing gets him up early in the morning to go fight. He tries to say it\u2019s for his kids but man, the guy\u2019s done. He has nothing left in the tank.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with the comments Colby Covington made about Conor McGregor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight contender Colby Covington blasted Conor McGregor for wanting a title shot at 170lbs, calling the MMA superstar &#8220;a joke.&#8221; Covington is one of the top-ranked contenders at 170lbs right now and is likely next in line to fight UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman following his big KO win over Jorge Masvidal at UFC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":300741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[22188,10089,39610],"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 blasts Conor McGregor for wanting welterweight title 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