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Colby Covington ripped Leon Edwards following the Nate Diaz fight at UFC 263, saying it “was definitely not of importance to the division.”<\/p>\n

Edwards won a unanimous decision over Diaz at UFC 263, but he had to survive a frantic fifth round after he got rocked and wobbled with a Stockton slam followed by a Diaz straight left. Edwards managed to hang on and win the fight, giving him a 10-fight unbeaten streak at the moment, and he wants to fight for the title in his next fight against UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman. But UFC president Dana White has already said Covington is next in line, and “Chaos” agrees that he’s the rightful No. 1 contender.<\/p>\n

Speaking to MMAFighting.com<\/a>, Covington criticized the Edwards vs. Diaz fight<\/a>, while also suggesting Edwards should have been more active over the past two years.<\/p>\n

“That fight was definitely not of importance to the division. You\u2019ve got a lightweight, Stockton soy boy Nate Diaz. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s ever won at fight at welterweight, and if he has, he\u2019s definitely got a losing record. I don\u2019t know the last time he won a fight in general. Five years ago? So it\u2019s on course for the fight that [Leon Edwards] gets,” Covington said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was people fighting during the whole pandemic during COVID, and he didn\u2019t want to fight. He was turning down every single fight that got offered to him. Meanwhile, everybody in Europe is flying and fighting during COVID, and he\u2019s just sitting on the sidelines, trying to wait and pick and choose his fights. He did it to himself. The UFC knows that he turned down a lot of fights and wasn\u2019t ready to fight. I stayed ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you think Colby Covington deserves the next title shot against Kamaru Usman or do you think Leon Edwards should slip past him in the rankings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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