Dustin Poirier has responded after Colby Covington released the video of “The Diamond” dropped a sparring partner.<\/p>\n
Over the past couple of weeks, Covington revealed he had a video of Poirier dropping an amateur sparring partner<\/a> in the lead-up to the Khabib Nurmagomedov.<\/p>\n \u201cDustin (Poirier) is not a nice, charitable guy,\u201d Covington said to MMAJunkie <\/a>about Poirier. “He is a piece of sh*t person \u2014 let me show you this video, Mike, so you can see it off-camera, I can\u2019t show it on camera, look at this, look at this fight, this was at training. Wait, this is an amateur, by the way, no headgear, he was going training with him, watch. Watch what he says in his face, \u2018And New\u2019 \u2014 he\u2019s rubbing it in the kid\u2019s face after he drops him. What\u2019s nice and honorable, and charitable about that?<\/p>\n \u201cYou just dropped an amateur who came to help you train for Khabib (Nurmagomedov) which \u2014 why are you training with amateurs when you\u2019re preparing for Khabib as it is?\u201d Covington continued about Poirier. \u201cYou have the best wrestler, the best cardio freak in the gym as there is at the gym at the time, but you chose to train with amateurs and you\u2019re supposed to be this good guy but you\u2019re not and you\u2019re knocking out amateurs, and you\u2019re yelling in their face, \u2018And New\u2019. That\u2019s not Khabib kid, you didn\u2019t just knock out Khabib. So Dustin\u2019s a prick. Dustin\u2019s a piece of sh*t, and I\u2019m sick of this, \u2018nice guy\u2019 act.\u201c<\/p>\n After the interview, Covington said he would be releasing the video which ended up happening on Tuesday<\/a> ahead of Poirier’s trilogy match against McGregor. However, it appeared to backfire as many fighters had said it was no big deal. Poirier, meanwhile, revealed the fighter was not an amateur.<\/p>\n This is a pro fighter with 20 wins https:\/\/t.co\/0rEGN3bf53<\/a><\/p>\n — The Diamond (@DustinPoirier) July 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n