{"id":390004,"date":"2021-07-12T16:06:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T23:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=390004"},"modified":"2021-07-12T16:06:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T23:06:24","slug":"colby-covington-wants-to-settle-personal-rivalry-with-dustin-poirier-inside-the-octagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/colby-covington-wants-to-settle-personal-rivalry-with-dustin-poirier-inside-the-octagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington wants to settle &#8220;personal rivalry&#8221; with Dustin Poirier inside the Octagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Covington and Dustin Poirier haven&#8217;t liked each other for quite some time and now &#8220;Chaos&#8221; wants to settle their differences inside the Octagon.<\/p>\n<p>Covington and Poirier had a falling out after Colby picked Khabib Nurmagomedov to defeat his longtime teammate. After that, Poirier said<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dustin-poirier\/dustin-poirier-tells-colby-covington-its-on-sight-if-they-cross-paths-at-att\/\"> it would be on sight<\/a> if he saw Covington and the two have continued to take shots at one another. For \u2018Chaos\u2019, he says Poirier actually weighs more than him so he thinks it&#8217;s a fair fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were giving me a lot of stuff this week. They were like, \u2018why are you picking on Dustin?\u2019 Dude, Dustin weighs more than me,\u201d Covington said to James Lynch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZtYa8E7hLxE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fanatics View<\/a>. \u201cWe used to weigh in at American Top Team all the time. The guy would weigh 188, 190. I\u2019m like 185. I just don\u2019t want to cut a bunch of weight because I know I\u2019m the best in the world at the weight class that I fight in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have to look for a weight advantage and cut all this weight to feel like I\u2019m the bigger guy. So all the people saying \u2018stop picking on lightweights,&#8217; I\u2019m picking on a guy that\u2019s bigger than me,&#8221; Covington continued. &#8220;It\u2019s not my fault Dustin was saying to the media, \u2018It\u2019s on sight when I see Colby.\u2019 But I\u2019ve seen the guy 40 or 50 times since he said it\u2019s on sight, so who\u2019s the man of their word? Who\u2019s not a man of their word?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Poirier <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/whats-next-for-dustin-poirier-and-conor-mcgregor-after-ufc-264\/\">is set to fight Charles Oliveira for the lightweight title<\/a> after he defeated Conor McGregor at UFC 264, Covington believes this is the fight that makes sense. They used to be training partners but had a big falling out and Colby wants to settle inside the Octagon and show Poirier who his daddy is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis best money opportunity if he wants to do good business is to come up to 170 and see daddy. This is a personal rivalry. This isn\u2019t like I\u2019m trying to pick on someone and there\u2019s no narrative to the fight,&#8221; Covington concluded. &#8220;This guy, we go back 10 years training together and he said some things to me in the gym, I\u2019ve said some things to him. There\u2019s deep, deep, deep personal issues with this drama and this beef, and I just hope they get settled in the octagon someday. But if they don\u2019t, then the fans get to know who daddy is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to see Colby Covington vs. Dustin Poirier?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Covington and Dustin Poirier haven&#8217;t liked each other for quite some time and now &#8220;Chaos&#8221; wants to settle their differences inside the Octagon. Covington and Poirier had a falling out after Colby picked Khabib Nurmagomedov to defeat his longtime teammate. 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