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Ahead of their upcoming rematch at UFC 268, Colby Covington says that welterweight champ Kamaru Usman has been “using EPO his whole career.”<\/p>\n

Covington and Usman will meet on November 6 in the main event of UFC 268 with the world welterweight title on the line.<\/a> The two rivals previously met in the main event of UFC 245 in December 2019, with Usman winning via fifth-round TKO. The two will now meet again with Usman’s gold on the line in one of the most highly-anticipated fights of 2021.<\/p>\n

Ahead of their rematch, Covington spoke to Submission Radio<\/a>\u00a0and trashed his rival Usman, accusing “The Nigerian Nightmare” of using EPO, the same substance TJ Dillashaw used.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been doing EPO his whole career. It\u2019s so obvious. His chemical imbalance, his body \u2013 he\u2019s got the pimples all over his back, all over his face,” Covington said (h\/t MMAjunkie.com<\/a>). “You\u2019re a 35-year-old man. You\u2019re not going through puberty like you\u2019re in your teens anymore. You should not be having that chemical imbalance and that breakout. That\u2019s from his testosterone being out of whack, and his estrogen and his testosterone levels being out of whack. So he is the CEO of EPO. I\u2019ve heard firsthand from some people that he trained with, some people that I might’ve went to wrestle in college with that said the same thing. They could verify that he has done EPO and he\u2019s injected in his ass. So he\u2019s the CEO of EPO. He\u2019s \u2018Marty Juiceman.'”<\/p>\n

Although Usman has never tested positive for PEDs, Covington is confident he is using.<\/p>\n

“I know he\u2019s going to be doing it. There\u2019s ways to get around the tests. They\u2019re not blood testing. They\u2019re doing a piss test here and there. They\u2019re not going to blood test him. They\u2019re going to let him get away with it,” Covington said.<\/p>\n

With so much bad blood between these two, expect much more of this kind of trash talk in the lead-up to the fight in November.<\/p>\n

How excited are you for the rematch between Colby Covington and Kamaru Usman at UFC 268?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahead of their upcoming rematch at UFC 268, Colby Covington says that welterweight champ Kamaru Usman has been “using EPO his whole career.” Covington and Usman will meet on November 6 in the main event of UFC 268 with the world welterweight title on the line. 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