{"id":392461,"date":"2021-08-18T05:53:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=392461"},"modified":"2021-08-18T05:54:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:54:20","slug":"colby-covington-explains-how-dustin-poirier-helped-forced-his-exit-from-american-top-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/colby-covington-explains-how-dustin-poirier-helped-forced-his-exit-from-american-top-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington explains how Dustin Poirier helped forced his exit from American Top Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight contender Colby Covington explained how former teammate Dustin Poirier helped forced his exit from American Top Team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/colby-covington-wants-to-settle-personal-rivalry-with-dustin-poirier-inside-the-octagon\/\">Covington and Poirier do not like each other<\/a>, that much we know for sure. The two have had numerous back-and-forths over the last few years, and it ultimately reached a boiling point where the two could no longer be teammates at American Top Team. That led to Covington eventually leaving ATT and joining MMA Masters, while Poirier continues to be one of the big names at Covington&#8217;s old gym. In a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FIrf1S3YjB0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Wire<\/a>, Covington explained how Poirier&#8217;s dislike for him led to him being forced out of ATT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I help him be a well-rounded fighter, and then one day he just decided to turn his back on me. He\u2019s like \u2018I\u2019m not training with you. I\u2019m not gonna help you.\u2019 I was gonna fight this guy Robbie Lawler, who\u2019s a legend in the UFC. It was one of his friends. He\u2019s like, \u2018I\u2019m not training with Colby, I don\u2019t want nothing to do with Colby. I don\u2019t like his act, his character. I want him kicked out of the gym,\u2019 and like he started putting his feelings into the gym owner and was like \u2018Hey I want him out.\u2019 Like, \u2018I don\u2019t want him here.\u2019 So, he was kind of one of the reasons I was forced to leave my old gym. So we just have a very bad history. I mean, I don\u2019t have any nice things to say about him,&#8221; Covington said (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmaweekly.com\/colby-covington-details-history-with-dustin-poirier-he-was-kind-of-one-of-the-reasons-i-was-forced-to-leave-my-old-gym\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Weekly<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, there is no love lost between Poirier and Covington. While both men are currently competing in different weight classes, there is always the chance that Poirier could eventually move up to 170lbs, and if that happens, a grudge match with Covington exists.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we will ever see Colby Covington fight Dustin Poirier inside the UFC Octagon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight contender Colby Covington explained how former teammate Dustin Poirier helped forced his exit from American Top Team. Covington and Poirier do not like each other, that much we know for sure. The two have had numerous back-and-forths over the last few years, and it ultimately reached a boiling point where the two could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":392462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[22188,10297,39610],"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 explains how Dustin Poirier helped forced his exit from American Top Team | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC welterweight contender Colby Covington explained how former teammate Dustin Poirier helped forced his exit from American Top Team.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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