Colby Covington is demanding an immediate rematch with Kamaru Usman, following his defeat in their welterweight title bout last December.
‘Chaos’ suffered a fifth-round stoppage loss at the hands of ‘The Nigerian Nightmare’ at UFC 245, which ended his six-fight winning streak.
Almost two months removed from the December fight card, the outspoken American welterweight insisted the stoppage was ‘fake’ and that he was the rightful winner in the said headlining clash.
“I went out there and I beat up ‘Marty Fakenewsman’ for 24 minutes until the ref had to stop the fight on a fake stoppage – a bullsh*t stoppage,” Covington said in a recent interview with MMA Fighting.
“[A stoppage] where I was completely coherent and still in the fight, and he just blatantly stopped the fight, after there was a foul, too.”
“He’s hitting me in the back of the head four times and he blatantly calls the fight, because he knows he doesn’t want it to go to the judges’ scorecards cause I could win.”
Momentum Shift
Covington continued his tirades by saying Marc Goddard was on Usman’s side, claiming the UFC referee gave the defending champ some time to recover after absorbing a huge liver shot in the second round.
“I was fighting against two people that night. Against ‘Marc Not So Goodard’ and against ‘Marty Fakenewsman.’ Why would I hang my head about that?”
“I went out there and fought my ass off. I went through the championship rounds and people saw how tough I was, and they know who the best welterweight in the world is, and that’s Colby “Chaos” Covington.”
“In the second round, that’s a huge momentum shift when I kick him in the liver and ‘Marty Fakenewsman’ says ‘oh it’s a nut shot,’ and he looks for Marc Goddard because he’s literally about to fold up because his organs are shutting down on him, and he wants to quit the fight.”
“‘Oh Marc Goddard save me, nut shot, nut shot!’ Give him a couple minutes to recover. That’s a huge momentum shift.”
Still The Champ
To this, he believes an immediate rematch should be on the line while saying the UFC 245 title fight was ‘fixed’ and corrupt.
“It was two against one that f*cking night, Dec. 14 at UFC 245.”
“It wasn’t one on one. I got robbed of a one-on-one fair fight. That motherf*cker made a clear difference in that fight, and if ‘Marty Fakenewsman’ didn’t have that f*cking ref, I’d be world champion right now, and I’m going to get my f*cking rematch and it’s going to be a different story.
“What could be more wrong and corrupt that somebody could do that?”
“For people to not see that and be clearly not biased about their opinion is absolutely pathetic.”
“Just look at the facts. Look at the video. That fight was fixed, and that was clear enough that they need to do a rematch.”
“My next fight should be the automatic rematch with ‘Marty Fakenewsman.’ I’m still America’s champ,” he declared.
(Featured Image Source: Instagram/ Colby Covington and Kamaru Usman)