{"id":1778,"date":"2023-07-22T15:30:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T14:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2023-08-01T01:12:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T00:12:56","slug":"colby-covington-claims-dustin-poirier-and-khamzat-chimaev-turned-him-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/colby-covington-claims-dustin-poirier-and-khamzat-chimaev-turned-him-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington Claims Dustin Poirier And Khamzat Chimaev Turned Him Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Colby Covington claims Dustin Poirier and Khamzat Chimaev pushed him away, resulting in a lengthy layoff.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colby Covington has a reason why he hasn&#8217;t fought since March 2022. Covington&#8217;s last fight was at UFC 272 where he beat Jorge Masvidal by decision. Since then, \u201cChaos\u201d assures that he tried to get a fight, but no one wanted to face him, which explains why he was absent for more than a year and a half. However, according to Covington, he was offered Dustin Poirier and Khamzat Chimaev, but they both declined.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colby Covington insults Chimaev and Poirier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor my part, I have been ready since day one, since the fight against Jorge. I accepted all the fights that were offered to me. First it was Dustin, they wanted to do this fight,\u201d Colby Covington told Chael Sonnen. \u201cThey saw the potential and a great fight, but Dustin is a bitch. He is afraid, he fled the challenge. We now know that he is just talking, and not taking on every challenge. Then it was Chimaev. I was ready to end the hype with Chimaev, but he&#8217;s scared. He is not professional. He&#8217;s a little moron. He fled the division. He is afraid to fight. He talks a lot online, but he doesn&#8217;t talk inside the octagon. He does not sign a contract and is not a professional\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no deal, and then they wanted The Ultimate Fighter. I accepted The Ultimate Fighter, and there&#8217;s only one person who can take it away from me. He took it from me, Conor. Then I was the reserve fighter in London,\u201d Covington continued.<\/p>\n<p>A fight between Colby Covington, Dustin Poirier and Khamzat Chimaev would have been a real fight. Unfortunately, according to &#8220;Chaos,&#8221; both men declined the offer and weren&#8217;t interested in a fight against him. Colby Covington is now set to face Leon Edwards for the welterweight title in the main event of UFC 295 at Madison Square Garden in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Covington claims Dustin Poirier and Khamzat Chimaev pushed him away, resulting in a lengthy layoff. Colby Covington has a reason why he hasn&#8217;t fought since March 2022. Covington&#8217;s last fight was at UFC 272 where he beat Jorge Masvidal by decision. Since then, \u201cChaos\u201d assures that he tried to get a fight, but no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}