UFC brought in Colby Covington as the backup fighter for the UFC 286 headliner. However, the fight went on as scheduled, and Covington could only attend the post-fight press conference when he commented on fighting Khamzat Chimaev. He claims that he was never offered to fight ‘Borz’.

The former UFC title challenger stated that he had been asking the people to fight Khamzat Chimaev but never received a formal offer. He also mentioned that ‘Borz’s unprofessional attitude has made it harder for the fight to take place. Covington called him a ‘clown’ and claims that Chimaev doesn’t know how to fight. He doesn’t want anything to do with him.

Khamzat Chimaev calls out Colby Covington for lying

Khamzat Chimaev has clapped back at Colby Covington’s comments. The Swedish fighter addressed these comments in a recent video from his YouTube channel. Chimaev may be looking ahead to fight in the middleweight division. But that didn’t stop him from getting back at the welterweight star.

‘Borz’ claims that Covington made some false statements during the post-fight press conference last weekend, and the California native doesn’t want to face him inside the octagon. Chimaev said, “Colby [Covington] is lying. He doesn’t want to fight. I swear with everything I have. I swear with God.” He even swore on his religion, and added, “I accepted the fight four times and the Muslims understand I swear with the Koran.”

‘Borz’ claims that he got the offer to fight Colby Covington four times

Khamzat Chimaev stated that on four occasions, the UFC offered him the fight against ‘Chaos’. He even had conversations with the UFC matchmaker, Sean Shelby. Chimaev stated, “I get a call four times ‘Do you want to fight?’ I said yes. I had a conversation with Sean Shelby as well, I can show it, [that] we’re going to fight with this [Covington] and it never happened. There is no more.” 

Khamzat has accused Covington of lying in the press conference. He said, “You can lie at press conferences and they make it a show. For me, I can’t lie to people. I am who I am, they like it, they don’t like it, I am who I am. That guy plays too much.”

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We may never know how things will end between Colby Covington and Khamzat Chimaev after UFC president Dana White announced that ‘Borz’ will be fighting in the middleweight division. We will have to wait and see what follows.

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