Former UFC interim champion Colby Covington has aired out his frustrations regarding his old fight camp American Top Team. Covington spoke to BJPENN.com Radio and had choice words for his previous establishment based out of Coconut Creek, Florida. ‘Chaos’ has a unique perspective on the fight game and believes that anything is fair game.
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Colby Covington parted ways with his long time training team after continual reports of disharmony in the camp. The discontent was seemingly bubbling for a while before the news of his departure was finally disclosed.
Colby Covington goes off
About a month after parting ways with the establishment, the former title challenger lays it all out.
“My brand was being held back being at American Top Team,” said Covington. “I have nothing but respect for Dan Lambert. The guy’s been nothing but a mentor and a good friend, but you cross the line when you try and tell me what I can and cannot do in the professional fighting business.”
We’re getting locked in an Octagon to kill each other, take each other’s brain cells, send each other to the morgue, and you’re worried about some words that I might be saying? It sounds a little petty and a little childish, and I didn’t have time for that anymore. I got big business to take care of.”
Where did it all go wrong?
Colby Covington has sounded off during media interviews in the past trashing fellow teammates like Dustin Poirier and Jorge Masvidal. A point of contention was that he went against fighters he will never step into the cage against.
Covington has had choice words for Joanna Jedrzejczyk and Amanda Nunes, further causing a divide in the team. Moreover, he stands steadfast in his view surrounding pre-fight gamesmanship and everything that it encompasses.
“It’s not fair to try and take someone’s voice away and their platform and try and tell them what they can and cannot do, especially in the fighting business. It’s already an ugly business as it is. Then to be mad about some words when we’re getting locked in a cage to kill each other in our underwear on Saturday nights, it’s just a little pathetic, and it’s not right, but I have no ill will towards it. I think Dan had to do what he had to do, and he felt that it was right to implement that policy for the team.”
Colby Covington will be looking to reinvent himself after suffering a loss in his title fight outing against Kamaru Usman.
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