Colby Covington News

Chris Taylor - October 28, 2017

Surging UFC welterweight contender Colby Covington trashed Brazil and called out current division champion Tyron Woodley in his post-fight interview after defeating Demain Maia at UFC Fight Night 119. Check out Covington’s controversial post-fight interview below:

Chris Taylor - October 28, 2017

A key welterweight scrap between surging contender Colby Covington and former title challenger Demian Maia served as the co-main event of tonight’s UFC Fight Night 119 card from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Round one begins and Maia comes out quickly with a jab. He lands a nice left hand and Colby smiles. Another nice left hand over the top from Maia. Covington goes high with a kick but Maia blocks it. The American presses forward with punches. Maia avoids any real damage and lands another left hand. Colby is backing up now. Maia shoots for a takedown but Colby is able to defend the shot. Both fighters connect with straight lefts. Colby fires off a nice leg kick and then another. Maia lands a clean left hand. Covington replies with a hard low kick. The Brazilian circles and then lands a right jab. Covington is bleeding now. Maia avoids a superman punch and lands a right hand. Colby with two more hard low kicks. He presses forward and lands a left hand. Maia with some good shots in the pocket. Colby returns fire with a right jab. Colby with a leg kick followed by a flurry of punches. Maia replies with a left hand and then an uppercut. Maia shoots for a takedown but it is not there. The fighters are back on their feet and the horn sounds to end round one.

Justin Golightly - October 28, 2017

Besides the return of MMA legend Lyoto Machida, the eyes will be on the co-main event at Sao Paulo when Colby Covington takes on a humongous test in grappling wizard Demian Maia. It was just back at UFC 214 that Maia finally got his shot at a UFC welterweight title, only to be bested by champion Tyron Woodley. Covington feels that Maia is the only guy that stands in the way of him knocking on gold’s door as well. He not only thinks he can do it, but thinks he can put on a better performance against Maia that Woodley. “It’s a pretty easy fight to train for [against Demian Maia]. To be honest, I’m training for Tyron Woodley. I’m gonna’ finish Demian Maia. I’m gonna dominate, dismantle Demian Maia. The different between me and Tyron Woodley is that Tyron Woodley fights nervous, he fights scared. He doesn’t wanna get tired, so the thing with Tyron Woodley is the he doesn’t know how to push the pace, he doesn’t have cardio. He doesn’t have heart. He has a heart, but he doesn’t have heart. There’s a difference.”

Russell Ess - October 27, 2017

Rising UFC welterweight Colby Covington is a short time away from getting the chance to establish himself as one of the top contenders at 170 pounds. Covington, who is currently ranked the no. 7 welterweight by the UFC takes on no. 3 ranked Demian Maia this weekend at UFC Fight Night 118 in Sao Paulo, Brazil in the co-main event of the evening. Speaking on The MMA Hour this week, Covington brought the trash talk, as usual, in regards to his matchup against the Brazilian.

Justin Golightly - October 18, 2017

Colby Covington is going to fight wise grappling wizard Demian Maia before October ends at Fight Night 119, but that’s not stopping him for picking fights with any other fighter. He’s on a mission to let everyone know it’s his division. Darren Till is out here just minding his own business, about to trade shots with Donald Cerrone on Saturday, until he’s dragged into this tweet by Covington. Hide your top five, hide your top 10, because everyone is trying to fight everyone around the welterweight division.

Tom Taylor - October 3, 2017

On October 28, the UFC will return to Brazil with UFC Fight Night 119. In the evening’s co-headliner, rising UFC welterweight contender Colby Covington will face the biggest test of his career thus far as he battles recent UFC welterweight title challenger Demian Maia. In advance of this fight, Covington is starting to embrace his role as something of a heel in the welterweight division. In fact, he’s starting consider himself the “supervillain” of the division.

Tom Taylor - September 24, 2017

“Platinum” Mike Perry and Colby “Chaos” Covington are two of the brightest young contenders in the UFC welterweight division – and they really don’t seem to like each other. Over the last few months, the pair have exchanged plenty of heat in interviews and on social media. On the latest episode of BJ Penn Radio, the trend continued, as Perry spat some fire at Covington, assuring that if Covington gets by Demian Maia on October 28, he’d like to fight him as soon as possible thereafter.

Tom Taylor - September 14, 2017

On October 28th, on the main card of UFC Fight Night 119 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, red-hot welterweight contender Colby Covington will battle recent title challenger Demian Maia. While Covington has repeatedly shared his confidence in the way he matches up with Maia, he actually has ample respect for the Brazilian grappling specialist. That respect does not extend to UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley – at all. Covington explained why he respects Maia but not Woodley on the latest episode of BJ Penn Radio.

Tom Taylor - September 13, 2017

Colby Covington and Mike Perry, two of the UFC’s most promising welterweight contenders, have been exchanging a bit of trash talk on Twitter. This heat began when when a fan asked Covington what his prediction was for Mike Perry’s UFC Pittsburgh scrap with Thiago Alves. Given that Alves is one of Covington’s teammates at American Top Team, his answer wasn’t particularly surprising.

Tom Taylor - August 10, 2017

Earlier this week, rising UFC welterweight Colby Covington made a clever callout of recent welterweight title challenger Demian Maia. On Wednesday’s edition of BJ Penn Radio, Covington gave an update on this fight, telling host Kinch that he hopes it happens at UFC 217, inside Madison Square Garden, on November 4. “I’m looking for November 4 in Madison Square Garden against Demian Maia,” he said. 

Tom Taylor - August 10, 2017

Over the last few months, Colby Covington and his friend and training partner Jorge Masvidal have made repeated callouts of fellow welterweight contenders Rafael Dos Anjos and Neil Magny. Unfortunately, Magny and Dos Anjos didn’t oblige those callouts. So, you can imagine Covington and Masvidal’s frustration when a Magny and Dos Anjos were booked to fight each other at UFC 216. On the latest edition of BJ Penn Radio, Covington went off on Magny and Dos Anjos in a scathing rant. Check out what he had to say below:

Chris Taylor - August 6, 2017

UFC welterweight Colby Covington is a rising star in the UFC’s stacked welterweight division. “Chaos” has won four fights in a row, his latest being a lopsided decision victory over highly regarded Korean fighter Dong Hyun Kim.

Tom Taylor - August 1, 2017

Last Saturday, in the co-main event of UFC 214, UFC welterweight champ Tyron Woodley successfully defended his title for the third time, shutting down 21 Demian Maia takedown attempts to a clear unanimous decision win. Unfortunately, the insipid nature of Woodley’s win drew the ire of many members of the MMA community, including UFC President Dana White, who berated the champ with an unsavory verbal onslaught at the UFC 214 post-fight presser. Woodley responded to White’s criticism on Monday’s episode of The MMA Hour, explaining that his tepid performance was due to a shoulder injury he sustained early in the fight. He then demanded a public apology from the UFC boss, and threatened to leak negative information if he didn’t get one.

Tom Taylor - June 22, 2017

Shortly after his dominant decision defeat of Dong Hyun Kim in Singapore, rising welterweight Colby Covington re-upped on his previous callout of Rafael Dos Anjos. The American Top Team staple also made a clever, post-fight callout of Neil Magny. On the latest episode of BJ Penn Radio, however, Covington explained that he doesn’t think either man wants to fight him.

Tom Taylor - June 22, 2017

Last weekend, on the main card of the UFC’s latest trip to Singapore, rising welterweight Colby Covington scored a career-best win over established contender Dong Hyun Kim. Shortly after this win, Covington made several callouts of his former training partner Tyron Woodley, who now wears the UFC welterweight title. On the latest episode of BJ Penn Radio, Covington elaborated on his comments about Woodley, and why he’d be so confident against the champ.

bjpenndotcom - June 21, 2017

BJPENN.COM Radio returns at 8PM ET/5PM PT with a stacked guest lineup! 8:15PM ET- We kick things off with featherweight prospect and a big winner from UFC Auckland, Alexander “The Great” Volkanovski. We’ll be recapping his win over Mizuto Hirota and getting the details of the his condition going in. From professional rugby to MMA, we’ll hear about his journey as a martial artist, and his plans for moving forward in the rankings.

Tom Taylor - June 18, 2017

On Saturday morning in Singapore, on the main card of UFC Fight Night 111, American Top Team’s Colby Covington scored a lopsided decision win over the UFC’s number-seven ranked welterweight, Dong Hyun Kim. With this win, the American is likely to burst into the divisional top-10, where more tough challenges are sure to await. Speaking to the media shortly after his defeat of Kim, Covington explained that he plans to continue to take out ranked welterweights, referring to his rise as the “embarrassment tour.”

Chris Taylor - June 17, 2017

UFC Singapore Results: Dong Hyun Kim vs. Colby Covington A welterweight scrap between Dong Hyun Kim and Colby Covington took place during today’s UFC Fight Night 111 main card in Singapore.