Daniel Cormier weighs in on alleged Colby Covington-Jorge Masvidal altercation: ‘Colby Covington’s no longer a avenue guy’
Daniel Cormier thinks Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal want to lend a hand it within the cage.
On ESPN’s DC & RC affirm, the passe two-division UFC champion shared his thoughts on Masvidal’s alleged assault on Covington that reportedly took command Monday at a cafe in Miami. Masvidal is potentially coping with prison battery costs, but has no longer been formally charged.
Covington and Masvidal were feuding in fresh years with the depraved blood culminating in a foremost tournament matchup at UFC 272 on March 5, where Covington defeated Masvidal by unanimous resolution. The fighters were no longer cordial with one one more afterwards and Cormier thinks that the competition could perchance well own gone too a ways. He also puzzled whether or no longer Covington must own any individual round to lend a hand him in test.
“Colby Covington is not any longer a avenue guy,” Cormier said. “Treasure, I will describe you this day, Colby Covington is not any longer a avenue guy. Colby Covington is a man that likes to talk and fight. The shtick could perchance well own crossed the line and now it’s gotten him into a venture that he’s no longer in truth equipped for. That’s why he didn’t own any one in command with him to make optimistic it didn’t spoiled a line. However because I do know who I’m, I persistently made obvious somebody became as soon as in that command with me to make optimistic I didn’t spoiled the line, to produce obvious my safety and offer protection to the entire lot that I became as soon as constructing.
“Procedure where you’re from, shimmering that if issues lope sideways this is a dude that I do know will lope and enact what he has to enact. You’ve gotta own somebody you belief to make optimistic you don’t lope and lose the entire lot that you worked so laborious for. Colby’s no longer that guy. Colby’s no longer a man that is attempting to be dealing in avenue issues. He could perchance well focus on cherish it. When says he’s the King of Miami, he’s talking about he’s the excellent fighter from Miami and it’s laborious to argue that graceful now alive to in Usman’s training in Colorado.”
In interviews, Covington has directed insults at Masvidal revolving round Masvidal’s family, a tactic that he has also employed in feuds with Kamaru Usman and Dustin Poirier. The venture between he and Masvidal is particularly contentious attributable to their previous as passe end pals and training companions.
Cormier understands why Masvidal could perchance well are attempting to take dangle of the fight exterior of the octagon, comparing it to his own heated competition with Jon Jones, but became as soon as also crucial of “Gamebred” for no longer profiting from his opportunity at UFC 272.
“It’s laborious for me to in truth sit up here and take dangle of Jorge for his actions being that Jon Jones and I had many altercations that nearly ended up within the identical formula,” Cormier said. “Indirectly, of us were succesful of stay us from taking it to the next stage. However here’s the ingredient, these kinds of altercations came about forward of the fights happening after which we were persistently very certain of every a good deal of.
“While you’ve bought 25 minutes — you’ve bought 25 minutes and that is the utter command in which I’m going to condemn Jorge Masvidal — you had 25 minutes no longer as a lot as two weeks within the past to enact the entire lot you wanted. It does no longer seem as if this became as soon as a — it’s so laborious here no longer to take dangle of — but it does no longer seem as if this became as soon as a ‘diagram face to face after which we fetch into a fight,’ it appears cherish one thing a good deal of. And that’s where it turns into somewhat bit off.”
Cormier also introduced up Khabib Nurmagomedov’s feud with Conor McGregor as an instance. McGregor made pointed non-public attacks about Nurmagomedov within the lead-as a lot as their fight at UFC 229 in October 2018, including taking photos at Nurmagomedov’s religion, and that boiled over into fight night when Nurmagomedov defeated McGregor after which leaped over the cage to assault McGregor’s cornerman. The incident sparked a brawl between their groups that ended in extra than one fines and suspensions.
Within the same method, the Covington-Masvidal red meat has the likely to fetch worse.
“Jorge Masvidal is a fighter,” Cormier said. “He’s an absolute fighter, he’s an absolute canine, but I don’t know if it could perchance perchance seep into the streets cherish that. We observed it with Khabib and Conor.
“Khabib became as soon as no longer sharp to let it lope. It went too a ways for him to affirm, ‘On the stay of the fight, we’re OK.’ It went too a ways. And I believe cherish that’s what came about. … I staunch don’t in truth know at the same time as you happen to perchance can enact it within the formula that it appears to were performed because now I judge that some excessive stuff is gonna diagram out of this that these guys own families.”
