Jon Jones threw some shade at Colby Covington following the UFC’s remaining occasion of the yr.
Chaos’ returned to the Octagon for a welterweight headliner towards streaking knockout artist Joaquin Buckley at UFC Tampa on Saturday night time. Covington misplaced the bout through a third-round physician’s stoppage TKO after sustaining a very nasty lower on his proper eyelid.
The defeat dropped him to 2-6 in his final eight fights and has Covington barely clinging on to a spot within the division’s prime 10.
“This wasn’t a full training camp — I was campaigning for Trump, getting him ready,” Covington stated in a video on his YouTube channel. “I wasn’t even in the training room. I came off the couch. It was tough for it to go like that, I feel like I was just getting my wind, and I was going to come on strong. But it is what it is. That’s life. I don’t dwell on the past; I focus on the future.”
Covington’s excuse received a somewhat hearty chuckle out of the undisputed UFC heavyweight champion.
“Big shoutout to Colby Covington for skipping training to get President Trump ‘ready’—we all appreciate the sacrifice,” Jones wrote on X. “At least he got to see me win.”
Jon Jones and Colby Covington’s disdain for each other goes again to their school days
Covington and Jones have an extended historical past with each other. ‘Chaos’ beforehand revealed that the 2 had been school dorm mates and had develop into good pals till Jones allegedly started taking steroids.
“Me and Jon lived together for two years at Iowa Central Community College,” Covington claimed. “We were actually great friends at first. But then he started doing steroids… he’d just freaking, always have roid rage. He’d come home and yell at me, like, ‘What the f*** are you doing, Colby? Do the dishes!’. I’d see this rage in his eyes and think, ‘Dude, what’s your deal?’.”
‘Bones’ has since disputed Covington’s assertion, including that whereas they did room collectively, it was not almost so long as ‘Chaos’ claimed.
“Colby’s a habitual liar. He told fans we lived together for two years,” Jones stated following Covington’s loss to Kamaru Usman at UFC 245. “We lived together for one semester. I’ve made a lot of mistakes, and a lot of people don’t consider me a good person, but coming from me, Colby’s a really bad person. He is” (h/t Basically Sports activities).
