Paul Felder thinks Colby Covington has misplaced a few of his edge lately. ‘Chaos’ is right here to show in any other case.
Earlier this month, Felder advised that Covington was struggling to maintain up together with his “bully from college” persona that turned him from a boring fighter to a boring fighter with a loud character. The catalyst for his feedback got here from Paddy Pimblett’s declare that when he just lately crossed paths with Covington at a Energy Slap occasion, the previous three-time title challenger stored his head down and didn’t say a phrase. A far cry from the Trump-loving trash-talker that Covington portrays on TV and in interviews.
Having spent ample time with Felder behind the scenes, the previous fighter turned analyst believes taking part in the ultra-obnoxious heel could also be weighing on Covington.
‘Chaos’ disagrees.
“He was talking sh*t about me, ‘Oh, he’s done this and that and some other sh*t, I want you to go ask him next time you see him in person,” Covington instructed Submission Radio. “Ask him in regards to the time he was at Joint Base Langley-Eustis. The Military and Air Power base. And he bought tied in handcuffs by army police to a bathroom in his toilet as a result of he was drunk on the bottom.
“Like that’s embarrassing, you self-loathing drunk a**hole. He must be drunk half the time. He’s in that commentary booth for the UFC. Man, I feel bad for the UFC. They need to get some new commentators. And what better man I could be. I could be the UFC commentator. I don’t have any stories like that.”
To be honest, at the least Felder by no means referred to as the cops after getting sucker punched on the street by a person he relentlessly sh*t-talked for months on finish.
“We’re definitely going to have a word,” Covington added. “I stored that story near my coronary heart for a very long time, and I used to be by no means going to share it. However whenever you begin making an attempt to trash my identify within the media and say issues about me, what the f*ck has Paul Felder performed? I make more cash exterior the UFC than that man’s made in his entire whole life. The man is an absolute bum. He’s by no means performed something within the sport. He has no cause to speak sh*t, particularly when he’s by no means been in a fundamental occasion in his life.
“The guy’s a bum. He’s gotten beaten up by everybody. He’s literally been a punching bag in the UFC and he’s a self-loathing drunk a**hole. So who gets tied to a freaking porcelain toilet on a military base? You’re supposed to be there respecting the troops, respecting the military. But no, you’re there being a drunk a**hole. Ask Paul Felder about that story. That’s a true story.”
Colby Covington accused folder of downing a bottle of ‘jack’ and speaking trash to his supervisor
Felder final competed contained in the Octagon in 2020, struggling back-to-back break up resolution losses in opposition to Dan Hooker and Rafael dos Anjos. Earlier than that, he had gained 5 out of six, together with a second-round knockout of former light-weight titleholder Charles Oliveira at UFC 218.
“So he drank like a bottle of Jack Daniels to himself,” Covington stated. “He began speaking sh*t to his supervisor, Brian Butler. I needed to step in like Paul, cease speaking sh*t to him. Such as you’re not going to beat up your supervisor. He was blacked out and he simply misplaced it. How do you not have extra management? You’re supposed to indicate respect to the troops. You’re there to spice up morale for the army.
“Here you are trying to fight with your manager. I’m the one that had to intervene and make sure he didn’t beat up his manager, Brian Butler, with Sucker Punch. And then he goes into his hotel room, he starts throwing sh*t around in his hotel room on a military installation base. And then the military police got called. They had to handcuff him to the toilet.”
Covington final competed in December 2024, developing brief in opposition to Joaquin Buckley in Tampa, Florida. The battle was stopped within the third spherical after ‘Chaos’ had suffered a nasty reduce over his proper eye. In fact, Covington pulled out each excuse within the guide, claiming that the reduce was attributable to a headbutt from Buckley and that the battle was unnecessarily stopped by the “DEI doctor” on responsibility that evening.
None of that modifications the truth that Covington has now misplaced 4 of his final six, together with his solely wins coming in opposition to Tyron Woodley and Jorge Masvidal — two fighters who exited the promotion on a mixed eight-fight shedding streak.
