Colby Covington condemned Khamzat Chimaev’s involvement in a cryptocurrency rip-off that reportedly ripped off his followers to the tune of one million {dollars}.
Forward of Chimaev’s return to the Octagon at UFC 308 in October, ‘Borz’ was embroiled in controversy after he had marketed a meme coin referred to as SMASH, named after his common “smash” or “smesh” catchphrase. Chimaev hyped the coin on his social media channels which prompted the worth of the coin to develop exponentially. 24 hours later, the worth plummeted to zero, leaving many followers feeling like they’d had the rug pulled out from beneath them.
Shortly after, Chimaev’s supervisor Majdi Shammas took full duty, claiming that he had inspired Chimaev to document the movies, however didn’t do sufficient analysis to make sure that the corporate they had been working with was legit.
Colby Covington isn’t shopping for that excuse.
“Dude, he’s an absolute scumbag. The fact that he rug-pulled all his fans—that’s the most disgusting act I’ve ever seen in MMA. Him and Khabib, like, just absolute scammers,” Covington mentioned throughout Wednesday’s UFC Tampa media day.
“Dude, you’re making good money with the UFC. Now you’re going to rug-pull and do a fake MCO and scam all your fans for millions of dollars? I mean, these are fans that are working their asses off every day at McDonald’s or other low-income-paying jobs. They’re investing in him because they trust the fighter and they like their fighter. And for him to just crap on all his fans like that? It’s disgusting. “I mean, that’s why he’s c*m-shot, you know? The guy’s literally just the worst person on Earth. It’s so sad that he did that to his fans.”
Colby Covington doesn’t assume chimaev is ‘anything special’ contained in the octagon
Covington additionally took intention at Chimaev’s expertise contained in the Octagon, suggesting that the unbeaten Chechen monster isn’t almost as particular because the UFC likes to counsel.
“As an MMA fighter, I don’t think he’s anything special. You know, I think he got exposed in that Gilbert Burns fight—that he doesn’t have good cardio,” Covington mentioned. “I assumed Usman beat him, you already know, after they fought. If that may have been 5 rounds, Usman would have beat him for positive. However even in three rounds, I assumed Usman beat him 2-1.
“So, I don’t see anything special out of CH. He needs to stop scamming his fans.”
Heading to Tampa, Florida, ‘Chaos’ will sq. off with rising knockout artist Joaquin Buckley in a bout that might carry main title implications within the new 12 months.
