Reacting to claims from Chael Sonnen how he was set to save lots of him from extra injury, Colby Covington has revealed he was left with diminished imaginative and prescient throughout his UFC Combat Night time Orlando headliner with Joaquin Buckley, en path to his physician’s stoppage TKO loss in opposition to the surging contender this month.
Covington, who made a return to the Octagon for the primary time in a 12 months earlier this month, took short-notice headlining honors at UFC Orlando, taking up the streaking Missouri finisher, Buckley in a high-stakes pairing on the welterweight restrict.
And struggling an eventual third spherical physician’s stoppage technical knockout loss, former interim champion, Covington was dominated unable to proceed by the Octagon-side doctor, after a sizeable laceration opened on his proper eyelid.
Colby Covington admits struggling eye injury in UFC Orlando defeat
Reacting to claims from former title challenger, Sonnen how he was set to throw the towel into the Octagon from his nook after struggling the lower, Covington admitted he was seeing a number of completely different individuals throughout the fiasco en path to his stoppage defeat.
“Chael (Sonnen) cares about me – he’s a real one,” Colby Covington mentioned throughout a stream on his Twitch. “If he was throwing it in, it’s as a result of he is aware of I couldn’t see. He is aware of that the place the lower was at, it was bleeding into my proper eye and I couldn’t see. I used to be seeing three or 4 completely different individuals.
👀👏Colby Covington shares how he felt when Chael Sonnen threw within the towel throughout Joaquin Buckley’s combat:
“My opinion is that Chael cares about me. Chael is the real one. If he throws the towel he knows I can’t see.”
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“He knew that I couldn’t see, so if he’s going to do it, it’s because he cares about me and he knows that I couldn’t see, and it was going to be tough to overcome,” Colby Covington defined. “I thought I was coming on stronger, and I feel like they were going to have to throw in the towel for (Joaquin) Buckley by round five. So it sucks – it’s unfortunate.”
