Covington revisited the onset of his beef with Dustin
Poirier that prompted him “ache and struggling.”
Covington (17-4) and Poirier (30-9) had been former teammates at
American Prime Staff in Coconut Creek, Florida, the place “The
Diamond” continues to coach. Nonetheless, part of ATT since 2011,
Covington parted methods with the health club over feuds with Poirier,
Jorge
Masvidal and Joanna
Jedrzejczyk.
Covington claims Poirier used to initially make the most of him as a
wrestling companion, the place he allegedly toyed round with the
Louisiana native. Based on Covington, Poirier began changing into
egotistic as soon as his UFC stardom began rising. Whereas Covington
wasn’t fairly there but, he claims to have stood his floor towards
Poirier.
“After we had been coaching collectively, he was utilizing me on a regular basis only for
wrestling. By no means wished to do anything however simply wrestle with
me. I used to be giving him information, giving him info, clearly
toying with him like he was an novice,” Covington advised Submission Radio. “Ultimately his ego
received to him. He began successful some fights within the UFC and I used to be
nonetheless developing. I hadn’t had the identify that he had but, so his ego
received to him. And he began treating individuals like sh*t. I wasn’t
going to face for it trigger I do know I’m a greater fighter than him.
So, I wasn’t going to let him stroll throughout me and simply deal with me
like sh*t.”
As soon as Covington began rising to fame, Poirier allegedly began
“badmouthing” him over his persona traits. Covington accused
Poirier of ultimately getting him booted from ATT over “imply”
phrases, which doesn’t make sense to “Chaos,” being a cagefighter.
Covington claims the feud was miserable in spite of everything he had carried out for
Poirier.
“As quickly as I began rising up the ranks and I grew to become the highest draw
within the firm, that’s when he received jealous and envious. He simply
began bad-mouthing me, ‘Ah, I don’t like the way in which Colby does this,
ah he’s a bit of sh*t individual, he stated some imply phrases.’ We’re
going to get locked up in a cage in our underwear in entrance of the
entire world and we’re going to try to kill one another, however ‘he
can’t say imply phrases.’ Telling the previous health club proprietor, ‘kick Colby out,
he’s a meanie head, he stated imply phrases, kick him out.’ In order that’s
when the meat began. It sucks, as a result of I did quite a bit for the child,
man. I helped him quite a bit with the negotiations… I simply felt like
snakebit. I used to be betrayed. It sucks trigger I actually did quite a bit for the
man. And for him to activate me like that, it was miserable virtually.
That’s why I wished to struggle the man so dangerous trigger he simply prompted me
plenty of ache and struggling.”
Covington known as out Poirier for a welterweight matchup after a
unanimous determination win over Masvidal at UFC 272 in 2022. Whereas
Poirier stated it’s “nonetheless on sight” with Covington, “The Diamond”
dismissed the callout saying he didn’t need “Chaos” making any
cash off of him and would moderately struggle him on the street. Nonetheless,
Covington accuses Poirier of shying away from a current altercation
at a Miami steakhouse. Poirier allegedly walked out of the
restaurant after Covington walked as much as him, daring him to do
one thing.
“I crossed paths with him three months in the past in NYY Steakhouse,
Coconut Creek On line casino. Which is in the identical metropolis that he trains at
the health club. And he got here by the steakhouse, I checked out him within the eye,
I used to be like, ‘What’s up bitch? Say one thing, do one thing.’ And he
simply walked out of the restaurant, trigger he is aware of, you may speak massive
in entrance of the digital camera. However whenever you’re in entrance of somebody’s face
and you are feeling their power and you already know what they’re able to,
then it’s a unique story. Now you may’t run your mouth… I stood
up, I checked out him proper within the eyes and he walked out of the
restaurant like a very good little bitch.”
Poirier is recent off a light-weight title loss towards Islam
Makhachev, the place he gave the champ arguably the hardest check
lately earlier than being submitted within the remaining spherical.
In the meantime, Covington is coming off a washout unanimous determination
loss towards Leon
Edwards at UFC 296 in December, 2023 which was his third failed
title bid.
