Highlights
- Masvidal slams Covington for blaming his UFC loss on support for Trump.
- Masvidal accused Convington of using Trump for attention, highlights lack of political knowledge.
Jorge Masvidal, who recently came out of retirement in MMA, publicly criticized his former friend Colby Covington for his remarks about Donald Trump following his loss to Leon Edwards. Covington made bold claims that the judges at UFC 296 ruled against him due to his support for Trump, despite offering minimal threat during his bout with the British champion. Being a staunch advocate of the former US President, Trump was present at the championship fight to support Covington.
"I thought I had the win, I thought I did enough but the judges never favor me, they hate me because I support Trump and everybody hates Trump in this building so it is what it is, life goes on," said Covington at the UFC 298 post-fight press conference.
Masvidal, a fervent supporter of the former US President, isn't buying Covington's excuses and criticized his former opponent for using Trump as a scapegoat to shift blame away from himself.
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Masvidal expressed his disdain for Covington's actions, criticizing him for extensively involving Trump's name and shifting blame onto the former president for his loss. Masvidal condemned Covington's behavior, calling him derogatory names and highlighting the absurdity of blaming Trump for his own shortcomings in the fight. Masvidal also mentioned Covington's recent injury and made disparaging remarks about his character.
Masvidal said that Colby is not knowledgeable about politics and his support for the former President is a facade.
“He doesn’t know anything about politics. He literally just attaches his name to Trump, hoping that Trump will one day tweet his name or maybe show up to a fight and things like that, but the guy literally knows nothing about politics, knows nothing about immigration laws knows, nothing about 401(k)s, about foreign policies, domestic policies.”
Masvidal also claimed that Colby has a gambling problem and pays women to appear in his videos.
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