Colby Covington Quotes: 10 Craziest Things UFC Fighter Has Said

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Colby Covington is one of the most controversial fighters in the UFC. The loudmouthed welterweight contender is set to battle former lightweight king Rafael dos Anjos for the interim welterweight championship at UFC 225 on Saturday, June 9 in Chicago. And during the lead up to the fight, Covington has kept his brash ways about him and delivered some very harsh — and sometimes even over the line — trash talk.
Covington is in full gimmick mode and it doesn’t look like he has any plans to slow down — especially if he earns UFC gold.
Here are some of the craziest things that Covington has said throughout the years.

Covington Weighs In On The NFL Protest Issue

“I’ve just gotta say that the Philadelphia Eagles suck,” he said in an interview with MMA Junkie. “I can’t wait to take the belt to the White House, to the Oval Office, and put it on Trump’s desk.”

He Even Tweets Like Donald Trump

My haters are all virgins who have no life, no goals and no future. They debate Star Wars and world of Warcraft while I'm out winning.
— Colby Covington (@ColbyCovMMA) October 26, 2017

Going In On A Rival’s Girlfriend

Twitter/ColbyCovMMA

Accuses Jon Jones of Drug Use

“He just started doing steroids and always freaking had roid rage,” Covington said on the The Jim & Sam Show. “He’d come home and he’d yell at me, ‘Oh what the f*** are you doing Colby, do the dishes’ and he would just like freak out. He was wrestling at 197 [pounds], he was a national champ in junior college and he was trying to move up and go to heavyweight,. So he thought he had to do a cycle of roids and I just lost a lot of respect for him. He started partying a lot, doing Ecstasy, doing all these drugs and the rest of history. He’s been doing them since college.”

Comparing Himself To Donald Trump

“The haters are saying i’m the underdog. You know who else was the underdog? The ruler of our nation Donald Trump. And just like Trump, I’m gonna grab these p*ssies and put them in their place,” Covington wrote on Twitter.

Calls The People of Brazil ‘Filthy Animals’ & The Country A Dump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=479l-lMFDh4

“Brazil, you’re a dump!” Covington said. “All you filthy animals suck. I’ve got one thing to say: Tyron Woodley, I’m coming for you. If you don’t answer the front door, I’m going to knock it in and I’m going to take what’s mine, that welterweight belt!”

Going In On Conor McGregor

“I was actually getting on a plane to New York as it happened — he’s a coked up little leprechaun,” Covington said following Conor McGregor’s now infamous dolly incident. “It’s funny how I put a tweet that King Colby the bounty hunter was coming after him, he turned himself in. He knows what would happen. I would dunk that nerd underwater and make him quit.”

Yet Another Racially Charged Remark, This Time Directed At A McGregor Teammate

Threatening To Slap UFC Commentator Joe Rogan

“His little mouth was trying to run and say things when he shouldn’t have an opinion. You’ve never been in an Octagon, you don’t have any experience fighting. Just ’cause you do these little Tae Kwan Do tournaments and you can’t even get first place in those, doesn’t mean you can come talk to the King of Chaos, AKA the new welterweight king on June 9. [The beef will] be squashed when he stops running his little mouth like his opinion matters. His opinion is irrelevant. He thinks he has a say in everything and he’s a biased announcer as it is,” Covington said during an appearance on BJ Penn Radio.