Former interim welterweight champion Colby Covington continues to be stewing over his TKO loss to Joaquin Buckley weeks after the Dec. 14 occasion.
Covington stepped in to face Joaquin Buckley within the UFC on ESPN 63 important occasion when the battle promotion opted to position Buckley’ unique opponent, Ian Machado Garry, towards Shavkat Rakhmonov as a substitute. It had been a yr since Covington had fought, shedding to Leon Edwards at UFC 296 in December 2023.
The battle did not go Covington’s method. Buckley fended off takedown makes an attempt and battered Covington with punches. The battle was stopped late within the third spherical on account of a nasty laceration above Covington’s proper eye. “Chaos” believes the battle was stopped early and that he would have completed Buckley had the battle gone on.
“The battle, you recognize, we had been simply getting warmed up.” Colby Covington mentioned on his YouTube channel. “Everybody is aware of I’m a fourth and fifth-round fighter, I’m simply getting began moving into these championship rounds. I might’ve completed him in that fourth and fifth spherical, he was respiratory heavy. He didn’t have rather more to supply, he wasn’t going to have a lot quantity in these final rounds.”
“It was an in depth aggressive battle, he didn’t outclass me, he didn’t drop me, he didn’t actually harm me,” Covington continued. “There was just a little minimize that occurred, and I rewatched it again. It was like minute two, and it was like a headbutt proper off his hip or one thing. However, it wasn’t a punch… It’s unlucky that DEI physician stopped the battle early. I believed it was simply getting began, and there was much more that wanted to be settled in there.”
