Colby Covington and Maritza Masvidal
Colby Covington has accused Masvidal of being a bad person and wanting to delete his wife Maritza from his history
Colby Covington sat down with Brett Okamoto ahead of his UFC 272 enmity match against former team-mate and best friend, Jorge Masvidal.
Masvidal had earlier mentioned how he took Covington under his wings when he transitioned into MMA from wrestling, and also provided him with food and accommodation. He also accused the American of never paying his bills and coach payouts.
Responding to these claims, Covington said, “The guy’s been making fake narratives and fake news the whole week. None of these journalists do their job, they talk about I lived in on his couch… No bro, I didn’t live on his couch, I lived on her couch and I’m talking about his ex-wife, the mother of his children, Maritza, Maritza Collado, Maritza Masvidal, they’re still legally married… just ask him ‘why are you trying to delete Martiza from history, why are you deleting her and wiping her away from the internet.’
She did so much for us… he was a broke fighter, he was a loser, he didn’t have any sponsors, he didn’t have you know big money fights at that time, he was an up-and-coming fighter, I was a broke college kid so I had no money of course…so she gave us this roof over our head, put food on our table, she cleaned the house for us all the time… he gave her 2 kids and now he is a deadbeat dad, he doesn’t want to own up” concluded Covington.
Whatever you want to make of his assertions, one thing is for certain that these questions will indubitably be brought up during their long-anticipated press conference.
The pair set down with Stephen A.Smith as part of the media promotions for UFC 272, and the two minutes promo clip of the interview was above and beyond anything the fans expected from the grudge match. The duo chirped back at each other constantly, throwing allegations and hurling insults.
Masvidal first spoke about how Covington betrayed his team and his coaches by saying, “It first started out with this piece of st not paying my coach $12,500 for a fight that my coach coached him his whole fg career. Then when he had the chance to finally pay back the $12,500 he didn’t. So, I went out there and paid my coach out of my own pocket so since then it was like I’m going to fk him up at some point. Look at him smiling, he can’t even keep a straight face yet everyone at American Top Team knows that’s why he got kicked out, soon to be kicked out of this gym because you don’t pay your bills, and your drowning in debt from all the loan sharks that you owe money in South Florida from poker. You know what is going to happen to you if you don’t pay that money. Keep smiling, little bh I can’t wait to break those fake teeth. He ain’t got st to say, he’s a broke b*h.
Colby responded to that and said, “It’s fake news, Stephen it’s fake news. Anything Jorge Masvidal says is a lie. You can’t believe anything he says, he’s all talk no walk. Yeah, he’s getting paid a lot of money like Dak Prescott for the Cowboys but he ain’t doing anything. He ain’t doing anything. Stephen A., you can ask his owner, his master Dan Lambert actually knows how much I got paid. That night I got that paycheck, I got paid half of what they said, the commission said I made doubled what they said, I got half that.”
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