LAS VEGAS – Colby Covington handled Jorge Masvidal with relative ease in the UFC 272 headliner, leaving no doubt about who the better fighter was all those years they trained together at American Top Team and who the better fighter is right now.
“I’m the king of Miami now,” Covington told reporters during the post-fight news conference at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. “Jorge needs to leave the city. It’s not big enough for the two of us. He needs to leave, or he’s gonna get sparked again.”
That, ladies and gentlemen, is what you call bragging rights. You earn them after a lopsided unanimous decision victory over your former best friend-turned enemy the way Covington racked up scores of 49-46, 50-44 and 50-45 on the judges’ scorecards.
