COCONUT CREEK, Fla. – Jorge Masvidal and Colby Covington’s rivalry hit a point where American Top Team owner Dan Lambert asked both men to leave the gym.
But only one fighter ended up departing their longtime home, and that was Covington, who now trains out of neighboring MMA Masters.
“Yeah, it got toxic,” Lambert told MMA Junkie. “It got to the point where it was affecting the gym. We’ve had lots of fighters in this gym over the last 25 years. We’ve had people that love each other, we’ve had people who don’t like each other, but we’ve always been able to separate that, keep some professionalism in the gym and not let it affect the team. Their situation got to the point where it was affecting people inside the gym, and I couldn’t keep it under control. And at one point, we had to tell both of them to leave.”
