” Dustin is a total joke,” Covington stated on What the Heck recently. Covington has actually been named the No. 1 competitor for the UFC welterweight title by UFC President Dana White. Covington returned to the octagon this past September and selected up an essential win over ex-champ and competing Tyron Woodley. White has yet to give a timeline for the Usman vs. Covington 2 bout. Masvidal has actually invited the idea of a face-off with Covington, however just on his terms.

According to Ariel Helwani, Masvidal is targeting a showdown with Covington or Nick Diaz for his next battle after suffering his first UFC knockout loss in a title rematch against champ Kamaru Usman at UFC 261. Masvidal and Covington utilized to be good friends and roomies at ATT before a public falling out that led to a restriction on trash-talking and Covingtons exit from the famous gym.
Covington said the footage was from Poiriers training camp to deal with now-former light-weight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 242. In the video, Poirier appears to land a difficult punch on his training partner and after that steps away, screaming, “And new!”

Covington has actually been named the No. 1 competitor for the UFC welterweight title by UFC President Dana White. He was come by Usman in the 5th round of their first meeting at UFC 245. The ex-interim champ consistently has claimed he was still in the battle and implicated referee Marc Goddard of preferring Usman.
Covington went back to the octagon this previous September and got a key win over ex-champ and competing Tyron Woodley. White has yet to give a timeline for the Usman vs. Covington 2 bout. Masvidal has actually welcomed the idea of a showdown with Covington, however only on his terms.
UPDATE: After the video of the sparring session was published, Poirier reacted on Twitter with a pointer that he wasnt squaring off with some amateur training partner as Covington initially recommended.
“This is a professional fighter with 20 wins,” Poirier composed in recommendation to Douglas.

” Dustin is a total joke,” Covington said on What the Heck just recently. Everybody hypes him up to be some charitable man, some nice man on cam. Some good guy off-side electronic camera.
” I have a video of him knocking out an amateur in the gym, and hes commemorating, dancing around, screaming in the persons face. Dustin, who are you attempting to impress? Man, its a closed practice. Youre knocking out a guy that pertained to assist you, and its an amateur. You knocked this kid out, provided him a concussion, left him ridiculous, his heads shaking, youre yelling in his face. What does that indicate? Man, youre not a UFC world champion. Youre training for Khabib– this isnt Khabib. … Youre in a closed practice. Beating a person thats a simple amateur that came to help you out for your training camp, and youre going to concuss this guy? And youre yelling in his face, And new, and Woo? Guy, this person is not what everybody says he is.”
Poirier, who on Saturday deals with McGregor in a rubber match at UFC 264, has yet to comment on the video footage, and his management did not instantly respond to a demand for comment.
After the footages release, Titan FC vet Felipe Douglas told MMA Fighting he is the fighter in the video clip and indicated Poirier not did anything incorrect.
” It was an extreme sparring session, and things like that can occur in sparring,” he stated. “There are some individuals saying I wasnt wearing equipment, but there was no reason to wear training equipment, due to the fact that Dustin trains well, hes not indicate. He strikes hard like a fight and captured me and knocked me down. The cornerman took me off the cage and didnt let me go back.
” As far as his celebration, people saying he was making fun– thats the mindset of a person that is combating for a belt. I dont do it, however thats his mindset, picturing the battle.

Jorge Masvidal was amongst numerous fighters defending Dustin Poirier after Colby Covington released video footage of a sparring session simply four days before Poiriers UFC 264 showdown with Conor McGregor.
Covington, a former teammate of Poirier and Masvidal at American Top Team, repeatedly teased that he had damning footage of the UFC light-weight and released it on Tuesday, prompting a quick action from Masvidal.