Colby Covington earned a spot on UFC welterweight Ian Machado Garry’s hit list by joining in to a chorus of negative and defamatory attacks against Garry and his family.

Now, Garry has a very violent plan for Covington, one that strikes to the heart of the character “Chaos” has created over the years.

“I’ll talk to him when I beat the f*** out of him in the octagon,” Garry said this week on The MMA Hour. “If [Donald] Trump’s in attendance, I will drag Colby in front of Trump, and I’ll beat the mouth off him, and I’ll say, ‘This is what you’ve created.’ Boom. ‘This is MAGA.’ I’m like, ‘It’s no more. Get rid of him. Get him out of the UFC.’

“I will silence Colby Covington. I will hit him so hard, he never speaks again. And when he loses to someone like me, a young prospect, he’s going to go, ‘Alright,’ maybe he goes back [the next day], he’s got one girl on one shoulder, one girl on the other shoulder, he’s beat, he says, ‘Maybe I should rethink my life’s choices. Maybe I should retire. That kid gave me an ass-whooping I’ve never had before in my life.’

“That’s the way I beat Colby. I don’t care where it is, or where it’s done, I know it’s coming.”

Some MMA observers aren’t as optimistic as Garry that he’ll get the chance to execute his plan. Covington is famously difficult to pin down on the fight calendar, and a fight with the lower-ranked Garry only expedites his exit from the rankings.

But Garry believes that with three title losses and a 2-3 record over his past five, Covington has lost the leverage to control his destiny. Garry, meanwhile, is 7-0 in the UFC octagon and this past Saturday at UFC 298 outpointed Geoff Neal to extend his unbeaten streak to 14-0.

“I know for a fact it’s a massive matchup when you think about where his ranking is now,” Garry said. “I’ve beat more top-15 competitors than Colby Covington has. His biggest claim to fame is he’s fought for three world titles, and he’s lost all of them. So I believe Colby still has a lot of respect from the fans. He’s still a massive matchup. He has a lot of followers. He’s a very good athlete. He pushes the pace, and he’s got great wrestling, but he’s not a tenth of the athlete I am. He doesn’t have the technique that I have. He doesn’t have the mindset that I have.

“The guy’s a joker and a clown. He was going to get cut by the UFC until he put on this fake persona that everybody knows about and is aware about. He’s a pantomime. But I know for a fact that I’m the biggest fight he’s going to get. He’s not going to fight an [Kamaru] Usman. He’s not going to fight Shavkhat [Rakhmonov], he’s not going to fight Belal [Muhammad], because they’re all terrible matchups for him.

“I’m a striker at heart. Striker versus wrestler makes sense. I’ve also not been tested against an elite American wrestler in the division, so give me the guy in the division who’s arguably the best at it. Let me show the world how much better I am than him. Let me do it over five rounds. Let me do it in a massive main event or co-main event in Ireland on the Conor McGregor/Michael Chandler card, whenever that is.

“But I promise you now, heart to heart, eye to eye, I will put Colby Covington face down on the canvas, whether I knock him out or choke him unconscious. I don’t care how it happens, I know it’s going to happen. He’s never, ever, ever going to be as good as me. And I just know there’s not a bigger matchup for him to take. There is no bigger paycheck for him to get at the moment, because I am the biggest name he can compete against.”

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Former UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland had planned on attending and racing in the March 1st and 2nd Motocross event in Las Vegas.  Those plans are no more.  

Strickland explained that he has ‘gone too far’ by beating up a social media influencer, threatening to kill Jake Paul, and getting into a verbal exchange with Machine Gun Kelly.  

“Will not be racing or attending nitrocross.  I did it…. finally went too far lmao!!!!! As of always, I appreciate you guys. I’m only here because you guys, without you guys I would of been canceled long time. Thanks for keeping me employed….,” Strickland wrote on Instagram accompanied with a video.  

In the video, Strickland didn’t blame Nitrocross for the decision.  

“Hey guys.  I f**king did it.  I violated the influencer trust treaty, the circle jerk that I didn’t know I was in.  No one gave me like a written invitation to the circle jerk where like I get famous, you get famous, we help each other out,” Strickland said in the video.  

“I never got the f**king invitation or the guidelines, so here we are.  The bad news guys is I’m not racing Nitrocross.  This isn’t Nitrocross’ doing.  They’re great f**king people.  This goes beyond them,” Strickland continued.  “I guess there’s like f**king golden rules about how to be a f**king influencer and get free sh*t.  I guess I’m not the f**king one for these guys.”

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Strickland spend the rest of the video explaining his point of view and railing on Machine Gun Kelly.  

“I want you guys to put yourself in my shoes.  A man insulted me and challenged me to fight.  I fought that man just like you would.  A Tik Toker wants to spar.  I treat him no different that anybody else,” he said.  “You quit, or you fall down, or you tap out and then we’re f**king done and I respect him for that.  I meet a f**king vampire.  A vampire wearing a man-bag with painted nails that was so insulted that I didn’t know who the f**k he was.  He acted like a woman because I didn’t know nor do I care who he was.  Dude, you dress like a f**king vampire wearing a man-bag.  You are a slight on society brother.  The fact that you exist is f**king mind boggling.  The fact that you exist makes me want to go back to 1776 bro.  You are less of a little f**king man.  You have blood drinking rituals for you guys.  I regress.

“You want to know who these f**king jerkoffs are?  Go look at any sporting event.  They’re the ones in the front row seats who were given $ 1,000 tickets while you were made to buy a $ 500 nosebleed ticket.  You are f**king used to prop these c*nts up and these c*nts who have a little bit of fame because they f**king preach on Tik Tok are given front row seats.  F**k it guys.  I don’t want to be in the f**king circle jerk.”     

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The “T-City” journey back into the Octagon was tough, but he believes it was essential for the future success of his UFC career.

Brian Ortega has been out of the spotlight for awhile, recovering from multiple surgeries, but that all ends this weekend (Sat., Feb. 24, 2024) when he rematches Yair Rodriguez inside Arena CDMX in Mexico City, Mexico.

Rodriguez was the one Ortega injured his shoulder against at UFC Long Island back in July 2022 (watch it). Since then, “T-City” had to undergo an intense-sounding “rebirth process” to prepare himself for the next phase of his career.

“The rebirth is a nature process that the eagle goes through, and it’s something that felt very close to heart for me,” Ortega said during UFC Mexico City media day. “It’s some difficult changes that I had to make in my life, my personal life, to be able to really live the rest of my life the right way.

“So, I had a choice,” he continued. “The choice is to die, keep doing what you’re doing and living the way you are. Or, isolate yourself way up in the mountains, smash your beak against a rock until it breaks, wait until it grows back, then pluck your talons out, and then pluck your feathers out, and then stay in isolation until everything grows back. Then when that process is done, the eagle can live the next 30 years of its life.

“That’s something similar that I felt that I went through in my personal life, where I had to sit in isolation and face myself in a way that I never have before,” he concluded. “And I had to just pluck away and be alone for a long time … and now I’m here.”

That’s pretty wild.

Ortega has been open with media about the struggles he went through to rehab his injuries and the depression he battled along the way. Now, he has a chance to soar again, and we’re looking forward to seeing how the top-ranked Featherweight contender looks after his time up in the metaphorical mountains.

The door is wide open.

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Jorge Masvidal and Colby Covington still share one thing in common despite no longer being the best of friends.

From former brothers at American Top Team (ATT) to the most bitter of rivals, there appears to be no way to rekindle the connection between former two-time and three-time UFC welterweight title challengers Masvidal and Covington. The duo’s fallout occurred during their rise to contention in the late 2010s and things only went from bad to worse when they fought in March 2022.

Covington got the last laugh inside the octagon at UFC 272 when he earned a drawn-out five-round unanimous decision over “Gamebred.” Later that month, however, Masvidal assaulted “Chaos” outside a Miami, Fla. steakhouse, which resulted in a broken tooth on Covington along with a lawsuit. The legal battle has since been resolved between the two and the only thing they now share is a love for former U.S. President Donald Trump.

A noted MMA fan who was once affiliated with the short-lived Affliction promotion, Trump was at Covington’s recent title contest against current champion Leon Edwards in December. Unfortunately for Covington, he lost a unanimous decision that he believed he should have won and claimed afterward that the judges went against him due to his support of the ex-president. A laughable excuse, says Masvidal.

“For starters, I never met such a f****** hoe in my life, such a b****, you know?” Masvidal told BroBible. “He doesn’t know anything about politics. He literally just attaches his name to Trump, hoping that Trump will one day tweet his name or maybe show up to a fight and things like that, but the guy literally knows nothing about politics, knows nothing about immigration laws, knows nothing about 401(k)s, about foreign policies, domestic policies. He knows nothing. All this guy f****** does is throw his money away, f****** gambling on poker, and pay for prostitutes to be in his f****** video.

“So for him to go out there and involve Trump’s name so much and then say, ‘The judges don’t like me because I roll with Trump, and they robbed me because of Trump,’ you’re a f****** piece of s***. Now you’re blaming the f****** greatest president this country has ever seen. You’re blaming your f****** s***** ass loss [on him]. You didn’t do a damn thing and everybody says — even your mom f****** says — you’re a f****** bum. You’re going to blame that on Trump because you’re such a f****** bum. You’re a piece of s***. It just shows who he is, and of course, now he has a broken foot. Guy’s a f****** cheating, lying piece of s***, cop-calling motherf******, and I can’t wait to see his ass.”

Masvidal fought once more after he clashed with Covington. Another unanimous decision came as his last when Masvidal fought Gilbert Burns at UFC 287 last April and retired.

The Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA promoter has teased a possibility of fighting again in boxing, but whether that does or doesn’t happen, he and Covington should probably never be in the same vicinity again.

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Tyron Woodley is calling bullsh*t on Sean Strickland’s claim that the UFC blocked him from accepting Jake Paul’s million-dollar sparring challenge.

After footage emerged online of the former middleweight champion pummeling popular Rumble streamer Sneako in an early morning sparring session ahead of Super Bowl Sunday, ‘The Problem Child’ issued a challenge to Strickland, offering him $ 1 million if he flies out to Puerto Rico for a session of their own.

“I’ll fly you to PR and we can fight on camera… if you win I’ll give you $ 1 million,” Paul wrote on X.

Strickland responded with a quasi-death threat online before claiming that Hunter Campbell — the UFC’s chief business officer — blocked him from accepting the offer.

However, ex-welterweight champ and two-time Jake Paul opponent Tyron Woodley is calling cap, claiming that the UFC can’t legally prevent Strickland from sparring with the YouTuber-turned-boxer.

‘’Why the f*ck you asked Hunter? You asked your daddy if you can fight,” Woodley said on YouTube. “You don’t have to ask nobody if you can fight. That just sounds like a hater move off the top. When you hear that … when you gotta smash somebody down before they give you the reason why they can’t fight, you already can hear it’s a hater move. Let me break some stuff down to you legally. Legally, they cannot stop him from sparring Jake Paul.”

“Jake Paul said he wanted to spar him the same way Sneako walked into the cage,” Woodley continued. “I want you to know [Sneako] had to walk through security, he had to be signed in on the list. I know that, that’s the APEX. They let him come in there. He can spar with anyone he wants to. Jake Paul didn’t say, come and meet me in f*cking arena or come and meet me in a sanctioned fight. He said come to my gym. Nobody can stop him from doing that” (h/t MMA Mania).

While it is true that the UFC can’t legally prevent Strickland from sparring with anyone willing to sign a waiver, the complication likely comes from the $ 1 million offer.

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