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‘Chaos’ isn’t known for his submission game, but that didn’t stop him from sleeping Lil Pump with a choke during a recent Kick stream from the rapper.

Colby Covington hasn’t been seen in the cage since a one-sided title fight loss to Leon Edwards in December 2023. Since then he’s been nursing a badly broken foot, and has turned down fights as he prepares for a strategic return to the welterweight division.

In the meantime, though, he’s taken the time to film a promotional video with rapper Lil Pump that shows he’s not planning on giving up his mantle as the most villainous fighter on the UFC’s roster.

A clip from an apparent grappling session with Lil Pump shows Covington catching the rapper in a choke and holding onto it as his helpless opponent taps multiple times. Rather than releasing the hold, Covington readjusts and puts the flailing Lil Pump to sleep.

“Look at his eyes, bro” Covington says as someone lifts the rapper’s legs up to get blood back into his brain. “He’s out. Look at his eyes. Holy!”

As Lil Pump regains consciousness and laughs, someone says “You went to sleep. For real.”

“Don’t miss my next kick stream,” Lil Pump declared on his Instagram alongside another view of the incident. “It’s getting crazier by the day. Don’t try this at home, I got put to sleep.”

Lil Pump is on a one month break from a world tour that has taken him from Australia to across Europe. In a week he’ll be performing in California before packing up and heading to Hong Kong, Nepal, and Thailand. MMA has become a passion for the 24-year-old, and in August he shared footage training with Colby, catching “Chaos” in his own choke.

“I’m 1-0 MMA, who should I fight next?” he captioned the video.

“Coming for blood in the rematch,” Covington replied in the comments.

It seems he wasn’t kidding.

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Dvalishvili was working a full time construction job up until 2020 to stay in America and pursue his dream of becoming champ.

It’s been a long road for Merab Dvalishvili to become UFC bantamweight champion. The Georgian fighter has been toiling since 2014 as a pro in mixed martial arts, and even when he joined the UFC in 2017 he had to keep his job in construction to pay the bills.

In a new interview with Jake Shields, Dvalishvili revealed that it wasn’t until 2020 that he was able to focus on his UFC career full time, and that was only because the COVID-19 pandemic shut everything down.

“So I lost my first fight in UFC, and we know how UFC pay It’s not well in the beginning,” Merab said. “$ 10,000 and you still have to pay your manager and some expenses. I buy car. I was driving very old car, and then no money. In my second fight, I got bonus, but I take off, I stop working. But when my next fight comes, I was broke again because I spent all this money. And I’m like like, now what?”

“When I win the next one, I keep this money and I stay working,” he said. “Because I don’t want [to be broke] again.”

Dvalishvili said there were a lot of expenses making sure his immigration papers kept moving, which kept him returning to work. Earlier this year he finally became a U.S. citizen and moved from New York to Las Vegas where he trains with John Wood at Syndicate MMA. He still has a lot of loyalty to his New York City coaches Ray Longo and Matt Serra … but he prefers the traffic situation in Vegas.

“Now that I have a good training in Vegas, I have so many training partners,” he said. “I can go jujitsu. I can sparring, the MMA practice. So I rather do that.”

Despite losing a largely one-sided contest to Dvalishvili at UC 306, Sean O’Malley is still making a lot of noise about beating Merab. None of that bothers “The Machine,” though.

“I’m not mad or something. I can have fun now. Make fun with him,” he said. “I would love to rematch with him. I think it’s gonna be so next time, I will finish him. But how I beat him, I don’t even think he will take a next challenge.”

For now he’s preparing for the next number one contender, which is looking like Umar Nurmagomedov.

“I think the the most deserving guy is Figueiredo,” he reiterated. “But I guess UFC wants to me fight Umar. All the people, I see their comments, everybody wants me to fight Omar. So I will fight Omar.”

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