UFC welterweight contender Colby Covington continues to be sad together with his loss to Joaquin Buckley.
‘Chaos’ returned to the octagon in the primary occasion of UFC Tampa earlier this month. Again for the primary time since a loss to Leon Edwards final December, Colby Covington headed to the cage on quick discover. After Ian Machado Garry was pulled to face Shavkat Rakhmonov, the previous interim champion stepped as much as face Joaquin Buckley.
Whereas Colby Covington hoped new coach Chael Sonnen would information him to victory, he was largely dominated. The wrestler acquired busted up early and handed an enormous lower on his eyelid. After taking some big pictures, and with the blood pouring, the physician known as off the struggle in spherical three. Afterward, Sonnen admitted that he was going to throw the towel in if the bout wasn’t stopped.
Nonetheless, ‘Chaos’ continues to be sad concerning the stoppage loss. Talking in a latest video on his YouTube channel, Colby Covington mirrored on his loss to Joaquin Buckley. There, the 36-year-old once more took goal on the physician, including that he would’ve completed ‘New Mansa’ if the bout made it into the championship rounds.
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UFC welterweight Colby Covington displays on stoppage loss to Joaquin Buckley
“The struggle, you realize, we had been simply getting warmed up.” Colby Covington said on his YouTube channel, reflecting on his knockout loss to Joaquin Buckley at UFC Tampa. “Everybody is aware of I’m a fourth and fifth-round fighter, I’m simply getting began stepping into these championship rounds. I might’ve completed him in that fourth and fifth spherical, he was respiratory heavy. He didn’t have way more to supply, he wasn’t going to have a lot quantity in these final rounds.”
He continued, “…It was a detailed aggressive struggle, he didn’t outclass me, he didn’t drop me, he didn’t actually harm me. There was slightly lower that occurred, and I rewatched it again. It was like minute two, and it was like a headbutt proper off his hip or one thing. However, it wasn’t a punch… It’s unlucky that DEI physician stopped the struggle early. I believed it was simply getting began, and there was much more that wanted to be settled in there.”
As of now, Colby Covington is but to schedule his return to the octagon. Nonetheless, ‘Chaos’ has known as for a conflict with Gilbert Burns in latest weeks. ‘Durinho’ final appeared within the cage in September, the place he suffered a unanimous resolution loss to Sean Brady.
What do you make of those feedback from the UFC welterweight? Do you imagine Colby Covington vs. Joaquin Buckley was stopped prematurely?
