Go fight a guy who will resist a little bit in front of 1,000 people before you go do it under some big lights. Millennials is a generation who grew up with computers, internet and social networks.
After an attack bashing fellow American Top Team fighters The truth is Covington probably never feels safer anywhere in the world than he does when he’s at American Top Team. That’s because the person spending hours upon hours training on those mats is a much different animal than the outspoken, MAGA-hatted fighter who seems to bask in outrage.Long before he chided his fellow welterweights and confronted his boss in the middle of a Las Vegas casino, Covington was a standout wrestler at Iowa Central Community College, where he counted future UFC light heavyweight champion As his college career was coming to an end, he was looking for the next opportunity to continue reaching for new athletic goals, and that’s when he saw an ad from American Top Team seeking wrestlers.“Our general manager, Richie [Guerrero], he came to me seven or eight years ago and said ‘I think the quality of our wrestling at the gym is lacking,” American Top Team founder Dan Lambert told MMA Fighting. That’s none of my business. Just that day that I posted a picture with him [on Instagram], he was showing me some cool wrist-riding techniques off the cage that I was asking him about.“No doubt he’s one of the best wrestlers in the world in MMA, and in the gym, it would be stupid not to use a guy like that.”As a training partner, Covington has been an asset. You have to respect that in a way. He got in, and f*ck, I cornered him, and he just came out and blasted the guy.”“It was almost like he needed that bigger stage to really show what he had,” Lambert said. He got a bit upset. But know that behind every bit of vitriol spewing from his mouth, there’s a method to the madness.“I don’t think Colby takes any of this personal,” Lambert said. For me, my relationship doesn’t change with each one of them individually because their relationship changed with each other. They know when they call on him for help, he’s always willing to answer.“I will tell you this, he’s a very high level fighter,” said Conan Silveira, Covington’s current head coach. Bring some wrestlers into the gym, and it brings the level of wrestling up. Currently, Colby Covington is expected to face Kamaru Usman for the welterweight title. Outside of pissing off just about every fighter, promoter, f*cking fight fan in the world, he doesn’t really have any other vices. “Great training partner.
The things he says, he comes to me and other Brazilians afterwards and says he’s just doing it to make money. “Colby’s a guy who just puts his head down and does his work. We focus on winning and getting better.”As much as Covington may have created the problem he now faces with some of his teammates, everybody involved understands that unnecessary drama will not be tolerated.
First ever #Ufc champion invited to the @whitehouse. Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images. Colby was one of them.“It didn’t take long for us to see that he worked. So he understood.
Colby Covington celebrates after defeating Demian Maia in October 2017 in Sao Paulo. Suddenly, he went from one of the quietest people in the gym to one of the loudest trash talkers in the sport.His fiery attacks put him on the radar of virtually every athlete in the UFC – many of whom weren’t even in his weight class. “Colby is a guy that likes to train.