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Colby Covington Eyes August Title Fight With Leon Edwards, Future Bouts With Adesanya and Makhachev

MMA Fighting

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Sports, News, Sports News

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

UFC welterweight contender Colby Covington joins MMA Fighting's Mike Heck to discuss the latest on his upcoming title fight with Leon Edwards, eyeing August, why having the bout in Abu Dhabi doesn't make sense to him, having dinner with Dana White recently, Jorge Masvidal's retirement, Belal Muhammad's UFC 288 win over Gilbert Burns, wanting future fights with current lightweight champ Islam Makhachev and Israel Adesanya, what advice he would give to Aljamain Sterling following his win over Henry Cejudo, and more.  Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, let us say hello once again to Colby Chaos Covington. His name was in the mix

0:05.2

throughout this past week with UFC 288 going down in Newark with the Colman event being

0:10.0

what it was. So I figured, let's check in with Colby Covington and get his thoughts and

0:15.0

what is currently going down in the UFC's Walter Waite division. Colby, how are you, man?

0:19.8

I'm doing great. I am the Walter Waite division. You're talking to the current

0:23.5

undisputed undefeated king of fucking Miami, Donald Trump's favorite fighter, the baddest

0:28.1

motherfucker on the planet right now in the biggest draw by far. It's definitely the best

0:31.9

looking because you see these other scrubs. They look like shit. So yeah, I am the Walter Waite

0:36.3

division. Let's talk to the Walter Waite division. All right. Well, a lot has happened since we

0:40.2

spoke a couple of months ago. Dana White continues to double down, triple down, quadruple down

0:45.6

that you are next for Leon Edwards and the Walter Waite title. You were hoping July,

0:50.8

international fight week, maybe sharing the stage at a press conference with John Jones,

0:55.5

doesn't look like that's happening now. But you said, you know what? They want to do June, July,

0:58.9

August, whenever works for me and Leon has since come out and said September, maybe October. So

1:05.1

from your perspective, what's the latest on this fight right now?

1:09.4

Whenever, wherever we stay ready, we never got to get ready. So it doesn't matter when it's going to

1:14.8

be, but it will be. It's 100% going to happen. I don't know how many times the MMA media dorks

1:20.4

need to hear it. Dana's triple quadruple down. I don't know why they keep asking them.

1:24.2

Like he's going to change his answer. He knows what's best for business. And this fight's going

1:28.8

to get done. Hopefully as soon as possible. I'm hoping August, that's my hope. You know, he turned

1:33.1

down July in a home date London, which is sad because, you know, the people of London are great

1:38.0

passionate fans and they deserve a big homecoming show, a pay per view. I mean, they got a fight

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