Colby Covington Reacts To Title Shot Critics, Leon Edwards, Belal Muhammad
MMA Fighting
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, let us say hello and a welcome back to the man who on Saturday after UFC 286 UFC |
| 0:12.0 | president Dana White revealed that he will be next for the UFC Walter White title. |
| 0:16.6 | It's been over a year since he's been with us and days after the big announcement Colby |
| 0:20.9 | chaos coming to back here on MMA fighting Colby. How are you, my man? Thank you for doing |
| 0:26.3 | this. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm doing great, Mike. It's good to talk to a real journalist, you know, not like some of |
| 0:31.9 | those groupie fanboys that they have over MMA fighting, you know, some real journalism, |
| 0:36.4 | a guy respected since the beginning. So, you know, it's a beautiful thing. We're going to have |
| 0:40.5 | a great talk today and you know, it's not going to be, you know, it's a real journalism talk. |
| 0:45.2 | These guys are groupie fanboys. They don't even have a real journalism degree and they |
| 0:49.2 | call themselves journalists. They're nothing more than groupies to have their opinions. |
| 0:53.4 | Well, you have obviously inspired a lot of a debate and opinions and perhaps controversy is |
| 1:00.8 | a word that some people would use, but here we are. We're getting ready for a fight week. |
| 1:05.6 | It is just a normal fight week, right? We have the media day and the press conference and then |
| 1:10.5 | Friday rolls around and the official weigh-ins are going on and I wake up bright and early to get |
| 1:16.6 | my kid ready for school. And what do I see? I jump on Twitter and I see that you have weighed in |
| 1:21.7 | and it is going bananas. This thing is going nuts and nobody saw this coming. So, |
| 1:27.7 | when were you aware that this is a thing because there's kind of different conversations and |
| 1:31.5 | different reports who knew who didn't, but when were you made aware how did this all come to be? |
| 1:38.2 | So, I was made aware Tuesday night. They called me like 9.10 pm. I got a call with Hunter Campbell |
| 1:44.6 | and he confirmed that I was going to be the official backup if anybody pulled out bad, bad, |
| 1:49.4 | weight cut, anything that I would step in to fight for the World Championship, which |
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