MMA: Colby Covington creates 'chaos,' UFC cuts Cyborg loose (8/6)
State of Combat with Brian Campbell
CBS Sports, Boxing, MMA
4.6 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2019
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Brian Campbell is joined by UFC Hall of Famer "Suga" Rashad Evans and Brandon Wise to recap a wild UFC Newark card which featured a breakthrough victory from Colby Covington. The guys debate whether "Chaos" went too far with his antics and handicap what a welterweight title bout against Kamaru Usman would look like. Plus, did Cris Cyborg deserve to be let go by UFC after leaking a doctored video? Keep listening for a full preview of Valentina Shevchenko's title defense at UFC Uruguay and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | 5, 4, 3, 2, 2, 1, 0,000, ignition, lift off. Oh, yeah. |
| 0:26.5 | It's time to make the audio. |
| 0:28.4 | Hot fire in your earhole. |
| 0:30.8 | It's the CBS Sports State of Combat podcast with the Ryan Campbell. |
| 0:35.0 | Come up back at you. |
| 0:36.3 | Mixed martial arts. All all killer no filler and you |
| 0:41.3 | know what that means the hall of famer across from me through the magic of Skype it's sugar |
| 0:48.8 | rashad evans how is it my man what's going on, BC? Fired up, as always. |
| 0:55.7 | We got our boy BW. |
| 0:57.4 | Brandon Wise, CBS Sports Editor, Writer, Weight Lifter, joining the team. |
| 1:02.8 | Before we get into things that actually really matter here, Rashad, you're a professional fighter, broadcaster, successful man. |
| 1:10.5 | Would you continue to, I don't know, tell Brandon Wise this is the smartest move to |
| 1:15.5 | walk into a professional MMA gym. |
| 1:18.1 | Green is the backside of my, of my hole, and just basically be sparring with professional |
| 1:24.6 | fighters like he is. |
| 1:26.4 | I mean, I wouldn't advise it it but here's the thing i mean |
| 1:29.5 | be wise is is he's he's taking the steps the proper steps to get himself on a level he's uh |
| 1:35.3 | doing some mitts he's he's he's learning before he gets out there so he's not totally out there |
| 1:40.6 | you know just swimming in the deep end without a life vest what he's's referring to is that I had sparring on Saturday with the amateurs at Hard Knocks, |
| 1:49.5 | and one of the guys I sparred with is Steve Mowrie. |
| 1:52.5 | Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, Tom Steve. |
| 1:54.9 | On Twitter, he's 6'8, and that was, like, the least fun I've ever had because he kicked, |
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