Dana White Provides Update On Prospective Covington/Masvidal Combat

UFC President Dana White and Colby Covington are on the similar web page concerning who ought to be Covington’s up coming opponent: Jorge “Gamebred” Masvidal.

Previous very best friends Jorge Masvidal and Colby Covington have been embroiled in a war of words and phrases for various months now. The beauty of our wonderful activity of MMA is that when there is a grudge to be settled, there is a spot to solve them: inside of the cage.

Offer Significantly From Carried out For Covington/Masvidal Combat

Colby Covington has been quite vocal about his desire to fight the man he has dubbed “Street Judas,” but he promises that the emotion is not mutual and that Jorge Masvidal is keeping up the struggle thanks to his belief that it is a lousy stylistic matchup for him. MMA Newsman The Schmo caught up with “The Bossman” to get to the bottom of wherever issues stand with this likely bout.

“I really don’t think Masvidal stated, ‘I never like that battle stylistically,’” White reported. “We’re functioning on that fight. Which is the struggle we want, far too, and with any luck ,, we’ll get that done this 12 months, way too.

“I’m telling you, we have got almost nothing but major fights all this 12 months, so with any luck , we can get a few of these important ones buttoned up and accomplished and start looking forward to them.”

There has been no phrase from the Masvidal camp on where by points stand on the struggle negotiations, but we now know that two of the 3 get-togethers are intrigued. Adhering to Jorge Masvidal’s decline to Kamaru Usman at UFC 251, he was questioned about probably experiencing Covington future, but Masvidal said that Colby Covington was not on his level. Potentially this is the purpose the battle has not designed enough progress. 

 As of now, neither Colby Covington nor Jorge Masvidal has a battle booked.

What do you imagine is keeping up the Colby Covington vs. Jorge Masvidal struggle from being finalized?