UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman and challenger Colby Covington had to beryllium pulled isolated astatine their pre-fight media day, arsenic their bitter and hateful rivalry continues.
It's nary concealed that the 2 can't basal each other - this isn't immoderate feud wherever it's being played up for the cameras and they'll shingle hands afterwards.
Their archetypal fight, backmost successful 2019, ended successful a fifth-round knockout triumph to Usman, who broke Covington's jaw successful a bout that was astatine that constituent highly adjacent connected the scorecards.
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Now, they'll get to bash it again connected Sunday (1pm AEDT).
"At this constituent successful life, astatine this constituent successful my vocation - I look guardant to those challenges. On Saturday night, I'll bash what I bash champion and that's smash different challenge," Usman said.
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The champ said that Covington wasn't the astir hard match-up for him to face, praising his opponent's enactment ethic but dismissing his legitimacy arsenic a satellite rubric contender.
"He's precise talented, helium works hard, and helium comes to combat each and each time. But similar I've said before, successful the epoch that he's existed, helium has to unrecorded with the information that idiosyncratic was determination that was better."
While determination was a speck of respect astatine the commencement of the property conference, things rapidly deteriorated.
Covington repeated his accusations that Usman faked being deed successful the groin and poked successful the oculus to bargain other stoppages successful their archetypal fight, teased the champion astir his begetter being successful prison, and called him a cause cheat.
"You were acceptable to quit, why'd you fake a nutshot? Why were you faking an oculus poke connected the different eye? The camera tin spot you're a unspeakable histrion bro," Covington said.
"I stayed successful the combat and I broke your f--king jaw," Usman reponded.
"What?" Covington replied. "The lone happening breached was you broke your daddy retired of jail."
That prompted different effect from Usman: "Oh really? OK. Why did you spell backmost to your country astatine the extremity of the 3rd circular and archer them 'I deliberation my jaw is broken'?
"Because you wanted them to prevention you. You wanted a mode out."
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Usman was asked if contempt the disdain for 1 another, if helium appreciated however overmuch attraction Covington was bringing to the sport.
"Absolutely. Like I said, I admit each my children, and helium is my son."
When the clip for talking was implicit and 2 had to spell face-to-face, Usman shoved Covington, prompting a large absorption from UFC brag Dana White.
The 2 past traded duelling chants from a rowdy assemblage arsenic the broadcast went disconnected air.
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