Colby Covington

Khamzat Chimaev has called out Colby Covington several times, however, a bout between the two never materialized.

I don't want to ever hear that guy's name in this division again. I saw him at the PI and he saw me and turned around. He's unprofessional and I don't want to ever hear that guy's name again. I swear with the Gods. All the Muslims understand, I swear to Quran. I swear with everything I have.

Covington has opened the door for a future clash against former two-weight champion McGregor and thinks it would be the biggest fight in UFC history.

"But I’d like to just get past that and just get into this consistency bracket. "We’re gearing up and there’s a lot going on behind the scenes and all, but I feel it will move fast. The card sold a massive 2.4million pay-per-view buys, around 600,000 more than the second-highest selling event which was headlined by McGregor and Dustin Poirier's trilogy fight in July 2021. If Conor wants to fight one day, it's probably the biggest event the UFC would ever do, as you see with the numbers I've drawn to this event. Covington welcomed a fight against McGregor but thinks the former two-weight champion doesn't have the same desire to compete. He's made a lot of money so he just doesn't have that same hunger.

Colby Covington went on an expletive-filled rant against Khamzat Chimaev for missing weight at UFC 279.

“They gave him the easiest fight, Nate Diaz, to set it up to fight me the next fight. I was begging to fight that, I was chomping at the bit, but we saw how unprofessional he was. “(The fight) was never formally presented to me. Millions of dollars were put into this guy in marketing, and he had the easiest fight in the division, the soy boy Nate Diaz. The quit f—ng on a weight cut when he had the best professionals at the UFC P.I. Covington’s gripes were mainly about Chimaev’s weight miss at UFC 279, which led to a massive change in the card.