{"id":389059,"date":"2022-05-18T06:09:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T06:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=389059"},"modified":"2022-05-18T06:09:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T06:09:40","slug":"he-knows-whats-happened-in-the-gym-dustin-poirier-reveals-colby-covington-fight-was-offered-to-him-last-week-and-why-he-will-accept-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/he-knows-whats-happened-in-the-gym-dustin-poirier-reveals-colby-covington-fight-was-offered-to-him-last-week-and-why-he-will-accept-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHe Knows What\u2019s Happened in the Gym\u201d- Dustin Poirier Reveals Colby Covington Fight Was Offered to Him Last Week and Why He Will Accept It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former interim welterweight champion Colby Covington is in a bit of a tough spot at the moment. \u2018Chaos\u2019 is currently 0-2 against the champion Kamaru Usman, which means getting a third shot at the title will be extremely difficult as long as Usman is the champion. However, he has firmly established that he is the second-best welterweight in the UFC at the moment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his most recent outing, Covington secured an impressive win over former teammate and training partner Jorge Masvidal. Following the win, he called out Dustin Poirier as one of the many fighters from his former gym that he wanted to take out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While speaking to the media backstage before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Colby-Covington-57269\">Covington<\/a>-Masvidal fight, Poirier was asked if he would face Covington. \u2018The Diamond\u2019 stated that he would never fight Covington in the ring and let him make money off him and that if the two ever fought he would end up in jail.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:-<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/khabib-nurmagomedov-accepts-tony-fergusons-offer-to-compete-as-tuf-coaches-to-squash-some-beef-and-move-on\/\">Khabib Nurmagomedov Accepts Tony Ferguson\u2019s Offer to Compete as TUF Coaches to \u2018Squash Some Beef and Move On\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Colby Covington to take on Dustin Poirier at welterweight?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, in a recent interview with Ariel Helwani, it seems as though Poirier has changed his stance and is welcoming a fight against Covington. When asked about it he said, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI don\u2019t hate anyone, but if there was a line right before hate, Colby\u2019s standing right there. I really dislike the guy, and I\u2019ve been saying I don\u2019t want him to make a dollar off of fighting me, but they offered me him last week&#8230; It was either wait to the end of the year and fight for a No. 1 contender at lightweight, or fight in July, and that was the name that they gave me. So I was like, \u2018F*** it.\u201d<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NOA-jhK44P4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018The Diamond\u2019 continued, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe\u2019s everything I dislike about mixed martial arts,\u201d Poirier said. \u201cHe\u2019s a cartoon character. Everything he does if for any extra click, view, none of it\u2019s authentic. He can wrestle, he\u2019s though. I\u2019ve been around him for years. I know him from being in the gym with him since 2012, 2013-ish, but he\u2019s just a fake, a phony&#8230;Colby knows what\u2019s up. He\u2019s knows what\u2019s happened in the gym. I\u2019m not a scrap and tell kind of guy \u2013 I won\u2019t say what happened, but he knows what happened those years in the gym.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former interim welterweight champion Colby Covington is in a bit of a tough spot at the moment. \u2018Chaos\u2019 is currently 0-2 against the champion Kamaru Usman, which means getting a third shot at the title will be extremely difficult as long as Usman is the champion. However, he has firmly established that he is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":389060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}