In recent months, Colby Covington has ratcheted up his trash talk game, feuding with a number of UFC welterweights, the entire country of Brazil, and even former UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum. But perhaps most puzzling of these beefs was his issue with UFC commentator Joe Rogan, who Covington threatened to slap after Rogan pointed out that a welterweight picking a fight with the former heavyweight champion might not be a great idea. But even though Rogan attempted to make amends, and Covington has an interim welterweight title shot against Rafael dos Anjos coming up, “Chaos” is apparently dead set on feuding with the voice of the UFC.

Speaking with BJPenn Radio recently, Covington once again lambasted Rogan for attempting to make peace and for speaking out in the first place.

“His little mouth was trying to run and say things when he shouldn’t have an opinion,” Covington said. “You’ve never been in an Octagon, you don’t have any experience fighting. Just because you do these little Tae Kwan Do tournaments and you can’t even get first place in those, doesn’t mean you can come talk to the King of Chaos, AKA the new welterweight king on June 9th.”

Covington is facing Dos Anjos for the interim welterweight title in the co-main event of UFC 225 this weekend, June 9th. Covington was given this interim title shot in large part due to his newfound trash talking, something Rogan alluded to while attempting to make amends with Covington. That was apparently enough to keep Covington’s ire up because “Chaos” says the beef with Rogan is far from over and when he sees Rogan at UFC 225, they are going to have words in person.

“It will be squashed when he stops running his little mouth like his opinion matters,” Covington said about the Rogan feud. “His opinion is irrelevant. He thinks he has a say in everything and he’s a biased announcer as it is.

“If it’s a Jon Jones fight, his balls are so far in his mouth that he’s just going to be saying anything Jon does, ‘Oh, my God! He’s the greatest of all time!’ — this and that. I don’t think the beef’s squashed. I got something to say to him and I’m going to say something when I see him face to face in Chicago.”

Covington might want to tread lightly though, Rogan isn’t exactly easy prey.

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MUST-READ STORIES

Utica. Marlon Moraes’ big win and the rest of the UFC Utica results are here.

Bare Knuckle. The results for historic Bare Knuckle FC’s debut event can be found here.

Union. Chuck Liddell supports UFC fighter unionization efforts, thinks change is ‘inevitable.’

170. Rafael dos Anjos: Darren Till won’t be in welterweight division much longer.

155. With mini-tournament on ice, Khabib Nurmagomedov turns attention to GSP.

USADA. Georges St-Pierre: It’s ‘still easy’ to beat drug tests, ‘even now’ with USADA.

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VIDEO STEW

So many free fights.

A complete history of the UFC lightweight rankings.

Darren Till and the dude who almost got knocked out by Michael B. Jordan in Creed.

T-Wood breaking down a Snoop vs. Wiz fight.

An accurate recreation of Rivera-Moraes.

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LISTEN UP

6th Round. Immediate post-fight reaction to UFC Utica.

Middle Easy Fist Fight Pod. Discussing UFC Utica and the upcoming PFL show.

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SOCIAL MEDIA BOUILLABAISSE

This is excellent social media work.

JAG on her fight cancellation.

Dillashaw bringing out Takeru to prep for Cody.

Insert DJ Khaled gif.

26 pounds in 9 days is a lot.

No one ever retires from fighting.

Respect.

Would totally watch.

Congrats.

Weekend violence roundup.

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FIGHT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Emil Meek (9-3) vs. Bartosz Fabinski (13-2); UFC Hamburg, July 22.

Yair Rodriguez (10-2) vs. Zabit Magomedsharipov (15-1); UFC 228, Sept. 8.

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TODAY IN MMA HISTORY

2005: Rich Franklin won the UFC middleweight title, stopping Evan Tanner in the fourth round at UFC 53. Also this evening, Andrei Arlovski defended his UFC interim heavyweight title (later promoted to undisputed champion) with a TKO of Justin Eilers.

2006: The first round of the Pride 2006 Welterweight Grand Prix took place at Pride Bushido 11.

2011: Tony Ferguson won season 13 of The Ultimate Fighter with a KO of Ramsey Nijem the the TUF 13 Finale. This event also featured the UFC debut of Anthony Pettis who lost a controversial decision to Clay Guida.

2016: Michael Bisping became the UFC middleweight champion by knocking out Luke Rockhold in their rematch at UFC 199. In the co-main event, Dominick Cruz took a wide decision over Urijah Faber in their trilogy fight to retain his bantamweight title.

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FINAL THOUGHTS

Marlon Moraes deserves the next title shot but instead we get a rematch of a fight we just saw for no real reason. That basically sums up this modern era of the UFC.

Hope everyone had a good weekend. Take it easy and see y’all tomorrow.

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EXIT POLL

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