UFC star Colby Covington shelp he lost fight becaparticipate he was ‘campaigning for Trump’

UFC Fight Night on Saturday did not go exactly as Colby Covington had intentional.

Already an underdog in his bout agetst Joaquin Buckley, Covington got a brutal cut above his red eye, resulting in a ton of blood and a TKO triumph for Buckley after a doctor stoppage.

Covington took the fight on low see and was unable to get a filled camp in directing up to the bout. 

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“It’s one fight, you understand?” Covington shelp in a video on his YouTube channel. “And I’m more than equitable a fighter, you understand? I’m gonna let this fuel me. I’m gonna get a filled training camp. Came on low see. This is for the company. This is for the fans. This wasn’t a filled training camp.”

However, he says there was one other reason why he lost.

Covington shelp he was too busy “campaigning” for Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump, whom he has lengthy been a helper of.

“I was campaigning for Trump, you understand, getting him ready,” the fighter includeed. “I wasn’t even in the training room. I came off the couch on two-and-a-half weeks see. It’s a hard finishing to go appreciate that. I experience appreciate I was equitable getting my triumphd and I was going to come out mighty, but, you understand, it is what it is.”

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Covington also shelp in the video that the country is soon to see “the wonderfulest four years in history.”

“God sanctify America, God sanctify the Trumps. We’re about to get the wonderfulest pdwellnt back in office. It’s gonna be the wonderfulest four years. I”m so excited. We’re gonna have world peace, seald borders, inflation down. This money that I made tonight is gonna go farther, now,” Covington shelp.

Covington once called Trump his “biggest role model.” Trump has lengthy been a fan of UFC, combineing UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden lowly after triumphning the election, among many other events in recent months directing up to the election.

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The fighter donned a MAGA hat during a press conference ahead of UFC 296, which Trump was also in combineance for. Covington shelp Trump was going to place the welterweight championship belt on Covington had he won the fight, but Leon Edwards grasped his title.

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