Colby Covington has that welterweight belt in sight and he’s not planning to let up, no matter how many enemies he makes along the way. To recap he’s called Brazilians filthy animals, for which UFC is considering pursuing a disciplinarian measure – but more importantly American Top Team’s founder Ricardo Liborio has clarified he is no longer with ATT and he considers Covington’s speech unforgivable.
Still Covington is doubling down on his troubling behavior and claiming Liborio is using his good name:
“Ricardo Liborio is a joke,” Covington told BloodyElbow.com. “That guy’s been out of ATT for over two, three years. That guy’s a complete joke trying to use my name and my fame and the stuff with Brazil to put him over and make him look like the good guy from ATT.
“He’s been out of ATT for a while; he was using Dan Lambert, the ATT owner. He was using Dan. He was picking up these paychecks two or three years ago, never showing up to work. That guy is a conman, he’s a scumbag, and he’s acting like a piece of sh-t trying to use my name to put him over.”
“I’m ATT to the bone. I have my close circle of people, my clique — Jorge Masvidal, Mike Brown, Dan Lambert,” Covington said. “I’m not friends with everybody. It’s a gym, but this is a one-man sport.”
As far as Lambert goes he said of the incident:
“They’re words. Do I agree with his words? I’m never going to come out and say I agree with his words. Come on. But at the end of the day, they’e just words from some kid who’s trying to get his name out there and trying to draw some attention to himself. It is what it is. I don’t like football players kneeling on Sundays when the national anthem plays, especially on 9/11 or Veterans Day, but you know what? I’m not going to call for them to be fired or killed or anything of the like. It’s their right to say what they want to say.”
Like Liborio, several ATT fighters, including Brazilians in women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes and Antonio Silva, expressed their disappointment with their teammate’s post-fight words.
