Recently losing in his return to the UFC Octagon, Colby Covington has already highlighted former title challenger Gilbert Burns as his potential next opponent following a phone number leaking saga. After almost a year out of action, Colby Covington returned at UFC Tampa recently to take on the soaring Joaquin Buckley . ‘New Mansa’ utterly dominated the former UFC interim welterweight champion, subsequently scoring the doctor stoppage win in the third round after Covington continuously leaked blood from his eye.
Colby Covington calls out Gilbert Burns after leaking Chael Sonnen’s phone number In his corner for the fight was ‘The American Gangster’, UFC legend Chael Sonnen . Although Sonnen hasn’t had much experience cornering, he has stayed in the sport since his retirement, doing a lot of analytical work. During the beating Buckley was inflicting on Covington, Sonnen claimed that he was just about to throw in the towel before the doctor stopped the fight.
After suffering back-to-back losses for the first time in his career, it was relatively unclear where Covington was going to go from here considering his inactivity over the past few years. Despite that, he took another big loss just a day later when he was eliminated from the World Series of Poker tournament in the Bahamas. However, reverting to fighting, Covington took to his Twitch Live stream just days following his defeat and called out former title challenger, Gilbert Burns .
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