People Want to Pretend Colby Covington Can’t Fight

Some people think it would be better if all fights were five rounds like a world kickboxing fight. That guys would just also fight harder. They would just go after each other for five rounds. It would definitely be more entertaining. I wonder, man, you know, it's like you want to see a good fight, but do you want to see guys sort of pace themselves to try to fight 12 rounds? Or do you want to see guys go ham for six rounds? What's better? I don't know. It's a good argument. You know, the best argument that I ever heard about fights is the one where Ferasahabi was talking about the other day. And I agree with him 100 percent. Why do you have a time limit? Just like start the fight. Like, let's see what happens. Like let people figure out when to expend their energy. Why is there breaks? Why do you have breaks? You should, I mean, if we had it like the early days of the UFC, then you would really understand all the nuances of comedy. You really can't sprint because if you hurt someone and you don't take them out, you're going to get exhausted. You blew all your energy out and the fight goes on forever. It goes on until somebody wins. That's when you really find out what fighting is. But if you're going to have boxing, like boxing those rounds, like three minutes, three minute rounds is with just your hands. You can get a lot of action in there. If you made that up to five, six rounds. But I don't know. There's nothing wrong. It's also a great thing seeing someone slowly figure somebody out over five, six rounds and then start working them in the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth and get a knockout in the eleventh or something like that. It's always interesting to see someone break someone's style down, figure them out, impose their will. See their conditioning as the fight goes on. Their superior conditioning play out. There's some guys that just fucking don't get tired, man. Those are the ones that I love, especially in UFC. Yeah. Nate, Colby, Ioana. These people- Colby's a big one. Yeah. Colby and Usman this weekend. That's a big one. That's a big one with two guys with enormous gas tanks. What a fascinating fight that is to me. Because people want to pretend Colby can't fight. I know, right? When someone's a bad guy, it sways everything in their reasonable, rational mind. It's so crazy. Watching what he did to Robbie Lawler makes someone so undeniable that it's ridiculous. Meanwhile- People are still in denial. They're in less denial though than they would be. They're in less denial than they would be. It's a real problem. He's a real problem. Because that style of shit talking is infuriating. And you can't say a goddamn thing to him because he's in a character. So if he pisses you off, you say something back to him, yeah, why don't you go suck Trump's dick? You'd be like, I would. Mr. Trump's a good man. I bet his dick tastes like lollipops. He can say whatever he wants. Colby gets it, man. He gets it. He's full old school Rick flair with a new style twist. He's a real fighter, man. He's a real fighter. He's absolutely one of the best Walter Weights in the world. And this is a very, very close fight. But Kamaru Usman, he's a tank of a man. He's a spectacular athlete. He's got big power. He only has, I think, a couple knockouts in his career. But it's because he learned how to kick box after he learned how to wrestle. He was an elite wrestler. But he does put people away. And he hurt Tyron Woodley. And he beat him standing. And Tyron is a fan. I don't think Tyron was at his best in that fight. I think there were some issues that Tyron had. But it doesn't take anything away from Usman. Usman's been running through competition. He has one loss in his career, 15 wins. And then while he talked about the loss on the podcast, he just got caught in a rear naked choke, tapped, made a mistake. It happens. Didn't know Jiu Jitsu that well. But as an elite wrestler who's transitioned to become a world class mixed martial arts fighter, you don't get much better. He was scared. Or he was scary, rather. Everybody was scared of him. Everybody was gonna fight him. Everybody was ducking him for the long... You never heard anybody call out Kamaru Usman when he was running through competition. Everybody was like, you know what? This fucking guy in that fight, they get to Usman and be like, no, no, no. He seems like a nice guy. I don't want to fight him. Colby's my favorite thing to watch right now. I think he's just so... I think he really gets so many aspects of the basic part of this sport. On the suits. Endurance, learn, train, and be entertaining. Dude, have you seen his new suit? No. He's got an orange one now. And he brings that Donald Trump Jr. book everywhere he goes. I love it. He's got an orange suit, just as gross as the blue one. It is goddamn hilarious. There's photos of him at the press conference with an orange suit. Bro, he is... Look at that. Look at his orange suit. It looks like it costs less than the blue suit. I didn't think that was possible. And he's a fucking genius. Listen, man. This guy... Let me mark my words. When this guy is done fighting, he will be a huge pro wrestling star. Oh, yeah. Fucking huge. And he might do it quick. How about that? If he wins, if that guy wins, and maybe he fights Mazzvadal, maybe fights one more time, he goes right into pro wrestling. And he may... Cha-cha-ching! And what's crazy is that I've been pitching... We do a wrestling podcast at the Comedy Store, and I've been pitching for years now. Look at him reading the book. He's sitting at the press conference reading Donald Trump Jr.'s book. And I've been pitching for years that the WWE is missing out on having this pro Trump, super bad guy character, and then Colby comes out of nowhere and does it in real life in the UFC. And they still haven't done it in WWE. And you can't call him a joke. Right. Because he smashes Robbie Law, he smashes Rafael dos Angeles, you watch him fight like, oh my God, this guy's a fucking beast. A record setting performance against Robbie Lawler. 500 and some punches landed. Not just that. But he mostly beat him standing up. Yeah. It was mostly a stand up fight. And he is the guy that you thought of as the wrestler, and Robbie's the elite striker, he's a former world champion, and Colby ran him over. It wasn't even a close fight. And all this promo stuff that he does, how good he is at that, it's because he wants to be. It's because he's a learner. He came and saw me perform at the improv in Florida, in West Palm Beach. And afterwards, we were in the green room, and he's like, you know, I learned a lot about timing and beats from watching you up there tonight. Getting those, you know what I mean? How you get these laughs using your timing and your pauses and this, I need to do more of that. I'm like, yeah, dude, exactly. So cool to watch a guy that's, you know, while he being on top of a big business, a lot of, I feel like a lot of people, you know, their egos, this and that, or it's just about the fucking game, you know. No, he's not about that at all. Right. But it's a genius pursuit. And, you know, he has openly now said it. We talked about on the podcast, but he's saying it now, did it on the Candace Owens show. He's like, they were going to cut him. They were going to cut him. They had told him that his style wasn't fan friendly. And so he beats Damien Mai in Brazil and calls him a bunch of filthy animals. Everybody goes crazy. And they're like, oh, hold on a second. We might have something here. So he talked about it on the podcast. Like, look, I got to do something. My career is in jeopardy. Like, I'm going to create a character. So he created this character. Like, I've called his fights before. Now I call his fights early in his career. Before that, he was just a really tough guy who had a great gas tank who I knew from my friend Cam Haynes. He trains with Cam Haynes. Right. So just imagine the kind of gas tank this motherfucker must have. If you do anything with Cam Haynes, you have to have a crazy gas tank. Well, that's the scary thing about him, right? It's almost like, again, it's like a pro wrestling character already. It's like, oh, you don't know. Even if you don't, if you don't somehow find a way to finish it, you're stuck in rounds four and five now. It's always going to be championship rounds now with this guy, and you're going to be stuck in there with him. Yeah. If you can't take him out in one, two, or three, and you can't maintain that pace, and if you try to take him out and you empty your gas tank, he never empties his gas tank. And the thing is about his style, this thing that he's doing, not his style, but his promotion style with the cheap suits and the fucking book, you think it's a joke. But then you watch his fights if you didn't have any information about him and his character, and you just watch his fights. You'd be like, fuck, man, this guy's driven. This guy's fucking driven. But then you add into that this character, and everybody's pretending that, oh, that guy's a joke. That guy's a joke. That joke, he's running over everybody. Everybody. Just because you don't like Trump. And this is like, it's a genius thing to attach himself to Trump. Right. And what's interesting is even fighters that maybe have paid more dues and are maybe are more respected, like if you put them all at the table, like when we were backstage at MSG and the rocks there and Dana's got the new BMF belt and all this stuff's happening, they were doing that press conference for this one and Max Holloway's on one end and they have these guys on another. And being backstage sometimes is a blessing because you can hear things that maybe you wouldn't notice if you're out front. Right. And the roars and the cheers and the hoopla and everything was every time he talked. We had a good time just sitting there watching it from the sidelines. Wow. It was great. Insane. We're seeing is a master class in promotion and adaptation. He adapted, he created this character, and this character is, it's so obviously a character, but it doesn't matter. Yeah. It doesn't matter. I mean, it's so obvious. He's not wearing that suit on purpose. Like it thinks it's good looking. No. He's trying to be a dork. He's trying to be a pro-Trump dork. Like if I was Trump, I'd be a little annoyed. I'd be like, hey, man, I see what the fuck you're doing. You're making yourself look like a goof because you support me. Please tell me you're following Colby on Instagram, right? Of course I am. Oh, the best. The videos with the girls where he just comes out with his hands on their butts. Hey losers. Hey nerds. It's straight up pro wrestling and super high level pro wrestling, like promos. So you shoot. Look at this. He's got a Trump hat on instead of a Trump Tower. It's kind of style even matches it too, right? Because like if he was just a quick round one knockout artist, almost like, you know, sort of like McGregor esque. Right. I still don't think it works as well as a guy that has a never ending gas tank. Never in the gas tank and can take a tremendous shot to. He's a nightmare for everybody in the division. Colby Covington is a fucking nightmare because he seems like he's playing. He's doing these promos with all these girls in bikinis. So fucking reading Donald Trump Jr's book. He's making it seem like he's a goof and you don't notice along the way that this guy's stomping world class fighters. I mean, stomping them. He's fucking amazing. What he's done is it's like a master class in promotion for all the young fighters coming up. I don't necessarily think everybody should do what he's doing. Right. And you know, but if I was in, if I was in his camp, I was one of his friends, I would for sure be cheering it on. Like it's hilarious. It's hilarious. And everybody's mad at him. Everybody. And it goes two ways, right? Like even the people that are mad at him are still sort of laughing and you can usually catch them laughing while booing in between booing. That's why the suit is so genius. Yeah. See, he didn't have to do the suit. The suit is the fucking piece de resistance because why else would he wear that fucking suit? That suit. Here's what the, here's what's genius about the suit. It's a terrible suit. It's literally one of the suits from Dumb and Dumber. That orange suit is the one that like Jeff Daniels or Jim Carrey, one of them has almost close enough, but they're gross. That's the point. It's like he's doing that on purpose. He's got money. He's a fucking, he's fighting for the title. He's made money, right? Jeff Daniels suit. Oh my God. That's so silly. It almost is. It almost is. Now go back to Colby. Those are like the two suits that he owns. Go back to Colby's suit. He doesn't have that suit in the, oh, it's just the recent one, the blue one. He doesn't have the orange one on his Instagram. He's slipping. He's only got the blue one. Oh, it's so funny. Here's the thing, man. At the end of the day, Kamaro Usman is a nightmare for every fucking living human being that's 170 pounds. Go back to that real quick. Look at that. We need to get him that top. Kamaro Usman is a nightmare for every living human that's 170 pounds. And if I wanted to see him fight a guy that I thought presented a bunch of unique challenges, I would say Colby because Colby has a great wrestling pedigree. It's fantastic. Take down defense. He could wrestle his ass off. Cardio's never ending. We saw in the Robbie Lawler fight, he puts pressure on you. Lands ridiculous strikes. Can stand in there against one of the elite strikers ever in the welterweight division in Robbie Lawler. So forget all the Trump bullshit. Forget all the character bullshit. He almost should have a name for that guy. But put that aside, just stylistically. Stylistically, it's one of the best match-ups you're ever going to find for Usman. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 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