Tyron Woodley: Jon Jones Called Me Personally to Offer Assistance in Fight Against Colby Covington

Ultimate Fighting Championship interim welterweight champion Colby Covington has made his fair share of enemies along the way during his UFC career, including his former college roommate Jon Jones.

Covington, who won the interim welterweight title by defeating Rafael dos Anjos via unanimous decision earlier this month at UFC 225 in Chicago, will now face the current undisputed champion Tyron Woodley to unify the belts sometime in the future.

A clearly agitated Woodley talked to Ariel Helwani on “The MMA Hour” about that potential fight and the dislike Jones has for Covington, which is so strong that he even contacted Woodley personally to offer him any assistance for the title fight.

“It’s funny because Jon doesn’t reach out to me very much,” Woodley explained recently on The MMA Hour. “Jon said, ‘Hey, whatever you need, brother. I want to help you.’ I told Jon, I said, ‘man, you work so hard for your platform, from actually kicking ass and beating legends in their prime, and being one of the greatest fighters we’ve ever seen. Don’t give him your platform.’ Because he put a post up about him.

“I said, ‘I am going to kick his ass so bad, he’s gonna wish he was dead instead,’” Woodley continued. “‘He’s going to try to find a way out.’ I said, ‘So don’t worry about it.’ The dude was like, ‘It can’t happen soon enough.’”

The UFC have not announced a date for the fight at this stage but a matchup between Woodley and Covington is the next logical fight in the UFC‘s welterweight division.