Colby Covington on ‘Blood Feud’ with Jorge Masvidal: ‘I’m Gonna Make Him Suffer’

Former American Top Team training partners Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal will finally get to settle their differences in the cage in the UFC 272 headliner this Saturday.

“I feel like a little kid the night before Christmas,” Covington said in an interview with TMZ Sports. “I’m super excited to hold this kid accountable for all the reckless words he’s said to the media. He’s been lying this whole time and I can’t wait to expose him in front of the world.”

Covington is coming off a five-round unanimous decision loss to Kamaru Usman in a 170-pound championship rematch at UFC 268 in Madison Square Garden this past November. Despite falling to 0-2 against Usman, Covington isn’t lacking for confidence.

“I’m the best fighter in the world right now, I don’t care what anybody says,” he said. “I won three rounds out of my last undisputed title fight withUsman. The people saw at Madison Square Garden, just because three stooges sitting cageside awarded him three rounds to two, one measly round he won by. I know truly, deep down inside, who is the best fighter in the world and that’s me and next weekend you’re gonna see him on display.”

There has been plenty of animosity between Covington and Masvidal leading up to UFC 272, and “Chaos” claims that the rivalry is far more intense than the feud he had with Usman. Much of that stems from their past interactions at ATT, Covington says.

“This is way more personal, this is a blood feud,” Covington said. “This goes back to a brotherhood. We were eight years together, every single day, side by side, couldn’t leave each other, like best friends. And now we’re the biggest bitter enemies. Like, he’s the one person on Earth that I don’t give a s—t. Anytime I see him, I want to send him straight to hell, and luckily I get to do it in the UFC Octagon next Saturday night on pay-per-view. It’s gonna be bad. I’m gonna make him pay, I’m gonna make him suffer for backstabbing me and turning his back and trying to run this fake narrative to the media.”

Masvidal is coming off back-to-back losses in title bouts against Usman, the most recent of which occurred at UFC 261 last April. Covington plans on a lopsided beating when he is finally able to lock horns with “Gamebred” in the Octagon at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday.

“I see a lot of pain. I’m gonna inflict so much pain on Jorge Masvidal,” Covington said. “He’s not gonna be the same person ever again. He keeps talking about a baptism. It’s not gonna be a baptism, it’s gonna be a funeral. Jorge Masvidal’s career-ending funeral. It’s gonna be violent. And it’s not gonna be quick. I could easily finish it quick — I used to do it all the time behind closed doors when we used to train — but this one I’m gonna drag it out, I’m gonna make him suffer, and it’s probably gonna be the first time in UFC history you see a guy in a main event verbally tap out and say he can’t take no more of a beating.”