UFC: Colby Covington sorry for breaking ‘deal to keep it civil’ after trashing Dustin Poirier again
- Covington quickly issues apology for telling ‘washed out lightweight’ Poirier to ‘stay in his lane’
- ‘I’m a man of my word,’ says welterweight contender, after truce had been brokered by American Top Team owner
Well, it looks like the truce between Colby Covington and Dustin Poirier is back on, again.
The relationship between the American Top Team (ATT) fighters looked to be on rocky ground when Covington slammed “The Diamond” in an interview with ESPN’s Ariel Helwani on Monday night.
But “Chaos” quickly apologised to Poirier, whom he had incensed with trash talk last year in the build-up to and following the former interim lightweight champion’s fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov last September.
“Made a deal to keep it civil with @dustinpoirier and broke it in an interview yesterday,” Covington wrote in an Instagram post. “I’m a man of my word and I apologise for my mistake.”
ATT owner Dan Lambert had brokered a peace deal between the fighters last month, with tensions threatening to boil over into a physical incident at the gym. .
“We can’t do anything at American Top Team,” Covington had told Helwani. “That’s a place of business. That’s a sanctuary. And we respect the rules of the American Top Team. We’ve decided to put the beefs aside when we walk into American Top Team. We keep it cool.”