UFC 272: Colby Covington mocks Drake over US$275,000 bet on Jorge Masvidal – ‘go back to your little albums and rapping’
- Welterweight contender trashes Canadian rapper for placing huge wager on Masvidal, who lost by unanimous decision on Saturday night
- Covington says Masvidal ‘didn’t have another one minute in him to go. Just imagine if there wasn’t a ref there tonight – his life would have been over’
Drake lost big on Saturday night’s UFC 272 main event – and Colby Covington made sure to let the Canadian rap superstar know he backed the wrong horse.
Covington took a dominant unanimous decision against Jorge Masvidal, whom Drake had placed US$275,000 on to win.
The 35-year-old singer and actor shared a video on his Instagram story of him placing the bet, while ring announcer Bruce Buffer made the introductions for the five-round fight – a wager which would have landed him over US$1 million had Masvidal won.
Word clearly got to Covington, who took aim at Drake when he spoke to the media in Las Vegas.
“Let’s talk about all the money that Drake lost tonight,” Covington said at his post-fight press conference at T-Mobile Arena. “He needs to go back to selling those [expletive] albums to get back the money.
“I’m America’s champ … Drake, you suck at sports betting. Go back to your [expletive] little albums and rapping.”
UFC 272: Covington ‘in a weird situation,’ White says
There was no love lost between former teammates and friends Covington and Masvidal on Saturday night. But it seems that 25 minutes of battle didn’t help them solve their differences, with the pair’s coaching teams get into a verbal altercation after the fight.
“He [Masvidal] was just still running his mouth,” Covington said. “Dude, you just got pounded out, you got dropped, wobbled, just complete domination from second one to minute 25.
“You could see in his body language, he literally didn’t have another one minute in him to go. Just imagine if there wasn’t a ref there tonight – his life would have been over.
“So that’s the end of ‘Street Judas’. I don’t want to hear any more talk of ‘Street Judas’, the hype machine who hit lightning in a bottle for a couple of fights. He’s done. I don’t want to hear another word about him.”
Masvidal seemed to gain a measure of respect for his rival, admitting at his own post-fight press conference that Covington had performed better than him.
“He’s a b****,” Masvidal said. “The b**** can wrestle, though.”
Covington, though, did no reciprocate with the niceties.
“Absolutely not – how can you respect that guy?” Covington said. “He’s a thief who went to jail multiple times for grand theft. He’s tried to compare himself to me educationally – the guy didn’t graduate middle school.
“I tried to ask him one simple question, ‘How does a bill become a law?’ The guy’s a fraud, a phoney. He knows nothing about politics, and he get exposed for the journeyman he was tonight.”
