Hmm
He's dumb. We can agree on that.
He does have an angle though. It's to get people to talk about him. Attention. Think about it: before this whole wine thing, no one was talking about him for like 5 months. All of a sudden he's in the headlines again. Will it land him another titleshot? Not if he loses to Whittaker obviously.
There is a type of heat when people don't care to see you fight again. Xpac Heat - where people don't care about the character. They're not booing you because of the character, they're booing you to completely get off the screen.
If he loses against Rob, What's his angle? The guy would have to go on a massive winning streak than bring it up when he calls out izzy.
We all know Costa is a Conor McGregor Fanboy and he saw Conor delude himself on why he lost the Khabib fight. He's attempting to do the same without making him realize, it's making him look more stupid. Everyone's laughing at the dude where as when mcgregor said it, he had his fans believe it and the casuals because Mcgregor is very persuasive and carries that aura. Not to mention, he corrected a wrong in a loss to a win which lends him even more credibility that conor could do it again.
He's emotional right now. It's kinda like someone who breaks up with their girlfriend then the girlfriend says, you know what It was a work. I actually didn't want to be with you anyway.
Yeah, if that sounds rdiciulous, This sounds ridiculous.
He either went in with the troll attempt which is stupid or after the response he got, how every laughed at him, he tried to rescue his image, which is also stupid. No matter how you slice this, he's stupid.
Drinking wine before the biggest fight of your career, stupid.