It’s insane to me that Colby Covington is an underdog to Buckley

[Clark Rogers]

Madness, I say.

 

[Phisher]

Post fight it all makes sense. It was because Buckley is a beast and Colby's a washed up loudmouth bum

The complaints about Buckley only having wins over old guys in the run up to this were hilarious.

Colby's entire rep was based on beating up past prime fighters..

 

[rjmbrd]

Colby media whored his way into a situation that had him either fighting huge names or fighting for the belt. Since he flipped the troll switch (RDA), it's been:

Lawler
Usman (for the title)
Woodley
Usman (for the title)
Masvidal
Edwards (for the title)

So here, against a relatively low-profile opponent, his motivation to get his face punched must have been at an all-time low. That is the feeling I got watching him in the buildup. I mean, he's playing a character and all, but you can still see about 10% of the real Colby under the mask. A guy who fights on hustle and grit not feeling like he wants to get out of bed is not a recipe for success.

I take your point but we watched Leon absolutely out class him, to the point he was grappling with him just because.

Colby is on the wrong side of 35, largely inactive and most of his career wins have come from fighters on losing streaks with one foot out the door.

"Getting out of bed" Colby isn't a thing IMO, you just saw how he matches up against someone on a win streak. Plenty of other guys would give Colby the same treatment, he just hasn't fought them.

 

[m249viking]

Hopefully we never see Colby on the main card again.

 

[Portland8242]

It is just a truly awesome thing when overrated rank squatting Divas like Colby get ousted from the division.

My goodness we had to put up with that dumbshit a lot longer than we should have.

 

[Last Falconry]

I actually gasped when they showed the screen with the rankings on it. number fucking 6, and based on what? what a stupid thing. if you put a 3 in front of that it would still be too generous