Colby Covington Blasts Kamaru Usman For Faking the Nut Shot in Round 2

Colby Covington showed up on Ariel Helwani’s show for the first time since his loss to Kamaru Usman. He talked about some interesting aspects of his fight with the welterweight champion at UFC 245.

The fight between Covington and Usman was a pretty close one up until the final minutes where Usman scored a knock down and asserted his dominance. However, Usman and Covington were even on the scorecards going into the final round. While Colby was landing more volume, Usman was landing more power punches. But there were some moments in the fights that possibly changed the complexion of the fight.

Did Usman faked not the nut shot in round 2

And of course, we are talking about the controversial nut shot and the eye poke that Usman suffered during his fight against Covington. The first round was pretty even. However, Covington landed more significant strikes. In the second round, Covington started picking up the pace and he was pouring it on Usman until the fight was stopped by referee Marc Goddard.

Even though it was clear that Covington hit Usman to the liver, Usman complained of a nut shot and thus got some valuable time off from the fight. Covington stated:

“In the second round, that’s a huge momentum shift when I kick him in the liver and ‘Marty Fakenewsman’ says ‘oh it’s a nut shot,’ and he looks for Marc Goddard because he’s literally about to fold up because his organs are shutting down on him, and he wants to quit the fight,” Covington said. “‘Oh Marc Goddard save me, nut shot, nut shot!’ Give him a couple of minutes to recover. That’s a huge momentum shift.”

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Colby Covington calls out Kamaru Usman for faking eye pokes

According to Colby Covington, Usman also faked an eye poke in the third round. While Usman was hit in his left eye he complained to the referee that he was poked in his right eye. Covington explained:

“I kick him in the right side of the head and land a high kick and wobble him,” Covington said. “He’s sliding on the Octagon with his feet and I go to chamber another kick and I barely maybe grazed my pinky across his eye — ‘Oh, eye poke!’ — but he doesn’t even sell the eye that I poked, the left eye. He sells the right eye! That’s how bad of an actor ‘Marty Fakenewsman’ is.

“When the doctor comes in, (he said), “Oh, my right eye,” (and) he’s blinking. Dude, go look at the video. I supposedly put the pinky in his left eye, but he’s selling for the right eye. Why’s he doing that? Here’s another life raft that Marc ‘Not So’ Goddard gives him and lets him get another break.

According to Covington, Usman was making these excuses so that he could take time offs and change the momentum of the fight. Well, the damage has been done and Usman still has the title after an absolute war with Colby Covington. However, Covington seemed unhappy because he was not let to fight a fair fight.