“Bad Decision You Could Have Had” – Despite Being Concerned, Gilbert Burns Accepts Colby Covington Is a ‘Smart’ Fighter for His UFC 286 Actions

Any fighter in the world’s biggest MMA promotion aims for the championship. The story is no different for Gilbert Burns. At the moment, White’s decision of Colby Covington to fight against Leon Edwards for the title shot has disturbed the Welterweight division of UFC. Just like Belal Muhammad and Jorge Masvidal, ‘Durinho’ too feels that he deserves a title shot. However, he is not ready to play any crooked games on the promotion. Instead, he wants to hit the octagon, impress the people with his bouts, and then earn the championship. 

Furthermore, Burns believes that Covington has played “smart” which compelled the UFC president, Dana White, to give him a title bout for the third time. Nonetheless, Burns does not want to focus on the drama that’s going around in his division instead, he wants to put his complete focus on his next bout. The 36-year-old is going to lock horns with the BMF Champion at the co-main event of UFC 287 on 9th April.

Gilbert Burns feels Colby Covington is “smart”

Gilbert Burns was talking with Michael Bisping and when asked about Dana White’s new decision, he said, “I Gotta Give It up to Colby, he’s freaking smart. This guy doing good decisions, I gotta give it up to him. Then we’ll see now. Now the pressure is on Dana. He’s in the UFC, he’s on Leon. let’s see. Gotta have an opportunity to make these guys changing the decisions, you know.” 

Talking further on the topic Gilbert said, “I gotta go out there be so impressive that people ‘oh sh*t it might be burn this time right now’ I’m gonna take that but he’s freaking smart I gotta give it out to Colby like man that was the bad decision you could have had.” ‘Durinho’ is eagerly waiting for his bout against Gamebred to prove that he is indeed one of the best Welterweights.

The firm decision of the UFC president

It was during the post-fight press meet of UFC 286, White declared that ‘Chaos’ will be the next opponent of Edwards. The other Welterweights like Belal Muhammad lashed out at the UFC boss for his decision.

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Even the Welterweight champion himself was not ready to fight Covington. Covington lost two out of the four bouts he last fought. Additionally, both the bouts he lost were for the belt against Kamaru Usman. At the moment, the fans need to hold their breath to find out if the clash between Covington and Edwards would come to fruition.

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