Colby Covington is not sold on Michael Page after UFC 299.
Page (22-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) became a ranked welterweight after he frustrated Kevin Holland (25-11 MMA, 12-8 UFC) en route to a unanimous decision win in his promotional debut this past Saturday.
As expected, former multiple-time title challenger Covington (17-4 MMA, 12-4 UFC) was critical in his analysis of “MVP’s” win over Holland.
“The guy’s trash,” Covington told Submission Radio. “He’s a bum. I mean, look at his last fight before that. He got beat by a guy that fights in Indian casinos. He got beat by Mike Perry. We saw how the Mike Perry experience ended up in the UFC – guy getting his nose crooked, smashed and knocked out like three or four times in a row. It just shows: The kid’s just hyped. They’re trying to hype him up.
“They’re giving him a guy in Kevin Holland who’s a complete scrub – I mean, 50/50 fighter at best in the division. And that’s all you could do? Just that pathetic fight and that pathetic walkout? Like, that wasn’t entertaining, man. It doesn’t work. It only works when you’re good and you’re at the top of the division, not when you’re fighting scrubs that shouldn’t even be fighting in the UFC in the first place. So I didn’t make anything of it. I just saw another easy money paycheck if the UFC ever wants to give me that in the future.”
Covington now is angling for Ian Machado Garry after falling short against welterweight champion Leon Edwards this past December at UFC 296.
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Colby Covington not impressed with ‘bum’ Michael Page’s UFC debut: ‘The guy’s trash’