UFC star Colby Covington says Jake Paul \u201chas no honor\u201d but still wants to fight him Amanda Westcott, SHOWTIME \/ YouTube: FULL SEND PODCASTMMA star Colby Covington has called out YouTube boxer Jake Paul, saying he\u2019s interested in a fight with the Problem Child despite the influencer\u2019s lack of \u201chonor.\u201d YouTube group \u2018the NELK Boys\u2019 sat down with American mixed martial artist Colby Covington to bend his ear on his time in the UFC \u2014 as well as his opinions on the world of influencer boxing. This interview was recorded before Covington\u2019s restaurant scrap with fellow UFC fighter Jorge Masvidal weeks after their UFC 272 bout on March 5, where Covington notably took home the win. Covington later pressed charges against Masvidal, stating he\u2019d suffered a broken tooth, an abrasion on his wrist, and $15,000 of damages to his $90k Rolex wristwatch as a result of the scuffle. ARREST: MBPD Detectives have arrested and charged Jorge Masvidal with: \u2013 Aggravated Battery w\/Mask \u2013 Felony Criminal MischiefSee reports and booking photo below for more details. pic.twitter.com\/OkW6LbZQHn \u2014 Miami Beach Police (@MiamiBeachPD) March 24, 2022 Jake Paul compared the incident to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars. As of yet, Rock has not pressed charges against Will for the on-screen assault. \u201cChris Rock didn\u2019t press charges but Colby Covington did lol,\u201d he wrote in a scathing Tweet. \u201cJust shows how much of a p**sy Colby is. Make Fighters Not Soft Again.\u201d Chris Rock didn\u2019t press charges but Colby Covington did lol. Just shows how much of a pussy Colby is. Make Fighters Not Soft Again. \u2014 Jake Paul (@jakepaul) March 28, 2022 Colby Covington claims Jake Paul \u201chas no honor.\u201d However, it looks like Covington was interested in taking on the Problem Child before he aired his opinion to social media, as told in his interview with the NELK Boys recorded prior to the March 28 tweet. \u201cHe wouldn\u2019t want to fight me,\u201d Covington said. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t want to fight a real fighter. He wants to look for guys that are washed up and past their time. He doesn\u2019t want to fight a young, hungry lion like me. \u2026I\u2019d be interested (in fighting Paul), but he\u2019s not gonna be interested.\u201d That\u2019s not all; Covington even claimed that Paul had, at one point, tried to train with him before Jake changed his tune to spar with Jorge, instead. \u201cHe was trying to play buddy-buddy with me,\u201d he added. \u201cHe was hitting me up in the DMs after I beat Woodley, and he was like, \u2018Oh, yo bro, we should train sometime in Miami, blah, blah, blah.\u2019 \u201d \u201cBut then he started training with Jorge and you saw how that got sour, and he kinda turned his back and kinda threw him under the bus\u2026 The guy has no integrity. He has no honor. I can\u2019t respect someone like that.\u201d Thus far, Paul has yet to respond to Covington\u2019s interests in a possible bout \u2014 but Jake recently announced another fight sometime on the horizon, and with an opponent as yet unannounced, anything is possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UFC star Colby Covington says Jake Paul \u201chas no honor\u201d but still wants to fight him Amanda Westcott, SHOWTIME \/ YouTube: FULL SEND PODCASTMMA star Colby Covington has called out YouTube boxer Jake Paul, saying he\u2019s interested in a fight with the Problem Child despite the influencer\u2019s lack of \u201chonor.\u201d YouTube group \u2018the NELK Boys\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}