Colby Covington is pleased to see Tony Ferguson get his first fight sports activities win in over six years, however that doesn’t imply he ought to proceed preventing.
Ferguson picked up a third-round TKO win over Salt Papi at Misfits Boxing 22 this previous Saturday. After shedding the primary two rounds, Ferguson landed a flurry of punches on Papi, who correctly defending himself, earlier than the referee stepped in and stopped the struggle.
Now that Ferguson has gotten his hand raised once more, Covington feels he ought to now name it a profession on a victory,
“Glad for him,” Covington stated on his YouTube channel. “Tremendous congratulations to Tony for really profitable a struggle. Despite the fact that it was in opposition to some influencer that has no fight sports activities expertise, a win’s a win.
“My recommendation to Tony is stop when you’re forward and trip off into the sundown. Go take pleasure in time with your loved ones, brother. In the event you get again in there once more, you’re going to get damage, and nobody needs to see you get damage, Tony, as a result of we such as you. No extra hits to the pinnacle, and no extra cause to provide Duck-Lip [Justin] Gaethje a run for his cash for King of CTE.”
Ferguson snapped an eight-fight shedding streak, which included losses to Justin Gaethje, Charles Oliveira, Paddy Pimblett, Michael Chandler, and Nate Diaz. The previous interim light-weight champ’s most up-to-date win previous to this previous Saturday was a physician’s stoppage TKO win over Donald Cerrone at UFC 238 in June 2019.
Covington and Ferguson have had a bizarre relationship — together with a wacky back-and-forth on the UFC 296 pre-fight press convention the place each had been verbally at one another’s throats, then being buddies on Crew America 45 seconds later.
“I believe we’re buddies, I don’t realize it went so many various methods,” Covington stated. “We had been buddies, we had been enemies, we had been buddies, after which we had been enemies once more. However Crew USA, brother.”
