Jorge Masvidal and Colby Covington have turned themselves from long-time friends to mortal enemies.
The bad blood between the former American Top Team teammates started when Masvidal was considered as a potential replacement for the scrapped title fight between Covington and reigning champion, Kamaru Usman.
“The state of my relationship with Jorge Masvidal is, he’s the type of guy that when you’re doing something for him, yeah he’ll use you,” Covington told Ariel Helwani in a previous interview, per MMA News.
“As long as you’re doing better than him and you’re not helping him out anymore, then he doesn’t care about you. And that’s exactly what happened.”
“When he got beat up by Demian Maia and then I went in there and I completely destroyed Demian Maia in his home country, that’s when the relationship started to get a little bit different.”
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Jealous
The UFC then went on to pursue the Usman Vs Covington welterweight title clash, which will go down this weekend in Las Vegas at UFC 245, while Masvidal fought Nate Diaz for the ‘baddest motherf***er’ belt.
According to ‘Chaos,’ his friendship with Masvidal has turned sour when the latter started getting jealous of is recent success.
“It was the Demian Maia thing, he started to get bitter and jealous.”
“And then as soon as I won the world title, like I had him in my corner for that fight and he never even showed up that week to help me.”
“He didn’t show up to help warm up with me. I knew he was making it all about himself and he wasn’t truly happy for me and my success. All he cares about is himself.”
“That’s all Jorge is. [He’s] a guy that cares for himself.”
“Now I passed him up, I’m making more money than him, I’m banging hotter chicks than him. I’m doing better in life and he’s just a jealous little b*tch.”
Money Issue
Meanwhile, ‘Gamebred’ claimed Covington has failed to pay their coach during his preparation for a fight with Rafael Dos Anjos.
“He ripped off my coach, that was his coach. We were with him until his title fight. After he won the title, he owed him a certain amount of money, didn’t pay him,”
“I said if you don’t pay him I’m going to f—k you up. My coach got in between it, it doesn’t have to be like this, let it slide, since thing I ain’t talked to the dude.”
“It’s been about a year and some change. It is what it is. All these words they do have consequences because this guy used to sleep on my couch, used to eat off me cause I was the one with the sponsors.”
Amid the bad blood between the welterweight stars, a fan created a video, paying tribute to their lost friendship and it’s pure gold.
Watch it below:
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(Featured Image Source: Twitter/ The Count Bisping)