Former two-time UFC title challenger, Jorge Masvidal, is not happy that the promotion is planning on granting his bitter rival and former interim welterweight champ, Colby Covington, the next title shot at 170 pounds.
Masvidal spoke with reporters at Wednesday's UFC 287 media day in Miami, Florida ahead of his co-main event matchup against top contender, Gilbert Burns, this weekend and expressed his frustrations over Covington getting the next shot at UFC welterweight champion, Leon Edwards' title. The 38-year-old even mentioned that he would sue the promotion if Covington were to compete against Edwards, amid the former alleging that he suffered a brain injury following a March 2022 altercation with Masvidal.
“I currently have three felonies because this b*tch Colby says I gave him a brain injury, so how the f*ck is he going to fight for any title, is what I want to know,” Masvidal said (h/t MMA Fighting). “The UFC is going to get sued if that guy goes in there and something like that happens. Because supposedly, allegedly, because I didn’t do sh*t, he says I gave him a brain injury. I didn’t do sh*t to him. That dude has a brain injury, so he's claiming. I got three felonies on my head because this guy is saying, 'I have a brain injury.' I'm pretty sure like on a medical level, you can't fight if you've got a brain injury. So, like always, this guy is full of s---. I'm no doctor or nothing, but whatever."
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