It's one of the most familiar sports narratives: an athlete on a quest to prove the pundits wrong.
Sometimes, though, the pundits get it right.
The latter happened Saturday in the main event at UFC 272. And as a result, it appears we're all stuck with Colby "Chaos" Covington for the foreseeable future.
That blood feud with Jorge Masvidal was a lot more potent in the news cycle than the actual field of competition. Covington battered, bullied and belittled his former friend over five rounds that started to run together sometime around the middle of the first.