Former interim UFC welterweight champion, Colby Covington has claimed he has received “assurances” from promotional brass, including Dana White, that undisputed division kingpin, Leon Edwards will be stripped of his championship gold if he refuses to share the Octagon with him this summer.
Covington, the current #2 ranked welterweight contender, is expected to make his Octagon return this summer in an undisputed title fight against Birmingham native Edwards, with the latter competing just last month.
Headlining UFC 286 against common-foe, Kamaru Usman, Edwards managed to secure his first defense of the throne and bookend his trilogy with the Auchi native in a majority decision victory in the pair’s rubber match.