Faced with a two-fight losing skid following his return over the weekend, Colby Covington seems to dispute his stoppage loss to Joaquin Buckley in their UFC Tampa headliner, claimined he was just “warming up” ahead of the fourth round.
Covington, who returned to action following a year-long hiatus over the weekend at UFC Tampa, took on the streaking, Buckley having most recently headlined UFC 296 in an undisputed welterweight title fight with former gold holder, Leon Edwards.
And suffering a second consecutive loss in his comeback fight against Buckley, Clovis native Covington was forced out of the headliner in the third round — with a sizeable laceration on his right eyelid resulting in a doctor’s stoppage TKO defeat.