After jawing at each other for a number of years, welterweight standouts Colby Covington and Tyron Woodley are finally set to share the Octagon together this weekend in Las Vegas.
For Covington, this is his first appearance since coming up short in his bid to win the welterweight belt from reigning champ Kamaru Usman last December and an opportunity to instantly put himself back in the thick of the chase by defeating a former champion. When he’s at his best, the 32-year-old Covington is an unrelenting pressure fighter who mixes high-volume striking with tenacious wrestling to drown and suffocate opponents, and he showed in the bout with Usman that he’s the kind of tenacious character that isn’t going to go away easily, ever.