Fighter relationships in MMA are always a precarious thing. The training partner an athlete works with today just may become the opponent they fight tomorrow. And while some fighters have gone on record saying they’d never be willing to fight the people they consider friends and teammates, relationships have a habit of being transitory. Just ask Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal.
Back in 2017, when ‘Chaos’ was making his first push toward title contention, Masvidal told MMA Junkie Radio, “The goal’s still the same: not fight each other and destroy everybody else.” Fast forward a couple years, and ‘Gamebred’ is just one of several voices (including Dustin Poirier and Joanna Jedrzejczyk) coming out of Covington’s home camp, American Top Team, publicly denouncing their teammate.