This weekend Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal are scheduled to meet in the main event of UFC 272. The top welterweights will be hoping a win gets them closer to another UFC title shot. However, in this case, bad blood and bragging rights might be the key motivating factor.
Covington and Masvidal are former teammates and the build-up for their contest has included more trash talk than most other fights. Despite the soap opera around the bout, the outcome will likely solidify one fighter as the second best fighter in their division.
The best fighter at 170 lbs is of course champion Kamaru Usman, who has dispatched of both Covington and Masvidal, twice.