It may not have lasted long, it may never happen again, but for one brief moment it seemed as though Colby Covington and Kamaru Usman buried the hatchet. That small amount of peace came just after the conclusion of UFC 268, the second time the ‘Nigerian Nightmare’ and ‘Chaos’ had shared a full five rounds inside the UFC’s Octagon.
“It was his night, he had a better night,” Covington told Joe Rogan shortly after the reading of the judges decision, and not long after the two men shook hands and made brief pleasantries.
“I’m not surprised,” Usman later said of the interaction, speaking to the assembled press after the bout (transcript via MMA Fighting).