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Jon Jones Roasts ‘Clown’ Colby Covington for Ditching Training to Help Trump Campaign: ‘At Least He Saw Me Win’

Jon Jones threw some shade at Colby Covington following the UFC’s final event of the year.

Chaos’ returned to the Octagon for a welterweight headliner against streaking knockout artist Joaquin Buckley at UFC Tampa on Saturday night. Covington lost the bout via a third-round doctor’s stoppage TKO after sustaining a particularly nasty cut on his right eyelid.

The defeat dropped him to 2-6 in his last eight fights and has Covington barely clinging on to a spot in the division’s top 10.

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Jon Jones Roasts 'Clown' Colby Covington for Ditching Training to Help Trump Campaign: 'At Least He Saw Me Win' 2

Following the fight, Covington claimed that his lackluster performance against ‘New Mansa’ was due to him forgoing a training camp in favor of helping his friend Donald Trump campaign for re-election.