Kamaru Usman gives credit where credit is due, and he is doing that by praising Colby Covington ahead of their highly anticipated rematch at UFC 268 next month.
The UFC welterweight champion and No. 1 contender will share the Octagon again nearly two years removed from their meeting at UFC 245, where Usman stunned Covington and retained his championship with a fifth-round technical knockout. It was a thrilling ending to a fight shrouded in animosity considering some of the pre-fight and post-fight comments that were and continue to be made by ‘Chaos’. While the ‘Nigerian Nightmare’ is definitely no fan of the adopted shtick of his foe outside of the Octagon, he can still respect his work inside of the Octagon.