Last month, Colby Covington spoke to Submission Radio to reveal the possible reason for Jorge Masvidal’s UFC 269 withdrawal. At the time, all that was said was that “Gamebred” suffered an “undisclosed injury,” but his former close training partner gave some specifics.
“He fractured his ribs last Saturday in training, and yeah, he’s fragile and he had to pull out of the fight,” Covington said of Masvidal. “It’s too bad that people still love me over at his gym more than they even love him.”
“He went to sparring at the gym and gets his ribs fractured, leaves the gym crying and, you know, goes to the doctor and gets the x-ray, and they determine it’s fractured ribs.