If you haven’t heard, Colby Covington did a thing earlier this week, accepting a fight with Robbie Lawler at UFC Newark. It was a weird decision because Covington was the presumptive number one contender for Kamaru Usman’s welterweight title. Moreover, the two have already been building the potential fight with outside-the-cage shenanigans that started almost immediately after Usman won the belt. Now, that is all in jeopardy and the UFC welterweight champion is left shaking his head at what happened.
“Agh. I literally just smacked my head,” Usman told TMZ Sports.