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A long-awaited welterweight showdown between bitter rivals
could be a little more than one month away.
According to ESPN,
Colby
Covington and Tyron
Woodley have verbally agreed to square off at an Ultimate
Fighting Championship event on Sept. 19. Woodley also announced the
pairing on his Instagram account.
“Champ Camp in session,” Woodley wrote. “[Sept. 19] CockRoach
Covington gets squashed.”
How that affects the UFC event calendar is currently unclear. At
the moment, UFC 253 — headlined by a middleweight title tilt
between Israel
Adesanya and Paulo
Henrique Costa — is slated for that same date at the UFC Apex
in Las Vegas. However, ESPN is reporting that card could
potentially get moved to Sept. 26 in Abu Dhabi, while Covington vs.
Woodley would headline the Sept. 19 bill.
Covington and Woodley developed a rivalry from their time training
together at American Top Team in Coconut Creek, Florida. Covington
captured the interim 170-pound belt in June 2018 and was supposed
to face Woodley in a title unification bout at UFC 228, but sinus
surgery prevented “Chaos” from competing on that card. Covington
was ultimately stripped of the interim crown.
Covington took a seven-bout winning streak into his most recent
outing, a title bout with Kamaru
Usman at UFC 245. The 32-year-old fell to Usman via fifth-round
TKO in a “Fight of the Year” candidate. Covington owns notable wins
over the likes of Robbie
Lawler, Rafael dos
Anjos and Dong Hyun
Kim, among others.
After relinquishing the belt to Usman in a lopsided loss at UFC
235, Woodley returned to action for the first time in more than a
year at UFC on ESPN 9, where he dropped another clear-cut decision
against Gilbert
Burns on May 30. Prior to that, Woodley had four successful
title defenses at 170 pounds from November 2016 to September
2018.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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