Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington Take Shots At Each Other During UFC Press Conference

MMA Junkie reports that during yesterday’s UFC 25th anniversary press conference in Brooklyn, welterweights Colby Covington and Kamaru Usman took shots at each other, even though they’re not scheduled for a fight. Covington will fight at UFC 225 against Rafael dos Anjos for the interim title. Usman, meanwhile, will fight Santiago Ponzinibbio at UFC Fight Night 129. Here’s the exchange:

Usman: “He doesn’t deserve a title shot. Besides Demian Maia, who else (has he beat)? Nobody. And when I ask to fight him, he doesn’t want to fight me.”

Covington: “Keep using your time to promote me. That’s why you’re a mark, (expletive). You ain’t ready for primetime yet, son! That’s why you’re on digital cable, boy! I’m on pay-per-view! Sit your ass down, junior.”

Usman: “You weren’t talking all this trash backstage just now, were you? You act real tough in front of the media. Everybody knows you’re fake. If there’s beef, we can do it. … You know you’re not about that life. You know that. If you were about that life, you would have hollered at me backstage just now. You not about that life. Talk tough up here, but you know I will finish you.”

Covington: You just got dropped by a nobody in your last fight. He’s not even ranked, and he dropped your ass. You had to wrestle-hump and (expletive) bore all these fans. That’s why you’re not on pay-per-view yet.”

Usman: “But I beat the (expletive) out of the guy that nearly took your life in the first round. You see that kind of tap that he did. That was a tap for dear life, because he was about to die in there.”

Covington: “You wish you had what I had, boy. I’ve got zeros next to my bank account. You ain’t got nothing. You’re still fighting on prelims.”