Colby Covington hasn’t been seen within the cage since a one-sided title combat loss to Leon Edwards in December 2023. Since then he’s been nursing a badly damaged foot, and has turned down fights as he prepares for a strategic return to the welterweight division.
Within the meantime, although, he’s taken the time to movie a promotional video with rapper Lil Pump that exhibits he’s not planning on giving up his mantle as essentially the most villainous fighter on the UFC’s roster.
A clip from an obvious grappling session with Lil Pump exhibits Covington catching the rapper in a choke and holding onto it as his helpless opponent faucets a number of instances. Fairly than releasing the maintain, Covington readjusts and places the flailing Lil Pump to sleep.
“Have a look at his eyes, bro” Covington says as somebody lifts the rapper’s legs as much as get blood again into his mind. “He’s out. Have a look at his eyes. Holy!”
As Lil Pump regains consciousness and laughs, somebody says “You went to sleep. For actual.”
“Don’t miss my subsequent kick stream,” Lil Pump declared on his Instagram alongside one other view of the incident. “It’s getting crazier by the day. Don’t do that at house, I acquired put to sleep.”
Lil Pump is on a one month break from a world tour that has taken him from Australia to throughout Europe. In every week he’ll be performing in California earlier than packing up and heading to Hong Kong, Nepal, and Thailand. MMA has turn into a ardour for the 24-year-old, and in August he shared footage coaching with Colby, catching “Chaos” in his personal choke.
“I’m 1-0 MMA, who ought to I combat subsequent?” he captioned the video.
“Coming for blood within the rematch,” Covington replied within the feedback.
It appears he wasn’t kidding.
