“Colby is lying – he didn’t want to fight,” Chimaev said in a video posted on his YouTube channel. “I swear by everything that I have, I swear to God – I agreed to fight four times. Muslims will understand me, I swear by the Koran. They called me four times and I said yes four times. We discussed it with Sean Shelby and he knows that we were ready to fight this guy, but it didn’t happen.”
“It’s okay for Colby to lie at a press conference, he does a show, but I can’t lie to people. I’m real, and this guy played too much. When we met at the UFC Institute, he turned away and fled, and I never saw him again. I’m ready to fight anyone, weight doesn’t matter, and I never choose my opponents. Everyone says on the Internet that they are ready to fight Khamzat, but then why am I still sitting without a fight?
UFC President Dana White has officially announced that Colby Covington will next fight UFC welterweight champion Leon Edwards, who successfully defended his title in a rematch with Kamaru Usman at UFC 286 in London, defeating the Nigerian by a majority vote. .
As for Khamzat Chimaev, who occupies the third line in the UFC welterweight rankings, he plans to make a foray into middleweight after Ramadan, where former division champion Robert Whittaker could become his opponent.