Regardless of struggling a defeat in his return final month, Colby Covington has revealed skilled wrestling icon, Hulk Hogan gave him a pre-fight motivational speech forward of his UFC Struggle Evening Orlando return — resulting in the “greatest walkout” of his tenure within the promotion, in keeping with the Clovis native.
Covington, a former interim welterweight champion and present quantity 9 ranked divisional contender, headlined UFC Struggle Evening Orlando final month towards the surging, Joaquin Buckley — dropping an eventual third spherical physician’s stoppage TKO loss towards the St. Louis contender.
Colby Covington reveals Hulk Hogan impressed him forward of UFC Orlando
And flanked to the Octagon by former title challenger, Chael Sonnen — who served in his nook in his return to ‘The Sunshine State’, Covington revealed former WWE (World Wrestling Leisure) world icon Hogan offered him with a motivational speech backstage forward of the primary occasion conflict.
“It was a dream come true. You know, I grew up watching Hulk,” Colby Covington informed Submission Radio throughout a current interview. “Hulkamania was at all times on in my family. And, , all of the legend that he’s carried out within the fight sports activities world—man, it was simply so humbling to have him in my locker room.
The man’s, , speaking to me, praying for me earlier than my struggle, giving me motivation,” Colby Covington defined. To see this man, this larger-than-life determine, being there to assist me, giving his time to me, and giving me a pep discuss earlier than we walked out—nothing will ever examine to that. That was the best walkout of my profession.”
Welcoming a possible return on the middleweight restrict later this annum, Covington weighed up a possible pairing with former champion and incoming UFC 312 headliner and title chaser, Sean Strickland — claiming the veteran was “nothing special” within the grand scheme of preventing.
“I think I’ve just been so focused on welterweight for so long that, you know, I never let my eyes get off of the, you know, the couple of fights that I’m looking at at welterweight,” Colby Covington informed. However, , I imply, the Sean Strickland struggle’s at all times attention-grabbing.
