LAS VEGAS – Except for a number of exceptions (Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler involves thoughts), it’s lengthy been custom that opposing coaches on “The Final Fighter” battle one another on the finish of their season.
With retired UFC Corridor of Famers Daniel Cormier and Chael Sonnen filling these roles on “TUF 33” this 12 months, it’ll be one other season of the present that doesn’t culminate with a coaches battle. However Cormier and Sonnen imagine they’ve discovered another that may intrigue battle followers.
“So Chael and I are speaking, and we’re going, I’ve Michael Chiesa on my teaching workers. Chael has Colby Covington on his teaching workers. Why don’t they only battle after which Chael and I coach them?” Cormier advised reporters, together with MMA Junkie, throughout Wednesday’s “TUF 33” media day earlier than filming begins. “That’s about as shut as we’d each get to going again into the octagon. Why don’t these dudes simply battle one another?”
It’s not a foul thought.
Covington and Chiesa have exchanged phrases with one another earlier than. Final August, Chiesa expressed his want to battle Covington to find out the UFC’s “finest welterweight within the Pacific Northwest.” Covington grew up in Oregon; Chiesa in Washington.
Come to consider it, the thought appears virtually too good.
“I can’t imagine no one is suggesting that,” Sonnen stated. “That’s the plain choose. I don’t suppose Colby and Chiesa are gonna get via this course of with out discovering one another.”
Chiesa and Covington most not too long ago competed this previous December. At UFC 310, Chiesa, 37, submitted Max Griffin to win his second battle in a row. One week later, Covington, 36, was crushed up badly by Joaquin Buckley and misplaced the UFC on ESPN 63 foremost occasion by third-round harm TKO for his second consecutive defeat. Covington is 2-4 in his previous six bouts relationship again to December 2019.
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