By Raphael Garcia
At UFC Fight Night 111, Colby Covington put the welterweight division on notice. The 29-year-old American Top Team fighter earned his most important victory to date and did so in a dominating fashion over Dong Hyun Kim. If they weren’t already, the rest of the welterweight division needs to pay attention to Covington or they will find themselves on the wrong side of his surge towards the top.
Covington is yet another entry into the long line of successful NCAA wrestlers that have found themselves transitioning to mixed martial arts. While Covington didn’t win a wrestling title during his time at Oregon State University, his abilities on the mat did not go unrecognized. That same aggressive style has pushed him to build a 12-1 professional MMA record at a time when the welterweight division is wide open for the taking.
“I’m dominating these guys. I just dominated the number 7 guy in the world. No one’s dominated him like this. This is officially the embarrassment tour,” Covington said as reported by Tristen Critchfield of Sherdog. “I completely embarrassed him in Asia tonight, and I’m going to keep embarrassing the whole division. It doesn’t matter how I beat them. The way I’m beating them, this is easy money bro.”

Although Covington’s name isn’t mentioned alongside those on the organization’s Top 15 list, that will undoubtedly change soon, as the man known as “Chaos” plans to bring just that to his peers. With this win at UFC Fight Night 111, no one should be surprised if Covington is placed into a big fight in the near future, and his opponents can’t feign ignorance as the embarrassment tour hits full stride.

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