According to an in-depth post-fight examination conducted by the UFC’s medical staff, Colby Covington suffered a “non-displaced midline mandible fracture in his UFC 245 title fight with Kamaru Usman. These findings essentially established initial reports stating that “Chaos” had broken his jaw mid-bout.
Covington nonetheless denied sustaining such injuries and continues to do so to this day.
“Nothing was broken,” Covington told ESPN’s Brett Okamoto in a recent sitdown. “The only thing that was broken was Marty’s pride that night because he doesn’t want to run this back in round two and he got forced to.