The UFC’s “BMF” champ shed no tears over the departure of Colby Covington from American Top Team, calling the ex-interim champ “a cancer” on the gym who will “end up fighting in Indian gaming halls for his life.”
“At the end of the day, he didn’t feel safe in here, man,” Masvidal said to ESPN. “I wonder why.”
Masvidal was one of several fighters at ATT who said they’d settle things with their fists after being the target of Covington’s trash talk. At the peak of the animosity against Covington, the gym’s owner, Dan Lambert, took special pains to keep the brash fighter away from those who might engage in an unsanctioned fight on gym property.