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Tabloid fodder - UFC 272: Covington vs Masvidal has gotten too personal and too petty

It won’t be a shock to pick up The Hollywood Reporter or Variety and read about how Andy Cohen and Bravo have inked Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal to a deal to star in a “Real UFC Fighters of Miami” reality program.

Covington and Masvidal have turned what was supposed to be a grudge match at UFC 272 into tabloid fodder. What started as “these two guys don’t like each other” has devolved into attacks against families, playground taunts and childish insolence.

We’d been told by Masvidal that the friendship between Covington and himself dissolved when Covington refused to pay his striking coach an agreed upon fee.