{"id":367648,"date":"2026-07-17T11:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=367648"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:03:28","slug":"colby-covington-defends-conor-mcgregor-from-fraud-dustin-poirier-amid-bitter-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/colby-covington-defends-conor-mcgregor-from-fraud-dustin-poirier-amid-bitter-feud\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington defends Conor McGregor from \u2018fraud\u2019 Dustin Poirier amid bitter feud"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Colby Covington has jumped to the defence of Conor McGregor after his defeat in his UFC comeback over the weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fans could also be surprised to see Covington and McGregor team up, but they’ve a mutual enemy in the shape of Dustin Poirier. When the previous BMF champion and interim lightweight title holder made fun of his rival\u2019s disappointing UFC 329 return, it irked his old teammate.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s next for Conor McGregor after UFC 329?<\/h3>\n

‘Notorious’ suffered a serious knee injury moments into his comeback fight against Max Holloway.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Poirier has been going through some issues in his personal lifetime of late, particularly when he was arrested for public intoxication last month. And Covington drew on that have as he mocked his former training partner.<\/p>\n

Colby Covington launches scathing attack on Dustin Poirier<\/h2>\n

After watching Conor McGregor\u2019s humiliating return to motion, Colby Covington told MMAFighting that he refuses to take shots at a fellow fighter while he’s at a low point. He even took aim at Dustin Poirier for doing so when he mocked the Irishman\u2019s defeat in a recent podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cMcGregor remains to be a primary ballot Hall of Famer and the most important star the game\u2019s ever seen,\u201d Covington explained. \u201cSo I\u2019m not going to kick him while he\u2019s down, I\u2019m not going to be like that fraud Dustin soy boy, Louisiana swamp trash Poirier.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to kick him while he\u2019s down, especially a man that made Dustin\u2019s profession. He was giving Dustin great advice. He said, \u2018Bro, get this on top of things, otherwise, your life\u2019s going to spiral uncontrolled\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see Dustin, he\u2019s cussing at a cop, calling the little desk ladies which can be just sitting there and minding their very own business, doing their job, calling them h\u2013s multiple times. It\u2019s disgusting. Dustin Poirier is the most important fake nice guy I\u2019ve ever seen in my life.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019ve been telling people for years. I\u2019ve been saying Dustin\u2019s a fake nice guy. He plays a pleasant guy on camera, but off camera, he\u2019s a chunk of s\u2014 person. He\u2019s a deadbeat father, and the way ironic we\u2019re on Father\u2019s Day and he was on the market cussing out cops and calling girls h\u2013s.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that I feel of it, Conor\u2019s loss is due to Dustin\u2019s dad\u2019s fault. Every thing that Dustin was saying was his dad\u2019s fault. He wasn\u2019t taking any blame, no accountability. [He] said all it is because of my dad, \u2018Oh my dad this,\u2019 taking no accountability for his own actions, just blaming all of it on his dad.\u201d<\/p>\n

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