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Former UFC Interim Welterweight Champion Colby Covington suffered a unanimous decision loss to UFC Welterweight Champion Leon Edwards in the main event of UFC 296.
A defeated Covington may have been hampered by an injury in the fight, as Covington says he broke his foot within the first minute of the first round of their title fight.
“I broke my foot in like the first 30 seconds of the fight, that people don’t know about yet – the X-rays will start coming out,” Covington said on the PBD podcast (transcript via Damon Martin of MMA Fighting). “The first minute of the fight. I have the picture on my phone, the exact moment where it landed on his elbow. You feel it swelling up. At the end of the first round, you’re like man that hurts. Usually I sit on the stool, and I didn’t want to sit down on the stool. Landed right on the right elbow, the top of the foot.”
Covington is now 0-3-0 when fighting for a UFC title, but still sits at #5 in the UFC Welterweight Division rankings.
The fighter believes that the broken foot truly affected his performance against Edwards in the UFC 296 main event.
“I wasn’t really able to step on it, so that’s why he was landing a couple of kicks on my right thigh,” Covington said. “Because my left foot was broken, so I was kind of putting all my weight on my right thigh. That’s terrible. Towards the end of the fight, I was like just deal with the pain and start lifting up your right leg and start checking some of these kicks. He didn’t start kicking after the fourth round, because he was feeling that I was catching his timing with the kicks, and he didn’t want to break his leg on my knee.”
