JORGE MASVIDAL and Colby Covington will lastly get to settle their long-running feud later this 12 months.
The 2-time welterweight title challengers will collide on March 5 in the principle occasion of UFC 272 in Las Vegas.
The pair's long-awaited conflict would be the first time a non-title struggle not involving Conor McGregor has headlined a pay-per-view occasion in over SEVEN years.
Masvidal vs Covington, a bout that pits two of the UFC's greatest names in opposition to each other, has been a struggle a number of years within the making.
The pair have been at each other's throats for almost three years following a surprising fallout.
Masvidal, 37, and Covington, 33, had been buddies for the higher a part of a decade and room-mates through the early days of the latter's UFC profession.
However their bromance turned bitter in June 2018 after Covington allegedly did not pay one among Masvidal's coaches for coaching him for his interim welterweight title struggle with Rafael dos Anjos.
The previous buddies' feud received so heated that Covington - who irked various his former team-mates together with his antics - needed to depart American High Crew.
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The 170lb standouts have but to see each other in individual since their notorious bust up and can little doubt present fireworks at their pre-fight press convention.
Final 12 months, Covington instructed MMA journalist James Lynch: “We had been finest buddies, inseparable, lived collectively for a pair years, simply buddies for nearly a decade.
“You suppose we might actually be saying this stuff about one another within the media?
"Like, if I see him within the streets, he’s for positive getting dropped on his head and he’s going to the hospital.
"He’s not going to have the ability to afford his hospital payments. I would like the UFC to pay for them once I beat him within the octagon.
"So I don’t wish to should do it within the streets. “
“However this can be a private struggle, James. That is as actual because it will get, just like the UFC’s saying goes.
"And anyone that thinks we’re nonetheless buddies, man, I don’t know what they’re pondering, man.
"They have to be smoking some good weed or one thing.”
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Earlier within the 12 months, Masvidal instructed ESPN: "Colby is that one individual, and I all the time say this, that wherever I see him it is a free pay-per-view proper there.
"And he is aware of that. I received kicked out of the health club for making an attempt to assault him one time.
"After which I used to go to the spots he used to frequent rather a lot and received the police referred to as on me."
Each males will enter their eagerly-anticipated grudge match on the again of losses to welterweight king Kamaru Usman, who stopped Masvidal at UFC 261 final April and registered a unanimous choice over Covington at UFC 268 the next October.
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