Twitter Reacts To Colby Covington’s Dominant Win Over Robbie Lawler

Colby Covington with a lopsided performance to dominate Robbie Lawler for 5 rounds.

There's no doubt whatsoever: Colby Covington vs. Kamaru Usman has to happen next #UFCNewark

— Damon Martin (@DamonMartin) August 3, 2019

I've wanted to see Covington vs. Usman for years. That fight was thrown around a lot as they were each making their way up the division and I thought it made sense on multiple occasions. As it turns out, great thing it didn't happen. It's now a tremendous championship fight.

— Brett Okamoto (@bokamotoESPN) August 3, 2019

50-45 Covington. Activity levels off the charts, just kept Lawler off-balance all night. Incredibly impressive performance. #UFCNewark

— Shaheen Al-Shatti (@shaunalshatti) August 3, 2019

Let's do it.
Kamaru Usman on a 10 fight UFC winning streak vs. Colby Covington on a 7 fight UFC winning streak. MSG. #UFC244, the 500th #UFC event.

— Jed I. Goodman © (@jedigoodman) August 3, 2019

Fight goes the distance. Covington actually busted Lawler open with a spinning back fist in the last 10 seconds. He celebrates afterwards by leaning over the cage and interacting with the Trump brothers.

— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) August 3, 2019

Colby Covington finishes up a dominant, five-round shutout of Robbie Lawler with a spinning kick/spinning backfist combo that lands flush, as members of the first family look on from front row. What a world.

— Brett Okamoto (@bokamotoESPN) August 3, 2019

Over the course of 25 minutes, no one in MMA has audited Lawler over time like that.

— Luke Thomas🏋️‍♀️ (@lthomasnews) August 3, 2019

Colby Covington. Wow. Pace, cardio and over 600+ strikes landed. That was the best performance of his career to date in my opinion. You can hate on the man, you can't hate on that performance. #UFCNewark

— Chamatkar Sandhu (@SandhuMMA) August 3, 2019

Look, Colby Covington is not a likable individual. He doesn't even do this fairly easy gimmick very well. But he is a very good fighter and he definitely deserves a title shot. He deserved one before now. So let's not overthink this. Usman vs. Covington next please.

— Ben Fowlkes (@benfowlkesMMA) August 3, 2019

Lawler very classy in defeat. Didn’t respond to any of Covington’s barbs. Gave him props.

— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) August 3, 2019

Robbie just let the whole world down 😩

— BONY (@JonnyBones) August 3, 2019

Covington was one step away from doing a Good Lucha Thing™ pic.twitter.com/iBL8Bnl0S3

— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) August 3, 2019

He’s not “playing the heel” … this isn’t Monday night RAW… this is MMA 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

— Jim (@MMA_Jim) August 3, 2019

Congrats @ColbyCovMMA #KAG 🙏🏼🇺🇸

— Tito Ortiz (with the blue check) (@titoortiz) August 3, 2019

The wrestling pressure gassed on @Ruthless_RL striking but @ColbyCovMMA punch like female dog. 600 swats from those pool noodles that kids play with

— Platinum Mike Perry (@PlatinumPerry) August 3, 2019

I want to apologize for losing bc now all of you have to listen to Marty and Colby talk to each other. It will be damn near unbearable.

— Funky (@Benaskren) August 3, 2019

Colby is so sloppy i thought I was watching ufc 1 with those choke attempts 😂 if we fought the cops couldn’t even save him from the beating i would put on his bitch ass.

— Dillon Danis (@dillondanis) August 3, 2019