Colby Covington has built a reputation based as much on trash talk as his fighting abilities, but one family believes he’s crossed well past the line of decency. The surviving daughters of Blackzilians founder Glenn Robinson, who died in September 2018 , believe Covington went too far in trying to promote next week’s UFC 245 clash with welterweight champion Kamaru Usman, who trained with the Blackzilians for much of his career. At a November press conference in New York, Covington accused Usman of playing a role in Robinson’s death , saying that he “gave Glenn a heart attack from all those years you were ducking me.” It’s a line Covington has used before, but this time he punctuated it with an even more audacious statement, claiming that Robinson would be “watching from hell on Dec. 14.” Robinson’s daughters, who requested their names be withheld, reached out to MMA Junkie to offer a public reply. While admitting they didn’t necessarily want to take part in Covington’s promotional strategy, Robinson’s daughters said they felt compelled to speak out on behalf of their father. “It saddens us to even have to make a statement regarding a previous distasteful comment Colby Covington made suggesting our late father, Glenn Robinson, will be watching his upcoming fight from hell.
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