NEW YORK – Welterweight champion Kamaru Usman is just days away from stepping inside the octagon to face a familiar opponent at UFC 268 , and even though he finished Colby Covington in their first meeting, there are improvements he wants to make this time around. Two years ago at UFC 245, Usman (19-1 MMA, 14-0 UFC) took on Covington (16-2 MMA, 11-2 UFC) in an intense fight that was just shy of a minute away from heading to the judges’ scorecards. That was until Usman put together the finishing touches  and turned Covington away with a broken jaw to record his first title defense. Since that fight, Usman has gone on to record three more defenses by defeating Jorge Masvidal twice and former teammate Gilbert Burns. When reflecting on the first fight with Covington, the champ hopes to focus more on execution in their second meeting, which headlines Saturday’s event. “For me, the wrong that I want to right is in that fight, I fought with emotion,” Usman told MMA Junkie and other reporters at media day