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UFC fighter Colby Covington wore a “Keep America Great” hat during a press conference and it was epic. His attire was in response to Tyron Woodley wearing a hat that read “Make racists catch the fade again.” ahead of their fight this weekend.
.@ColbyCovMMA weighed in on Tyron Woodley's press conference attire and message ahead of #UFCVegas11.
— MMA Junkie (@MMAjunkie) September 17, 2020
Full interview: https://t.co/LIBSNdzZAd pic.twitter.com/nxOXhMHGap
Here’s the original hat worn by Woodley:
Tyron Woodley’s outfit for today’s #UFC Vegas 11 pre-fight press conference.
— Chisanga Malata (@Chisanga_Malata) September 17, 2020
Can’t wait to see Colby Covington’s reaction. pic.twitter.com/xfDUvlg1ub
Seems that pandering for social media attention became celebrity athlete’s favorite pastime. Worth noting that one hat focuses on people they disagree with, while the other focuses on America.
This fight might take the cake as UFC’s most polarizing in years with political bragging rights on the line. Nothing has proven to make people more mad than being disrespected for your beliefs.
Tyron Woodley’s original gesture is just a materialized moment of what half the country believes: Voting for Donald Trump immediately qualifies you as a racist and no dialogue is necessary to explain your position. While it’s disappointing Woodley felt comfortable enough to disrespect Covington for his beliefs, it’s also his job to sell tickets for this fight.
No better way to fire up the Covington-Woodley fan bases than instigating a political war of hats. Part of this is business, but it goes to show where our country is right now.
The fight is this Saturday at and we won’t miss it. #UFCVegas11
Amen, brother!!!
Well yeah Colby wants to be on the winning side and no one ever accused the President of being a racist until he became President how convenient.
The irony that his opponent’s name is Covington, i.e. the name of the place where the media attempted to smear high school kids who supported Trump, while ignoring racist Black Hebrew Israelites or w/e they called themselves, and a stolen valor native American with a drum?
Awesome. Dana White is a MAGA guy I think?
Yeah he definitely is he spoke at the RNC for President Trump.
Wow.. maybe UFC WILL become the national pastime in the 21st century…
won’t happen… I like the UFC but that’s not going to happen. It will never be as big as the NBA, NFL or MLB
Glad he wore it refreshing to see an athlete support our country/President.
Woodley’s slogan is too complicated. When did they first catch the fade?
Love it… Latinos for Trump!!!
“This fight might take the cake as UFC’s most polarizing in years with political bragging rights on the line. Nothing has proven to make people more mad than being disrespected for your beliefs.”
You must not be a UFC fan, completely forgot about the Kamaru Usman vs Covington fight or wrote a pandering article that failed to mention the Usman-Covington fight because it didn’t fit the “Everybody is against MAGA” narrative???
There was a reason Usman broke Covington’s jaw. Go back and look at the pre fight news conferences. Covington was talking mass MAGA ish, gas lighting Usman as a immigrant and Usman used that as fuel to Hulk Smash Covington in the fight.
That’s the truth. Lets not act like Covington is some little MAGA flower. He likes pushing the MAGA stuff and it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with America. And everything to do with the fight.
they’re just trolling for eyeballs. Makes complete sense.
Unfortunately, many folks won’t see it for what it is and will actually fall for it being a black/white issue.