Colby Covington is a huge fan of Conor McGregor and does not like Dustin Poirier, as many fans are well aware of the fact. Colby Covington was also spotted with Donald Trump’s wife recently.
Dan Lambert recently spoke to Low Kick MMA, where he admitted that Covington’s persona got too out of hand and possibly affected American Top Team and led to his departure.
“I have no problems with Colby. I don’t think he has any problems with me. He just… His personality and who he was and how he chose to promote himself just doesn’t really mesh with having a big gym with a hundred fighters in it,” Lambert explained.
“If Colby had stuck to shitting on Brazil and maybe supporting the presidential nominee of his choice, he would’ve been fine in the gym. But when you start attacking other people in your gym and coming at other people that aren’t even in your weight class or even in your gender of fighting, it doesn’t make for a comfortable situation in the gym.
“And I think he’s better off being in a smaller gym that can focus on him and he can keep his schtick going with everybody else in the world.
“I talked to Colby after the fight (against Dong Hyun Kim) in the locker room right there, I said, ‘Hey, they agreed to let you fight Maia in Brazil and their plan right now is to not re-sign you,” he recalled. “So you’re probably not gonna change the way you fight overnight, but you can change some other things.
“We talked and made adjustments and he augmented his gimmick to a certain extent, pumped up the personality a little bit. Maybe too much so in some people’s opinions and certain circumstances, but it’s worked for him.”
