NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 06: Kamaru Usman celebrates after his decision victory over Colby Covington in their welterweight title bout during the UFC 268 event at Madison Square Garden on November 06, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images)
See what fellow fighters thought of the UFC 268 main event, which saw Kamaru Usman defeat Colby Covington
Kamaru Usman continues to build his path to greatness, successfully retaining the UFC welterweight championship with a unanimous decision win over Colby Covington in the main event of UFC 268.
Covington was patient to start off the fight, as Usman landed several shots and stopped one of Covington’s takedown attempts in the first, while also landing one of his own. Usman then continued his striking success and held Covington’s wrestling attempts off again before dropping Covington twice in the closing seconds of the second.
The third round, however, proved to be the fight’s turning point. Covington came out and started to land several hard combinations and flurries on the defending champ, even landing a (disputed) takedown on Usman before the end of the third.
Covington continued to land the stronger strikes in the fourth round and battled well in a close final round.
Pros react to Kamaru Usman retaining UFC welterweight championship with unanimous decision win over Colby Covington
This marked the second time Usman and Covington fought one another in a title bout, with Usman scoring a fifth-round TKO of Covington back at UFC 245 in December 2019 to retain the belt in a back-and-forth collision.
Usman defended the welterweight strap three times between these two Covington bouts, defeating Jorge Masvidal by decision at UFC 251, Gilbert Burns via third-round TKO at UFC 258 and Masvidal by second-round knockout at UFC 261.
Covington rebounded from the UFC 245 loss with a one-sided, fifth-round TKO of Tyron Woodley at UFC Vegas 11 in September 2020.
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