Leon Edwards Hits Colby Covington In The Face With A Bottle For Talking About His Dad Who Passed Away

Big UFC event coming up on Saturday night with the UK’s own Leon Edwards taking on Colby Covington in the main event for the UFC welterweight title.

Ahead of that, the two clashed at the UFC 296 press conference, where notorious wind-up merchant Covington made a crack about Edwards’s dead dad. Here’s how that played out:

Leon Edwards just hit Colby in the face with a bottle for talking about his dad who passed away #UFC296 pic.twitter.com/2e3ogwe27D

— OOC MMA (@oocmma) December 15, 2023

Too far? Probably, especially given Leon Edwards’s dad was murdered outside a nightclub when Edwards was 13. But this is the sort of trash talk that takes hype around a fight to another level, and makes it more personal for everyone involved. How awesome would it be now to see Covington KO’d in the middle of the Octagon on Saturday night, after saying something that low and disrespectful?

Wider angle:

Leon Edwards threw a bottle and had to be restrained after Colby Covington made a comment about his late father at the #UFC296 presser. pic.twitter.com/CZ7wjPSfpt

— MMA Junkie (@MMAJunkie) December 15, 2023

Covington is obviously an unreal fighter so it won’t be that easy for Edwards, but it’s guaranteed to be a hell of a scrap whatever happens. Rest of the card looks fairly stacked too, with Liverpool’s Paddy Pimblett in action against the legendary Tony Ferguson: