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Published 12:55 17 Apr 2018 BST
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"I flew to New York to have the fight announced in Rio, but I think was because of that Conor thing. After that incident with the bus and all of that I think the UFC was kind of afraid. Colby's been talking a lot of crap about Brazilians and if something happened there, the security couldn't hold one guy, how could they hold a Brazilian crowd going crazy because of the stuff this guy has been saying? I think it was because of that, you know?"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=479l-lMFDh4
"Brazil, you're a dump. All you filthy animals suck... we ain't translating tonight, baby."That iconic line led to a cartoonish beef with Fabricio Werdum which culminated in the former heavyweight champion hurling a boomerang at him in Australia. Dos Anjos actually wore a boomerang t-shirt at the 25th anniversary presser in reference to this altercation.
"Especially me getting the belt there, it would be really cool. The one thing, Rio is not Sao Paulo. The crowd in Sao Paulo is different to the crowd in Rio. Rio people are more savage (laughs)... Some fans, they don’t understand the business. People get offended, you know? They get offended by, some guy comes to your country and curses everybody and talks bad about the whole crowd. People get upset, and I get it. I get it. I understand them.”By the sounds of it, not travelling to Brazil is a good thing for Covington's safety. Among the Brazilian MMA community, the most nationalistic of all combat sports fans, he's public enemy number one.
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