Covington receives call from Trump after UFC win, slams BLM
Al JazeeraColby Covington, an outspoken and controversial Trump supporter, wins fifth-round TKO over Tyron Woodley in Las Vegas. “I’m proud of you man, I’m a big fan and I’m proud of you,” Trump told Covington, who was wearing a “Keep America Great” hat, and had put the supposedly spontaneous call on speakerphone. Woodley, a former UFC welterweight champion, wore Black Lives Matter shirts to pre-fight press appearances as well as a hat emblazoned with the slogan “Make racists catch the fade again”, and he chose to reply to all questions from media in a news conference leading up to the fight with a variation of “Black Lives Matter”. “I’m just excited that Black Lives Matter,” Woodley said when asked about the fight. “ is going to upset a lot of people and embolden a lot of people.” Several UFC fighters have spoken out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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