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UFC Welterweight Champion Leon Edwards defeated former UFC Interim Welterweight Champion Colby Covington by unanimous decision in the main event of UFC 296.
Covington still hasn’t stopped badmouthing Edwards, even after the loss, and now the fighter has stated that Edwards’ late father is on the same level as Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
"I'm doubling down," Covington said on the PBD podcast (transcript via Sam of Marca). "Why would I feel bad for anything I say about someone who is a criminal and put so much pain in people's lives? So I'm not going to feel bad for someone like that just like Hitler, he was a terrible person. I'm not comparing him to Hitler but I'm saying he's at the same level of bad guy."
The fighter had previously said that Edwards’ father is in hell, which led to Edwards throwing a water bottle at Covington during the pre-fight press conference.
Another claim that Covington is making is that Edwards’ late father was a drug lord, sex trafficker, a murdered and a scumbag.
"What about all the victims of the harm that Leon's father did to them? He was a sex trafficker, he was a drug lord, he killed people, the guy's a scumbag, why would I feel bad for that, I have no sympathy for that guy," he previously said. "What about all the victims' families who have to live on right now, live through all the things that he did to them, how he tormented those people? So, no I don't feel bad for him, the truth hurts and that's why people hate me, I'm not afraid to say the truth and the truth is what always stings the worst."
