Colby Covington “better off being in a smaller gym,” says ATT founder Dan Lambert
UFC welterweight contender Colby Covington is “better off being in a smaller gym,” according to American Top Team founder Dan Lambert.
Covington was a longtime member of ATT in Coconut Creek, Florida, but he left the gym last year, in part after getting into it with teammates such as Jorge Masvidal, Dustin Poirier, and Joanna Jedrzejczyk. Since leaving ATT for MMA Masters, Covington has fought just once, defeating Tyron Woodley via fifth-round TKO in September 2020. That was was good enough in the eyes of the UFC to earn a rematch against welterweight champion Kamaru Usman, and Covington will take on Usman in a rematch at UFC 268.
Speaking to LowKickMMA, Covington’s former manager Lambert explained why his decision to leave ATT is the best for everyone involved, and why going to a smaller gym will ultimately pay off for “Chaos.”
“I’ve talked to him a few times after he left the team. I have no problems with Colby. I don’t think he has any problems with me. He just, you know, his personality and who he was and how he chose to promote himself just doesn’t really mesh with having a big gym with a hundred fighters,” Lambert said of Covington. “If Colby had stuck to sh*tting on Brazil and you know, maybe supporting the presidential nominee of his choice, he would have been fine in the gym. But when you start attacking other people in your gym and commenting on other people that aren’t even your weight class, or even in your gender of fighting it doesn’t make for a comfortable situation in the gym. I think he’s better off being in a smaller gym that can focus on him and he can keep his shtick going with everybody else in the world.”
Do you agree with Dan Lambert that Colby Covington is better off training at a smaller gym in comparison to a big gym like American Top Team?
