Jon Jones Answers Colby Covington After Gable Steveson’s First Loss
Jon Jones answered Colby Covington on Wednesday after Covington blamed him for Gable Steveson’s first professional loss. Jones posted the reply on X at 5:44 p.m., and it passed 489,000 views. Covington answered two hours later and told Steveson to leave the corner.
“It’s funny that you blame Gable’s loss on my “negative energy,”” Jones wrote. “Meanwhile, I’m an undefeated fighter living the absolute American dream. Before he was caught, our guy had finished every opponent in the first round. Your logic doesn’t make any sense.”
The loss he is defending happened at UFC 331 in Los Angeles. Sean Sharaf knocked Steveson out in 12 seconds at Crypto.com Arena. Steveson entered 4-0, with all four wins finished in the first round, and left 4-1. He was gone from the cage before the result was read. Jones later wrote that the early exit was his call, and that he took Steveson straight back to be checked.
Covington had already put the finish on Jones. On Submission Radio he said he saw the loss coming, called Jones bad energy, and told Steveson to cut him and find a new camp. On Ariel Helwani’s show he went further and told Steveson to get Jones out of the corner.
Jones treated that as the argument. “I also find it funny that you, of all people, are commenting on my supposedly negative energy,” he wrote. “I travel the world alone and get mobbed by fans, while you need full-time security in your own country.”
He called the interviews a pattern. “You come out once a quarter to do an interview about me and what a terrible person I am. Boy, you’re obsessed with me. A blind man could see that.
” A published version of the same reply also aimed Covington at Kamaru Usman. “Colby, I think your deep hatred is directed at the wrong Black guy. It was Usman who broke your face, not me.”
The last section went back to the start of the feud. “We started off in the same dorm room, yet I’ve earned and achieved literally ten times more than you have,” Jones wrote. “I genuinely hope that one day you start to feel better. It sucks to even have to address you. … again.”
Jones described himself as undefeated. His official record includes a disqualification loss to Matt Hamill and a no-contest against Daniel Cormier.
Covington did not argue the dorm or the finish count. “The things I say only bother you because they’re true @jonnybones. You’re a narcissistic abusive sociopath,” he wrote. “Your achievements inside the octagon don’t make you a better person outside of it. Those same achievements definitely dont give you the right to abuse women either Jon.”
He then made the loss personal. “At the end of the day I feel for Gable being in this situation… it’s too bad he can’t take punches from heavyweights as well as your wife does.
If Gable really cares about advancing in his career he should leave you and go train with a real man like Daniel Cormier.”
The domestic-violence line is Covington’s, not a finding in the case. Jones has a public record of allegations and cases involving women, and Covington has used that record for years.
Jones did not answer the accusation in the post. He answered the claim that his presence cost Steveson the fight, and he pointed at a prospect who had finished everyone until Sharaf caught him.
Steveson has not said he is leaving the corner. Jones has said he stands by him and expects him back among the UFC heavyweights. Covington, who is defending a Real American Freestyle title against Khamzat Chimaev on November 14 in Abu Dhabi, is not in that camp.
The only decision left on the exchange is Steveson’s. Jones kept the corner. Covington told him to take it to Cormier.
