{"id":21888,"date":"2023-03-24T05:16:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T05:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/24\/jorge-masvidal-has-insider-info-that-he-will-get-title-shot-before-colby-covington\/"},"modified":"2023-03-24T05:16:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T05:16:49","slug":"jorge-masvidal-has-insider-info-that-he-will-get-title-shot-before-colby-covington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/24\/jorge-masvidal-has-insider-info-that-he-will-get-title-shot-before-colby-covington\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal has \u2018insider info\u2019 that he will get title shot before Colby Covington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot riding on Jorge Masvidal\u2019s UFC 287 showdown with 170-pound contender Gilbert Burns.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview with MMA Junkie, Masvidal (35-16) revealed that he has sources telling him that he \u2014 and not Colby Covington \u2014 is next in line for a shot at welterweight champion Leon Edwards if he\u2019s victorious on April 8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m fighting Gilbert, then I\u2019m fighting Leon,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2023\/03\/ufc-287-jorge-masvidal-has-insider-information-leon-edwards-title-fight-before-colby-covington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Masvidal said<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m telling you that\u2019s how it\u2019s going to play out. I just got some insider information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UFC president Dana White is telling a different story, however.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColby gets the next shot, no matter what happens (between Masvidal and Burns),\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAFighting\/status\/1637268013350019076?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he said<\/a> following Edwards\u2019 unanimous decision win over Kamaru Usman at UFC 286.<\/p>\n<p>A potential title shot isn\u2019t all that\u2019s at stake for Masvidal in April\u2019s bout against Burns. The 38-year-old is on a three-fight losing streak \u2014 one against Covington and two to Usman \u2014 and a fourth loss in a row could possibly force him to switch divisions or even be cut. Masvidal is 0-2 in title fights at welterweight, and he lost a split decision to Demian Maia in a welterweight title eliminator in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Should Masvidal get past Burns (21-5), who has just two losses in his last 10 fights, a potential title bout with Edwards would presumably draw high numbers on both pay-per-view and the live gates considering the real-life animosity between the two. (Masvidal attacked Edwards backstage after a UFC event in London in 2019.)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n\t\t\t(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\tjs.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=125075807517358\";\n\t\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mma\/articles\/jorge_masvidal_has_insider_info_that_he_will_get_title_shot_before_colby_covington\/s1_13132_38614515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a lot riding on Jorge Masvidal\u2019s UFC 287 showdown with 170-pound contender Gilbert Burns. During a recent interview with MMA Junkie, Masvidal (35-16) revealed that he has sources telling him that he \u2014 and not Colby Covington \u2014 is next in line for a shot at welterweight champion Leon Edwards if he\u2019s victorious on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}