Paul Felder’s supervisor Brian Butler desires to set the report straight relating to his shopper.
In a latest interview with Submission Radio, UFC welterweight Colby Covington was requested about Felder’s feedback about him on his podcast Believe You Me, which Felder co-hosts with Michael Bisping, Felder talked about that Covington’s “persona is fading,” and that Covington actually doesn’t need to speak trash, however does so to “keep related.”
Covington went off on Felder, and instructed a narrative a few go to to a navy base in 2017 by which each males had been concerned.
“He was speaking shit about me,” Covington instructed Submission Radio. “He was saying some shit that. ‘Oh, he’s performed this and that and and another shit,’ I need you to go ask him, subsequent time you see him in particular person, ask him concerning the time you had been at Joint Base Langley-Eustis. The Military and Air Pressure base. And he obtained tied f*cking in handcuffs by the navy police to a bathroom in his lavatory as a result of he was drunk on the bottom. Like, that’s embarrassing, you self-loathing, drunk asshole. He have to be drunk half the time. He’s in that commentary sales space for the UFC. Man, I really feel unhealthy for the UFC. They should get some new commentators. And what higher man, I might be the UFC commentator. I don’t have any tales like that. …
“So he drank a bottle of Jack Daniels to himself. He began speaking shit to his supervisor, Brian Butler. I needed to step in like ‘Paul, cease speaking shit to him. Like, you’re not going to beat up your supervisor.’ He was blacked out and he simply misplaced it. Like, how do you not have extra management?
“You’re supposed to point out respect to the troops. You’re there to spice up morale for the navy. Right here you are attempting to battle together with your supervisor. I’m the one which needed to intervene and ensure he didn’t beat up his supervisor, Brian Butler, with Sucker Punch. After which he goes into his resort room. He begins f*cking throwing shit round in his resort room on a navy set up base. After which the navy police obtained known as. They needed to freaking handcuff him to the bathroom.”
Butler grew to become conscious of Covington’s feedback from Felder, and a variety of fighters on the Suckerpunch Leisure roster, and says he was a tad shocked as a result of Covington addressed Felder’s feedback on a stay stream up to now saying he “revered” Felder.
“Lots of people suppose that Colby is an asshole, and it’s solely due to the character that he performs, however each time that I’ve met Colby in particular person, he’s a very completely different man,” Butler instructed MMA Preventing. “He’s completely respectful, he’s completely real, he completely takes time for followers and issues like that. I believe anyone that’s met him in particular person would inform you that, asides from perhaps a few of the individuals he’s gone heel on, and perhaps former teammates and issues like that, as a result of I believe he simply doesn’t know when he’s gone too far, proper? Like, he takes issues fairly far.
“I’ll say that this story about Paul is is unquestionably taking issues fairly far. Is Paul actually upset by it? No. However on the identical time, we don’t actually need anyone believing Paul was arrested and handcuffed to a bathroom. One thing like that simply by no means occurred.”
With regard to Covington’s story about Felder consuming an excessive amount of that evening on the bottom, Butler says there’s definitely some correct elements of the story, and different elements that completely aren’t true. He laid out the start of the scenario.
“So what Colby does is he takes elements of the reality after which he ornaments it,” Butler stated. “So I’ll inform you there may be little bits of fact right here, so I’ll simply run you thru the entire thing, and Paul will say the identical factor. …
“We had been doing a navy tour [at Joint Base Langley-Eustis] we had been doing that with Miesha Tate and Colby and Paul, and I believe Sew [Duran] was there. Nevertheless it was a fantastic tour and we had simply gotten performed with a protracted day of hanging with the troops and doing issues and we had been sitting within the resort foyer with a number of of the those who we had been with all day, and we had been consuming whiskey, and we had been there all evening. Miesha got here down on her laptop computer and began working and we had been all simply sitting within the foyer and for hours we had some drinks and granted all of us most likely had a perhaps a bit of an excessive amount of, together with myself, nevertheless it was only a good time. …
“I don’t know what occurred, but when Paul, he’s a self-deprecating man. He’s a kind of guys that will get indignant, however he’s probably not indignant, however he’s actually—if Paul, he’s humorous that method. It’s simply him and he can take it as a lot as he dishes it out. So I suppose I used to be doing one thing for him as a result of he was perhaps between fights and begging for a battle, however he was… Paul was that man that would have been a 170-pounder or a [lightweight]. He was a tweener. So I’d at all times give him shit, like I’d report me consuming meals in gradual movement, and simply mess with him. Later within the evening, I suppose he obtained irritated by that [and] no one thought it as a result of he simply obtained up and left. He’s like, ‘I’m going to mattress.’
“Then he headed in the direction of the elevator after which all of us began laughing, all of us began laughing about, joking round with Paul, after which from a distance we hear, ‘I can nonetheless hear you,’ and that that made us all snicker much more. It’s traditional Paul. He will get within the elevator, he goes up after which all of us simply proceed on with it.”
From there, the remainder of the group frolicked, however then Butler obtained a telephone name from Felder, who instructed Butler that “my resort room is damaged,” and that was primarily it. Nonetheless, concern set in, because it naturally ought to.
“Anyone went up there and there was water leaking out beneath his door into the hallway, so I used to be like, ‘Oh, nice,’” Butler stated. “After which he wasn’t answering the door, so perhaps, simply in my head, perhaps he’s handed out within the mattress and water simply flowing out of his room, no matter. So we go up there and banging on the door, and all of us go up there trigger we’re all like, what the hell is occurring?
“We’re banging on the door and he doesn’t reply after which I’m making an attempt to sort of scare him into opening the door as a result of the water is simply popping out. I’m like, ‘Paul, reply the door, man.’ I used to be like, ‘The navy police are coming should you don’t reply the door,’ making an attempt to get him to rise up and open the door. So I simply hear the door rattle, it unlocks, after which I’m like, ‘I ain’t making an attempt to go in right here on my own, trigger I don’t know, how drunk Paul is,’ however I used to be additionally half kidding.
“So I opened the door and I see the water popping out from the toilet and I see Paul’s shadowy determine within the within the window by his mattress within the again or simply the silhouette, it’s simply sort of teetering, and I’m like, this is sort of a horror film, so I’m like, ‘Alright, who’s happening?’ [I hear], ‘You bought to go in, you’re the supervisor.’ I’m like, ‘F*ck, OK, I’ll go in.’”
As Butler cautiously entered the room, he noticed water leaking on the ground. Stepping additional contained in the room, Butler ultimately observed that Covington was the one different one who entered with him — which is one thing Butler appreciated.
“I’m like, ‘Paul, man, what the hell occurred to your room?’ He’s like, ‘I slammed the lid and the bathroom broke,’” Butler stated. “Who is aware of what occurred? I’m like, ‘Hear, we obtained to get out of right here and let’s clear this up, get you to a different room, and get out of right here.’ And he was similar to, he wasn’t taking a look at me. We may inform he that he had loads of whiskey in him and he was sort of like wanting via me or taking a look at my chest, and I’m like, ‘Oh my God,’ that is in my head I’m like, ‘There’s a slight likelihood if I press him too exhausting, he’s going to swing on me.’ I knew most likely not.
“However the cool factor was, and that is what I really commend Colby on, everyone stayed outdoors as a result of they had been really scared to go in his room, however they’re additionally… we’re all sort of enjoying it up. I flip round, I look over my shoulder and Colby’s proper there, proper behind my again and standing there simply quiet, and I’m like, in my head [I think], ‘See, good on Colby. He’s in right here to get my again simply in case, proper?’ And nothing occurred, after which Paul was like, ‘Alright,’ he grumbled… and we cleaned [up the room] they usually moved into one other room, and that was it.”
When the scenario that evening got here to an finish, Butler approached the previous interim UFC welterweight champion to point out his appreciation for the help. All appeared to be nicely.
Felder needed to face the group the next morning, in accordance with Butler, and everybody had fun at Felder’s expense, together with troopers and workers on the base to at the present time.
“I instructed Colby, I used to be like, ‘Hey man, I respect you doing that,’” Butler stated. He’s like, ‘After all, man’ and he’s simply that man, and that was the top of it. The subsequent morning we awoke, everyone within the resort foyer was prepared to present Paul some shit as quickly as he got here off the elevator they usually did, and it was an enormous snicker and it was simply enjoyable, and now they’ve been asking us to come back again ever since, and it simply hasn’t lined up and that’s the reality of it.
“There was by no means any navy police, he was by no means tied to a bathroom, he was by no means making an attempt to begin a battle with me. He obtained indignant with me as a result of I suppose I joked him an excessive amount of on, ‘You need to battle, cease consuming that f*cking Package Kat’ sort of factor. However that was additionally the whiskey speaking. That was it.
“I respect Colby for the little gesture that he did by being the one particular person to stroll in with me, however I used to be by no means actually in any hazard, what I imply? And Paul was by no means making an attempt to battle me and we’ve been joking about that story ever since, and we nonetheless speak to the individuals on the bottom once in a while about it. They test in on on holidays. It’s hilarious. That’s all it was, man.”
