{"id":754912,"date":"2026-06-23T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754912\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:20:17","slug":"colby-covington-mocks-dustin-poirier-after-georgia-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754912\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington mocks Dustin Poirier after Georgia arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Covington has weighed in on Dustin Poirier&#8217;s recent arrest in Georgia, mocking the former <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/lightweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lightweight<\/a> title challenger despite being retired from competition himself.<\/p>\n<p>Poirier was arrested on a public intoxication charge earlier this week, with a mugshot showing bloodshot eyes surfacing shortly after. MMA Mania reports that Covington responded with a jab at Poirier, who has cultivated a charitable public image through his Good Fight Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Covington targets Poirier&#8217;s public image<\/p>\n<p>The dig comes as Poirier navigates life after his fighting career, which ended following a final run at the UFC <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/lightweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lightweight<\/a> title. Covington, who last competed at <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/welterweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">welterweight<\/a> in late 2024, has continued his pattern of callouts and verbal attacks from the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Covington made a reference to <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/jorge-masvidal\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge Masvidal<\/a> in his criticism, suggesting the former friend and rival &#8220;did nothing wrong&#8221; \u2014 a callback to their long-running feud that extended beyond the cage into legal disputes.<\/p>\n<p>Poirier has not publicly responded to Covington&#8217;s comments. The Louisiana native retired from MMA competition earlier this year after a decorated career that included interim lightweight gold and multiple title shots at 155 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-credit\">Photo: TheDurandal42 \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:DustinPoirier.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\" rel=\"license nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sources-heading\">Original reporting:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colby Covington has weighed in on Dustin Poirier&#8217;s recent arrest in Georgia, mocking the former lightweight title challenger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-754912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}