UFC 234: Colby Covington rips ‘filthy’ Kelvin Gastelum for questionable skin issues

Trash-talking Colby Covington rips ‘filthy’ Kelvin Gastelum for questionable skin issues ahead of UFC 234 title fight.

There is suddenly a whole lot of attention centered around the main event for UFC 234, which will take place on Saturday, but it’s not for the reason you might think. Photos began circulating on Thursday and Friday showing main event title contender Kelvin Gastelum with some questionable skin issues raising red flags about his health.

In one photo it appears that Gastelum has a skin irritation that looks shockingly like ringworm, a common affliction of wrestlers and those who train on sweaty mats. Then, later that same day he was spotting with another something on the back of the neck, this looking close to something like a staph infection.

It didn’t take long before former interim welterweight champion Colby Covington to pipe in with his thoughts on the matter.

” [Kelvin Gastelum] what’s with that freak on your cheek Kevin?!” Covington wrote. “Take a shower you filthy animal! #OnAMission4MRSA.”

Of course, there is zero proof that either of these things are anything of concern but it’s not keeping fans from waiting with their breath held hoping and praying he’ll be cleared to fight for the title.

This whole situation seems eerily familiar to the former fight between Tony Ferguson and Kevin Lee at UFC 216. Lee, who almost missed weight for the bout, claims he hid his staph infection from the commission so that he could still fight for the lightweight interim title.

“I tried my best to hide it,” Lee told the media after the event. “It was a big event. A lot had been happening with UFC at the last couple of events and I wasn’t going to let nobody down. I worked my whole life for this. It was like a culmination of things. But, I’m not going to let this stop me. I am still going to be a world champion. It might not happen when I’m 25.”

UFC 234 takes place on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. Follow along with FanSided MMA for all your live results and highlights throughout the night.