Colby Covington heads into UFC 268 with a new mindset and new cornermen. The welterweight contender changed gyms and now finds himself with a whole new team in his corner.

He believes this change will be a big benefit in his rematch against Kamaru Usman at UFC 268. Colby Covington blames his last corner for the loss.

“The first thing I needed to change, the biggest thing, was the people are me, the team around me,” Covington told MMA Junkie at a UFC 268 pre-fight news conference Wednesday. “Now, Daniel Valverde, my judo, my jiu-jitsu coach, my striking coach Cesar Carneiro, and my strength-and-conditioning coach Jonathan Lopez, my other coach Charlie Weis.

“I just have a newfound energy around me, people who genuinely care about me and they want to see me win. They’re not just showing up to get paychecks and just work to throw me out there into the fire. They actually have been developing my skills and we’ve been growing as a fighter every single day. You’re going to see new wrinkles in my game. We’ve updated the software. I’m going to control-alt-delete Marty on Saturday night.”

Colby Covington didn't appreciate their corner advice and felt it was redundant. He already knew how to breathe heading into the fight.

“If you go back and look at the first fight, the instructions that I was getting, they were telling me something that I do every single day,” Covington said. “They were telling me, ‘Colby, breathe.’ Dude, we breathe every single day. Why are you telling me to breathe? I mean, everybody in this room knows how to breathe. Not everybody knows how to fight and instruct fighters and the right instructions to fight. I made a lot of mistakes in that first fight. That was my worst night and I was still able to do that. That was his best night. Saturday night, we’re going to see the upgraded software.”

Covington will be hoping the upgrade software will be enough to beat Usman at UFC 268.