Jorge Masvidal recently found himself in a bad spot with the law after getting arrested for assaulting Colby Covington. Many UFC welterweights have spoken out about it and you can now include Neil Magny on that list.
Neil Magny recently spoke to James Lynch for MMA News and gave his reaction to Jorge Masvidal assaulting Colby Covington. Magny was not on Masvidal's side and brought up the image of the UFC with an incident like that.
“That was just to me like taking a step in the other direction,” the UFC welterweight said about the assault. “Here you have some athletes doing great things and then you get some nonsense like that take place kind of like makes the sport as a whole look bad. We’ve gotten so far away from like a bunch of meatheads just fighting in a cage era to being like elite athletes that are competing in a cage against one another. So for him to do something like that just takes it back to like the old school primitive days of MMA in my opinion.”
The reactions to Jorge Masvidal assaulting Colby Covington were mixed with his fellow UFC fighters. Some were on the side of Covington while others were on the side of Masvidal.
Neil Magny's opinion is one that is shared by many people as the UFC, and the sport of MMA is trying to have a more positive image than they did in the past. It will have to be seen what is said by people outside of the sport.
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