Demian Maia: Colby Covington’s trash talk is ‘a fine line between destroying your image or building your image’

Colby Covington said a lot of things about Demian Maia and Maia’s home country of Brazil in the lead-up to UFC Sao Paulo. That talk only amplified after Covington defeated Maia via unanimous decision on Saturday night, as Covington erupted and called the Brazilian fans “filthy animals” in a fiery post-fight interview, much to the disgust of the thousands packing the Ginasio do Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
But while Maia wasn’t a fan of Covington’s actions, he al