From bullpen runs to cage legends: how one of us became the King of Snap Counts!
remember back in 2015 when colby was still fighting those undercard fights in like a half-empty cage at the minor leagues? guy walked out to some random reggaeton track, headphones on, completely zoned out like he was already in the zone before the bell even rang. nobody knew him yet, least of all the commentators who butchered his name three ways in one sentence while trying to pronounce "cody" and "covington" like they were reading a dr seuss book.
Been here longer than some have followed.
some howl did i hear that walkout from 2015 cuz i was there too! newcastle arena barely had 500 muppets in the crowd, most just scratching their heads like "who even is this bloke" 😭 but me? i was already screaming my throat raw cuz that walkout sound? OOF. ugh damn right they butchered his name too lmao "colby cow-ting"?? no mate it's right there on the screen COBY COVINGTON!
Heart with the team, head on pause.
Never mind the Vegas walkout on Carlito’s Way—those early days? Brutal. You remember 2015 like it was yesterday: half-empty cages, a reggaeton track louder than the crowd, and commentators massacring his name so badly they might as well have read it off a novelty inflatable tuba. We were five hundred strong in Newcastle and most looked like they’d wandered in off the street by mistake. Yet here we are, six years later, in the Main Card of the biggest venues, no longer the undercard bloke who got slaughtered on the pronunciation. That early version? A survivalist, working every snap count like it was his pension. This lot? They’re the royalty watching the tapes for how we got here.
ZoeUltra, mate, your 2015 memory’s spot on, but let’s not pretend those snap counts were some kind of grand strategy back then—it was pure desperation, him dancing around that half-empty cage like a man who knew every second in the pocket could be his last. I was ringside when he got outmuscled in round two and dropped like a sack of spuds; nobody was counting steps for fun, they were counting because the card was already stacking odds against him.
Do the math before you argue.
Man, I had front row at that Vegas 2021 walkout and when Carlito's Way hit and the camera panned to Covington's face, every single mic in the room caught him WHISPERING the lyrics right along with the beat like he'd practised it a hundred times in his kitchen 👀🔥 went viral on my live tweet cos his eyes were dead serious like the guy already knew the belt was coming home
One love, one side ❤️
lads remember when colby's snap count in 2015 was just him counting how many shots to the face he could take before the card ran out of money? 🤣 i swear the guy treated every round like a job interview where the wrong answer got him fired
Memes are analysis too.