Photo: A look at Colby Covington's broken jaw X-ray

It was widely reported that Kamaru Usman broke Colby Covington's jaw during their UFC 245 main event clash in 2019. Soon after the fight, an X-ray of what many believed to be Covington's broken jaw made the rounds on social media.

However, Covington has since disputed the legitimacy of the X-rays. In an interview with ESPN's Brett Okamoto last month, Covington claimed that the supposed photos of his broken jaw were doctored. The UFC welterweight title challenger said:

"It was one of the worst photoshops, let me say, in the history of this sport. Someone went and took an image of Google, they put my name on [the X-ray] photo Colby Covington and first off, if you ever read an x-ray film, it’ll never read your name straight across. It’ll look backwards. And they photoshopped the image, and the front tooth had a cap on it, do I have caps on my front teeth? I don’t think so. It was just a bad photoshop. So nothing was broken, the only thing that was broken was (Kamaru Usman's) pride that night."

Colby Covington says his broken jaw X-ray was fake news:

However, the conversation regarding Covington's injury was sparked by 'Chaos' himself. Moments before round four, Covington was heard telling his cornermen, "I think I broke my jaw."

The injury is believed to have occurred after Usman connected with a huge right hand in the third round. Covington persevered until round five but was ultimately stopped with under a minute remaining in the the fifth.

Watch Colby Covington tell his cornermen about his 'broken jaw':

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Colby Covington reflects upon his loss to Kamaru Usman

Colby Covington believes he made a "tactical error" by allowing Kamaru Usman to get too comfortable with his stand-up. In an interview with ESPN, Covington admitted that he still would have lost even if he went the distance but claimed:

"It's not fair because if that fight – if they don't call that fake stoppage – that fight gets run back right away. It goes to the judges' scorecards and we find out what they have to say. One judge had me up 3-to-1 [going into the fifth]. One had it 2-to-2. [A third had Usman up 3-to-1]. So, he gets the win, but it's a split decision, and we're running it back right away."