{"id":409080,"date":"2026-01-12T22:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409080\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:25:07","slug":"inactive-colby-covington-wants-to-be-removed-from-ufc-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409080\/","title":{"rendered":"Inactive Colby Covington wants to be removed from UFC rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt really doesn\u2019t matter what Dana White thinks of me,\u201d Covington said at the RAF 5 post-fight press conference. \u201cI\u2019m a world champion. I\u2019m Donald Trump\u2019s favorite fighter. I\u2019m America\u2019s champion. I\u2019m the king of Miami. You can never take those titles away from me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s hard to take away something that doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cTake me out of the rankings, whatever,\u201d Covington (17-5) added. \u201cI\u2019m still the biggest draw at welterweight. It makes no difference what number is next to my name. I know what I\u2019m capable of, and I know I\u2019m still the best fighter and wrestler on planet Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt really doesn\u2019t matter what Dana White thinks of me,\u201d Covington said at the RAF 5 post-fight press&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,29896],"class_list":["post-409080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-rankings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}