Colby Covington isn\u2019t interested in trading barbs with Dillon Danis ahead of their RAF 7 match.<\/p>\n
Covington and Danis will be going one-on-one in a freestyle wrestling affair on March 28. The match will be held inside Yuengling Center in Tampa. Covington made his RAF debut back in January, sweeping former UFC Middleweight Champion Luke Rockhold.<\/p>\n
While Covington and Danis are known for ruffling some feathers, it doesn\u2019t appear there is animosity between the two ahead of RAF 7.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a strong guy \u2013 he\u2019s got the strength of 10 men,\u201d Covington told MMA Junkie<\/a>. \u201cHe fought those 10 Dagestanis last time in that Khabib brawl (at UFC 322), so that\u2019s someone that\u2019s not to be underestimated and to be respected. So I respect Dillon. It\u2019s going to be a great match. He has a lot of combat sports knowledge, a former champion. It\u2019s going to be a great match and I\u2019m excited to get out that on those RAF mats again.<\/p>\n \u201cI think this match is going to be a battle. He\u2019s been working really hard. He\u2019s been trying to get into UFC and get these big matches. We saw him beat up Logan Paul in boxing so bad that Logan has to sue him. He\u2019s fought 10 guys before, those 10 Dagestanis, so he\u2019s got the strength of 10 men. There\u2019s no handouts on March 28. I\u2019m going to have to earn it the hard way.\u201d<\/p>\n Covington has been busy getting back into the swing of competition while he awaits what\u2019s next for him in the UFC Octagon. \u201cChaos\u201d hasn\u2019t fought since suffering a doctor\u2019s stoppage loss to Joaquin Buckley back in Dec. 2024. Covington has expressed disappointment after he wasn\u2019t picked<\/a> to be a part of the UFC Freedom 250 card at the White House.<\/p>\n Will you be watching Colby Covington\u2019s RAF match against Dillon Danis? Drop a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colby Covington isn\u2019t interested in trading barbs with Dillon Danis ahead of their RAF 7 match. Covington and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-543940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543940","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=543940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}