{"id":573017,"date":"2026-03-29T23:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573017\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T23:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:26:12","slug":"colby-covington-fires-off-challenge-to-chris-weidman-after-one-sided-win-over-dillon-danis-at-raf-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573017\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington Fires Off Challenge To Chris Weidman After One-Sided Win Over Dillon Danis At RAF 07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/colby-covington\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colby Covington<\/a> showcased his wrestling superiority as he dominated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/dillon-danis\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dillon Danis<\/a> with a tech fall victory in the RAF 7 co-main event on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The former interim UFC welterweight champion got off to a sluggish start, allowing Danis to tie the first period 4-4. But Covington&#8217;s All-American wrestling background took over in the second period as he began systematically breaking down his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chaos&#8221; secured a takedown to open the second period and immediately went to work turning Danis on the mat. The points began accumulating quickly as Covington executed snap downs and go-behinds to build his lead.<\/p>\n<p>The contest was stopped when Covington led 14-4, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/article\/colby-covington-technical-fall-win-dillon-danis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earning the tech fall victory<\/a>. Danis looked disappointed in his performance but left the mats without incident following his unsuccessful RAF debut.<\/p>\n<p>Following his dominant performance, Covington immediately set his sights on another former UFC middleweight champion for his next RAF appearance.<\/p>\n<p>I want <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/chris-weidman\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Weidman<\/a>,&#8221; Covington shouted after the match. &#8220;Let&#8217;s find out who the real American is right here on the Real American Freestyle mats. Get off your couch, pack a lunch because it&#8217;s go time.<\/p>\n<p>The victory marks Colby Covington\u2019s second win in the wrestling promotion, having previously secured a technical fall over former UFC champion Luke Rockhold at RAF 05 earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old Californian last competed inside the Octagon at UFC Tampa in December 2024, where he suffered a TKO defeat to Joaquin Buckley. \u201cChaos\u201d currently holds a 12-5 record in the UFC, with an overall professional tally of 17-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colby Covington showcased his wrestling superiority as he dominated Dillon Danis with a tech fall victory in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,45188,56533,11080,786,785,261062,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-573017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-chris-weidman","11":"tag-colby-covington","12":"tag-dillon-danis","13":"tag-fighting","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-raf-07","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573017","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=573017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}