{"id":111931,"date":"2025-09-01T13:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/111931\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:44:08","slug":"colby-covington-reveals-two-names-he-wants-to-fight-in-ufc-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/111931\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington reveals two names he wants to fight in UFC return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covington looks ahead to possible next opponents<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Paddy Pimblett fight super interests me because in Miami, he was talking s\u2014, running his mouth backstage\u2026 He was saying in an interview the other day, his doctor said he had liver failure from cutting to 155.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDude, come up a weight class. Come to 170. Why are you being a weight bully, Paddy? You\u2019re a bum. You\u2019re a gimmick. You\u2019re a f\u2014\u2014, little English accent and your little bowl cut, that\u2019s the only reason people know you. So, let\u2019s get it going Paddy and if I can\u2019t get Paddy, then maybe Gilbert Burns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been talking to Hunter Campbell and we\u2019re looking for October and November. Maybe November in the Garden. But, whatever Hunter and the UFC decides, I\u2019ll be ready. If they need to push me to December in the T-Mobile event, then December in Vegas sounds good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quotes via <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/09\/01\/colby-covington-names-the-two-opponents-hes-targeting-for-2025-return-including-long-time-welterweight-rival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bloody Elbow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Covington looks ahead to possible next opponents \u201cThe Paddy Pimblett fight super interests me because in Miami, he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-111931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}