Bo Nickal would like to settle things with Colby Covington in the octagon \u2014 but doesn\u2019t believe Covington would take the fight.<\/p>\n
During Friday\u2019s RAF 5 press conference, Covington \u2014 along with fellow RAF 5 headliner Luke Rockhold \u2014 blasted Nickal, who was sitting just feet away from the stage. Despite Nickal trying to clap back without a microphone, the two former UFC titleholders gave Nickal the business following the Penn State wrestling standout\u2019s loss to Reinier de Ridder at UFC Des Moines this past May. While Rockhold explained his side of things, Nickal can\u2019t face him in the UFC. However, he could face Covington since their both on the roster, and nothing would please him more.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d love to fight Colby but I seriously doubt he would fight me,\u201c Nickal wrote on Twitter. \u201dWe weigh the same so let\u2019s do it at the White House.\u201c<\/p>\n Nickal, who is slated to face Yoel Romero in the co-main event of Saturday\u2019s RAF 5 wrestling card, bounced back from his lone UFC loss to de Ridder with an impressive head kick knockout of Rodolfo Vieria at UFC 322 in November.<\/p>\n Covington hasn\u2019t competed in the UFC in well over a year, where he was stopped by Joaquin Buckley after stepping in on short notice in the main event of UFC Tampa in December 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bo Nickal would like to settle things with Colby Covington in the octagon \u2014 but doesn\u2019t believe Covington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702,3194],"class_list":{"0":"post-401814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401814","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=401814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}