Colby Covington needed less than two periods to end Luke Rockhold\u2019s night in the RAF 5 main event from Florida.<\/p>\n
The former All-American from Oregon State showed off his superior wrestling technique as he constantly reversed Rockhold, threw him around the mat and racked up points in a hurry. While Rockhold made a valiant effort to stay in the match, Covington\u2019s offense was just too much as he hit a final four-point move to go up 12-0 and win with a technical fall.<\/p>\n
Despite the lopsided outcome, Covington still praised Rockhold for his willingness to accept the challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt felt amazing,\u201d Covington said after his win. \u201cHe felt very strong. He was a big guy. I have a lot of respect for that guy. He was a very worthy opponent and I\u2019m honored to share the mat with Luke Rockhold.\u201d<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t take long for Covington to score a quick two points and he immediately tried to pin Rockhold to end the match. He didn\u2019t get the finish but he got another two points to go up 4-0 in very quick fashion.<\/p>\n
Covington got in deep on a slick ankle pick but Rockhold wasn\u2019t giving it up and the referee eventually called a stalemate to bring them back to the feet again. A moment later, Covington got in deep on another takedown and this time he turned to get the two points as the first period came to a close.<\/p>\n
On the restart, Rockhold shot for the first time but Covington quickly reversed with the go-behind to get another two points. The match ended with Covington grabbing the front headlock and throwing Rockhold to the ground and with another roll, he racked up four points to go up 12-0 to end the match.<\/p>\n
While not totally unexpected given Covington\u2019s wrestling credentials, he still gave Rockhold credit for his tenacity and flexibility during the match.<\/p>\n
Following the win in his RAF debut, Covington turned his attention to a UFC Hall of Famer and the only welterweight with more takedowns than him when calling for his next opponent on the wrestling mats.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know who I want next? There\u2019s only one person above me on the takedown list in UFC welterweight history and that\u2019s Georges St-Pierre,\u201d Covington shouted. \u201cGSP get out here in Real American Freestyle and let\u2019s make it happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll talk to my people and they\u2019ll come to your people and let\u2019s make it happen. Everybody wants to see you GSP.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s tough to argue with Covington\u2019s logic given St-Pierre\u2019s star power and accomplishments. Now it\u2019s up to RAF to see if it\u2019s possible to lure St-Pierre out of retirement to clash with Covington in a wrestling match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colby Covington needed less than two periods to end Luke Rockhold\u2019s night in the RAF 5 main event…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,168750,168751,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-402015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-raf-wrestling","tag-raf-wrestling-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402015","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=402015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}