Colby Covington isn\u2019t sweating whether or not he still has a spot in the UFC welterweight rankings.<\/p>\n
Following a lopsided win over Luke Rockhold in the RAF 5 main event on Saturday, the former interim champion was asked about comments made by UFC CEO Dana White about his place in the rankings despite not winning a fight since 2022. During an interview with Barstool Sports, White was made away that Covington was still in the top 15 off two straight losses \u2014 without competing at all in 2025 \u2014 and his last victory came nearly four years ago against Jorge Masvidal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a great point,\u201d White said when asked about Covington\u2019s record and inactivity while still staying ranked.<\/p>\n
In response, Covington admitted he didn\u2019t care much about whether or not he\u2019s ranked by the UFC because he\u2019s confident that whenever he shows up, the world is going to be watching.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt really doesn\u2019t matter what Dana White thinks of me,\u201d Covington said at the RAF 5 post-fight press conference. \u201cI\u2019m a world champion. I\u2019m Donald Trump\u2019s favorite fighter. I\u2019m America\u2019s champion. I\u2019m the king of Miami. You can never take those titles away from me.<\/p>\n
\u201cTake me out of the rankings, whatever. I\u2019m still the biggest draw at welterweight. It makes no difference what number is next to my name. I know what I\u2019m capable of, and I know I\u2019m still the best fighter and wrestler on planet Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Covington hasn\u2019t fought since December 2024 when he fell to Joaquin Buckley in the third round via doctor\u2019s stoppage after a suffering a gruesome cut that ended his night. That came one fight after Covington dropped a lackluster decision to then welterweight champion Leon Edwards.<\/p>\n
Overall, Covington is 1-3 in his past four fights with only four total appearances in the UFC between 2021 and 2024.<\/p>\n
While his standing in the welterweight rankings might come into question, Covington definitely injected some enthusiasm into his wrestling career after shutting down Rockhold with a dominant 12-0 technical fall victory.<\/p>\n
Following the win, Covington wasted no time calling out former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and he explained exactly what that matchup makes sense for RAF to make next.<\/p>\n
\u201cGSP is one of the GOATs of the organization,\u201d Covington said. \u201cGSP is the only guy that\u2019s ahead of me on the UFC welterweight takedown list. He\u2019s No. 1 all-time in takedowns at welterweight. I\u2019m No. 2. So I want to settle this in the RAF mat. I think this match needs to happen. I know Georges probably still wants to compete and the fans want to see him compete.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo GSP, let\u2019s give the fans what they want. Come back, let\u2019s settle it once and for all. Let\u2019s find out who the greatest welterweight wrestler is in history on the RAF mat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colby Covington isn\u2019t sweating whether or not he still has a spot in the UFC welterweight rankings. Following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,168750,168751,82,640,702,3194],"class_list":["post-404449","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","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404449","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=404449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}