{"id":479625,"date":"2026-02-17T02:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/479625\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T02:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:07:07","slug":"bo-nickal-eyes-colby-covington-at-white-house-man-up-and-take-your-beating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/479625\/","title":{"rendered":"Bo Nickal eyes Colby Covington at White House: ‘Man up and take your beating’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bo Nickal<\/a> wants to settle things with Colby Covington at the UFC’s upcoming historic event.<\/p>\n

Covington (17-5 MMA, 12-5 UFC) started the beef when he took aim at Nickal<\/a> during the RAF 5 press conference, where both athletes were scheduled to compete against their respective opponents. Covington claimed Nickal is killing the sport of wrestling with his lack of personality.<\/p>\n

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With both fighters under the UFC banner, Nickal (8-1 MMA, 5-1 UFC) says why not handle things in the octagon \u2013 especially after Covington seriously contemplated a move up to middleweight<\/a>. But after former interim welterweight champion Covington turned his attention to popular lightweight Paddy Pimblett<\/a>, Nickal took umbrage<\/a> with that.<\/p>\n

“Colby talks crap about me the n says he wants to move to 185. I say okay let\u2019s fight at the White House. Now he\u2019s trying to run away. What a wimp. Man up and take your beating @ColbyCovMMA.”<\/p>\n

After defeating Luke Rockhold in his wrestling match at RAF 5, Covington said he has no interest in competing against Nickal<\/a> on the mats or in the octagon. Covington hasn’t fought since a TKO loss to Joaquin Buckley in December 2024<\/a>. Meanwhile, Nickal rebounded from his first octagon loss to Reinier de Ridder with a head kick knockout of Rodolfo Vieira at UFC 322<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Bo Nickal to Colby Covington: ‘Man up and take your beating’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bo Nickal wants to settle things with Colby Covington at the UFC’s upcoming historic event. Covington (17-5 MMA,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[15960,49,48,18457,641,638,82,640],"class_list":["post-479625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-bo-nickal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-colby-covington","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479625","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=479625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}