Colby Covington has been called out by a former teammate for UFC Freedom 250 or another event.<\/p>\n
Covington had been pounding the table for a spot on UFC\u2019s scheduled June 14 card at the White House. The former interim welterweight champion didn\u2019t get his wish, and he\u2019s been critical of the top MMA promotion ever since.<\/p>\n
One fighter who is willing to be Covington\u2019s dance partner is Santiago Ponzinibbio, who told MMAFighting<\/a> that he\u2019s beaten \u201cChaos\u201d in the gym several times when they were training partners.<\/p>\n \u201cColby Covington is asking to fight at the White House, and I\u2019m down to fight him there or in any other card,\u201d Ponzinibbio said. \u201cI beat you up in the gym, and I can do it again at the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n Ponzinibbio isn\u2019t holding his breath on the bout ever coming to fruition, as he doesn\u2019t believe Covington wants to share the Octagon with him.<\/p>\n \u201cColby will say \u2018no\u2019 because he\u2019s scared, but I\u2019m here to fight,\u201d Ponzinibbio said. \u201cHe keeps calling out fighters who know they have fights booked. If he\u2019s down for it, I\u2019m ready. Just say where and I\u2019ll be there to beat the crap out of him.\u201d<\/p>\n Ponzinibbio hasn\u2019t seen action since May 2025. He was stopped by Daniel Rodriguez<\/a> on the UFC Des Moines card. The \u201cArgentine Dagger\u201d had been hoping to build off a win over Carlston Harris earlier that year, but he was forced to go back to the drawing board.<\/p>\n Covington\u2019s inactivity in MMA has been even longer. His last outing was a doctor\u2019s stoppage loss to Joaquin Buckley back in late 2024. Covington has entered the RAF promotion for freestyle wrestling, sweeping former UFC Middleweight Champion Luke Rockhold back in January. He\u2019s set to wrestle Dillon Danis at RAF 7<\/a> on March 28.<\/p>\n Would you be interested in seeing Colby Covington vs Santiago Ponzinibbio? Tell us in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colby Covington has been called out by a former teammate for UFC Freedom 250 or another event. Covington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-547330","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\/547330","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=547330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}