{"id":609400,"date":"2026-04-27T14:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609400\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:38:07","slug":"swing-rounds-colby-covington-tells-all-vents-frustrations-on-the-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609400\/","title":{"rendered":"Swing Rounds: Colby Covington tells all, vents frustrations on the golf course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Colby Covington is frustrated with the UFC keeping him on the sidelines, but luckily, Real American Freestyle has kept him quite busy. And if the combat sports world doesn\u2019t work, Covington might find some success as a competitive golfer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On the third episode of Swing Rounds, \u201cChaos\u201d joins MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck at Crescent Oaks Golf Club in Tarpon Springs, Fla., just outside of Tampa, as they take part in a nine-hole scramble on a beautiful afternoon for golf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While taking on one of Florida\u2019s surging public golf courses, Covington reacts to being left off of the UFC White House card, Bo Nickal claiming Covington turned him down for a fight on the historic card, his thoughts on the lineup in general, and why the event likely ends in a rough way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Additionally, Covington reacts to the MVP MMA card on May 16 and why it\u2019s a good thing, discusses who should face Islam Makhachev next for the welterweight title, if he has any regrets, the big fight that got away, and much more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Can the team deliver the goods on the golf course? Find out on the return of MMA Fighting\u2019s Swing Rounds in the video above. And a special thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentoaksgolf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crescent Oaks Golf Club<\/a> for for allowing us to film our round on this incredible golf course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colby Covington is frustrated with the UFC keeping him on the sidelines, but luckily, Real American Freestyle has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,829,245319,245320,99,6493,10080,6879],"class_list":{"0":"post-609400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-latest-news","10":"tag-raf-wrestling","11":"tag-raf-wrestling-news","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc","14":"tag-ufc-news","15":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}