Raul Rosas Jr. needed just 43 second to tap out Colby Covington in their submission only grappling match at Hype Fighting in Italy on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Accepting the match on late notice after Dillon Danis withdrew, Rosas barely broke a sweat as he showed off his Brazilian jiu-jitsu skills against a much larger opponent in Covington.<\/p>\n
Rosas scored an early takedown much to Covington\u2019s surprise and the UFC bantamweight contender was quick to jump on the back and immediately start working towards a submission. Once he got into position, Rosas locked on a rear naked choke to look for the finish.<\/p>\n
Covington did his best to resist but he was forced to tap out just a moment later with the end coming just 43 seconds into the 10-minute match. Aftewards, Rosas praised Covington for accepting the match against him while also touting his future plans in the UFC.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels great,\u201d Rosas said about the win. \u201cI was here in 2019, I became a world champ, so I\u2019m glad to be back against a legend like Colby Covington. Being able to do it front of Conor McGregor, he\u2019s a legend.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to become the youngest UFC champion. I\u2019m coming for that belt. That\u2019s my main goal. This is just a second thing we do for entertainment. I\u2019m glad to be able to share this with Colby Covington.\u201d<\/p>\n
For his part, Covington offered no excuses for the loss but he admitted he was looking forward to getting back to his wrestling as he prepares for a showdown against Khamzat Chimaev in RAF in Abu Dhabi in two weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just came out a little slow,\u201d Covington said. \u201cThis is the first time I\u2019ve done jiu-jitsu in years. Every set back is a good opportunity for a comeback. I will get my hand raised next time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Covington now prepares for his return to RAF while Rosas awaits his next assignment from th UFC following a recent win over Raoni Barcelos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raul Rosas Jr. needed just 43 second to tap out Colby Covington in their submission only grappling match…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[829,99,6493,10080],"class_list":["post-905165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-latest-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905165","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=905165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}