Colby Covington believes that later this 12 months, he and UFC middleweight champ Khamzat Chimaev will meet beneath the RAF banner.
Covington’s most up-to-date freestyle wrestling match was towards former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold at RAF 05, the place he beat Rockhold by tech fall.
Up subsequent, “Chaos” is scheduled to return to the mats within the co-main occasion of RAF 07 towards jiu-jitsu phenom Dillon Danis on March 28 on the Yuengling Middle of the College of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.
Final month, throughout RAF 06, “Chaos” had referred to as out Kamaru Usman, Georges St-Pierre, and Arman Tsarukyan for a showdown on the Actual American Freestyle mats.
Curiously, Chimaev was fast to reply to the call-out, despite the fact that he wasn’t the one being focused. “Borz” posted on X:
“Subsequent, RAF I’ll make American boy humble once more colbiclown [Covington] let’s go 🦾”
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Colby Covington Expects To Face Khamzat Chimaev In RAF, after UFC 328
Throughout a current interview with Submission Radio, Colby Covington revealed that the RAF brass have reached out to Khamzat Chimaev’s workforce, and he expects to wrestle “Borz” after the latter makes the primary protection of his UFC middleweight championship. Covington mentioned:
“I’d like to get cu*shot [Chimaev] within the RAF. I’d like to wrestle him. I do know I can break him. He doesn’t have good cardio. So I find it irresistible. I like to see him within the RAF mats. The CEO, Chad Bronstein, the visionary Eric Bischoff, and Izzy Martinez, I do know they’re speaking to cu*shot’s camp.”
Earlier in the present day, Dana White revealed that “Borz” will defend his 185-pound strap towards Sean Strickland in the principle occasion of UFC 328 on Might 9.
After that, Covington expects to face the Chechen-born Emirati in Wrestling’s New Main Stage: Real American Freestyle. He added:
“In order that could possibly be a possible matchup after he finishes his enterprise with the UFC. He has to get by his title struggle, and I believe after he will get achieved with the title struggle, I may need the [freestyle wrestling match with Chimaev].”
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In the identical interview, Covington additionally slammed the UFC for not letting him be a part of the June 14 White Home card and for retaining him out of motion for almost 15 months.
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