Colby Covington is majorly disappointed with the UFC Freedom 250 card.
Covington, a longtime supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, wanted to fight at the White House and was game to lock horns with Paddy Pimblett and even Bo Nickal. However, the UFC denied him a spot on the June 14 card.
The promotion announced the UFC Freedom 250 bouts this past weekend, and many in the MMA community are not pleased with the fights, including Covington.“Chaos” is not only unhappy about his exclusion but has also criticized the quality of fights the promotion has planned to stage on the South Lawn of the White House on June 14.
During a recent interview with MMA Junkie, he opined that the White House card is ‘terrible and disorganized, as the promotion doesn’t care anymore.’
“It’s piss poor at best. The fans have spoken; they said they hate it. It’s a terrible card. They promised 6 or 7 title fights, now they have one title fight and an interim title fight they just put together last minute. The thing was so disorganized. They put it together last minute, there wasn’t any big high ranking American fighters. Who are the guys representing America on the 250th birthday of America? It seems like they don’t care anymore. They made all that money with Paramount, and they’re just happy. It is what it is.”
During the same interview, he added that Hunter Campbell has made it clear that Covington needs to fight the winner of the UFC Winnipeg headliner.
“Hunter made it pretty clear he wants me to fight the winner of [Mike ]Malott vs. [Gilbert ]Burns.”
Check out Colby Covington’s comments below:
Bo Nickal believes Colby Covington turned down opportunity to fight him At White House
UFC middleweight Bo Nickal wanted to face Colby Covington at the White House and make Covington pay for the remarks he made about Nickal at the RAF 05 presser.
Nickal, who is now a part of the UFC Freedom 250 lineup, will take on Kyle Daukaus (17-4).
During a recent interview with Ariel Helwani, Nickal alleged that the matchmakers reached out to Covington to fight him at the White House, but “Chaos” chickened out. He said:
“The [UFC] told him, ‘If you want to be on this card, you have to fight Bo,’ and he said no. He would rather be a coward and not fight me than be on the White House card, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Everyone knows it would basically be like leading a lamb to slaughter… In one sense, I understand, because you’re literally going out there just to get killed.” [h/t: Ariel Helwani]
Check out Bo Nickal’s comments about Colby Covington below: