It looks like Colby Covington has serious regrets about stumping for friend Donald Trump during the 2024 presidential election.
Covington’s rise as a main event star in the UFC was unexpected. The American didn’t have highlight reel knockout power or nasty submission skills. Instead, his success was built around a suffocating wrestling game matched by a high-output striking style. This is no way to fight back and promote the company.
However, he catapulted his name into notoriety with a bold and questionable style of fight promotion. He then further raised his profile in the sport when he worked hard to become President Trump’s favorite UFC fighter during his first term in office. The effort was successful, and the relationship with Trump helped make him a star in mixed martial arts.
Due to the friendship that developed through Covington’s efforts, when Trump ran for a second term as President, the one-time interim welterweight champion campaigned to endorse the Republican nominee. However, it seems like “Chaos” regrets using his limited time as an elite athlete to campaign and then fight in 2024.
Colby Covington claims he spent a year campaigning for President Trump
“I gave up a year of my career. I was on the campaign trail in a different state almost every week, and I wasn’t training. This is why I should never have done it [Joaquim] Buckley’s Battle, because I hadn’t been to the gym in six months. I was trying to win elections for America in all these swing states,” he told Bloody Elbow this week.
“My focus wasn’t on the UFC. It was on America… I had given up at that time, and I wasn’t training, and going to fight at that time was honestly career suicide for me, but I [thought] He was very useless and couldn’t do anything with me even without any training camp,” he said, adding, “It’s sad that I wasn’t rewarded. I thought loyalty would be rewarded. The UFC didn’t care.”
Although it doesn’t seem like he regrets being a supporter or friend of President Trump, he clearly wishes he hadn’t put so much effort into helping him win the 2024 presidential election. If he has wasted a year walking the path, it is a year wasted at a time when he is now far from his prime.
Covington was also surprisingly left out of the June card of the UFC event to be held on the White House lawn. Something that surprised many people because it seemed like he was the President’s favorite fighter. He is 2-4 in his last six and has been far more active in Real American Freestyle Wrestling than he has been in the UFC over the past year.
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