Overview
- After a tense press conference Friday, Dillon Danis pressed into Colby Covington at the faceoff and security stepped in before any real blows were thrown.
- Covington and Danis are booked for a freestyle wrestling co-main event Saturday at the Yuengling Center in Tampa, streaming on Fox Nation.
- Covington said he aims to get “justice for Mrs Logan Paul” Nina Agdal and vowed to prove he is the best wrestler in pre-fight comments to Bloody Elbow.
- Danis escalated his boasts, calling Covington and several UFC welterweights “easy” in a Saturday interview, following a Thursday live stream where he claimed he would submit Sean Strickland and tried to sell that to Alex Pereira.
- The matchup favors Covington’s NCAA Division I wrestling background, while Danis is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist with sparse recent MMA activity and a UFC event ban stemming from a UFC 322 brawl.