Overview
- Following Friday's insult-filled press event, Dillon Danis pressed into Colby Covington's face at the RAF07 stage and security moved in to keep them apart.
- The exchange turned personal as Covington made crude remarks about Danis’s mother and Danis shot back with taunts about Covington’s sister.
- Witnesses and video showed little real contact, with brief handholding, light kicks and feints, and even smiles before staff split them up.
- The Real American Freestyle co-main is set for Saturday at the Yuengling Center in Tampa on Fox Nation, with Danis making his RAF debut against Covington in his second bout for the promotion.
- Covington arrives as a former interim UFC welterweight champion who beat Luke Rockhold at RAF05, while Danis has competed rarely since 2019 but scored a quick August submission over Warren Spencer.