{"id":277980,"date":"2018-06-07T06:48:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=277980"},"modified":"2018-06-07T06:48:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:48:04","slug":"colby-covington-gives-joe-rogan-a-pass-wont-slap-him-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/colby-covington\/colby-covington-gives-joe-rogan-a-pass-wont-slap-him-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington gives Joe Rogan &#8220;a pass,&#8221; won&#8217;t slap him in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Covington is feeling merciful.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-colby-covington-says-he-might-have-to-slap-joe-rogan\/\">his recent comments<\/a>, the UFC 225 interim welterweight title challenger won&#8217;t be slapping Joe Rogan if they cross paths in Chicago this weekend.<\/p>\n<p id=\"W7zuno\">\u201cI\u2019ve decided to let things go with Joe. I decided to give him a pass. I\u2019m feeling good, I\u2019m in the spirit,\u201d Covington said on a recent episode of UFC Tonight (transcribed by\u00a0Adam Guillen Jr. for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2018\/6\/6\/17436458\/ufc-225-colby-covington-will-give-joe-rogan-pass-in-chicago-threa-slap-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAMania<\/a>). \u201cIt\u2019s title fight week, I\u2019m about to make a lot of money with more zeroes to my pay check, so I am feeling good. I\u2019m going to give Joe a pass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Covington first said he was thinking about slapping Joe Rogan on an episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bjpenn-com-radio-ep-79-elias-theodorou-rafael-lovato-jr-dominick-reyes-gilbert-burns-volkan-oezdemir-colby-covington\/\">BJPENN.COM Radio<\/a>. This comment was in response to Rogan warning Covington to be careful what he says about Jon Jones, in the event that he and Jones cross paths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Joe Rogan should worry about what he\u2019s saying about me because we might just meet face to face soon in the near future,\u201d Covington said. \u201cHe might be commentating that Chicago card, so that\u2019s kind of hypocritical of him to say something like that because when he\u2019s talking about me, we might be face to face. I might just have to slap him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On a more recent episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/podcasts\/bjpenn-com-radio-ep-82-jimmie-rivera-alexandre-almeida-colby-covington\/\">BJPENN.COM Radio<\/a>, Covington claimed that his beef with Rogan was still sizzling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis little mouth was trying to run and say things when he shouldn\u2019t have an opinion,\u201d Covington said on the show. \u201cYou\u2019ve never been in an Octagon, you don\u2019t have any experience fighting. Just \u2019cause you do these little Tae Kwan Do tournaments and you can\u2019t even get first place in those, doesn\u2019t mean you can come talk to the King of Chaos, AKA the new welterweight king on June 9th.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The beef will] be squashed when he stops running his little mouth like his opinion matters,\u201d Covington continued. \u201cHis opinion is irrelevant. He thinks he has a say in everything and he\u2019s a biased announcer as it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the sounds of it, however, Colby Covington will be letting Joe Rogan off the hook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 6\/7\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Covington is feeling merciful. Contrary to his recent comments, the UFC 225 interim welterweight title challenger won&#8217;t be slapping Joe Rogan if they cross paths in Chicago this weekend. \u201cI\u2019ve decided to let things go with Joe. I decided to give him a pass. 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