{"id":283100,"date":"2018-08-17T10:24:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T17:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=283100"},"modified":"2018-08-17T10:24:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T17:24:59","slug":"michael-bisping-reacts-to-colby-covingtons-white-house-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/michael-bisping\/michael-bisping-reacts-to-colby-covingtons-white-house-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping reacts to Colby Covington&#8217;s White House visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this summer, UFC interim welterweight champion Colby Covington made good on a longstanding promise and visited President Donald Trump at the Whitehouse. It was a feel good moment for the American welterweight, and one that many members of the MMA community doubted he&#8217;d pull off.<\/p>\n<p>Former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping was among the doubters of Colby Covington&#8217;s White House plans. As such, Covington was happy to rub it in the Brit&#8217;s face once the visit to the Oval Office had been made.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BmeDf9DB3Xe\/?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his podcast Believe You Me, Michael Bisping responded to Colby Covington&#8217;s trolling, and assured that he&#8217;s not especially impressed by his White House visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor one, you\u2019re a big Trump supporter, good for you, well done,&#8221; Michael Bisping said (via<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanytt.com\/michael-bisping\/michael-bisping-responds-to-colby-covington-trolling-him-over-president-trump-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> MMANytt<\/a>). &#8220;You went to the White House, well done. Let\u2019s just be clear though, you didn\u2019t go as the champion. Interim belt or not. You\u2019re currently now nothing other than a regular UFC fighter and you only went because Dana White is close with Donald Trump. They&#8217;re friends, they&#8217;re buddies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got to think that was part of the reason why [the visit happened],&#8221; Bisping added. &#8220;It wasn\u2019t a case of [Trump] sat and watched and went \u2018oh my god, here\u2019s this Colby douche bag face, that is doing these incredible things, we have to have him to the White House, we have to honor this great American\u2019. No, it wasn\u2019t that. He went running and when Dana stripped him, Dana said \u2018don\u2019t worry about it, we\u2019re going to strip you but just to soften the blow, I\u2019ve got you a President meeting, you can pop in for 30 seconds but don\u2019t touch anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the ongoing war of words between Michael Bisping and Colby Covington?<\/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 8\/17\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this summer, UFC interim welterweight champion Colby Covington made good on a longstanding promise and visited President Donald Trump at the Whitehouse. It was a feel good moment for the American welterweight, and one that many members of the MMA community doubted he&#8217;d pull off. Former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping was among the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":283102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[22188,10128],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michael Bisping reacts to Colby Covington&#039;s White House visit | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC middlewieght champion Michael Bisping was not impressed by Colby Covington&#039;s recent visit with Donald Trump at the White House.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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