{"id":333829,"date":"2019-12-02T06:23:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T14:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=333829"},"modified":"2019-12-02T06:50:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T14:50:03","slug":"colby-covington-believes-dana-white-is-a-little-afraid-of-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/colby-covington-believes-dana-white-is-a-little-afraid-of-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington believes Dana White is &#8216;a little afraid&#8217; of him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Covington, who will challenge Kamaru Usman for the UFC welterweight title in the main event of UFC 245, has not seen UFC President Dana White since an early-November press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The pair exchanged some basic pleasantries at the presser, but not much else. That&#8217;s because Covington doesn&#8217;t really have anything nice to say to White, and believes White shares that sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he believes White is a little bit afraid of him.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pJMhYD\">\u201cNo, I haven\u2019t talked to him at all,\u201d Covington told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/12\/2\/20982601\/colby-covington-on-dana-white-its-sad-people-actually-believe-anything-that-comes-out-of-his-mouth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Fighting<\/a> recently. \u201cThe only time I talked to him was right before the press conference before I went on stage I was like \u2018hey Dana, how you doing?\u2019 and you could tell he was a little afraid of me. He was like \u2018how\u2019s it going, how you doing?\u2019 and I was just like I feel good. That was basically it. He went on the stage and we did the press conference and that was it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"jRuVZS\">\u201cThat\u2019s the only words we\u2019ve spoken to each other. I don\u2019t have anything nice to say about him and I know he has nothing nice to say about me ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Covington&#8217;s most recent gripes with White stem from White&#8217;s comments during the very public negotiations for the Usman matchup\u2014 comments Covington says were untrue.<\/p>\n<p id=\"moit4j\">\u201cIt\u2019s sad that he has that type of platform where people believe everything he says and they\u2019re so gullible,\u201d Covington said of the UFC boss. \u201cThey just believe what they read, they don\u2019t believe what they see. He wants to blame me but what about \u201cMarty Fakenewsman?<\/p>\n<p id=\"RB2xjb\">\u201cWhy is it put on me that I didn\u2019t want to fight when you\u2019re getting me a petty, bullsh*t offer when I built this thing up into something bigger than life. It\u2019s a spectacle,\u201d Covington added. \u201cI brought out the president [Donald Trump] and I wasn\u2019t even fighting.<\/p>\n<p id=\"1YzV2m\">\u201cIt\u2019s sad the narrative he tries to run and what\u2019s even sadder are the fans and the people who actually believe anything that comes out of his mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How do you think Dana White will react to these comments from 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 11\/29\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Covington, who will challenge Kamaru Usman for the UFC welterweight title in the main event of UFC 245, has not seen UFC President Dana White since an early-November press conference. The pair exchanged some basic pleasantries at the presser, but not much else. 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