{"id":335711,"date":"2019-12-17T07:27:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T15:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=335711"},"modified":"2019-12-17T07:27:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T15:27:20","slug":"dana-white-shares-plan-for-colby-covington-after-ufc-245","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-shares-plan-for-colby-covington-after-ufc-245\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White shares plan for Colby Covington after UFC 245"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At UFC 245, Colby Covington attempted to wrest the UFC welterweight title from the waist of champion Kamaru Usman. Unfortunately for the outspoken challenger, this mission didn&#8217;t go as planned, as he was stopped by a volley of fifth-round strikes from the champ.<\/p>\n<p>From here, Covington will likely take some time off to recover from the injuries he sustained in the fight \u2014 most notably a fractured jaw. From there, it&#8217;ll be back to the drawing board, as he attempts to work his way back to a shot at the UFC welterweight title.<\/p>\n<p>So, who will Covington fight when he&#8217;s healthy and ready to get back in there?<\/p>\n<p>Well, that remains to be seen, but at the moment, UFC President Dana White is hoping to pair him up with former welterweight champion Tyron Woodley.<\/p>\n<p>At the height of Woodley&#8217;s title reign, he and Covington were heated rivals, frequently exchanging trash talk in interviews and on social media. While the pair never ended up fighting while Woodley had the belt, the time has seemingly come for this grudge match.<\/p>\n<p id=\"buDDVi\">\u201cI\u2019d love to do [Covington] and Woodley next,\u201d White said at the UFC 245 post-fight press conference (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-245-results-stream-fight-card-start-time-predictions-odds-highlights-usman-covington-mma\/2019\/12\/16\/21024980\/dana-white-not-mad-colby-covington-wants-chaos-fight-tyron-woodley-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Mania<\/a>). \u201cThat would be a fun fight, but if he has a broken jaw, he ain\u2019t going to be around for a minute. After a war like this, he\u2019s going to have to go rest, take care of himself for a while and then we\u2019ll see what he wants to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White also addressed his relationship with Covington. Based on Covington&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/colby-covington-reaffirms-he-wont-let-dana-white-put-belt-on-him-hopes-another-celebrity-will\/\">pre-fight comments<\/a>, there was reason to believe it was quite strained.<\/p>\n<p>Not so, says the UFC boss.<\/p>\n<p id=\"i8kBqW\">\u201cI don\u2019t have a problem with him,\u201d White said. \u201cI don\u2019t have a problem with Covington. Listen, I\u2019ve dealt with his type a million times in the last 20 years. You can tell he\u2019s not happy that tonight did not go as he planned. He came out with a game plan, whatever the hell he had going on in his mind that he was going to do or whatever was going to happen and Usman stomped all over that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think the future holds for Colby Covington after UFC 245?<\/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 12\/16\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At UFC 245, Colby Covington attempted to wrest the UFC welterweight title from the waist of champion Kamaru Usman. Unfortunately for the outspoken challenger, this mission didn&#8217;t go as planned, as he was stopped by a volley of fifth-round strikes from the champ. From here, Covington will likely take some time off to recover from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":282805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[22188,39610,54125],"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>Dana White shares plan for Colby Covington after UFC 245 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At UFC 245, top contender Colby Covington failed to wrest the UFC welterweight title from the waist of champion Kamaru Usman.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-shares-plan-for-colby-covington-after-ufc-245\/\" 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