Colby Covington has attempted to expose the UFC for freezing out fighters when they don’t go with their ideas.
The former UFC interim welterweight champion hasn’t been in action since December 2024 when he suffered his second loss in a row.
The 38-year-old was hopeful of competing on the UFC White House event this coming June 14 but he was snubbed of a spot on the historic card.
And with that, Colby Covington has called out the promotion for freezing out fighters when they don’t accept certain fights offered by the UFC.
Covington exposes the UFC for freezing out fighters
Over the past few weeks, ‘Chaos’ has been extremely vocal regarding his issues with the UFC, even claiming that ‘they don’t care anymore’ about making big fights.
Not long after, Covington revealed that the UFC blocked him from wrestling Arman Tsarukyan, stating that they are leaving him sitting around.
“You have no say (in what happens),” Covington said during a recent livestream with Neon.
“Hunter Campbell who is like the UFC lawyer, he kind of just tells you what direction they’re gonna go and it’s either you take it or leave it so you don’t really get a choice what you want to do.
“They just leave you and ice you, they won’t give you fights, they’ll let you just sit out and say, ‘Hey, you turned down this fight, now you’re not gonna fight for the year, we’re not gonna make money’, they just freeze you out.
“You’re forced, even if it’s not a good move and you don’t think you’re getting paid what you deserve it doesn’t matter, they say either accept it and be a company man, or we’ll ice you and you don’t get to make money.”
The 38-year-old is skeptical that anything will ever change as he believes the only fighters who have the power to drum up change are already getting paid well enough.
“The thing is, those guys that would make the biggest influence, that have the biggest platforms like Ilia (Topuria), (Islam) Makhachev, Khabib (Nurmagomedov), those guys are getting paid so well that they’re never gonna speak out against the UFC.
“Those guys are making $5 million a fight. $5 million to $10 million.”
What’s next for Colby Covington?
Covington has an ongoing feud with Bo Nickal, however, a fight between the two is extremely unlikely to come to fruition.
And according to ‘Chaos’, the promotion are looking at making him fight the winner of the upcoming fight between Gilbert Burns and Mike Malott.
Somehow the 38-year-old still occupies a spot in the welterweight rankings, despite having not picked up a win since 2022.