Former UFC Champion Reveals Triple H Talks, WWE Move ‘A Possibility’

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A former UFC champion has revealed talks with Triple H and has stated that a move to WWE is “a possibility” for him.

Colby Covington is someone who found great success in the UFC across a 10-year stint in the promotion, winning the Interim Welterweight Championship in 2018 and competing in several high profile clashes with the likes of Kamaru Usman, Jorge Masvidal and Leon Edwards.

During his time in UFC, Covington drew comparisons to characters from the WWE due to his heel-like antics and trash talking to his opponents. Covington would even embrace this further by walking out to WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle’s entrance music at UFC Newark in 2019, which like Angle’s entrance, drew ‘You Suck’ chants from the crowd.

Covington recently retired from UFC in May of this year, turning his attention to competing in the Hulk Hogan-founded Real American Freestyle promotion, where he currently holds a record of 3 wins 0 draws 0 losses.

The 38-year-old recently sat down for an interview with Brian Mazique to discuss his upcoming fight with Arman Tsarukyan at Real American Freestyles 11 on July 18, and while doing so, he revealed that he has held talks with Triple H about the possibility of transitioning to WWE.

Covington said:

“RAF is definitely somewhere I see myself ending my competitive career at. Whether I entertain other fight offers and go back to the UFC and get some big fights, those are still possibilities. You never know what the future holds and what tomorrow holds. All I can do is control what I can control today and that’s just my hard training and preparing for Arman Tsarukyan and you just never know where life will take me.

“I’ve had some calls with Triple H and the WWE, so that’s a potential possibility in the future as well. But I’m all in on RAF, I invested my hard-earned money that I earned fighting into RAF to get a little small equity percentage and I care about the future.

“I want to see the future of wrestling thrive and prosper, and I want the next generation of wrestlers, amateur wrestlers, freestyle, wrestlers, to be able to come in and really make a good life for themselves. Because when I was a kid there was no outlet. It was either you finish when you’re in college, maybe try for the Olympics, but even if you make the Olympics doesn’t mean you’re going to make money to financially take care of yourself. You’re still making ends meet and living pay check to pay check but now RAF has come along and I think the future looks bright for RAF.

“We have great investors with FOX Nation and Spartan.com and Real American Beer and some of the other investors that are in on Real American Freestyle. I think the future of RAF is bright and I honestly think that some wrestlers someday are going to be on the Forbes list for highest paid athletes as a wrestler in RAF.”

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Covington was later asked what he believes he would find the most challenging if he did transition to WWE, to which he named the intense travel demands on WWE stars as the biggest obstacle:

“Honestly I think the most difficult transition when I think about the pro wrestler schedule… They’re on the road 320, 330 days a year, they’re travelling to different countries. They got Monday Night Raw, Friday Night SmackDown, they got their pay-per-views. I mean, it’s a rigorous schedule.

“Just to keep sane during that time and keep your head in the game and be able to shoot a promo and go through the moves of the match. It’s challenging. It’s a very hard workload and I’ve never had that type of workload.

“I’m used to training for 8-10 weeks at a training camp, and then I go to one fight and I make a ton of money in one night and that’s it. I can chill for a couple months of a year, but wrestling it’s just back-to-back-to-back. So, I think it’s just understanding the travel schedule and trying to keep up with that. 

“I think the mic skills, they’re similar. Being able to shoot a promo is everything. I learned that. I was on TNA Impact with my boy Bobby Lashley and he showed me what it takes to shoot promos and how to do this and that. So, I feel like I would be very comfortable with that.

“And then the wrestling, I’ve been wrestling my whole life. I know how to be an athlete. I know how to do in-ring wrestling. So I feel like I would pick that up very quick. But I think the biggest challenge would definitely be the travel schedule.”

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While WWE wrestlers were previously known to work upwards of 300+ dates per year, the travel schedule for talent has since drastically decreased, with TKO reducing the amount of WWE house shows by 75% in recent years.

The decision to reduce the number of house shows so significantly is something notable talent like Cody Rhodes has publicly been critical of, and for what it’s worth WWE did announce 10 new non-televised dates over the Summer months in the US as a part of their 2026 Summer Tour.

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