Colby Covington Regrets Relationship with President Trump? ‘It Was Career Suicide’
Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images It seems that Colby Covington has serious regrets about stumping for pal Donald Trump during the 2024 Presidential Election. Covington’s rise into a main event star in the UFC was unexpected. The American didn’t have highlight reel knockout power or nasty submission skills.
Instead, his success was built around a suffocating wrestling game matched with a high-output striking style. It isn’t a fighting approach that the company gets behind and promotes. However, he thrust his name into notoriety with a bold and questionable style of fight promotion.
He then further elevated his profile in the sport when he made a hard push to become President Trump’s favorite UFC fighter during his first-term in office. The effort was successful, and the links to Trump helped make him a star in mixed martial arts. Due to the friendship that developed from Covington’s efforts, when Trump ran for a second term as President, the one-time interim welterweight champion took to the campaign trail to support the Republican candidate.
However, it looks like “Chaos” regrets using his limited time as an elite athlete on campaigning in 2024 then fighting. Colby Covington claims he spent a year campaigning for President Trump Colby Covington says getting into politics didn’t benefit him at all "My focus wasn't on the UFC, my focus was on America. I did give up that time and I wasn't training, and it was honestly career suicide for me to go fight at that time, but I knew Buckley was such a bum he… pic.
twitter. com/uz1pSRrMwU — Red Corner MMA (@RedCorner_MMA) March 25, 2026 “I gave up a year of my career. I was on the campaign trail in a different state almost every week, and I wasn’t training.