Colby Covington Has ‘Had Calls’ With WWE, Could See Staying With RAF Until Retirement

UFC alumnus Colby Covington is now part of Real American Freestyle, and he says there is potential for him to appear in WWE as well. Covington has previously teased the idea of coming to WWE once his UFC career finished out, and he spoke about the potential and his future in RAF during an interview with Brian Mazique.

Covington noted that he’s spoken with Triple H about the possibility of coming to WWE, but that his focus is on his RAF career. You can see highlights below (per F4W Online):

On His Future Plans:

“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.”

On a Potential Transition to Pro Wrestling:

“Honestly, I think the most difficult transition when I think about the pro wrestler schedule is just the schedule that they have to go on. They’re on the road, I mean, 320, 330 days a year. They’re traveling to different countries. They got Monday Night Raw, they got Friday Night SmackDown, they got their pay-per-views it’s a vigorous schedule and just to keep sane during that time and and keep your head in the game and be able to shoot a promo and go through the moves of the match. I mean, it’s just, it’s a challenging.

“Being able to shoot a promo is everything. And 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.”