Colby Covington tapped to Raul Rosas Jr. faster than most fighters finish their walkout, and two former UFC champions took their shots.
“Henry Cejudo, Kamaru Usman roast Colby Covington for embarrassing 43-second loss: ‘He’s supposed to beat Khamzat Chimaev?’” MMA Fighting wrote on X on Thursday.
That line about Chimaev is the whole joke. Rosas Jr. needed less than a minute to make Covington quit, so the two ex-champs turned the result into a punchline about Covington’s chances against one of the most feared names in the sport.
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The exact clock depends on who you ask. MMA Fighting put it at 43 seconds. Happy Punch and MMA Orbit both posted Tuesday night that Rosas Jr. finished it in 40. Either number is brutal. Happy Punch also wrote that Rosas Jr. “squeezed the F*CK out of Colby Covington’s face,” which, judging by the clip, is a fair technical description.
The roast didn’t start with Cejudo and Usman. Spinnin Backfist posted that Conor McGregor was dying laughing after the submission, so Covington is now getting it from several directions at once.
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The guys holding the microphone carry real credentials. Cejudo (16-6) held the UFC flyweight and bantamweight titles at the same time, won Olympic freestyle gold in 2008 at 21, and now holds the inaugural Real American Freestyle lightweight crossover title. He sits No. 40 at bantamweight in Knockout Daily’s rankings, and his last MMA fight came Dec. 6, 2025.
Usman (21-5) is a former UFC welterweight champion who holds the division’s record for longest win streak at 15 and a 97.3% takedown defense rate. Knockout Daily’s rankings list him No. 7 at middleweight, and he last fought July 18, 2026.
Two decorated wrestlers asking how a guy who got wrapped up in under a minute plans to survive Chimaev is a hard question to answer, mostly because Covington hasn’t answered it. The sources show no response from him yet.
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For Rosas Jr., the clip is already everywhere, and it got the attention of McGregor and two former champions in the same week. That buys a young fighter a lot of leverage the next time the matchmakers call.
