{"id":15918,"date":"2023-12-17T16:03:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T10:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/donald-trump-gets-ovation-high-fives-fans-upon-ufc-296-arrival-for-biggest-fan-colby-covingtons-fight\/"},"modified":"2023-12-17T16:03:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T10:33:52","slug":"donald-trump-gets-ovation-high-fives-fans-upon-ufc-296-arrival-for-biggest-fan-colby-covingtons-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/donald-trump-gets-ovation-high-fives-fans-upon-ufc-296-arrival-for-biggest-fan-colby-covingtons-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump gets ovation, high-fives fans upon UFC 296 arrival for \u2018biggest fan\u2019 Colby Covington\u2019s fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donald Trump is once again making the rounds at UFC events.<\/p>\n

The former president took in the action at UFC 295 last month at Madison Square Garden, and is in Las Vegas for UFC 296.<\/p>\n

It marks Trump’s fourth appearance at a UFC pay-per-view event this year, including UFC 287 in Miami and UFC 290, which also was in Vegas.<\/p>\n

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Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington event at T-Mobile Arena on December 16, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada.\u00a0<\/span> (Sean M. Haffey\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Trump made his entrance alongside UFC president Dana White, music artist Kid Rock, and actor Mario Lopez.<\/p>\n

One of Trump’s biggest supporters is fighting in the main event – Colby Covington will be looking to regain the welterweight title against Leon Edwards as an underdog.<\/p>\n

Covington said that if he wins the bout, Trump will be the one placing the championship belt on him.<\/p>\n

“I’m his biggest fan, he’s my biggest role model. What better way for him to put the belt around me?” Covington told the Full-Send Podcast earlier this week.<\/p>\n

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Colby Covington is seen on stage during the UFC 296 press conference at MGM Grand Garden Arena on December 14, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/span> (Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Who better than the most famous person on planet Earth<\/u>, Donald Trump, to give me the belt?”<\/p>\n

Trump’s UFC 287 arrival was in favor of Jorge Masvidal, whom he has grown a friendship with. Masvidal lost his fight that night to Gilbert Burns and retired afterwards.<\/p>\n

Covington enters the bout with a 17-3 career record, having gone 2-2 in his last four fights. Both of those losses were to Usman.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington event at T-Mobile Arena on December 16, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada.\u00a0<\/span> (Sean M. Haffey\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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His last fight was a unanimous decision victory over Jorge Masvidal, another fighter Trump has supported, at UFC 272 in March 2022.<\/p>\n

Edwards, the favorite, is 21-3, having taken the title from Usman at UFC 286 in March in his home country of England<\/u>.<\/p>\n

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