Trump supporting UFC fighter Colby Covington sounded off about USA Boxing’s decision to allow transgender fighters in the ring with women athletes.
“Biological men shouldn’t be allowed to compete in women’s sports,” the former UFC champion said during an interview on Fox News’ “Ingraham Angle.”
“Doesn’t matter what their pronouns are, they are still biological men,” he stated. “When they dig up their bones in 200 years, their bones won’t leave pronouns, they’re just gonna leave XX and XY chromosomes.”
“Unfortunately, boxing is a sport that could potentially have fatal consequences, so to let women go against men is completely irresponsible, unethical, and dangerous.”
Colby Covington joins Fox News to give his take on USA Boxing’s new ‘Transgender Policy’ allowing males who transition to female to compete against female born fighters.
“Biological men shouldn’t be allowed to compete in women’s sports. Doesn’t matter what their hormone levels… pic.twitter.com/guDeRe9mvc
— Parry Punch (@ParryPunchNews) January 4, 2024
USA Boxing’s new ‘Transgender Policy’ will allow biologically male fighters who transition to fight with women athletes.
As of 2024, transgender boxers must meet certain criteria to fight in the gender category of their choice, which includes completing gender reassignment surgery and submitting to routine hormone testing.
The transgender athletes who intend to compete in the women’s category will not be eligible to fight until they have four years of quarterly hormone tests under their belt after the surgery.
They will be required to show that their total testosterone level in serum has been below 5 nmol/L for the entire period of time, and must remain below that threshold during the period of boxing eligibility.
“The purpose of this policy is to provide fairness and safety for all boxers,” the organization said in a statement about the new policy.
But Covington, as a fighter himself, remains unconvinced that lowered testosterone levels alone could weaken a biological male enough for a fair fight against a female competitor.
“This is just reckless behavior to put a man in there against a woman… this is endangering someone’s life, one of our American daughters’ lives,” he told guest host Pete Hegseth.
“So this is not a good idea. They should not be entertaining this,” Covington urged. “This is crossing the line and we’ve got to fight back against this wokeism.”
The 17-4-0 fighter believes that the policy is basically a joke. “This must be a PR stunt from the USA boxing team, because anyone sincerely suggesting this is a good idea needs to seek serious professional help immediately,” he remarked.
Covington’s not the only one who has an issue with USA Boxing’s new policy.
USA boxing @USABoxing to allow men who merely say they are women to fight against women.
Mark my words, it will take a woman getting killed before these misogynistic fools wake up. https://t.co/GSNKgqtMd2
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) December 30, 2023
Women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines, who lost to transgender swimmer Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA Championship echoed the UFC star’s sentiment.
“Let me be the first to say women are not just a testosterone level,” she told on Fox News.
“And we’re not just men who merely don’t have male genitalia, which is the policy that USA Boxing has in place now.”
Gaines said that the new policy compromises the safety of women athletes.
“And I think my biggest problem with this new implementation is that we are now glorifying men — we’re calling them champions, we’re giving them titles, they’re winning prize money — for punching women in the face,” she commented.
“Make no mistake, this is not progress. This is not moving us in the positive, forward direction,” Gaines noted.
“This is incredibly regressive. This is taking us back in time and it’s utterly misogynistic.”
Former tennis star Martina Navratilova took to X, formerly Twitter, to vent her frustration with USA Boxing.
“So not ok…beyond irresponsible,” she reacted in a tweet.
Meanwhile, UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland told Theo Von that the internet is making American’s weak.
“The world’s getting f**king soft dude,” he told the comedian on his podcast. “We live in this world now where people can just say whatever the f**k they want, and I don’t think that helps people get like hard.”
Strickland said that the internet has allowed trolls to say horrible things online, but if someone retaliates in the real world, they’ll have legal issues.
“Any kind of recourse that you do — you’ll get in trouble for it,” he pointed out. “If you do something to [them] you’ll go to prison … but we weren’t always like that.”
The way Theo von slips in these one liners is hilarious 🤣 "👐Im not gonna move then".. Even took Sean Strickland a second to catch on lol pic.twitter.com/hfRdf3PYDT
— Jay Mac (@jaymc1128) January 3, 2024
That’s when Strickland cited the 1806 duel between former President Andrew Jackson and Tennessee attorney Charles Dickinson.
“This man killed a man because he implied his wife was a wh**e,” he recalled. “Just the pure implication of ‘your wife is a wh**e’ — he killed this man.”
“One of the greatest men of our f**king time,” Strickland concluded. “And now it’s like — you know — the government has like slowly just took the nuts away from men.”