Actual American Freestyle has added a marquee co-main occasion to RAF07, confirming a cruiserweight showdown between Colby Covington and Dillon Danis for March 28 on the Yuengling Middle in Tampa, Florida. The occasion is the promotion’s seventh flagship card and can stream reside on Fox Nation, persevering with RAF’s push to place freestyle wrestling on a significant broadcast platform.
Colby Covington vs Dillon Danis in RAF Introduced
RAF07 is already scheduled for March 28 at 8 p.m. native time on the Yuengling Middle on the College of South Florida campus, with tickets presently on sale to the general public. Actual American Freestyle is billed as an unscripted skilled freestyle wrestling league that brings elite wrestlers and crossover names from MMA onto a single mat-based stage, with RAF07 following current reveals in South Florida and constructing on the model’s rising calendar of occasions.
Covington heads into Tampa off a dominant debut for the league at RAF05, the place he headlined “Covington vs. Rockhold” in Dawn, Florida, on January 10, 2026. The previous UFC interim welterweight champion used regular stress, management ties and chain wrestling to overwhelm Luke Rockhold, securing a 12–0 technical fall within the second spherical of their cruiserweight bout and instantly establishing himself as one in every of RAF’s simplest crossover athletes. That consequence moved him to 1–0 in RAF competitors and set the stage for a callout-driven storyline that now carries into RAF07.
Danis arrives as one in every of fight sports activities’ most polarizing names and brings a adorned grappling background to the league’s cruiserweight ranks. The New York native constructed his status in elite no-gi jiu-jitsu competitors earlier than turning to MMA, the place he competed for Bellator within the welterweight division and posted two first-round submission wins in 2018 and 2019.
Extra just lately, he shifted into the Misfits MMA scene, the place he captured the Misfits MMA gentle heavyweight (175 lbs) title with a 15-second submission of Warren Spencer below modified MMA guidelines and stays listed because the division’s present champion heading into late 2025.
Stylistically, the matchup is a clear wrestler-versus-jiu-jitsu conflict tailor-made for a freestyle wrestling format. Covington’s engine, mat management and high stress that proved decisive towards Rockhold will now be examined towards Danis’s desire for scrambles, upper-body ties and transitions that create exposure-type positions acquainted to grapplers crossing into wrestling.
On a card that already options established freestyle names and championship bouts at different weights, RAF is clearly betting that this co-main occasion will draw each wrestling followers and MMA viewers to Fox Nation for a uncommon assembly between two high-profile figures from totally different corners of the game.
