{"id":39564,"date":"2026-07-28T06:29:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Colby-Covington-vs-Belal-Muhammad-back-on-for-RAF-Crossover-title-fight-202107"},"modified":"2026-07-28T06:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:29:58","slug":"colby-covington-vs-belal-muhammad-back-on-for-raf-crossover-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/colby-covington-vs-belal-muhammad-back-on-for-raf-crossover-title-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington vs. Belal Muhammad back on for RAF Crossover title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Two
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a>-inspired crossover title bouts
\nare officially headed to Real American Freestyle.<\/p>\n

Rivalries involving Colby
\nCovington<\/a>, Belal
\nMuhammad<\/a>, Merab
\nDvalishvili<\/a> and Henry
\nCejudo<\/a> are set to headline the promotion’s next two events. RAF
\nrecently announced that Dvalishvili will meet Cejudo in the main
\nevent of RAF 12 on Aug. 22 in Cleveland, while Covington will
\ndefend his cruiserweight crossover championship against Muhammad at
\nRAF 13 on Sept. 19 in Miami.<\/p>\n

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Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Colby Covington and Belal Muhammad bring UFC rivalry to Real
\nAmerican Freestyle RAF 13<\/h2>\n

Both Dvalishvili vs. Cejudo and Muhammad vs. Covington will be
\ncontested for crossover championships, a division created to allow
\nactive and former UFC fighters to compete on the wrestling
\nmats.<\/p>\n

Covington became the inaugural cruiserweight crossover champion
\nwith a victory over UFC lightweight Arman
\nTsarukyan<\/a> at RAF 11 in July. Muhammad confronted Covington
\nduring the post-event press conference, igniting a brawl that
\nimmediately fueled talk of a showdown between the longtime rivals.
\nWhile the matchup was initially targeted for RAF 12, promotion
\nofficials have now pushed it back to the September event.<\/p>\n

Dvalishvili and Cejudo will instead headline RAF 12. Their rematch
\nwill crown the inaugural lightweight crossover champion. RAF 12
\nwill also feature a stacked undercard, including Jordan Burroughs
\nvs. Sean
\nBrady<\/a>, Bo Nickal<\/a> vs.
\nMax McEnelly and Tyron
\nWoodley<\/a> vs. Joaquin
\nBuckley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A catchweight matchup between social media personalities Larry
\nWheels and Mike Holston, better known as “The Real Tarzann,” has
\nalso been added to the RAF 13 lineup.<\/p>\n

Championship bouts include Evan Wick vs. Jason Nolf for the RAF
\nmiddleweight title, David Carr vs. Tajmuraz Salkazanov for the
\nwelterweight crown and Kennedy Blades vs. Diana
\nAvsaragova<\/a> for the women’s middleweight belt. Elsewhere,
\nGable
\nSteveson<\/a> faces Anthony Cassioppi, while Vladimer
\nKhinchegashvili, Jesse Mendez, Johnni DiJulius, Asu
\nAlmabayev<\/a>, Masanosuke Ono, Ben Davino and Will Lewan are also
\nscheduled to compete.<\/p>\n

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FULL RAF12 CARD \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n

Tickets in bio. Watch on @foxnation<\/a>
\npic.twitter.com\/rJa4lPnvZk<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Real American Freestyle (@RAFWrestlingUSA)
\nJuly 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Two Ultimate Fighting Championship-inspired crossover title bouts are officially headed to Real American Freestyle. Rivalries involving Colby Covington, Belal Muhammad, Merab Dvalishvili and Henry Cejudo are set to headline the promotion’s next two events. RAF recently announced that Dvalishvili will meet Cejudo in the main event of RAF 12 on Aug. 22 in Cleveland, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}