Dan Lambert has a part to play in Colby Covington's pro wrestling style character that he puts on ahead of fights. The UFC welterweight has been influenced by Lambert's foray into pro wrestling and AEW.

The pro wrestling gimmick has worked so far and Colby Covington has gone all in. Dan Lambert was recently on The MMA Hour and admitted he had some regrets on the things he added to the UFC welterweight's character.

“I may have put an ingredient or two into the early mix of what you see now, I didn’t think Dr. Frankenstein was going to come along and add every other ingredient in the world to it and make it blow up the way it blew up,” Lambert said on the UFC welterweight's character. “It’s one thing shitting on a particular country or a particular guy to get under people’s skins and to get yourself noticed, it’s another thing to take it to the next level and shit on every single person in the entire sport and everybody in every other sport. Men and women and people in different weight classes and then people in your own gym.

“If I had seen it going down that direction and knew then what I know now about what a distraction it would be for our gym, I probably would have tried to insert myself a little differently into that equation.”

Colby Covington is no longer associated with Dan Lambert after he used to train at his gym and had him employed as his manager. He is fully focused on his fight with Jorge Masvidal at UFC 272 on Saturday.