Den nummer tre-rankade welterviktaren Tyron ”The Chosen One” Woodley (15-3) har det inte lätt att få en match bokad för tillfället. Johny ”Bigg Rigg” Hendricks verkar vilja vänta på en titelmatch och Woodley själv har ingen lust att möta någon som inte leder till en titelchans.
Tyron ”The Chosen One” Woodley har försökt få till en match mot Johny ”Bigg Rigg” Hendricks för att avgöra vem som blir näste titelutmanaren till welterviktstiteln men enligt honom själv så vill inte Hendricks få till mötet utan väljer istället att invänta titelmatchen vid UFC 189 senare i sommar: ”Last week, they called me and said, ‘Johny said he wants to wait.’ I’m like, ‘Wait? You get an option? When did we get that? You get an option to wait and watch the fight? And you know Johny, he’s not scared to fight anybody. I’m not proclaiming that he’s scared of me and he don’t want this matchup. I’m a realist; I’m not going to sh-t out things that aren’t factual. But why wouldn’t I try to get under his skin a little bit and try to make him take this fight, because I want to intercept where he’s at. I’m kind of sick of the trilogies and the rematches”, säger Woodley till MMAjunkie Radio.
Woodley själv tackade nej till ett möte mot Jake ”The Juggernaut” Ellenberger då han vill möta en högra rankad motståndare. ”Why am I going to fight Ellenberger, who’s on three losses, who beat a guy that was on three losses?” he said. “It was the battle to stay relevant. A victory is not going to put him in position to fight for the title. I can go and find somebody who’s ranked 20th, 15th, that can give me a great matchup and will look great for the fans. But if these people are not in a position that their next fight is going to secure a fight for the world title, then I’m not fighting them. It doesn’t make any sense”. Woodley säger att det är UFC:s fullspäckade schema som skapat denna situation: ” Joe Silva’s job is to make contenders, to constantly matchmake, where there’s always an emerging contender. But what we’ve done is there’s so many damn UFC fights that people are scattered out. They’re not in sync together”.
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