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Tyron Woodley Vows To Go ‘Ivan Drago’ On Colby Covington

Tyron Woodley is clearly fired up about this fight.

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UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley continues to go on the attack towards Colby Covington.

Woodley suffered a partial labrum tear early in his recent title defense over Demian Maia, which he won by decision. Woodley has been a fighting champion as he has defended it twice in 2017 with winning decisions over Stephen Thompson and Maia.

This tied with three other fighters for the most active 2017 schedule by a UFC champion.

Woodley kept a close eye on the co-main event of the main card for Saturday’s (June 9, 2018) UFC 225 pay-per-view event at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.

As seen in the fight, Covington was able to score a decision win over former UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos to win the interim welterweight title.

Following the fight, both Covington and Woodley went on the attack against each other by taking some major shots.

This leads us to Woodley taking to social media and putting up a live chat where he put the newly crowned interim welterweight champion on blast.

At one point, he stated that he was going to go real life Ivan Drago on Covington.

For those of you who may not be aware of who Ivan Drago is. Here’s a quick lesson. This was Rocky Balboa’s main rival in the 1985 film Rocky IV. Woodley retweeted this from a post about his statement on his official Twitter account:

Woodley has made it perfectly clear by stating in previous interviews that he wants to return to the Octagon under the UFC banner at the upcoming UFC 227 pay-per-view event on Saturday, August 4, 2018, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

This show will be headlined by a bantamweight title fight pitting champion TJ Dillashaw against Cody Garbrandt in a rematch. It will be interesting to see when the UFC books this fight.

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Tyron Woodley Rips ‘Complete Fraud’ Colby Covington in Latest Rant

UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley has put Colby Covington on blast yet again. This time, he did in a live chat that was posted on his social media platforms while poolside on Sunday (June 10, 2018). In this latest rant, Woodley gave his reaction …

UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley has put Colby Covington on blast yet again. This time, he did in a live chat that was posted on his social media platforms while poolside on Sunday (June 10, 2018). In this latest rant, Woodley gave his reaction to Covington picking up a decision win over former UFC lightweight […]

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Tyron Woodley Reacts To Colby Covington’s Big UFC 225 Win

Tyron Woodley has given his take on Colby Covington’s big win.

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UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley has given his take on Colby Covington’s big win.

As seen in the co-main event of the main card for Saturday’s (June 9, 2018) UFC 225 pay-per-view event at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, Covington was able to score a decision win over former UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos to win the interim welterweight title.

Following the fight, Woodley took to his official Twitter account to give his take on the bout and fighting Covington next. He wrote the following on his official Twitter account:

“Get this bitch ready! @ufc @danawhite hit my line now! Bitch Please! I let you bump your gums. Now you got smoke! I’m exposing you. You were and always will be my warm-up round!”

Woodley suffered a partial labrum tear early in his recent title defense over Demian Maia, which he won by decision. Woodley has been a fighting champion as he has defended it twice in 2017 with winning decisions over Stephen Thompson and Maia.

This tied with three other fighters for the most active 2017 schedule by a UFC champion.

Although the promotion has yet to officially announce when this fight between Woodley and Covington would go down, Woodley has gone on record in the past by stating that he wants to return to the Octagon under the UFC banner in August at the upcoming UFC 227 pay-per-view event.

This show is set to take place on Saturday, August 4, 2018, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

The main card will air on pay-per-view at 10 p.m. ET while the preliminary card will air on FOX Sports 1 at 8 p.m. ET and the promotion’s streaming service, UFC Fight Pass.

This event will be headlined by a bantamweight title fight pitting champion TJ Dillashaw against Cody Garbrandt in a rematch.

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Tyron Woodley Responds To Colby Covington’s Callout

Tyron Woodley fired back at Colby Covington, and he isn’t happy:

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Following some of the most over-the-top trash talk we’ve ever seen from a UFC competitor, Colby Covington backed up his mouth with a grueling five-round win over Rafael dos Anjos in the co-main event of last night’s (Sat., June 9, 2018) UFC 225 from the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.

After the win, the new interim welterweight champ called out champ Tyron Woodley with some more seething insults, prompting “The Chosen One” to react on social media. Set to return from a lingering shoulder ailment soon, the full-time champion reacted to the callout, suggesting that Dana White get “Chaos” ready for him so he could get paid:

After many accused the UFC welterweight champion of waiting too long to fight, it seems like Woodley is finally more than motivated to finally return because of Covington’s smack talk, stating he’d let the new interim champ run his mouth but would now expose him:

The two rivals should move onto an anticipated title unification fight sometime later this year, with Woodley stating he wants to return sometime soon.

He’s now got a clear contender to his title, and it’s finally an opponent that’s going to create and sell the rivalry after “The Chosen One’s” title defenses came against respectful contenders Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson and Demian Maia.

Who are you picking in this eventual welterweight grudge match?

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Covington Calls Woodley “Gutless, Coward B*tch,” Talks RDA Fight (Exclusive)

With less than 48 hours to go before one of the most stacked pay-per-view lineups of 2018, UFC 225 is the talk-of-the-town in the combat sports community. One of the most talked about fights is for the interim UFC Welterweight Championship, as former U…

With less than 48 hours to go before one of the most stacked pay-per-view lineups of 2018, UFC 225 is the talk-of-the-town in the combat sports community. One of the most talked about fights is for the interim UFC Welterweight Championship, as former UFC Lightweight Champion Rafael dos Anjos battles the brash, trash-talking Colby Covington […]

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Tyron Woodley Discusses Return Date, Next Opponent

The Chosen One knows exactly when he wants to fight again.

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Tyron Woodley hasn’t fought in nearly a year, but now the UFC welterweight champion knows exactly when he wants to return to the Octagon.

“The Chosen One” captured 170-pound gold back in July of 2016 when he pulled off a stunning first round knockout over then-champion Robbie Lawler at UFC 201.

He successfully retained his title four months later after going to a Majority Draw against Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson at UFC 205. In a rematch with Thompson at UFC 209 four months later, Woodley won a majority decision to retain the welterweight strap again. Woodley again fought four months later and successfully retained against Demian Maia via unanimous decision.

Woodley’s latter two fights were viewed as boring by fans and extremely uneventful. In fact, after his fight with Maia it was announced that the bout broke the record for least punches thrown in a championship fight in UFC history.

A large part of this was due to a shoulder injury sustained by Woodley. He received surgery this past December to repair the issue. Now, in a recent interview on MMA Junkie Radio, Woodley reveals that he’s ready to get back in the cage and wants on the UFC 227 pay-per-view (PPV) card in Los Angeles on August 4th:

“I’m projected to be back Aug. 4,” Woodley said. “That’s when I want to fight. I want to fight in L.A.

“I’m ready. I’ve been starting to go 100 percent on a lot of things,” Woodley said. “Obviously I’m still doing rehab, still getting the strength back. But it’s not restricting me from a lot.”

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Woodley isn’t too concerned with who his opponent for his next fight will be, but the welterweight champion believes he has earned the right to have a say in when and where he fights next:

“I’m not really concerned with who’s ready, who’s next,” Woodley said. “You’ve got to realize there are certain rights you deserve as a champion. When I’m ready to fight, now it’s time to fight. Whoever they got for me to fight at this time, come get this work. I don’t want to sit back and say, ‘Oh, I want to sit and wait to see what happens with this fight.’ I’m the champion. I want to fight.

“Some of these bouts should’ve taken place anyway, maybe not with the label of interim title. But I think at that point, you make a fight. Even if it’s somebody that’s not currently in the division. Maybe it’s Nate, maybe it’s Georges. Maybe it’s somebody else. But I’m also willing to fight all these other guys.”

As to why Woodley isn’t concerned with who his next opponent will be, The Chosen One plans to down each and every legitimate 170-pound contender in the division.

Whether it’s Kamaru Usman, Darren Till, Rafael dos Anjos or Colby Covington – Woodley is prepared to beat them all before moving up to middleweight and taking that belt too:

“I kind of want to legitimately clean the division,” Woodley said. “I wouldn’t mind fighting RDA, Colby, Usman, Till, and at that point, unless another prospect emerges, I’ve cleaned out the division. And I’m the greatest weltereight of all time at that point. And then it’s time to go up to 185, and I want that belt. …

“I want to finish off my division. When it’s all said and done, I did everything I could do there. I want to go up and challenge myself once again, and I want to try to win the belt at ’85 and defend there and pretty much retire as a middleweight.”

Woodley’s next opponent will likely be determined this weekend in the co-main event of UFC 225, as Rafael dos Anjos takes on Colby Covington for the interim welterweight championship.

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