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[storyteller]

Tyron Woodley now won't fight Kamaru Usman if Darren Till doesn't make weight at UFC 228

Woodley has a point, but it'd look a lot better if he said this stuff as soon as the news dropped about Usman rather than waiting until Till starts implying the weight cut is going tough to bring it up.

 

[Mason quartermaine]

Tyron Woodley now won't fight Kamaru Usman if Darren Till doesn't make weight at UFC 228

Woodley has a point, but it'd look a lot better if he said this stuff as soon as the news dropped about Usman rather than waiting until Till starts implying the weight cut is going tough to bring it up.

Its going to be funny if till misses weight woodley takes the fight and loses

 

[storyteller]

Its going to be funny if till misses weight woodley takes the fight and loses

The whole reason they signed Usman seems to be so that they could avoid another romero/whitaker situation. If Till missed weight even just barely, I think they'd put Usman in to make sure the belt is on the line. The thing is, we've known about this for a while so Woodley probably shoulda brought it up sooner. Not that I disagree with him, short notice fights are sloppier a lot of the time (ie: TJ/Soto going 5 rounds); but him waiting for the last minute does zero favors for fans, UFC or himself.

 

[True Blue Moon]

I mean at the end of the day everyone is mad at the wrong person. Woodley’s only job is to make weight and show up. If Till can’t honor his contract as a professional that’s on him

Plus besides Till being unable to make weight, this fight is only happening because the interim champ doesn’t want to fight. That’s literally two people not doing what they’re supposed to do before even getting to the hypothetical situation of Woodley fighting a backup.

Everything else is just noise and speculation aimed at the wrong guy.

 

[True Blue Moon]

AND they rewarded Covington with a photo op with Trump, holding the belt, which Dana was present for. Get the fukk out of here man

 

[aceboon]

UFC gotta start acting like a billion dollar corporation, shyt ain't some regional organization holding fights on a reservation, asking your title holder to defend against another elite contender that he hasn't prepared for on one day notice is some bozo shyt. I don't blame Tyron at all for telling them fukk outta here with that nonsense.

 

[curz]

Anybody else expecting Rumble to be the first male fighter to come out the closet? That boy suspect af I’m bout to unfollow his Instagram.

Dude cried in the octagon, quit in the octagon. Now he’s all ballooned up definitely on roids posting weird ass videos like somebody off the bodybuilding.com forums

Wtf kinda fighter stops fighting to just body build and post on the gram? This nikka sus

 

[JahFocus CS]

UFC targeting B.J. Penn vs. Ryan Hall for November or December event

Please just fukking stop, BJ

If he gets TKO'd by Ryan fukking Hall...

BJ gonna be approaching Liddell territory if he keeps fukking around.

 

[jackswstd]

BJ must have some dirt on the UFC. He has no muthafukkin business being in the Octagon in 2018. Hell you can make a case that he shouldn’t have been in the their since losing to Nick Diaz.

 

[No Ma’am]

 

[Dante Manning]

BJ must have some dirt on the UFC. He has no muthafukkin business being in the Octagon in 2018. Hell you can make a case that he shouldn’t have been in the their since losing to Nick Diaz.

depends on his fight purse, he comes from money so i am guessing it isnt high. As his drawing ability is completely diminished Its more a case of dana not caring if he ruins his legacy or for his health than penn having them over a barrel


fight never happens anyway

 

[aceboon]

This and Rory vs Mousassi on the same "night"

 

[storyteller]

This and Rory vs Mousassi on the same "night"

Horiguchi is my dude man...This my most anticipated upcoming fight besides finally getting Max vs Ortega.

 

[aceboon]

Horiguchi is my dude man...This my most anticipated upcoming fight besides finally getting Max vs Ortega.

I originally wrote Guchi off since its kickboxing rules but I can see his movement being a bit tricky at first for Tenshin to nail down, plus dude's power is crazy for his size, he was one shotting bantamweights in the Grand Prix tourney. Tenshin posted this short clip of them sparring from 2015, this fight gonna be some matrix shyt.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

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will never understand why the mma community and the ufc treat the diazs like they are irreplaceable. They have their fans no doubt but the amount of unprofessionalism and headache they bring dwarfs their drawing capability by a large margin.

I don't disagree but I'll always be big fans of both of them.

I do think that Nate got some overdue good will from MMA fans and some fellow fighters and then unfortunately squandered some of it by acting how he's been acting since Conor vs Khabib was announced.