Despite successfully defending his welterweight title against Stephen Thompson at UFC 209 on Saturday night it seems that Tyron Woodley still has a chip on his shoulder.
The outspoken champion criticizes Dana White in a new interview with TMZ Sports after the UFC President stated post-fight that he had scored the fight 48-47 in Thompson’s favor.
“Dana White thought I won the first fight but he didn’t publicly come out and say I won the first fight. So I thought it was a bit distasteful for the promoter to say (Thompson) won the fight,” Woodley told TMZ Sports. “That’s like me coming out and saying as a fighter that I don’t think he didn’t do a good job of promoting the fight. Which I don’t. I don’t think they’ve done a good job of promoting me as champion.
“Have you ever heard of a commissioner going off on a (judge) for — ‘oh man, he should have never awarded that 10-8 round.’ Have you ever heard that before? Why in my fight would the person do that, when, in fact, the 10-8 round did not fix the outcome at all. The person that gave the 10-8 was the person that gave the draw. So why would we be making such a huge travesty on that? They should have done that in New York.
“I’ma just fall back. I’ma do my thing. But God damn, I’ma be a tough dude to deal with.”
TMZ Sports then caught up with Dana White, who needless to say was more than happy to return fire.
“Tyron Woodley came out and said he was going to destroy Thompson and there would be no question he was the champ. Well guess what? There’s questions again.”
“Let me tell you what…when you have a performance like you did at 209 and you get booed for 5 straight rounds and then people are booing so loud you can’t even do your interview, you should probably just take your lumps and move on. Get your next fight as fast as you can and try to put that performance behind you.”
“There’s one guy around here who calls the shots and as soon as you learn that, the better off you’ll be.”
