UFC commentator and former welterweight champ Michael Bisping dismissed claims that Paul vs Woodley 2 was rigged. He took to his Believe You Me podcast to concede that the fight itself was boring and uneventful, but a bad fight and a fixed fight are two very different things.
“It’s ridiculous!Anytime somebody gets beat, knocked out, something like that, these conspiracy theories start going around. There’s no way Tyron Woodley’s gonna do that.
Bisping Scoffs at Paul vs Woodley 2 “Fight Fixing” Claims
Secondly, I’ve seen enough knockouts to know when one is real. That looked f*cking real. The fight wasn’t real. The fight was garbage, it was piss poor, it was sh*t, it was nonexistent.
The best thing that happened to Jake Paul was him actually landing – it was just a solid shot. The kid can bang, simple as that. He’s a big, strong, young kid. Boom. That’s not a fix!”
Paul knocked Tyron Woodley out on his feet in the sixth round of their rematch. Although Woodley made much of his own knockout power in the lead-up to the fight, he failed to follow through on any game plan over the course of those six rounds.
The fighters spent as much time grabbing on to one another in the clinch as they did exchanging punches. This elicited boos from the crowd, and reprimands from the referee. Ultimately, it was the cleanest punch of the fight, delivered straight from Jake Paul to Tyron Woodley, that ended things.
It was, as Michael Bisping said, a terrible fight. “Terrible, an absolutely terrible fight. Unbelievably bad and for all the talk and the opportunity that Tyron had.
And look, I’m not here to talk sh*t about Tyron Woodley. I like the guy, I respect the career that he’s had, and I don’t want to say anything that’s gonna make it awkward when I see him because I will see him soon.
But the reality is it was a f*cking sh*t fight from both men. There was a lot of hugging involved and of course the knockout was good for Jake Paul. Of course that’s what everyone wants to get, but he’s lucky that he got that because I think had that gone to a decision and that was the state of the fight, nobody wants to watch either of them two fight ever f*cking again.”
As a result, Tyron Woodley needs to give it up. “The problem with f*cking Tyron Woodley, and I say this all the time, in a sport like boxing where all you’ve got to do is throw punches, he doesn’t throw f*cking punches! That’s a problem!
That’s a big problem. He doesn’t throw enough. Diaz would, McGregor would. They might lose but they’d f*cking throw, they’d fight, they’d turn up. Masvidal would beat him. Nate Diaz, we’ll see what happens next year because that fight probably will happen.
Tyron Woodley, I think Tyron needs to stop now. I think he needs to hang it up.”
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