Former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley is planning a return to the Octagon in 2022. He told Fight Hub TV at the Triller Triad Combat event over the weekend that not only will he compete in MMA, but he wants to fight four times in four different sports because he loved fighting Jake Paul so much.
“Sh*t, we had a ball. I felt that I won the fight, but at the end of the day, how did I really even lose? I feel like I won, I put on a show, I showed that I’m in shape, I showed that I come to fight, and for eight rounds straight I was walking him down and putting it on him.
Woodley Targeting Four Fights that “People Give a F*ck About” in 2022, Including MMA Return
So I’m just excited to be my own boss. I’m really the only real, true free agent in the whole sport. Nobody is a real combat free agent, but I am. I can go box, I can come fight here [at Triller Triad Combat].
I can do whatever I want to. So I’m really enjoying that freedom. Next year I plan on fighting four times in four different forms of combat. MMA; some form of boxing; an actual, real boxing fight; and do something special for New Year’s.”
Of course, four fights in a year is a serious schedule for a man who hasn’t fought four times in a year since 2009. However, after the four-fight skid that led Woodley to leave the UFC and a debut boxing loss at the hands of YouTuber Jake Paul, Tyron Woodley is hungry for competition.
“January, March, July, and December. I’m just trying to have a fight that people give a f*ck about. I don’t care about the belts and names and all that. If people care about it and it’s a big fight, and it’s really built up really well, that’s what I want.
If it’s not that, I don’t care about, ‘Oh, he did this and he beat (him),’ because it didn’t matter when I was doing it. I was at the top forever. I was three, four years without losing to nobody, didn’t lose a f*cking round, and it never monetized to the bags I’m getting now. So 2022, January, March, July, December, some asses getting beat.”
Tyron Woodley lost his UFC welterweight title to Kamaru Usman back in 2019, and failed to put together a win since.
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