{"id":200060,"date":"2016-08-01T10:09:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T17:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=200060"},"modified":"2016-08-01T10:09:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T17:09:17","slug":"will-georges-st-pierre-steal-stephen-wonderboy-thompsons-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/georges-st-pierre\/will-georges-st-pierre-steal-stephen-wonderboy-thompsons-title-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Georges St-Pierre steal Stephen &#8216;Wonderboy&#8217; Thompson&#8217;s title shot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyron Woodley realized his dreams on Saturday in Atlanta, Georgia when he <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-201\/mma-community-reacts-tyron-woodleys-ko-robbie-lawler\/\">defeated Robbie Lawler<\/a> to become the UFC welterweight champion of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Woodley said now that he is the champion, he is looking for the biggest fights possible to generate the most money and doesn&#8217;t care about what the rankings are saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-nick-diaz-compares-his-nates-training-to-conor-mcgregors\/\">Nick Diaz<\/a> is a top-five welterweight of all time in my eyes,&#8221; Woodley said at the post-fight press conference (transcribed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2016\/8\/1\/12340730\/georges-st-pierre-interested-in-fight-against-tyron-woodley?utm_campaign=arielhelwani&#038;utm_content=chorus&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). &#8220;Georges St-Pierre is the No. 1 welterweight in my eyes. If I&#8217;m an athlete in this sport, in this division and I want to say I&#8217;m the best in the world, I feel like I should compete against those guys. So I don&#8217;t feel any obligation to go by the rankings. We all know how those rankings are produced anyway. And I want to go out there and I want to fight the money fights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MMA Fighting reached out to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/georges-st-pierre\/georges-st-pierre-denies-reaching-michael-bisping-fight\/\">Georges St-Pierre<\/a> via text message on Sunday and asked if he would be interested in fighting the new welterweight champion Tyron Woodley. &#8220;Rush&#8221; simply replied, &#8220;Yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Will we see Georges St-Pierre return to the Octagon to fight Tyron Woodley and have UFC #1 ranked welterweight <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-tyron-woodley-calls-out-nick-diaz-shuts-down-stephen-thompson\/\">Stephen Thompson<\/a> pushed to the side? Sound off in the comment section!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyron Woodley realized his dreams on Saturday in Atlanta, Georgia when he defeated Robbie Lawler to become the UFC welterweight champion of the world. 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