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This past weekend at UFC 209, welterweights Tyron ‘The Chosen One’ Woodley and Stephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson stepped into the Octagon<\/a> for a highly anticipated rematch for Woodley’s welterweight title. <\/p>\n

With Woodley winning the fight via majority decision and retaining his belt for the 2nd time<\/a>, many expect Demian Maia to get the next welterweight title shot if Maia manages to defeat Jorge Masvidal on May 13th at UFC 211.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Demian<\/p>\n

He spoke on The MMA Hour<\/a> to explain why he believes fans will tune in to watch him fight:<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody says, \u2018oh this guy sell fights, this other guy doesn\u2019t sell fights,\u2019\u201d Maia said during Monday\u2019s edition of The MMA Hour (via MMA Fighting). \u201cBut the reality is that in the welterweight division nobody sells fights well. Sometimes people push off my shoulders with these things, but in my last fight, I got a submission win, and in previous fights, I\u2019ve had great performances and people want to watch my fights.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not saying that their last fight [Woodley vs. Thompson] was bad, but everybody knew it didn\u2019t sell well, it wasn\u2019t so exciting. So it\u2019s not just my problem, it\u2019s all of us together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UFC needs to promote a little bit more, and welterweight is a division that is hard to sell nowadays and that\u2019s it,\u201d he continued. \u201cI think that people believe in lies and they repeat the lies so many times that the people start to believe, \u2018ah, Demian is not fighting for the title because he doesn\u2019t sell.\u2019 And that\u2019s not true, I wouldn\u2019t sell worse than \u2018Wonderboy\u2019 Thompson did, I think I could sell better.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Demian<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on BJPenn.com<\/a> on 3\/9\/2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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