{"id":242366,"date":"2017-06-15T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=242366"},"modified":"2017-06-15T13:28:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T20:28:03","slug":"tyron-woodley-respects-fellow-hustler-michael-bisping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/tyron-woodley-respects-fellow-hustler-michael-bisping\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyron Woodley respects fellow &#8220;hustler&#8221; Michael Bisping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not all that long ago, UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley and UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping agreed to a catchweight superfight.\u00a0Despite their clear interest in fighting one another, however, the fight never came to fruition. Instead, Woodley now appears to be <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tyron-woodley\/report-tyron-woodley-vs-demian-maia-welterweight-title-fight-nearing-completion\/\">closing in on a title defense opposite Demian Maia<\/a>, while Bisping is currently nursing an injury, and is expected to return against the winner of Yoel Romero and Robert Whittaker&#8217;s interim middleweight title fight.<\/p>\n<p>While this catchweight superfight has been relegated to the back burner for now, it is one that still interests Woodley, and one that surely still interests Bisping. And though they have swapped some trash talk in the past, their mutual interest in this fight is not borne\u00a0of bad blood. In fact, Woodley actually has a good deal of respect for the middleweight champ.<\/p>\n<p>Woodley explained why he respects Bisping <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/welterweight-champ-tyron-woodley-heaps-praise-conor-mcgregor\/\">a recent interview<\/a> with BJPenn.com&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTaylor_96\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Taylor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI saw Bisping yesterday, and man, I can respect him,\u201d he said. \u201cHim and I, we got the same damn build. I\u2019m gonna work. I\u2019m gonna take the fight that makes the most sense, the biggest fight that I can do, I\u2019m gonna knock out all the competition, I\u2019m gonna do movies in between, I\u2019m gonna do UFC on Fox, I\u2019m gonna open up a UFC Gym. This dude is a hustler, man. He\u2019s non-stop. He\u2019s out there working, he\u2019s out there grinding. I respect that.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When we last saw Woodley in action, he defended his title with a majority decision defeat of Stephen Thompson. This bout was a rematch of a wild, November draw. Bisping, meanwhile, has not been seen in the cage since October, when he defended his title with a close decision defeat of retiring MMA legend Dan Henderson.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Tyron Woodley and Michael Bisping will ever fight?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 6\/14\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all that long ago, UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley and UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping agreed to a catchweight superfight.\u00a0Despite their clear interest in fighting one another, however, the fight never came to fruition. 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