{"id":245716,"date":"2017-08-01T09:39:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T16:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=245716"},"modified":"2017-08-01T09:39:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T16:39:48","slug":"colby-covington-backs-dana-white-threatens-release-life-ruining-dirt-tyron-woodley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tyron-woodley\/colby-covington-backs-dana-white-threatens-release-life-ruining-dirt-tyron-woodley\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington backs Dana White, threatens to release life-ruining “dirt” on Tyron Woodley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, in the co-main event of UFC 214, UFC welterweight champ Tyron Woodley successfully defended his title for the third time, shutting down 21 Demian Maia takedown attempts to a clear unanimous decision win<\/a>. Unfortunately, the insipid nature of Woodley’s win drew the ire of many members of the MMA community, including UFC President Dana White, who berated the champ with an unsavory verbal onslaught at the UFC 214 post-fight presser.<\/p>\n

Woodley responded to White’s criticism on Monday’s episode of The MMA Hour, explaining that his tepid performance was due to a shoulder injury he sustained early in the fight. He then demanded a public apology from the UFC boss, and threatened to leak negative information if he didn’t get one.<\/p>\n

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“I don\u2019t care so much about the fans, but when your job title is promoter, promote your f*cking fighters,\u201d Woodley said (h\/t MMAFighting.com<\/a>). \u201cPromote your champion. Don\u2019t demote your champion. I threw my shoulder out in the first round, I wasn\u2019t able to throw any damaging shots \u2014 for you guys who don\u2019t understand what a labrum tear is, go get on Google or Wikipedia and figure it out \u2014 and I still stayed the course, I stayed on path, I stayed on point, I executed the gameplan. I had to reduce all of my shots from overhands, uppercuts, things that were hurting my shoulder, to straight punches.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSo, sorry in advance, I\u2019m mad because I\u2019ve had this surgery before. It\u2019s not a fun one. It\u2019s not a quick recovery. It\u2019s not something that I\u2019m excited about. I\u2019m going to get a couple second opinions. Literally I\u2019m in the Uber right now, I just f*cking got out of the doctors office, like right this second. There\u2019s paperwork in my hand. So I\u2019m just, I\u2019m owed a public apology. You\u2019re going to publicly scrutinize me, Dana White? You publicly need to apologize to me.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve done nothing but good stuff for the sport. I\u2019ve done nothing but be a good model for the f*cking organization. I go out there and I fight with integrity. I covered your sport from the FOX desk a week before my fight. I always uphold my responsibilities to the organization. It\u2019s timeout for that. The word behind \u2018business\u2019 is \u2018man.\u2019 You need to be a man, you owe me a public apology. And if I don\u2019t get that, I\u2019m going to start leaking some sh*t that people don\u2019t want to be out in the wind. I\u2019m not even kidding about that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, these threats from Tyron Woodley didn’t go over well with rising welterweight contender Colby Covington, who threatened to leak information about the champ if the he leaked info about White and the UFC. Covington made his threat to Woodley, which is likely based on their previous training together, on Twitter.<\/p>\n

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Don’t worry boss @danawhite<\/a> I know some serious dirt on @TWooodley<\/a> that would ruin his life. #fake<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/MK9SdXRgge<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Colby Covington (@ColbyCovMMA) August 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n