{"id":245793,"date":"2017-08-02T07:53:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T14:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=245793"},"modified":"2017-08-02T07:53:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T14:53:18","slug":"tyron-woodley-shuts-down-robbie-lawler-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tyron-woodley\/tyron-woodley-shuts-down-robbie-lawler-title-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyron Woodley shuts down possible Robbie Lawler title shot, compares him to Ronda Rousey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday night, in the co-main event of UFC 214, Tyron Woodley defended his title for a third time, defeating dangerous grappler Demian Maia with an admittedly tepid unanimous decision. Earlier on the UFC 214 main card, former champion Robbie Lawler rebounded from a 2016 knockout loss to Woodley with an action-packed decision defeat of the ever-dangerous Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone. With this win, Lawler re-established himself as one of the welterweight division’s top contenders, and perhaps, the next man in line for a shot at Woodley’s well-guarded throne.<\/p>\n

Woodley himself, however, is not so keen on the idea of a Lawler title shot. He stomped on the former champ’s case on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour (h\/t MMAFighting.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhy do I fight Lawler?” the champ inquired. “What has he done in this last year besides crawl up in a ball and hide? That\u2019s what\u00a0Ronda Rousey<\/a>\u00a0did. He didn\u2019t do that when he knocked out everybody else. I didn\u2019t do that when I got knocked out. I came back, I shook myself off, I got myself back up.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cI just don\u2019t feel like someone that\u2019s taken a year off, as much as I know Dana loves Robbie and the fans love Robbie \u2014 I love Robbie, Robbie\u2019s a dope fighter, we were friends before that fight, I feel bad that we haven\u2019t really communicated that much since then \u2014 but I just don\u2019t feel as if a fighter who I knocked out in 46 seconds takes a year off, (then) comes back and wins a fight kinda close, and jumps right back into the title picture. So, there\u2019s no clear contenders right now.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While Woodley says there are no clear welterweight contenders at present, he has also recently expressed interest in a legacy-building money fight<\/a> with former champion Georges St-Pierre<\/a> \u2013 though that ship might have sailed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Who do you want to see Tyron Woodley fight next? Robbie Lawler or another welterweight contender<\/a>?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 8\/2\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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