{"id":265045,"date":"2017-12-05T10:24:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T18:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=265045"},"modified":"2017-12-05T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T18:24:48","slug":"tyron-woodley-thinking-forgoing-shoulder-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tyron-woodley\/tyron-woodley-thinking-forgoing-shoulder-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyron Woodley is thinking about forgoing his shoulder surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though UFC welterweight champ Tyron Woodley was briefly linked to a UFC 219 super fight with <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/nate-diaz\/\">Nate Diaz<\/a>, this bout ultimately fell through. With this blockbuster battle off the table, Woodley shared his plan to undergo a long overdue shoulder surgery to repair a nagging injury.<\/p>\n<p>From the sounds of it, though, the champ is re-considering.\u00a0Speaking to the media during last weekend&#8217;s UFC 218 festivities, the champ shared his belief that the UFC might need him in the coming months, and announced that he&#8217;s thinking about putting his shoulder surgery off.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ohT9oP\">\u201cI don\u2019t think I wanna do [the surgery],\u201d Woodley told reporters (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2017\/12\/5\/16738036\/great-news-tyron-woodley-willing-postpone-surgery-because-you-ufc-both-need-him-right-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAMania.com<\/a>). \u201cI feel strong, I feel good. The game needs me right now, I don\u2019t want to be away from it. I\u2019m highly considering going a different route.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if Woodley does put off this surgery, there&#8217;s one fight in particular fight he&#8217;ll be gunning for: a showdown with former welterweight king <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/georges-st-pierre\/\">Georges St-Pierre<\/a>, who now owns the UFC middleweight title. Though Woodley initially tried to coax St-Pierre back down to the welterweight division, he has <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tyron-woodley\/report-tyron-woodley-considering-vacating-welterweight-title\/\">recently floated plans to move up to middleweigh<\/a>t in an attempt to corner the Canadian legend.<\/p>\n<p id=\"m2l5FU\">\u201cI\u2019m not going up to middleweight because I think that will boost me on the pound-for-pound list,\u201d Woodley said. \u201cI want to fight Georges (St-Pierre), and he\u2019s not fighting me at my weight, so I\u2019ll come up and see you there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyron Woodley won the UFC welterweight title back in the summer of 2016, authoring a blitzkrieg KO of Robbie Lawler. From there, he retained the title after a thrilling draw with Stephen \u201cWonderboy\u201d Thompson, then defended it in a rematch with Thompson. His most recent defense occurred in July, when he shrugged off Demian Maia to retain this spot on the throne.<\/p>\n<p>Georges St-Pierre, meanwhile, recently returned after a multi-year absence, defeating Michael Bisping with a third-round choke to win the UFC middleweight belt. In his next most recent fight, which occurred all the way back in 2013, he picked up a controversial decision win over Johny Hendricks.<\/p>\n<p>Would you be interested in a middleweight showdown between welterweight greats Tyron Woodley and Georges St-Pierre?<\/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 5\/12\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though UFC welterweight champ Tyron Woodley was briefly linked to a UFC 219 super fight with Nate Diaz, this bout ultimately fell through. 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From the sounds of it, though, the champ is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":265048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10175],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tyron Woodley is thinking about forgoing his shoulder surgery | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tyron-woodley\/tyron-woodley-thinking-forgoing-shoulder-surgery\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tyron Woodley is thinking about forgoing his shoulder surgery | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Though UFC welterweight champ Tyron Woodley was briefly linked to a UFC 219 super fight with Nate Diaz, this bout ultimately fell through. 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