{"id":267960,"date":"2018-01-16T09:22:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=267960"},"modified":"2018-01-16T09:22:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:22:16","slug":"dana-white-shares-fight-make-tyron-woodley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tyron-woodley\/dana-white-shares-fight-make-tyron-woodley\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White shares the &#8220;fight to make&#8221; for Tyron Woodley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At present, there are two frontrunners in the welterweight contendership race. One is former lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos, who recently trounced Robbie Lawler. The other is streaking wrestling specialist Colby &#8220;Chaos&#8221; Covington, who recently thwarted Demian Maia. Both men have a pretty solid case for the next crack at divisional champion Tyron Woodley, but in the opinion of UFC President Dana White, one makes more sense than the other.<\/p>\n<p>White cleared up the welterweight contendership picture on Fs1 in the wake of last Saturday&#8217;s UFC St. Louis card.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as he\u2019s healthy, obviously, RDA is the fight to make, especially the way he looked in the Robbie Lawler fight. We\u2019re just waiting for Tyron to get healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As White implies, Woodley is currently recovering from a shoulder surgery. When he&#8217;s fighting fit, however, it seems the UFC will push for a bout between him and dos Anjos.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Woodley agrees to this challenge, of course, remains to be seen. The champ has repeatedly suggested that neither dos Anjos nor Covington is especially interesting to him. Instead, he&#8217;s been angling for fights with bigger names like <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/georges-st-pierre\/\">Georges St-Pierre,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\/\">Conor McGregor<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/nate-diaz\/\">Nate Diaz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really see a fight that makes sense for me right now,\u201d Woodley told <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/01\/dana-white-says-rafael-dos-anjos-next-for-ufc-champ-tyron-woodley-who-still-wants-georges-st-pierre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a> backstage at UFC St. Louis. \u201cThere\u2019s not any clear No. 1 guys. Some guys say RDA. We\u2019ve got a guy who\u2019s bumping his gums; I won\u2019t even give [Covington\u2019s] name any attention. I think the deck needs to be shuffled a little bit more, and maybe a fight that\u2019s more substantial for my career and my legacy will present itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to say [dos Anjos and Covington] need to fight [each other],&#8221; he added. &#8220;Fall back, take a seat. I\u2019m not going anywhere. I\u2019m here for a while. I\u2019m not on the cusp of giving this up. One by one, everybody will get their chance to see what it\u2019s all about. But I really want to fight Georges St-Pierre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>St-Pierre&#8217;s future in fighting, of course, is <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/georges-st-pierre\/coach-isnt-optimistic-georges-st-pierre-returning\/\">as nebulous as ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think a Tyron Woodley vs. Rafael dos Anjos fight is the right move at welterweight?<\/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 1\/16\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At present, there are two frontrunners in the welterweight contendership race. One is former lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos, who recently trounced Robbie Lawler. The other is streaking wrestling specialist Colby &#8220;Chaos&#8221; Covington, who recently thwarted Demian Maia. 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