{"id":269593,"date":"2018-02-07T07:54:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T15:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=269593"},"modified":"2018-02-07T07:54:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T15:54:30","slug":"rafael-dos-anjos-message-tyron-woodley-champs-latest-mention-diaz-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/rafael-dos-anjos\/rafael-dos-anjos-message-tyron-woodley-champs-latest-mention-diaz-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael dos Anjos has a message for Tyron Woodley after champ’s latest mention of Diaz bout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday afternoon, UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley once again expressed interes<\/a>t in a showdown with long-time lightweight contender Nate Diaz.<\/a><\/p>\n

“I think that fight will happen,” Woodley told ESPN<\/a>. “I think it will happen this year. I think it’s way more likely than people realize. There are conversations about Nate and I fighting in July. The UFC has offered Nate that fight. They just have to make it worth his while.<\/p>\n

“I think I’ll fight Nate this year, and I think it will be my return to the Octagon. If I had to bet the house on it, that’s my next opponent.”<\/p>\n

For former UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos, who seems to be the consensus number-one-contender at welterweight, Woodley’s talk of a bout with Diaz is getting old. Dos Anjos put the welterweight champ on blast in a Wednesday morning Twitter post.<\/p>\n

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@TWooodley<\/a> man up and stop talk about fight that make no sense, everyone know that I’m the real contender. You want to fight a guy that has never beat a real welterweight in his whole life. Shame on you…<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rafael dos Anjos (@RdosAnjosMMA) February 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n