{"id":275822,"date":"2018-05-07T10:38:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T17:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=275822"},"modified":"2018-05-07T10:38:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T17:38:48","slug":"tyron-woodley-fires-back-at-kelvin-gastelum-after-recent-rematch-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tyron-woodley\/tyron-woodley-fires-back-at-kelvin-gastelum-after-recent-rematch-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyron Woodley fires back at Kelvin Gastelum after recent rematch comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2015, Tyron Woodley stepped into the cage for a bout with The Ultimate Fighter 17 winner Kelvin Gastelum, who missed the welterweight limit by 10 pounds. On that night, Woodley walked away with a close, split decision win.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, Gastelum <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kelvin-gastelum\/kelvin-gastelum-happy-at-middleweight-but-still-wants-rematch-with-tyron-woodley\/\">still feels he won the fight<\/a>, and that the cage-side judges should have sided with him over Woodley. Though he&#8217;s now firmly embedded as a member of the UFC middleweight roster, he hopes to return to the welterweight division in the future for a do-over with Woodley; for a chance to &#8220;make it right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat fight kind of has a splinter in me,&#8221; Gastelum said during a recent media lunch promoting his UFC 224 middleweight contender bout with Ronaldo &#8216;Jacare&#8217; Souza. &#8220;It\u2019s like a splinter in my heart, you know? I kind of want to get that fight back. Make the weight, make it right. Like you said, in a lot of people\u2019s eyes, including myself, I won that fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyron Woodley, who won the welterweight title shortly after his 2015 defeat of Gastelum and has not relinquished it since, has heard these comments, and he&#8217;s not particularly impressed.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the champ fired back at Gastelum for his recent comments, suggesting the only thing he won was a pre-fight easting contest.<\/p>\n<p>See Woodley&#8217;s response to Gastelum below.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/TWooodley\/status\/993145999760687104<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WTF has this sport turned into?&#8221; Woodley said in his Tweet. &#8220;Only thing he won was the eating contest the day before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At present, Tyron Woodley is recovering from surgery. That said, he&#8217;s expected return to the cage later this year, probably against the winner of Rafael dos Anjos and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-colby-covington-isnt-mimicking-coked-out-leprechaun\/\">Colby Covington<\/a>&#8216;s interim welterweight title fight, which co-headlines UFC 225 on June 9.<\/p>\n<p>Would you be interested in seeing Tyron Woodley and Kelvin Gastelum rematch at welterweight sometime down the road?<\/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\/7\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2015, Tyron Woodley stepped into the cage for a bout with The Ultimate Fighter 17 winner Kelvin Gastelum, who missed the welterweight limit by 10 pounds. On that night, Woodley walked away with a close, split decision win. 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