{"id":277921,"date":"2018-06-06T05:52:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T12:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=277921"},"modified":"2018-06-06T05:53:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T12:53:03","slug":"tyron-woodley-plans-to-clean-out-welterweight-division-retire-as-middleweight-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tyron-woodley\/tyron-woodley-plans-to-clean-out-welterweight-division-retire-as-middleweight-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyron Woodley plans to take out top welterweight contenders, retire as middleweight champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley is almost fighting fit again, and he&#8217;s itching to return to the cage. More specifically, he&#8217;s keen to return at UFC 227, on August 4th in Los Angeles \u2014 whether against the winner of Rafael dos Anjos and Colby Covington&#8217;s UFC 225 interim title fight, or somebody else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not really concerned with who\u2019s ready, who\u2019s next,\u201d Woodley recently told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/06\/tyron-woodley-insists-ufc-227-return\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Junkie.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019ve got to realize there are certain rights you deserve as a champion. When I\u2019m ready to fight, now it\u2019s time to fight. Whoever they got for me to fight at this time, come get this work. I don\u2019t want to sit back and say, \u2018Oh, I want to sit and wait to see what happens with this fight.\u2019 I\u2019m the champion. I want to fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of these bouts should\u2019ve taken place anyway, maybe not with the label of interim title. But I think at that point, you make a fight. Even if it\u2019s somebody that\u2019s not currently in the division. Maybe it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/nate-diaz\">Nate [Diaz]<\/a>, maybe it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/georges-st-pierre\/\">Georges [St-Pierre]<\/a>. Maybe it\u2019s somebody else. But I\u2019m also willing to fight all these other guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woodley then clarified that the objective is to fight\u00a0<em>all\u00a0<\/em><em>these other guys<\/em> \u2014 the many dangerous contenders in the welterweight division he rules. Then, he&#8217;s hoping to head north to the middleweight division, capture gold there, and ultimately, retire.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2chNPp\">\u201cI kind of want to legitimately clean the division,\u201d Woodley said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t mind fighting [RDA], Colby, [Kamaru] Usman, [Darren] Till, and at that point, unless another prospect emerges, I\u2019ve cleaned out the division. And I\u2019m the greatest welterweight of all time at that point. And then it\u2019s time to go up to 185, and I want that belt. I want to finish off my division. When it\u2019s all said and done, I did everything I could do there. I want to go up and challenge myself once again, and I want to try to win the belt at \u201985 and defend there and pretty much retire as a middleweight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Tyron Woodley&#8217;s plans for the future?<\/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 6\/5\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley is almost fighting fit again, and he&#8217;s itching to return to the cage. 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