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UFC welterweight champ Tyron Woodley and UFC interim welterweight champ Colby Covington have swapped seemingly endless trash talk over the last year. The good news is that they seem destined to settle their sizzling beef in the very near future.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his Instagram account<\/a> recently, the champ Tyron Woodley updated on his recovery and named the ideal timeframe for his title unification with Colby Covington.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy hand is doing well, healing up nicely,\u201d Woodley said (transcript via MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cI\u2019m cleared to fight at the top of next year so the UFC is trying to figure out when I\u2019m fighting. We already know who I\u2019m fighting. January, February, March, one of those months. I\u2019m looking at [UFC 233 on] January 26 real closely. It\u2019s kinda close though on my hand so we\u2019ll see. If I can do it, you better believe it\u2019s done. If I can\u2019t do it then we might se me fighting in Vegas on March 2nd or London. I kinda don\u2019t want to fight out of the country but I\u2019m not gonna be trying to pick the location.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whenever the fight happens, Tyron Woodley looks forward to the chance to take moths of frustration out on his former American Top Team stablemate. Apparently, however, this will not be the first time Woodley has put his hands on Covington. He says he used to pay his rival to take beatings when they trained under the same roof.<\/p>\n

\u201cColby used to be my warmup guy,\u201d said the welterweight champion. \u201cI hate to break the news to you, but I used to pay him to beat him up. 500 bucks a week plus food plus hotel plus rental car plus gun range plus entertainment plus personal trainers, pad work, massage therapy, yoga. I spoiled the little waste of sperm, now all of a sudden he\u2019s bumping his gums.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of good guys in the division,\u201d Tyron Woodley continued. \u201cJust because I think I\u2019m the best don\u2019t mean that there\u2019s not some other people that can think they\u2019re the best. It\u2019s not to say that those people don\u2019t think that if they get in the octagon with me, they might have the chance to do something nice. It don\u2019t mean it\u2019s gonna happen. The only person I don\u2019t really f*ck with is Colby because he knows he can\u2019t beat me. There\u2019s no chance. He wanted me to fight him injured with a f*cked up hand and I almost took the fight because I still would have beat him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe gonna get beat up,\u201d he concluded. \u201cHe gonna get hurt, he gonna get embarrassed and hopefully retire so we don\u2019t have to hear that terrible trash talk a second longer. It\u2019s just gotten to the point right now where his name just makes my spirit vex.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who do you think will come out on top when Tyron Woodley and Colby Covington fight?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 11\/25\/2018.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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