{"id":293845,"date":"2018-12-05T06:01:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T14:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=293845"},"modified":"2018-12-05T06:01:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T14:01:21","slug":"colby-covington-responds-to-tyron-woodleys-takedown-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/colby-covington-responds-to-tyron-woodleys-takedown-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington responds to Tyron Woodley&#8217;s takedown bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If UFC welterweight champ Tyron Woodley battles his arch nemesis Colby Covington in the New Year as expected, he&#8217;s expecting to have to fend off some takedown attempt. So many takedown attempts, in fact, that he recently made Covington <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tyron-woodley-offers-bet-to-colby-covington-for-their-potential-fight\/\">a little wager on the topic.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll bet you $10,000 every single time you touch my leg for a (takedown) shot, you\u2019ve got to pay me $10,000,&#8221; Woodley said on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanytt.com\/latest-news\/tyron-woodley-and-colby-covington-exchange-bet-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood Beatdown<\/a> show. &#8220;I want people to see it for what it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t want to see these hands. You don\u2019t want to do nothing but try to out-wrestle me. And at the end of the day, he can\u2019t even do that. So I\u2019m challenging you: No wrestling. You touch my leg, it\u2019s $10,000. If I touch your leg I\u2019ll give you $20,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It did not take long for Colby Covington to respond to this challenge. The streaking wrestler issued his retort on <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/12\/watch-mmajunkie-radio-ufc-welterweight-colby-covington-kamaru-usman-dana-white\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAjunkie Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I make of it is, I\u2019m going to counter him and I\u2019m going to bet him on MMAjunkie Radio that I\u2019m going to give him $10,000 for every punch he throws \u2013 all five of them,\u201d he said (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanytt.com\/latest-news\/tyron-woodley-and-colby-covington-exchange-bet-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMANytt<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Colby Covington also responded to Dana White&#8217;s recent claim that the next title shot could go to Kamaru Usman instead of him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just waiting on Woodley,\u201d Covington continued. \u201cThat\u2019s literally what we\u2019ve been waiting on for the last year. He\u2019s been faking injuries. He had his fake shoulder surgery \u2013 but he was good to fight Nate Diaz during that time. Now he says he was good to fight me at the Garden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the way, I was ready to defend my belt [after] three months in the Garden, but all of a sudden he couldn\u2019t fight in the Garden a week after negotiations got going. He was out and said his thumb was hurting. That\u2019s fake news, as well, and he\u2019s faking injuries again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just waiting on Woodley,\u201d he later added. \u201cWhenever he wants to go, whenever he wants to tell the people \u2013 he lies and says fake news to the media \u2013 I\u2019m ready to go whenever Woodley wants to go, and this needs to happen. If it doesn\u2019t happen, it\u2019s Woodley\u2019s fault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll see Tyron Woodley and Colby Covington battle in the New Year?<\/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 12\/5\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If UFC welterweight champ Tyron Woodley battles his arch nemesis Colby Covington in the New Year as expected, he&#8217;s expecting to have to fend off some takedown attempt. So many takedown attempts, in fact, that he recently made Covington a little wager on the topic. \u201cI\u2019ll bet you $10,000 every single time you touch my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":271452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[22188,10112,10175,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Colby Covington responds to Tyron Woodley&#039;s takedown bet | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/colby-covington-responds-to-tyron-woodleys-takedown-bet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colby Covington responds to Tyron Woodley&#039;s takedown bet | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If UFC welterweight champ Tyron Woodley battles his arch nemesis Colby Covington in the New Year as expected, he&#8217;s expecting to have to fend off some takedown attempt. 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