{"id":297492,"date":"2019-01-08T08:05:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T16:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=297492"},"modified":"2019-01-08T08:05:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T16:05:02","slug":"tyron-woodley-hopes-to-fight-colby-covington-right-after-kamaru-usman-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tyron-woodley-hopes-to-fight-colby-covington-right-after-kamaru-usman-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyron Woodley hopes to fight Colby Covington right after Kamaru Usman bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight champ Tyron Woodley is scheduled to defend his title at UFC 235 on March 2 in Las Vegas \u2014 against Kamaru Usman, not against Colby Covington as originally expected.<\/p>\n<p>While Woodley is now focused on this UFC 235 fight with Usman, and Covington is now at odds with the UFC, Woodley says he hopes to fight Covington almost immediately after he has dealt with Usman in March.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s hoping to settle his beef with the former interim champion in June, when he&#8217;s heard the UFC will touch down in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UFC&#039;s Tyron Woodley, I&#039;ll Smash Kamaru In March and Colby Covington In June | TMZ Sports\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BtCbRviiTfI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just recognized that at some point I\u2019m gonna fight all these guys,&#8221; Tyron Woodley told TMZ Sports recently (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/1\/8\/18173220\/report-tyron-woodley-plans-on-beating-kamaru-usman-at-ufc-235-then-fighting-colby-covington-in-june\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Fighting<\/a>).\u00a0&#8220;Obviously the world would like to see me f*ck Colby up right quick but I think he\u2019s trying to call shots and he\u2019s not a champ so he can\u2019t really do that. So I\u2019m gonna go out there and fight Kamaru Usman and we\u2019ll see what happens after that. Most likely I\u2018ll end up fighting Colby next up. Yeah, I\u2019ll fight Colby next after that. Probably in June. I think they\u2019ve got a fight in Chicago in June. I\u2019m a midwest guy. I train in Milwaukee which is an hour and a half from Chicago, St. Louis is not that far, and I think I\u2019ve got strong roots there as well so it would be a good fight to headline on that card.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While this comment from Woodley sounds like good news for Covington, Covington is currently <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/colby-covington-only-willing-to-fight-for-promised-title-shot-challenges-ufc-to-release-him\/\">so frustrated with the UFC that he dared the promotion&#8217;s decision-makers to release him.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll see Tyron Woodley and Colby Covington fight this 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 1\/7\/2019.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight champ Tyron Woodley is scheduled to defend his title at UFC 235 on March 2 in Las Vegas \u2014 against Kamaru Usman, not against Colby Covington as originally expected. While Woodley is now focused on this UFC 235 fight with Usman, and Covington is now at odds with the UFC, Woodley says he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":284981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[22188,10616,10175,39610],"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>Tyron Woodley hopes to fight Colby Covington right after Kamaru Usman bout | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley plans on fighting Colby Covington right after he battles Kamaru Usman at UFC 235 in March\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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