{"id":326753,"date":"2019-09-30T05:57:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T12:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=326753"},"modified":"2019-09-30T05:57:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T12:57:50","slug":"tyron-woodley-im-a-nightmare-for-kamaru-usman-every-day-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tyron-woodley-im-a-nightmare-for-kamaru-usman-every-day-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyron Woodley: I&#8217;m a nightmare for Kamaru Usman &#8216;every day of the week\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Tyron Woodley and Kamaru Usman first shared the cage, Usman walked away with a unanimous decision victory. Yet Woodley is not convinced Usman is the better fighter.<\/p>\n<p id=\"YNNlfi\">\u201cWhen you watch the Kamaru Usman fight, I don\u2019t have to watch it. It was a silhouette of Tyron in the Octagon or something happened when I jumped up and stomped down, I think my spirit left my body,\u201d Woodley said during a recent fan Q&amp;A (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/9\/29\/20868832\/tyron-woodley-on-kamaru-usman-im-a-nightmare-for-him-every-day-of-the-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cI can give him credit for what he did. He stayed focused, he executed but we all know that wasn\u2019t Tyron Woodley.<\/p>\n<p id=\"tJz2L8\">\u201cSo I don\u2019t have to go back and watch the film and say the chain wrestling [affected me]. I\u2019m a Division I All-American [wrestler], not Division II. I\u2019m not knocking that but it\u2019s a way different level. When you think about striking, when you think about my resume, it\u2019s not that he did something so great that I couldn\u2019t keep up with. It\u2019s just the fact that it\u2019s one of those nights when you walk out there, everything feels perfect and you get close to your opponent and the battery pack is snatched out of your back. That\u2019s really what I felt like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woodley continued, sharing his belief that, when he&#8217;s on-point, he&#8217;s a terrible style matchup for Usman.<\/p>\n<p id=\"LRK9HH\">\u201cKamaru Usman skill set wise on paper, I\u2019m a nightmare for him every day of the week,\u201d Woodley said. \u201cWhat happened in the Octagon is one, I never make excuses. I walked into four world title fights with the weight of the world on my back, personal issues, injuries, I never healed from the injury before, but you guys never hear about that but the second I go out there and I fight and I\u2019m not the characteristic Tyron Woodley that you see, immediately it\u2019s music that\u2019s distracting me. It\u2019s movies that\u2019s distracting me.<\/p>\n<p id=\"uCIe0R\">\u201cI\u2019ve been doing this same thing forever, you guys just never hear about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these comments from Tyron Woodley?<\/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 9\/30\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Tyron Woodley and Kamaru Usman first shared the cage, Usman walked away with a unanimous decision victory. Yet Woodley is not convinced Usman is the better fighter. \u201cWhen you watch the Kamaru Usman fight, I don\u2019t have to watch it. 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