{"id":351057,"date":"2020-05-22T08:28:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=351057"},"modified":"2020-05-22T08:28:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T15:28:07","slug":"tyron-woodley-i-dont-know-if-ive-ever-been-this-focused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tyron-woodley-i-dont-know-if-ive-ever-been-this-focused\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyron Woodley: “I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever been this focused”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley feels more focused than ever ahead of his fight with Gilbert Burns, which headlines the UFC’s May 30 event in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his\u00a0Hollywood Beatdown<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>show, Woodley, who has not fought since he surrendered the title in Kamaru Usman in early 2019, weighed in on his current head-space.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always short-term memory,\u201d Woodley said (transcript via MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cPeople only remember you for your last outing and it\u2019s been so long ago, it\u2019s time to remind them. . . I\u2019m in a violent headspace. I don\u2019t know another way to put it. I\u2019m willing to do some very sh*tty stuff to people, put them in compromising positions, hurt them. Literally, hurt them, not just go out there and try to get the win. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever been this focused during my stint in the UFC. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve been this ornery. Today I was yelling and cursing at my sparring partners. That\u2019s how I know I\u2019m peaking at the right time. That\u2019s how I know I\u2019m ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woodley also weighed in on Burns’ skillset. He believes this fight being five rounds could play a huge factor in the way things unfold.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I like about this matchup for me is that it\u2019s a five-round fight,\u201d Woodley said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if he\u2019s ever fought a five-round fight, but it\u2019s different. It\u2019s different than trying to come out and explode. He goes out there and he either explodes in the first two rounds and then starts to fade in the third or he explodes in first round, the second round is kinda crazy, and then he just lets it all hang out in the third round. When you\u2019re down 3-0 and I\u2019m up three rounds and then you come out and get picked apart in the fourth, then you\u2019re left to desperation. You\u2019re left to swing big and kick big and go for takedowns and I think if anybody in the UFC is gonna have an eyeball to see that sh*t from a mile away, get out the way, and sting you with some shots, it\u2019s me.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t miss this. This is going to be a clear case of someone asking for something they didn\u2019t really know what they were asking for,\u201d Woodley added. \u201cI\u2019m gonna let the person talk but when we get in there in the octagon, the performance I put on is going to be crazy. I\u2019m gonna be talking sh*t to him, I\u2019m gonna be pushing him in the face, I\u2019m gonna be punching him, I\u2019m going to deny every takedown, every scramble, and I\u2019m gonna leave him out there and it\u2019s gonna be like, \u2018F*ck, why did the UFC match him up with this dude? That\u2019s a mismatch. That ain\u2019t even fair.\u2019 People are gonna feel bad for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

How do you think Tyron Woodley will perform in his long-awaited return to the Octagon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley feels more focused than ever ahead of his fight with Gilbert Burns, which headlines the UFC’s May 30 event in Las Vegas. Speaking on his\u00a0Hollywood Beatdown\u00a0show, Woodley, who has not fought since he surrendered the title in Kamaru Usman in early 2019, weighed in on his current head-space. \u201cIt\u2019s […]<\/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":[10175,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nTyron Woodley: "I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever been this focused" | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley feels more focused than ever ahead of his May 30 fight with Gilbert Burns.\" \/>\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\/tyron-woodley-i-dont-know-if-ive-ever-been-this-focused\/\" \/>\n<meta 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