UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley recently spent some time with Ariel Helwani on the recent edition of The MMA Hour. This time, the champion explained that he believes Georges St-Pierre took a “cowardly move.”
Former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre is looking to make his return to the octagon after over three years away from the UFC. The fighter was initially set to face off against UFC middleweight champion Michael “The Count” Bisping. However, the fight was called off as Georges St-Pierre revealed that he could not compete until later in the year.
On the recent edition of The MMA Hour, as transcribed by MMA Fighting, Tyron Woodley gave his thoughts on the situation.
“I’m the best welterweight in the world and I feel like Georges St-Pierre should’ve fought me. He should’ve come back (to welterweight). Fighting Bisping, I think that was the cowardly move. He’s going to fight someone who doesn’t have the ability to concuss him like I would, or Johny Hendricks would, or Robbie Lawler would. That’s why he went (up in weight).
“If Stephen Thompson would’ve beaten me, I guarantee that his first fight back would’ve been against Stephen Thompson, a similar karate-style fighter that he’s probably seen a million times, he’s trained with him, he doesn’t have the one-punch KO power, he’s not going to submit him, he’s not going to stop his shot. It’s the safer fight for a big payday. So with that said, I just kinda raise my eyebrows, the fact that he would go up a weight class when there’s a willing, dominant champion that wants to take you on that’s excited about the fight. It surprised me, but hey, if it’s Demian Maia first or if it’s Georges St-Pierre first, everybody’s going to get it at the end of the day and I’m just excited to be where I’m at right now.” He said.
