Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight champion Tyron Woodley is beyond reproach, at least in his own mind, probably because he’s drunk on entitlement after racking up a few big wins inside the Octagon.
I don't want to say Woodley is overweening, but the guy calls himself “The Chosen One” for Pete’s sake.
So you can imagine how Woodley must have felt to learn that promotion president Dana White was complaining about the UFC 209 main event, which ended in a majority decision win — and a shower of boo birds — for the the reigning 170-pound kingpin.
From TMZ Sports:
"Dana White thought I won the first fight but he didn't publicly come out and say he thought I won the first fight, so I thought it was a bit distasteful for the promoter to say he thought [Thompson] won the fight. That's like me coming out and saying as a fighter that I don’t think he didn't do a good job of promoting the fight. Which I don't. I don't think they've done a good job of promoting me as champion.”
I swear I’ve heard that somewhere before.
Undaunted, White fired back — also to TMZ Sports — to explain why Woodley needs to stop worrying about the criticism coming out of last weekend’s pay-per-view (PPV) win over Stephen Thompson (sample) and start focusing on his next fight.
Which he should obtain “as fast as he can.”
"Tyron Woodley came out and said he was going to destroy Thompson and there would be no question he was the champ. Well guess what? There's questions again. Let me tell you what...when you have a performance like you did at 209 and you get booed for five straight rounds and then people are booing so loud you can't even do your interview, you should probably just take your lumps and move on. Get your next fight as fast as you can and try to put that performance behind you. There's one guy around here who calls the shots and as soon as you learn that, the better off you'll be."