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Tyron Woodley diagnosed with chronic arthritis, may need exemption for UFC return

By Jesse Holland May 24, 2019, 10:17am EDT Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight champion, Tyron Woodley, was forced to withdraw from his Robbie Lawler rematch at UFC Minneapolis after suffering an injury to his hand, which now appears to be much worse than originally thought.

That means “The Chosen One” will remain sidelined until the promotion can find a state athletic commission that will allow Woodley to get cortisone shots 10 days out from his next appearance, which could require an exemption. Or UFC can wait for an overseas fight card where it self-regulates.

“I have chronic arthritis in my joint right here,” Woodley told TMZ Sports after visiting a hand specialist. “There’s three joints that enable me to grab and grip. One has chronic arthritis and this one has severe arthritis. There’s a few different ways to heal and fix the problem permanently but it’s something you wouldn’t do if you were still active, because it limits your range of motion and grip. The temporary fix is to rehab it, get it stronger, get the flexibility to start to grab and grip, then 10 days before the fight let’s try to do a cortisone shot. I have the UFC checking on cities and states that allow you to have cortisone shots.”

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Tyron Woodley diagnosed with chronic arthritis, may need exemption for UFC return
 

Dick Niaz

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“Racist arthritis” LOLOL!!!! That’s hilarious. My personal Memorial Day Weekend challenge is going to be to see how many times I can fit “racist arthritis” into random conversations!
 

KWingJitsu

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I see no mention of racism in said article?
 

Sheepdog

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One of my older brothers has had serious arthritis since his early 20s.

I first noticed it when his handjobs became less enthusiastic.
 

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Everything you just posted here is a good example of how social media both makes celebrities more visible than ever and obscures everyone from each other's reality.

What Woodley is adressing in the first video is the incident where the kid competing in a tournament last year was forced to cut off his dreds prior to wrestling despite having them covered by a swim cap. It was a pretty significant media event and made national news. He's comparing it to his own experiences wrestling then transitions into the point about police violence because he's from just outside Ferguson, Missouri where that's been a persistent problem, even outside of the Michael Brown shooting.

In the links you post, he mentions how he's received several social media posts with racist language. And realistically in some environments, like Twitter, just putting an @ in front of a message means only the person who is tagged will see it unless they reply. What he's saying is the quantity of messages he receives is appreciable, which other athletes like Rampage have spoken about in the past, both in social media and gaming spaces. It's something white athletes or people would rarely if ever experience, but is well established as far back as Jack Johnson at least. He says after he sees their messages, he blocks them, but there's literally nothing he can do to avoid seeing them and who knows how many there are even daily? He cites that the UFC inadequately promoted Demetrious Johnson, which I doubt anyone could disagree with, though the UFC has tried their hand at a poorly supported rebuttal. Now you're going to use Dana's words as a credible source that someone is a "whiner" who "doesn't connect with fans?" He's said that about literally everyone he disagrees with. And if it were true, it's hard to imagine Woodley would have been able to successfully become one of the broadcasting faces and voices of the sport.

What Woodley is complicit in is putting on boring fights, but that's as much a function of matchmaking as it is strategy. When he's complained about fans, he's focused his critiques on very particular circumstances, but it's easy to just dismiss him like "F Woodley. He's boring and trying to play the race card for sympathy." But with a fan base like the UFC has, any rational person would know that will gain them no sympathy and so speaking on it comes with more risk than reward. Woodley acknowledged as much when he talked about a conversation he had with another fighter about not wasting time trying to feud with Dana because the UFC has rigged the game so the house always wins. He subsequently backed off of saying much else, except when prompted. It's no coincidence few fighters speak on racism because there's little that is being done about it on social media and because it's sometimes been put to use in fight promotion, even if subtly.

Woodley is not a great rapper and is delusional about that. He's a slow, methodical fighter and is maybe delusional about fan's willingness to accept or appreciate that. But it's not really reasonable to say he's delusional on experiencing or talking about facing racism as a public figure because the cost of doing so significantly outweighs the benefits, especially when he already has a promoter calling him a whiner because he (like any fighter) wants more push and the accompanying compensation.
 

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Everything you just posted here is a good example of how social media both makes celebrities more visible than ever and obscures everyone from each other's reality.

What Woodley is adressing in the first video is the incident where the kid competing in a tournament last year was forced to cut off his dreds prior to wrestling despite having them covered by a swim cap. It was a pretty significant media event and made national news. He's comparing it to his own experiences wrestling then transitions into the point about police violence because he's from just outside Ferguson, Missouri where that's been a persistent problem, even outside of the Michael Brown shooting.

In the links you post, he mentions how he's received several social media posts with racist language. And realistically in some environments, like Twitter, just putting an @ in front of a message means only the person who is tagged will see it unless they reply. What he's saying is the quantity of messages he receives is appreciable, which other athletes like Rampage have spoken about in the past, both in social media and gaming spaces. It's something white athletes or people would rarely if ever experience, but is well established as far back as Jack Johnson at least. He says after he sees their messages, he blocks them, but there's literally nothing he can do to avoid seeing them and who knows how many there are even daily? He cites that the UFC inadequately promoted Demetrious Johnson, which I doubt anyone could disagree with, though the UFC has tried their hand at a poorly supported rebuttal. Now you're going to use Dana's words as a credible source that someone is a "whiner" who "doesn't connect with fans?" He's said that about literally everyone he disagrees with. And if it were true, it's hard to imagine Woodley would have been able to successfully become one of the broadcasting faces and voices of the sport.

What Woodley is complicit in is putting on boring fights, but that's as much a function of matchmaking as it is strategy. When he's complained about fans, he's focused his critiques on very particular circumstances, but it's easy to just dismiss him like "F Woodley. He's boring and trying to play the race card for sympathy." But with a fan base like the UFC has, any rational person would know that will gain them no sympathy and so speaking on it comes with more risk than reward. Woodley acknowledged as much when he talked about a conversation he had with another fighter about not wasting time trying to feud with Dana because the UFC has rigged the game so the house always wins. He subsequently backed off of saying much else, except when prompted. It's no coincidence few fighters speak on racism because there's little that is being done about it on social media and because it's sometimes been put to use in fight promotion, even if subtly.

Woodley is not a great rapper and is delusional about that. He's a slow, methodical fighter and is maybe delusional about fan's willingness to accept or appreciate that. But it's not really reasonable to say he's delusional on experiencing or talking about facing racism as a public figure because the cost of doing so significantly outweighs the benefits, especially when he already has a promoter calling him a whiner because he (like any fighter) wants more push and the accompanying compensation.
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