I love Wonderboy, but Woodley IS the real champ, at least the next few hours at. We'll see if Wonderboy is real champ is after tonight. Best of luck to Wonderboy, he's great in & out of the cage.
As for not fighting anybody for a year, part of it, according to Woodley, was that he wasn't offered a fight after the Hendricks weight cut fiasco:
From
Sherdog Radio:
“I was not offered other bouts. It’s tough to put that to bed because everyone doesn’t listen to the same broadcast at the same time. Even if they listen they have their own mindset. Our fans are so entitled and so all-knowing that I was waiting around, whether I admitted it or not. [According to them] I was being an overly-entitled pouty fighter that said, ‘I’m not fighting unless you give me a world title shot.’That’s not what happened, people.
“I was never offered the rebooking of Johny Hendricks. The reason I wasn’t offered is because [UFC matchmaker] Joe Silva assumed and miscommunicated the fact that he thought I was waiting. I never knew it was an option for a fighter to wait in the UFC. We got those things figured out, we got it ironed out. I was not sitting on the shelf waiting for my time to shine. As a fighter you need to grow and the only way to grow is putting what you’ve done in camp into the actual real life Octagon.”
And part of it was, no doubt, a negotiating tactic. If Conor gets to hold the featherweight belt hostage so he can say he's still a champ if/when Eddie beats him, then Woodely gets to play the game to his advantage. Since rankings & title shot promises matter less than WWE-style trash talk, self-promotion, & negotiating tactics then good for him for playing the game. And when it came time to step up, he became the real champ in spectacular fashion.
Hopefully if Tyron wins again (he's got his hands full), he gets the respect he deserves.
@Leigh your buddy there just chilling watching all of it......see of you can get him to do a q and a here?
