Two weeks ago, reports about a possible welterweight title fight between champion Tyron Woodley and Nate Diaz at UFC 219 began to float around. But during a media scrum on Tuesday, UFC president Dana White denied these rumors outright.
One of our attorneys here started playing matchmaker and said he has a good rapport with the Diaz brothers and he basically said, 'what if you could fight Tyron Woodley?' Me and Sean (Shelby) were like, 'How does he deserve to fight Tyron Woodley? There's a f—king list of guys that are waiting to fight Tyron Woodley and this dude's gonna fight... what are you talking about?’
So he kind of went off the reservation a little bit and…
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