Tyron Woodley recently took to social media in an attempt to apologize to fellow UFC fighter Stephen Thompson. Woodley apologizes to his former rival for the verbal jabs that he made ahead of their bout at UFC 209. Woodley shared the video of the two fighters on Instagram.
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“Tyron is the champion like I said for a reason man, so.,” Thompson before Woodley cut him off.
“Because I am the best!” Tyron said.
While there was a considerable amount of bad blood between the Chosen One and Wonderboy, things are completely cool at the moment.
“Lol sorry @wonderboymma I was mean. I read you wrong 😂😂😂 thought you were with the #cornballs #DeveinNation
But that shit hella funny now! 😂😂😂”- Tyron Woodley
History Between Tyron Woodley And Stephen Thompson
The first time the two fighters went toe to toe in the octagon was in November 2016. Woodley became the newly minted champion by taking the title off of Robbie Lawler with a first-round knockout. The 37-year-old defended his title against Stephen Thompson by taking the win with a majority-draw. The official judges scored the fight 47-47, 47-47, 48-47 in favor of Woodley. This was an accurate depiction of exactly how close the fight was.
UFC 209 lost a lot of luster with Khabib Nurmagomedov backing out of his interim title fight with Tony Ferguson because he fell ill while cutting weight.
Woodley managed to retain his title against the Wonderboy, however, both the fighters faced a lot of flak due to the quality of the fight that was put up. Thompson held his position at a long-range firing a handful of side-kicks to the body. The two fighters shadowed each other around the octagon unwilling to throw the first punch or to make the first move.
The fight saw rather extended periods of inactivity with both Woodley and Thompson acting like counter fighters. The fans got to see some action in the dying seconds of the final round as Woodley took Thompson to ground and showered him with punches. The ground strikes almost brought on a stoppage however Thompson managed to see it to the end.
