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“Georges St-Pierre, man,” he said. “I watched him as a champion for my entire career. He got away [retired] right before I had the chance to get my hands on him, and now you come back and you don’t come back to your own weight class? I can’t really respect that.”
Woodley, of course, has made no secret of the fact that he believes St-Pierre is avoiding him.
“I don’t think he wants to fight me,” Woodley told BJPenn.com’s Chris Taylor earlier this month. I don’t think he wants to come back and fight a guy like me. He wants to fight a guy like Bisping because they are very evenly matched. Bisping is not a huge middleweight. Michael is not known as a guy who will knock your head off and he is not going to outwrestle Georges. So style wise it is a very safe matchup for Georges. He knows that he could potentially lose to Bisping, but that it is a much safer fight for him.”
“One of the reasons he left (Georges St-Pierre) was because he was worried about concussions. With Bisping he doesn’t have to worry about that as much. With me, he knows I am coming to knock him out. Plus I am very hard to takedown and would probably end up taking him down. So he’s not used to that style of matchup. The only guy who was kind of like me was Johny Hendricks and he made Georges go crawl in a cave for three years.”
http://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/tyron-woodley/tyron-woodley-explains-cant-respect-gsp/
Before the predictable, ignorant, Woodley haters come out of the woodwork on this one, let's be clear.
GSP IS DUCKING WOODLEY. To come back and fight at MW when you left as the king of WW means you don't want to diminish your legacy.
Losing to Bisping always gives GSP the "Well, I was smaller, card." Losing to Woodley would leave many asking if GSP fought less than top tier fighters.
Woodley, of course, has made no secret of the fact that he believes St-Pierre is avoiding him.
“I don’t think he wants to fight me,” Woodley told BJPenn.com’s Chris Taylor earlier this month. I don’t think he wants to come back and fight a guy like me. He wants to fight a guy like Bisping because they are very evenly matched. Bisping is not a huge middleweight. Michael is not known as a guy who will knock your head off and he is not going to outwrestle Georges. So style wise it is a very safe matchup for Georges. He knows that he could potentially lose to Bisping, but that it is a much safer fight for him.”
“One of the reasons he left (Georges St-Pierre) was because he was worried about concussions. With Bisping he doesn’t have to worry about that as much. With me, he knows I am coming to knock him out. Plus I am very hard to takedown and would probably end up taking him down. So he’s not used to that style of matchup. The only guy who was kind of like me was Johny Hendricks and he made Georges go crawl in a cave for three years.”
http://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/tyron-woodley/tyron-woodley-explains-cant-respect-gsp/
Before the predictable, ignorant, Woodley haters come out of the woodwork on this one, let's be clear.
GSP IS DUCKING WOODLEY. To come back and fight at MW when you left as the king of WW means you don't want to diminish your legacy.
Losing to Bisping always gives GSP the "Well, I was smaller, card." Losing to Woodley would leave many asking if GSP fought less than top tier fighters.
