Thompson is a completely different fighter than Maia in many ways, not even counting the obvious ones.
His best performance comes from stepping off on guys rushing into him with counter punches, and against volume strikers looking to out point him, which given his own successful pointfighting background, he's confident in playing that game better than they can.
Tyron for his part was willing to simply not engage and wait however long it took for Thompson to decide to come forward to engage, taking him out of his comfort zone, as he is not used to fighting off the lead. Further more, Tyron is also not a volume puncher either, preferring to bide his time and intermittently explode with bursts of 99% effort, not getting into the prolonged dancing matches that Thompson would excel in.
'Elite striker' and 'Tyron Woodley' are two phrases you probably wont see in the same sentence all that often, but as they so and so often say, styles make fights, and his habits matched up very well with Wonderboy.
Even thought Thompson was attempting to fight on the lead, at the same time, he was also timid, unwilling to fully commit to engagements or get too close to Woodley. This resulted in a 'worst of both worlds' situation, where the chief result was simply placing himself in prime critical range for Tyron to uncork his overhand all night.
Twood is used to fighting people being afraid of him, who give him too much respect; he has difficulty dealing with people willing to get into his face and pressure him, and all three guys who have beaten him in the past utilized this strategy.