It's the most interesting fight we could ask for at Welterweight right now, no doubt, but it's not the right choice for GSP if they're willing to give him a shot at the winner of Khabib vs Conor. That's just a fact, there's a lot more money and a lot more prestige in the attempt to win a championship in three different weight classes against either the most famous UFC fighter of all times or the guy with the most impressive undefeated record in MMA history than defending his spot as the greatest welterweight of all times yet again. Basically the same thing as last year when it was the better choice to move up an beat the middleweight champion after a 4 year hiatus, this time arguably even more so. Would I love to see him fight Woodley, too? Absolutely. Definitely one of the biggest challenges of GSP's career if it were to happen. But as long as the UFC is down with it, the lightweight championship bout needs to be his priority. We never got the superfight with prime Anderson (which to this day probably would've been the biggest MMA superfight ever), let's at least make sure we'll get to enjoy this one.
It's a true shame that Rory MacDonald left for Bellator, a rematch between him and Woodley would be an amazing fight to make right now and would be just what is needed to fill the gap between a GSP move to lightweight and a fight against Woodley. Also to get some life back into the division, the finish victory over Darren Till was a good start to recover from the pretty boring period we've had ever since T-Wood got that great KO win over Lawler (not counting round 4 vs Wonderboy, that one was awesome as well). Instead we'll probably get an obnoxious program with Covington and a fairly easy win for Tyron. And quite frankly there aren't any other good options out there. He beat Till, he beat Wonderboy, RDA just lost decisively, Lawler isn't all too impressive lately, Condit and Cerrone are done...without a GSP return to welterweight we're on the verge of a clean out and might have to hope for Khabib moving up should he beat Conor and possibly Ferguson afterwards.
