Den tidigare UFC-mästaren Tyron Woodley (0-1) hade redan många anledningar att knocka Jake Paul (4-0) i deras kommande rematch innan det blev klart att han får 500 000 dollar extra om han lyckas med detta. Nu ifrågasätter han varför Paul valt att erbjuda honom ”skottpengar”.
Tyron Woodley: Korkat av Jake Paul att erbjuda KO-bonus
Woodley sade följande om knockoutbonusen till MMA Fighting:
At the end the of the day, you put a bag on your own head. Sh*t, I’m completely all about taking that free money. I had plans on doing that anyway, but if he wants to entice me a little bit more.
You don’t offer a kid from Ferguson half a bag to go out there and do what he wanted to do anyway. So it does put motivation. You don’t put a bounty on your own f*cking head and think I’m not going to take it.
Pengar är min största drivkraft
Woodley hoppade i veckan in för Tommy Fury och fick då en bonus i och med att han hoppade in på kort varsel inför nästa veckas match som äger rum den 18 december.
Även om han definitivt vill revanschera sin förlust via delat domslut mot Paul från augusti så kan han inte förneka att pengarna alltid kommer vara den drivande faktorn för honom. Han vägrar tro på fighters som tonar ned faktumet att pengarna motiverar dem.
For sure, I’m motivated by money. I’m motivated by legacy. I’m motivated by greatness. I’m motivated by redemption. So when people say it’s not about the money for me, they’re f*cking lying. Why would you be prizefighting if you didn’t want to get a prize?
Sometimes it’s about the principle. When you feel like you’re at a certain level, you feel like you’re at a certain point of your life and your career, you want the bag to match where you feel like you’re at, it’s just kind of a personal matter behind it. Definitely it’s additional motivation. You’ll see me walking away with another $500,000.
Woodley accepterade matchen på endast två veckors varsel men han dementerar att detta skulle tala emot honom:
I’m going to look like the better conditioned fighter, I promise you that. When you watch this fight, it won’t look like I stepped in on last minute notice. It won’t look like he was the person that was preparing and in shape and I just jumped in for a bag or jumped in to save the card. It’s going to look like I’m going to be in better shape just like it was the first time.
I was the one walking him down. I was the one that was really putting him against the ropes. He was the one huffing and puffing.
