Tyron Woodley lyckades försvara sitt bälte i weltervikt under helgen på UFC 214, då han kunde besegra Demian Maia via enhälligt domslut. Det var en match som fick mycket kritik från fans för att vara händelselös. Att matchen slog rekord för minst slag utdelade någonsin i UFC säger en hel del.
Fansen var inte de enda som var missnöjda. UFCs VD Dana White kritiserade Woodley efter matchen och sa att fansen inte vill se honom fightas.
Nu har Woodley uttalat sig om matchen och kritiken i TheMMAHour. Han berättar bland annat att han skadat axeln under första ronden i matchen mot Maia.
I don’t care so much about the fans, but when your job title is promoter, promote your f*cking fighters. Promote your champion. Don’t demote your champion. I threw my shoulder out in the first round, I wasn’t able to throw any damaging shots — for you guys who don’t understand what a labrum tear is, go get on Google or Wikipedia and figure it out — and I still stayed the course, I stayed on path, I stayed on point, I executed the gameplan. I had to reduce all of my shots from overhands, uppercuts, things that were hurting my shoulder, to straight punches.
Woodley fortsatte och sa att han ska börja “leaking some sh*t” om han inte får någon ursäkt från White.
So, sorry in advance, I’m mad because I’ve had this surgery before. It’s not a fun one. It’s not a quick recovery. It’s not something that I’m excited about. I’m going to get a couple second opinions. Literally I’m in the Uber right now, I just f*cking got out of the doctors office, like right this second. There’s paperwork in my hand. So I’m just, I’m owed a public apology. You’re going to publicly scrutinize me, Dana White? You publicly need to apologize to me. I’ve done nothing but good stuff for the sport. I’ve done nothing but be a good model for the f*cking organization. I go out there and I fight with integrity. I covered your sport from the FOX desk a week before my fight. I always uphold my responsibilities to the organization. It’s timeout for that. The word behind ‘business’ is ‘man.’ You need to be a man, you owe me a public apology. And if I don’t get that, I’m going to start leaking some sh*t that people don’t want to be out in the wind. I’m not even kidding about that.
När programledaren Ariel Helwani frågade om vad Woodley menade med att läcka, svarade Woodley såhär:
They know what I’m referring to. I’m due a public apology.
