Tyron Woodley not impressed with Israel Adesanya's timing

UFC light heavyweight GOAT Jon Jones and middleweight champion Israel Adesanya got bitter on Twitter for months, and a superfight appeared inevitable. Then Jones vacated the title to take a run at heavyweight. Jan Blachowicz won the vacant belt, and now Adesanya will attempt to become only the fifth fighter to hold belts in two divisions, after Henry Cejudo, Conor McGregor, Daniel Cormier, and Amanda Nunes, by challenging Blachowicz in the main event of UFC 259 on May 6.

During a recent interview with Helen Yee, former welterweight champion Tyron Woodley was not impressed with “The Last Stylebender’s” timing.

I thought he had some business to do in the middleweight division and he was going to wait, and the second Jon Jones moved up to heavyweight, he moved up to 205, said Woodley. I couldn’t even think past the fact that he completely said he was not going to go up to 205 and face Jon Jones.

“If you’re the best – if somebody [had] asked me to go up and fight [Michael] Bisping, I’m doing it. If you want to say you’re the best, now you’re going to go up to fight Jan? You wouldn’t do it to fight Jon? That makes no sense. The payday is way different, and when someone talks and says they’re this and that, and then they get the opportunity to go against the greatest of all time and you wanted to wait two years? I don’t get it.

I think he should do whatever he wants to do, but don’t go around talking crap about Jon, and to Jon, and now Jon said, ‘All right, let’s go,’ and now you’re like, ‘No, I’ll get you in two years. But one year later, Jon goes up, and now you [go] up. Everybody want to be double-belted after Conor [McGregor] did, and I get it. But Jan ain’t someone you can play with. That dude got f***ing power, and I think it’s something about the underdog that everybody’s looking past.