Woodley: I’m too fast, too well-rounded for Lawler
Heading into this title fight, Tyron Woodley is confident that he has the tools to become the new welterweight champion and thinks he has a few distinct advantages over Robbie Lawler.
Tyron Woodley has won four of his last five fights to earn a title shot against champion Robbie Lawler at UFC 201. His only loss was a third round decision loss to former title contender Rory MacDonald.
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Heading into this title fight, Tyron Woodley is confident that he has the tools to become the new welterweight champion and thinks he has a few distinct advantages over Robbie Lawler:
Even after I signed the bout agreement, it just didn’t seem real because you know how our sport is — crazy things happen,” he continued.
“But then when I got to training camp and I started watching film, I started breaking him down, it just got real, man.”
As great as Lawler has been for the past few years, Woodley thinks he’s got what it takes to dethrone the champ. “Man, I’m just too fast. I’m just too well-rounded to be denied in this fight … It’s my season, it’s my time,” he asssured.
“I can take it to the ground and grapple, I can wrestle, I can obviously strike with creative strikes and get there really quickly, but in addition to that, I just feel I can brawl and bang as well so there’s multiple different ways I feel comfortable winning the fight.”
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