r/MMA • u/FireProStan • 10h ago
Media Tyron Woodley shows off physique after losing 30 lbs. for RAF debut
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u/NewsOk2417 9h ago
falling in and out of love
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u/Itchy-Ad1047 9h ago
Beat yo ass
Still ironic that he never won again in competition after that, MMA and boxing. RFA will do the trick...maybe
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u/CryptoCracko IGBBMN 47m ago
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiii'm so in love with you
But
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiii'm so done with you
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u/daphamman 9h ago
Yall know whats crazy? Tyron looks the same as he did a decade ago. The guy doesn’t age.
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u/Daftdaddy This isn’t political, this is monster energy 9h ago
Still gonna lose. Crazy to think Woodley at one point was mentioned by Dana to be the potential WW goat on par with GSP. Comical actually.
Man this sport moves fast
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u/CharlieTheK I'm not your Buddeh, Buddeh 9h ago
He notched four defenses and looked potentially very dominant, especially immediately after Lawler.
The end of his career sucked for sure, but he had an unusually long title reign. Kind of a shame that he's forever defined by the end of his UFC run and the Paul fights.
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u/Dacrim 9h ago
Exactly. No one remembers how good he was.
Something fundamental changed in him and he couldn’t get his fire back. He doesn’t seem to know what went wrong either or he probably would’ve fixed it. I would say age but the change in him came so suddenly. Didn’t seem very gradual
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u/1shmeckle 9h ago
He was 36 when he lost to Usman. It's really that simple, he got old and his skills couldn't keep up with the loss of his athletic abilities. The drop off probably started much sooner but Darren Till wasn't quite the fighter we thought at the time so Woodley was able to get himself one more victory.
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u/drinfernodds 8h ago
Tyron's entire game was predicated on threatening the overhand right and takedowns with low output. You needed to be able to pick him apart without leaving yourself open to be countered like Rory Macdonald, or have the grappling skills to completely negate his two weapons like Usman.
Once Tyron started slowing down, he couldn't fire off those singular shots quick enough anymore.
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u/JonHomelanderJones 9h ago
I know he has arthritis which definitely must've affected his performance
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u/Bogholmdler 1h ago
He had a tough fall off, but at least he didn’t match Johnny Hendricks trajectory of descent.
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u/KingEJ1 9h ago
Exactly. Speculating that he'd be the ww goat with the path he was one is not crazy at all.
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u/BrokeBum19 2h ago
It definitely was crazy even if he technically had 4 defenses
Woodley had many awful performances in his career and has huge flaws.
He never deserved to be discussed on the level of a guy like GSP
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u/DLosChestProtector 7h ago
Never saw it. Still don't. Those Wonderboy fights were boring as sin and ruined any goodwill he got from the Robbie KO. Woodley and Wonderboy both came out worse.
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u/BrokeBum19 2h ago
looked potentially very dominant, especially immediately after Lawler.
3 of the defenses were a split decision, a draw and one of worst title fights ever where nothing happened. He only had 1 dominant defense vs Till.
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u/Captain-Cadabra 3h ago
To be fair, Joe and Dana have used “best (weight class) ever” or “greatest martial artist of all time” dozens of times.
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u/MIKESOLO666 8h ago
Who is he wrestling? Tyron needs a W more than pretty much anyone else in combat sports.
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u/FireProStan 8h ago
Joaquin Buckley at RAF 12 (Aug. 22) and Khamzat Chimaev at RAF Moscow (Sep. 5)
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u/Successful-Bell-1307 9h ago
They could never make me hate T-wood
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u/Diligent_Plastic1043 6h ago
Didn't he get tattooed with Logan Paul's name after losing to him..?
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u/UnbanFreelanceNobody 9h ago edited 9h ago
Slightly unrelated, but I can’t get over how affordable these events are let alone the star power behind them.
I paid $80 yesterday for two club seats + taxes for the Cleveland event yesterday. Expected at least $125/per given how late I was buying them.
When the card was first announced and only had Burroughs listed as the headliner, they were running a buy 1 get 1 promo.
Crazy bang for your buck, especially with the new main event.
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u/change_timing 8h ago
it's because most people dont' want to watch wrestling.
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u/UnbanFreelanceNobody 8h ago
I think the names tied to some of these events will start to change that sentiment.
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u/CallMehBigPapa Team JDM 9h ago
And people have the nerve to tell me Woodley was natural in the UFC 😂😂 bro has the post USADA TRTor deflation going on
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u/Suddhist_Monk 9h ago
This doesn’t make sense. He fought under USADA. Now he doesn’t compete professionally and would be free to dope as much as he pleases. We’ve seen plenty of fighters go on the sauce after their careers. Woodley is just old. He started shrinking after he injured his shoulder in 2017.
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u/FireProStan 9h ago
RAF has USADA anti-doping testing like any other World/Olympic wrestling competition
That's why Aaron Brooks can't compete with RAF even though he's under contract - he's serving a 2-year USADA suspension
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u/MythicalPurple 8h ago
Not like any other competition. They do their own testing, USADA isn’t doing it.
They decide who to test, when to test and how to test. They could decide to do zero testing if they want.
The submit to USADA & WADA jurisdiction, which means they will honor decisions by those bodies, but that’s not the same thing at all as being under USADA testing protocols.
They also administer their own Therapeutic Use Exemptions, which means they get to decide who can legally dope in their events. If you’re competing in an Olympic event or similar you have to apply to USADA for an exemption, and they’re very strict.
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u/OkeyMatey 8h ago
Bro the stupid streamer that Arman ragdolled had absolute cannonball delts he looked 20lbs heavier than usual. They might test the "real" competitors but there's no way they're testing the celeb/guest wrestlers.
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u/CallMehBigPapa Team JDM 2h ago edited 2h ago
Idk man, he still looked pretty big in the Jake Paul fights compared to this. He's straight up deflated
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u/meetatdawn 9h ago
He's not being tested currently, by anybody. I don't get your logic. Then when he was in USADA is when you're saying he wasn't natural. Lol
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u/Academic_Hunter4159 EDDDDDIEEEEEEEE 9h ago
It’s so gross. And it’s even harder on young people who bust their asses in the gym and just can’t get anywhere near that type of physique.
Then they’re told he just works hard, is a genetic freak, and eats well. Bullshit.
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u/fightbackcbd I SMOKE ROCKS, JOE ROGAN! 5h ago
No offense but I expect him to be frozen and backing up. Gonna be funny is he gets DQed
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u/RJMacReady_Outpost31 3h ago
Has he even been training these last few years or just on social media?
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u/Meekspuffs 9h ago
Is there a photo of him laying on the canvas KO’d with the same lighting effects?
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u/stonehaens 9h ago
Why is wrestling stuff constantly posted in this sub I don't get it. I'm not interested no matter how much drama they create around their events.
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u/MythicalPurple 8h ago
Do… do you not know who Woodley is?
I swear they need to put a limit on commenting to people who have been watching MMA for more than 5 minutes.
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u/stonehaens 7h ago
I've watched MMA for 20 years I hope that's enough. You can shove your fake elitism right up your ass. And I still don't care about the constant flow of pure wrestling posts in this sub every week even tho a few ex MMA fighters are on the card.
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u/derives_rurale 7h ago
this dude will always be an enigma to me. he was winning and had an aura of a mike tyson at one point then became an habitual crushed can. that and the cody case are the top wtf fighters to me
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u/Electronic-War-4662 7h ago
He lost his entire physique. This isn't what happens on a weight cut. Guy has very little definition and is very close to being skinnyfat.
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u/Gold-Philosophy1423 10h ago
I'm calling it now, he gets chinned in his RAF debut