Well Tyron, you may have a point, but then again, the same points you’re making for yourself can work against you. Sure, Jake Shields went 0-18 on takedowns, but you failed to secure one yourself, Tyron. In fact, you spent a ridiculous amount of time with your huge back against the cage, getting your leg kneed gently by Jake over and over and over again. Welcome to a Jake Shields fight, Tyron. He makes everyone look bad. It’s a pretty weird thing. Jake is like the sloth of MMA, he slowly breaks you down, confuses you and rips you away from gameplan. Then you’re left wondering how you didn’t win, just like you are now.
Let’s acknowledge that 30-27 for Woodley, and just contemplate the score for a moment. Maybe the fight should’ve been a draw? But surely, Tyron didn’t win.
“I said he wasn’t going to take me down and I meant that. He tried 18 times; he got zero takedowns. From a statistics standpoint I was pretty overwhelmed with the fact that I was 64% on punching, I kicked him and dropped him to the ground twice, and I spinning back fisted him and he got zero takedowns. For me, I would have liked to throw more punches.”
“Do I believe I won the fight? 100%, but as a person that’s been petitioning and hunting down a world title, that type of performance for myself, I have to be able to let it go no matter if it’s Jake Shields or who it is. I made him miss so many punches; I just want to watch the video again, he missed almost 80% of his punches.”
And now Tyron’s dreams of being a top 7 welterweight are thrown out the window. Maybe we could see Woodley/Marquardt II in the near future? Ah, who am I kidding, welterweight is so deep any fight would be good.
